Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Caution: This post is gonna be very long. If you are interested in my trip to Ipoh, then read on. Hope you don't doze off half way reading. Oh, and if the picture is too small, you can click on them to enlarge them. =^^=
-Day One-
Everything was so fast. Before I know it, I'm in the coach, which is parking outside Golden Mill complex. My destination this time is Ipoh (Malaysia) , Kampong Bali, Xiong's hometown. I closed my eyes as the coach leaves the car park...
When I've reached the second custom, in Malaysia, the officer take a very long time inspecting my passport as if there's something wrong with it. Then she told me that now the new system don't need to use white card anymore and she "confiscated" my card. Well, I was the last to go back up the coach, because of her.
When we passed by KL, there's alot of posters of different parties sticked up the walls and hung around the place. Well, its election time and the way they publicize is like so crazy. Worst then Singapore during General Election.
After hours of traveling, we've reached Ipoh and it's almost day break. When I gaze up upon the sky, I saw stars, so much that I seems that the night sky was studded with diamonds. It was an awesome sight that I can't get to see in Singapore! After some hours the darkness of the night faded away as the sun starts to rise. The combination of the colours of the sky was beyond description, it's just so 
wonderful! I tried to snap some of it but I can't as the ride was bumpy. Before we knew it, we've arrived at Kampong Bali and it's breakfast time for the people there. I can hear roosters proclaiming dawn.After some walking, we finally reached Xiong's relative's house. It's and has a one story bungalowsix bedrooms. The room were we are going to stay was covered with dust as if no one had ever used that room before. I tidy up the room a little, although not much of a difference, and rest of us went to bed.
Siang and I were awoken by Xiong around 9am plus, saying that his ah gong (grandfather) wants to bring us to have breakfast. I performed my skill, finger offensive, on Siang as he couldn't wake up. =.= He's really a sleepy head.
Xiong's ah gong drives a very old car and at a very low speed. He brought us some roasted pork and bring us to eat wan ton mee. The style of noodles they cooked is different from Singapore's. Plus, the noodles was very delicious. We ordered a pot of tea for drinks.
We went back to the bungalow and interact with Xiong's two female cousins, Ah Yan and Ah Qing. Spending the whole afternoon in the room with air-con turned on, chit chatting and hardcore gaming PSP. Plus that Ah Yan, was so irritating, keep disturbing us. That was my first impression. After some time, we decided go out and have a walk around the village. Saw some bats caught in a net. Utterly a gross sight. We ended up sitting in a 
zhi cha shop having our lunch. After which we went to Ah Yan's house to rest and rot. Don't know why, after some time, all fell asleep. Actually, we wanted to play some badminton when the sun isn't that blazing hot, but when we all woke up that time, it's already 5pm plus. The three of us then decided to go back to the bungalow without informing Ah Yan.
We went back to shower. I there as, it's kinda dirty. I dislike dirty toilet. Then we feel super uneasy using the toilets and the shower roomheaded towards Xiong's ah gong coffee shop for dinner. Well, the dinner was not bad tho. After dinner we decided to go explore that hunted farm; however after we reached the start of the path which leads to the farm, it felt so eerie that we back out and run back to the bungalow. We rested awhile, played with Xiong's little cousin. After which, we go out to town with Ah Qing and her parents. We went to buy my return tickets first an found out that there are no tickets for Monday night. I suddenly felt the panic and almost become like Siang. I have a Chemistry test on Tuesday morning. It seems that I have left with no choice, then we brought tickets for Tuesday afternoon. Which will arrive at Singapore at night.
Then Ah Qing's parents drove us to eat the famous bean sprout chicken. It's one of the many delicacies in Ipoh. The noodles was very delicious and the bean sprout plus the chicken too! The only thing is that it's too oily. After our supper, we went to the near by night market (pasar malam) to walk walk. Only to realize that the pasar malam is opened by Malays. No offence, Ah Qing's parents ask as to leave saying that they will bring us to a Chinese pasar malam the next day. Well, we brought a little stuffs from the market and some local food which is called 土产 in Chinese.We spend our first night at Ah Qing's house, in Ah Qing's room as she moved out to the guest room. Brr..the air-con was dam freezing that night plus that Siang keep squeezing me towards the wall in the night, making me hard to sleep. Well, he told me when I just lie down, I fall asleep already and started making "melodies". As for Xiong, he slept at the upper deck.
-End of Day One-
To be continued..
