*~*Miss Pammy Tan*~*

Soo, it was my love Pingy's birthday on the 23rd of December!! woohooo!! the big 21!! But as we were so busy, we held off celebrating till last weekend. It also happens that Pingy has gotten her first passport recently. *gasp!* (I know right, talk about mountain tortise =x lol) Adding the two together, we decided to celebrate her birthday in nearby Jorhor Bahru. For a different scene and to pop her passport's virginity!

We headed over in te early afternoon when it was muchos crowded. (ughhh, but what time on a Saturday in Singapore isn't?) And while on the bus I recieved the funniest call ever from Pingy:

"hello? Pam? We took a bus to the checkpoint and want to wait here but there are signs saying no loitering! how?! Then we went through the point and tried to go back but the security guard said cannot"
"LOL just go through and wait for me on the other side near the excalator"
"Ohh, can ar?"
"yeap, I'll see you there".

hahaha good times. Not to worry though, we met up just fine! We met Damien and Nichelle soon after and Damien drove us to some new mall to have lunch. Super hungry, we decided on a chinese herbal soup restaurant. The food was not bad, I liked the soup but not so much the chicken or the rice lol. And I liked the stewed pork because of the flavor and its small portion-not too porky. The tea was nice as well. Which reminds me, I need a fancy double-walled teapot as well (--,)

The girls!

the boys!

Instead of staying at the same old boring mall, we decided to explore JB a little. Because Damien and Nichelle prefered to stay in the mall, we headed off with Pingy and Wayne to see the Sultan's old palace*. The grounds were grand but the building-now a museum doesn't seem to be upkept like the rest of JB. We got there in time to buy tickets, but whoever was working there decided no one would notice if they slacked and left work early, thus we couldn't go in :( However, we could still roam about the gardens which were glorious!-sort of. LOL there was a Japanese Zen garden, a fountain and a turtle pond among other things.

the palace entrance

We can see singapore!

our different poses infront of the grand entrance to the palace

to the gardens!

we found a little japanese garden

he was so proud of his balancing skills LOL

what could've been a super nice fountain and the cherub is missing a penis LOL

the pavillion where we decided the sultan held friday night cowboy dances!

abandoned turtle pond

Henrik's sultan pose

*Boy, did he ever upgrade his palace! the new one is like 5 mins away (not open to public) but much more grand and of course, up kept

We walked to City Square mall where we were to meet Damien and Nichelle for dinner. It was actually quite nice to walk. The weather was really cool and we saw some interesting things along the way. There was the post office, a walking street with a live band, the indian part of JB and the beginings of a night market. It seemed as if the city doesn't really come alive till the evening though. Must be more of that Malaysian effiency =x.

some random grand building

the walking street!

we found a good chinese rockband. I think it was the new opening of the store or something.

Malaysia is like Singapore 30+ years ago, and every year singapore moves forward, malaysia moves back. LOL

beginings of a night market

While waiting at the mall, we did a little spree at Watsons lol. A lot of their products are cheaper than in SG (except for makeup). I also got the Treseme shampoo that I love which is unavailable in Singapore. Heehee! All preparing for Chinese new year, we got free hong baos for spending more than RM88 in the mall! gotta collect them all! lol

victory!

collect them all! lol

exact replicas of the ang baos!

When we finally met Nichelle and Damien again, we decided to check out Danga Bay as I had read that it was a nice place to go. We went and it was rather disappointing. Like everything else in JB, it had potential, but never finished or upkept. There was even a huge picture of what it was supposed to look like. I think I'd better stick to Singapore if I want to keep it modern =x The marina was as ugly as East Coast park and there was a prehistoric amusement park that seemed to only be turned on if one requested to ride on it. Then they had to go to the main power box to jumpstart the thing. LOL The eating places were also over-exaggerated on trip advisor as there wasn't really anything but touters. Ahh Malaysia, truly Asia.

Danga Beach

Yatch docking

Saw Dom for the second time that day with his lomo friends lol (First time was at the King's palace. Stalker!! LOL)

the "amusement" park

In the end, Damien drove us to a place called The Zon where (literally) all the Singaporeans go to eat "cheap" seafood. Converted, it is about 1/2 the price of the seafood in SG. We had satay, vege, beehoon, cereal prawns, kung pow chicken and my favorite salted egg crab!! yay!! Though it wasn't the best like I had in Penang, it was way better than my own cooking attempts! lol *happies*

Satay starters

My fav salted egg crab!!! =)~~~~ though it was abit dry...YUMM!

Anyway Pingy, I hope you had a wonderful day and have a wonderful year ahead! We/You shall travel to many more places! I love you!

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Other happs:

My dream car spotted in Malaysia!

There are just some people I could never travel with -.-" There should be some sort of travel compatibility test before actually traveling with them!
Also, there should be global airport standards for things sold in airports ;)

<3
Love, your Toxic.