Melaka Getaway 2017

Melaka Getaway 2017

So it was that time of the year again – the CL annual getaway had finally arrived. After months of long and indecisive discussions, we had decided to spend it in Melaka again, for the second year running! LOL But hey, after all, like we always said, it’s not always the place that matters, but the people you’re with ;) Unfortunately Zack, Syasya and Syuk were not able to join us this time so fingers crossed that next year we’ll have the complete group together!

Day 1, Saturday, 15^th July 2017

Kamil, Yun, Zi, Ezad and Yan agreed to have a brief meet up and breakfast at my place supposedly at 7.30am. Knowing them so well I knew 7.30am was just a little bit too ambitious, no, in fact, surreal. But, that was fine, it eventually gave me some time to rest a little bit longer as I was still exhausted from the busy day I had the day before. Saoxy, Dinie and Nazri were not with us that morning but joined us sometime later in the afternoon.

Kamil was the first to arrive among the rest and as promised he brought some packets of nasi lemak He was even sweet enough to have brought along his homemade fried noodles as well. Those, alongside with everything else prepared by my ever so lovely mom, were our breakfast for that day. I was just hoping that Zi was happy with the spread as earlier that morning she stressed that she was really hungry. She’s small but oh my, she definitely has quite an appetite – unusual even, nasi lemak with soy sauce? Are you kidding me? :P

Lovely!

Happy faces :)

Right after breakfast, we then headed straight to Melaka but actually had nothing much planned out till we could check-in to our accommodation. So, we all decided to visit Dataran Pahlawan where on that day, the Ekspresi Negaraku carnival was held. Kamil, a generous lad he is, saw a booth for blood donation. Okay, I couldn’t get my head around this fact because I was not paying much attention when he told us this, but somehow his blood is kind of rare, so he feels he should always donate whenever he has the chance – a vampire’s dream companion, don’t you think? But, that’s good of him!

Kamil donating his rare superman blood?

The event

Dataran Pahlawan. Actually my second time here.

One of the displays that caught our attention

A group of dancers performing the traditional dance.

I was bored the fastest compared to my friends and thank God as soon as Kamil had completed his blood donation we all drove on to Tesco supermarket to buy some groceries. Nazri had also agreed to meet us there. Zi, our elected event treasurer was ever so scary being so diligent with the list of things to be bought - come on Zi, it’s our holiday, loose up a little would you? :P But glad that she was strict and meticulous as we had almost everything that we wanted and spent below our budget. Good job Zi!

All of this – just over RM200!

So, shopping’s done and we went straight to our accommodation at Klebang. Well, the rest did – some of us needed to grab lunch!

The house

When I first arrived at the house, I was delighted to see that it was clean and everything seemed to be exactly as described from the site we booked it. The price was affordable as well – RM400/night and it can accommodate around 15 people max. The only thing I would like the owner to improve on in the future is installing an air-conditioner at the living room – we were all complaining on how warm it was in the living room! Oh, the other thing is to replace the old stove to something more user friendly. We do not want to risk our eye brows to get burned off every bloody time when we try to switch it on using matches/ lighter.

Don't be fooled

One of the shared toilets on the upper floor

Pretty spacious

One of the bedrooms upstairs

Change this FGS!

We all had our lunch and chat a little bit before taking some rest while waiting for Saoxy and Dinie to reach the house. Then, once both of them had arrived, we did the most cliché thing to do when people go and visit Klebang.

Coconut shake

Yes, that’s right. We tried the coconut shake. It was my first try and to be honest, for me it didn’t taste that amazing. It was not terrible, don’t get me wrong but it wasn’t something that I would get excited about. According to Yan, the best coconut shake could be found somewhere near Batu Berendam but usually they are sold out by 3pm – so, maybe next time.

We then strolled a bit along the beach. The beach was calm and people seemed to be enjoying their time, relaxing and everything looked so at peace – well, then, entered us lot LOL. We took photos and ran around like bunch of kids and I constantly needed to remind myself to behave and that we’re in our late 20s. But who cares? We’re just enjoying ourselves and blowing off some steam!

Glad it was not scorching hot. The breeze was rather pleasant

Our group photo. A couple of the visitors there had to take 5-6 shots of us on 2-3 different angles. Felt sorry they had to bear with us LOL

Yan’s #hipster-ish sign. After a few tries, this was the best she could do. Seriously Yan? SMH :P

I really enjoyed the time we had on the beach. I kind of wished we could hang out a little bit longer but it was almost 6 and we all agreed to have an early ikan bakar dinner at Alai. It was a sound decision to have reached there early as we did not had any problems finding the parking spots for our cars. Glad we didn’t waste time on that else the longer we would have to wait to get to eat and some of us (Zi in particular) will get angry if that were to happen.

So, here we had the choice of eating the seafood dishes with either normal plain rice or nasi lemak. I never had ikan bakar with nasi lemak before so I decided to give it a go. It was good but I just had one teeny – tiny complaint – in this case the nasi lemak was in fact teeny – tiny! Why are they so freaking small?! I think even a two-year old could eat 10 of those and still be starving. Okay, I might be over-exaggerating but you get the point, right? All in all, we were satisfied with the food and for me it was amazingly cheap. Everything we ordered only cost us around RM160. Our tummies were happy and we headed back to our accommodation.

Since I don’t consume other seafood we ordered, this fish was my primary target!

Before

After

Overall we had a good day and a pretty decent evening to end our first day. But then, at home, we sat down together and started playing MONOPOLY. That, guys, changed everything. Enemies created, backs stabbed, nightmares and tension occurred. Monopoly…. will be continued in the next post.

We didn’t know what we’re getting ourselves into

To be continued...