Scenes of the South: Day 1, Jauhar

Prelude

If my previous entry was titled Bestnye Duduk Rumah!!, this posting should be aptly titled Malasnye Update Blog!! No joke... but before I become even more malas and this entry forgotten in my draft box, here's an attempt I managed...

Friday, 5 June

We left Ampang at 2.30pm and reached our hotel in JB just before 7pm. Earlier, we did one stop at Ayer Keroh R&R for some snacks.

We had actually loosely planned this trip sometime ago. I said loosely because cakap gitu-gitulah... "let's go to Singapore... " between me and my cousin. So a couple of weeks before the school holidays, it was like, "eh...bila nak gi Singapore... let's go this school hols!" Yeay!! ;-)

We planned our trip over tea and cucoq sayoq one afternoon. We decided that the main highlight would be the cross over Johor causeway to Singapore, and we'd stay in JB for two nights. Easier on the pocket + we could explore JB as well. Several years ago, their daddy and I took the girls for a vacation in Singapore but they've never been to JB.

After Maghrib, we went out to look for dinner and drove off towards the city. The bright lights of Danga Bay caught our attention. It was there that we had planned to have our dinner anyways, and the festive mood that's in the air, the fun-looking funfair got us even more excited. I am not all that familiar with JB, but been there on several working trips - the last one in 2007, so bolehlah gagau jugak ;-)

We had fun at the funfair. My cousin said upon looking at the carousel, "I want to feel like a child tonight"... and I think she did!! She went on the carousel with the girls. I opted for the rocking pirate ship ride and ended up mengilai like a pontianak!! That was fun haha...

We also found the Rumah Limas on the Danga Bay stretch. I was amazed at such concept, all the traditional houses of Johor at a spacious and well-landscaped park and one of these houses can be rented out for weddings. And while we were there, there was a wedding going on... quite the syahdu. I've never actually been to a kampung wedding before and sungguh tertarik with the scenery.

After walking around, our tummies were giving signs for us to go for dinner, and we did @ Drop By Always ;-)

*hajat dihati nak write about our 3D/2N Southern trip into one entry but like I warned you at the beginning of the post, the five-letter M word just won't budge la ;-) An entry on our daytrip to Singapore will follow suit!!