yawns...very early...or rather got a few daes slpt til no dae no night le...
cos dont nd to work ma... :p
woke up at 6am and took cab down to ex office.
took bfast at kopitiam and waited for mdm tang to come.
actually mdm tang wanted to pay for my trip, take it as my farewell gift...
but then michelle dont wan to go...so she gave me her ticket...
we could choose, 3 trips either one.
1) go durian planation
2) go ostrich farm, fruit farm and then firefly cruise
3) go pineapple farm, malay kampong, coffeefarm
hmm..we chose firefly...i wanted to see! no see before ma!
our bus came ard 745am...and we set off le..cos we got up late, we dont have 2 seater seats. we sat at the back last row loh :(
our spore tour guide was a male and sorry ah he looked so shi wen till no one would have the heart to bully him...
sigh...cos we went on sat, alot of pple going gentings...so JAM at Second link!!!
we wasted at least 2hrs at jam...we only had our planned bfast ard 10+am...
our malaysia tour guide was a female and she was good, entertained us with jokes and stories...
we were brought to a place called GP88.
too many varieties!
we dont have much time also to try all...so mdm tang bought chu chang fen and an egg prata
we shared :)
the chu chang fen got egg de leh! very special!
and cos our tour grp got malay staff, many Qed for prata...so we 2 stil could go shop at the next door shop after our makan..it's like our downstairs shops lo.went to look for jacket for uncle koh...dont have design tt he would like...
nvm la...i bought a big packet of prawn crackers for my dad before we moved off...
tour guide said bring us to chocolate factory shop...not in schedule wor...but no harm rite?whole shop full of chocolate but i cannot take...and saw got sell chocolate drinks wor..uncle koh likes calbury chcocolate drinks so bought for him..
drizzling...and i was quite sian...cos of the long ride...
we next proceeded to lunch le...long ride also...roads rocky rocky de...
we all fell aslp..but not comfortable cos our seats could not adjust de ma..last row how to adjust rite?
dun care la, roads rocky, i would dizzy de, so i took my sunglasses, put on and then slp :)
finally reached the restaurant for lunch.tot was seafood lunch but no la, got fish, herbal chicken, soup, crabs, lobsters, meat, rice...not tat bad la...
uncle koh stil nagged at me, wanted me to get more bread in case i hungry...
tot after lunch, we would move on to ostrich farm...but then no lo, tour guide asked us to proceed to another shop across the street.we were at a small mini mini town ma...
rem we saw tree with mangoes, we were pointing and said hey hey mango leh...i tink we really too city le, pple there see till dun wan see la.
anyway we were bought to this biscuit shop, selling hot hot freshly made biscuits
i did not buy but bought slippers for uncle koh instead. he is those kind, if u dun get for him, he can dun buy another clothes, shoes de.
chinese believe we cannt buy slippers/shoes for partners else they will run away.
but no worries, the trip's $ were sponsored by him, those were leftovers from gentings trip :)
so the slippers is used his $ buy de, i just help him pick haha :)
next we were back on bus, to ostrich farm.
alamak...darm smelly...
farm was owned by sporean leh...
ostrich with pink lips is actually male lo!!! haha!
babies ostrich :)
i still could not catch when my bus partner told me, "behind you."
i stil har wat? yes orstrich right behind me :S
if u weight more than 75kg, pls do not stand on the eggs, cos they will BREAK !!! and you got to pay de loh ... but the eggs quite slippery...i looked >__< right?
we left for fruit farm then...really a lot of fruit trees.
believe if my parents go, the farm brings back the kampong memories :)
we had a guide who explained on the trees and planations to us :)
this tree got durians. but i really could not see la. mdm tang kept telling me, there there...got mah?
dragon fruit
jambo
banana. they were joking, who just got married, pls touch it haha.
mango
papaya
after the tour, we were brought to a classroom, to learn more abt honey.
there is darker color honey, it's older honey
there's lighter color honey, it's young honey
honey dont nd to put in fridge de.
why?
i forgot le but i rem the lady said, bees also dont have air con to keep the honey rite? haha true also rite?
after male bee makes loves with queen, he will die. so kelian rite? ahaha!
there was a shop selling makan also and there was durian stall.
mdm tang bought a durian. i only took one and then she jio our bus pple over to help finish.
nice durian :D
we were each given a box of fruits before we left.
actually we shld be given when we reached. so tat we knew wat we could buy.
then we left for dinner...dinner sux.
not as nice as lunch.
we had it at 7pm and we nd to go over to the river side by 8pm.
our restaurant was next to river.
why we nd to go river side?
our turn to sit boat to see fireflies was at 8pm ma.
we waited for our turn and the life jackets hor...sigh either zip or the string spoilt...nvm la..as long one could make it can le...
heng mdm tang and i took the ship with top de and more stable looking de...not the big sampan...the water looked like milk coffee de loh..
it was v windy and as it got darker, it could be scary...
but then the fireflies were cool !
they looked like decorations on the xmas trees ...
we were not supposed to take pics or shine light on them cos it would make them die faster and fly away ...
the ride was the best of the whole dae events...
and then home sweet home le..
quite happy also...cos by the time we finished hor, ard 9+pm le...
some bus partners stil wanted to get dried goods like prawns etc...
so we stopped at the last shop for the dae...but from the river to shop was quite long journey...
and then since last stop, many of us bought like nobody's business.
actually mdm tang was right, will the customs officers tink ah, why u these sporeans every time go will buy so many things back? haha!
and Q for paying was long...i was the last somemore in the Q...cos i went to toilet ma...toilet also another Q loh...
from shop to malaysia customs was another long ride...
heng we cleared both sides customs fast :)
and mdm tang and i were saying, being tour guides also not easy.
malaysia guide got to travel back on the long highway home after saying bye to us at malaysia customs.
spore guide got to acc us all the way back to boarding place which was office.
driver worse. we sat in bus, alrdy sian. he rode, worse rite? and he stil nd to return bus back to company...
was telling uncle koh how it felt to slp in the bus...he started to give himself credits la, only he would be so nice and good to tink of getting a good seat for me when we went gentings... blah blah... >___<
overall i had a great time with mdm tang and i will miss her ...
