Monday, May 12, 2008

7 days roadtrip around Malaysia (Cameron Highlands part 1)

so, i gathered a few of my peeps (wai hong, darren, alexander and me) on 2nd of January 2008 (wednesday) to discuss where to go for holidays since we've just finished STPM.. so we decided to go in february which gives us more time to get prepared, book places to stay, plan out route, and etc..we couldn't find a good date after 2hours of talking and arguing..

THEN if my memory serves me right, darren suddenly suggested we go on the 4th of january! which was 3 more days too prepare for a 7 day trip around malaysia! all of us got sexcited and instantly agreed coz such a short period to prepare only got kick ;)

without wasting much time, we packed, informed other peeps, google-ed the web for interesting places so that we can plan out itinerary, bought essential travelling items, bought bus ticket to kl, and the like..we even went to school to ask teachers on places to visit..some peeps were interested but had to work, some were busy during that time cause got chinese class *cough han siu cough* so in the end we only managed to gather another 4 people..the fantastic EIGHT were alexander chang, calvin tan(me), darren teo, gan han meng, justin kek, lim wai hong, pang sin loong and tan jin wen.
(l-r: wai hong, jin wen, alex, sin loong, han meng, me, justin, darren)

moving on, our FIRST destination WAS supposed to be Bukit Tinggi that is why we bought our bus ticket to KL..we took d 530AM bus from malacca to pudu n reached there at bout 715AM..we went to ask whether were there any bus to take to bukit tinggi but to our dismay, we can onli reach bukit tinggi by taxi! so we went over to d taxi drivers to give us a price..it came up to RM120per taxi!! after discussing with the group, we decided to give up bukit tinggi and move on to our next destination which was Cameron Highlands! luckily, there was a bus to cameron's at 830am..we quickly bought d tickets and went to d nearest mamak to have breakie..

reached cameron's at bout 230pm and as soon as we set our foot down the bus, tour guides were swarming over us!! like we're sugar and they were army of antz!! woohoo..so we found ourselves a tour guide and place to stay..guide name: thiru..place we stayed: kang traveller's lodge..awesome place to stay for RM8 per nite
recommended place to stay in cameron :)

this is our RM8 per night place we stayed in..like refugee only but cool :)

after checking into the dorm, we head out to check out the town cause we'll be leaving the next day..the weather was cool and awesome...it drizzled abit but it didn't matter..haha we even took a van to the night market there and bought alot alot of fruits *we were even conned :(* stupid jambu madu from thailand..it was sweet lah coz they jeruk d bugger in concentrated sugar water!

helluva BIG orange..super sweet and nice
a cross between honeydew and another fruit(forgot).. horrible taste

top is a passion fruit (you know the one esprit is selling? taste sweet and nice rite) or aka, buah cinta by the locals..you are supposed to cut the top like so and then suck the whole thing out! i thought it would taste like the esprit drink BUT noooooo...it's super-de-duper sour! :( approach with caution..cinta bukan semestinya manis.....:P



then we had good steamboat for dinner at RM12 each..the serving (top) is shared by 4 person which was kindda filling..

after dinner, we settled debts between one another and after that, we had our gambling session :) won 6bux..wakakaka..we attracted some foreigners to play blackjack with us *pics of them unavailable* there was david from uk who is takin a gap year and gary&collin gang from south africa who have been travelling around malaysia..hahah we had a great time with them and labelled out "style" of playin blackjack as jonker street style :P *where got such thing as 15 run wan????*
haha we were screwed by d lodge owner for being too noisy cause we kept laughing AND the worst part was when everybody was about to sleep, wai hong had to KENTUT loudly! *i was sleepin beside him..dammit* we all laughed and was screwed for the second time :(


lights out at 3AM...

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