What I did this Christmas

As I do every year, I went to church in the morning. After church, my elder brother accompanied me to visit bother Michael. The Christmas open house was hosted by the SFI brothers namely bro. Ambrose Loke and bro. Michael Kum. The food there was kinda awesome considering it's just for guests that drop by without any prior invitation. Whats amazing is that there were also pork dishes! Authentic Chinese cuisine, simply delicious. At about 5pm I attended my primary school class reunion in the Harmoni condos. We did some barbecuing and played with some fire. It's really good to some of my ex-classmates, some of them I haven't seen for six years. There were lots of who's and arr's...The reunion proceeded on with the pool throwing ceremony. I got thrown in the pool three times at least. Then there was this fire playing ceremony...these people don't know the dangers of fire!!!


the "bak" I was talking about.

Cycling Around Malacca Town

I've missed out on a few cycling trips already, so finally I got a chance to paddle my bike.
First, I meet up with Leroy, Mah and Gin Shen at the Ujong Pasir Petronas. It was about 9am. Jack-Hui Jie wasn't there yet and so we decided togive him a morning call. We cycled to his house opposite the old Bei Zan restaurant. He got up from bed and we continued our journey, to where we weren't quite sure...

There's this man made island just beside Melaka Raya, we crossed the bridge and explored the deserted island. The island is called Pulau Melaka according to recent media it was suppose to be part of the Arab City project. On one side of the road, sits the famous Malacca Straits Mosque,
on the other side lies a series of white elephants. The island is a rather good place for racing, the whole island had some kind of race circuit like setting. No cars whatsoever.

We decided to have breakfast next. We tried a few places such as Saturday Ice Cafe but they were closed. We then took a short cut and headed toward Bkt. Cina famous for its century old graveyards.

These other places we visited:
#Malacca boardwalk beside the Melaka river - almost rammed into a few samall kids.
#Digital Mall - we cycled all the way to the top and got chased down by agroup of Malay men.
#Tesco and New Aeon(Jusco) - yes the one that exploded!
#Melaka Sentral - Leroy wanted to stop at al-Ikhsan to check up some some shoes.Indian #Restaurant for breakfast - it sucked!
#Peringgit - cycled past the state's satellite incubator.

ZAPcity

Well today, I finally got to start my amali test for (L) licence in where else but the famous Zapcity.
A few weeks back before SPM ended, my mother went to the Malacca Safety Driving Centre to enquire about the price for D(car) licence. One old chinese instructor quoted 900+ ringgit.
'My price very cheap alredy wor!'
'What about Zapcity?'
'That one ah, they take you to the jungle and drive one...'
'...you pay extra 90 ringgit sure pass my one...'

What more can I say? He was discouraging me to go to Zapcity. Nevertheless, I took up the challenge, I went there...to the jungles. So where exactly is Zapcity? It's somewhere in Alor Gajah. At 6:45am I was already waiting for their van to pick me up near the Ujong Pasir Petronas. Eric joined me there. Suddenly this old van popped out in front of us, it was the zapcity van. We got into it, we were the only ones then. The driver was a typical Chinaman. Wah, wah, wah, da jia dou shi hua ren wo! The van made about a dozen stops before arriving in Alor Gajah. That chinaman was a driving instructor, he took and made phone calls while driving and was a perfect example of a law abiding citizen!

The entire journey there took about one hour plus minus the stops we made to fetch other people. Once there, I got myself registered, I entered the lecture roomat 8:15, the people in charge spelled my name wrongly. Who's Lee Kim Mun? you tell me!



A lot of my friends complain about the five and a half hour lesson for the amali test, mine was very quick, the lesson only went on for bout 1 one hour, the rest of the time we spent sleeping and eating.

8:15am - the lecturer was there waiting for us. We waited for a full 2 hours before the lecture started.
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10:15am - The lecture started. And then it ended half and hour later. (ok sekarang masa rehat-he never said it was for breakfast, and so we ate lunch instead)

11:45am - The lecture continued. And it ended at 12:30. (ok, sekarang masa nak rancang waktu rehat untuk waktu makan tengah hari, what on earth! Orang melayu nak sembahyang kami ada sediakan van untuk hantar...)

2.00pm - The final lecture, the previous lecturer was replaced by another person. This new guy was slightly better. He's an ex-militant, a retiired army officer. I could tell from his soldier-styled hair cut and united abdominal buldge-belly.

4:00pm - the day ended. I headed home, fetched by the same china-uncle. He said, 'eh, you wanna pass the amali test quick dun need to study the whole book...just study five pages can pass alreddy but you must be under my service...do you want to be under my service'
and I said, ' but uncle i want to get fifty out of fifty!'
Uncle: Aiyah you from SFi science student no problem one lah!
I stood there speechless...

mother-trucker! (my ride)

their canteen, food here is quite reasonable(taste and pricing)