Express Malacca Trip in 3 Hours

continuation from You’ll Never Shop Alone

after shopping went for tea with XH

he received call from a lecturer

asking him to plan a Melaka trip for him

and find him a Baba Nyonya style hotel

with a budget of rm 60-80?? erm…

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so we decided to walk through the few tourist sites

A’Famosa – Stadhuys – Jonker Street

and check out hotel rates at Heeren Street

here we went walking

4pm, under the hot sun

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i guess people would really think

that we are tourists

with the SL cam and backpack

isn’t it a ridiculous thing to do

but i do believe

many Malaccans have never taken photos

around these sites

which attracted tourists from all around Malaysia

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skipped A’Famosa because

we were still busy licking our sundae cones

didn’t go up St. Paul Hill too

because i don’t wanna get burnt again

   

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Heeren Street

went into 2 hotels

one budget hotel

room rate can go

as low as 88 per night

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met an artist sketching

this stretch of the road

amazingly detailed

and capture the buildings

from the right angle

didn’t take photo

you know lar

ang mo very particular about this issue

called copyright and intellectual property

later we kena sue

  

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Puri Hotel

i guess recently it has gained popularity

among tourists as the aunthentic

Baba Nyonya style hotel

discovered that

all building along this street

are double storey

except this

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so they renovated and constructed

the 2nd storey

but the roof on top of ground floor

looked a bit curvy

is it just the original design

or bent by the extra weight from 2nd storey

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2nd storey is the exact replica of

1st storey

except it has shrunken in height

what a waste to tear down the

original roof to construct it

or did they actually preserve all the tiles

and reinstall them back

after 2nd storey was built

 

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a mansion

remind me of a dark night

with lightning flashing across the sky

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read from papers before

actually these calligraphies on the door etc

are priceless pieces of work

attracting academicians from mainland

most are motivational quotations

i was curious

what do these 2 phrases mean

found it here

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imagine last time

you can always say hello

to your neighbour from here 

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finally no car

chop chop took these photos

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then went over to Jonker

XH said this is the first time

he came at such early time

but no differences

all pasar malam stuffs lar

seems that

i so anti Jonker Street nowadays

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walked back to Dataran Pahlawan

around 7

supposedly wanted to hang around

the playground for awhile

but i saw my dad and ny niece there

my dad cycled there

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fortunately he didn’t see me

the wrong scanty top

(i came out wearing a cardigan)

so just quickened our paces

and sneaked through

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wanted to go Bt Cina for dinner

either the corner wantan noodle

or the 3 roses mamak

but all the shops were closed

oops i forgot

the festival at the Gudwara

had begun

for 3 days, Sikhism devotees will

flood the whole vicinity of bt cina

and jalan laksamana cheng ho

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went for wantan noodle at

Bunga Raya instead

the roadside stall

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here marked the end

of our Melaka impromptu express trip

although the few iconic tourist sites

were already covered

it would never be sufficient

to truly discover Malacca

and not forgetting all the nice food

it will take weeks to taste them all

but takes a lifetime to forget

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