Wednesday, February 25, 2009
christmas passed, new year passed, chinese new year passed.... haven't been updating my blog for so long..
Finally!!! I get to go back to indonesia!!! oh yes!!! what a nice holidays I had, although it is only ten short days. How I wished my holidays were longer.. We accompanied my grandma and grandpa to the old old kampong where they used to live and where my mama and papa grew up. It's really oh my god! If I were to grew up there, I think i might be bored to death or maybe diarrhoea till no shit.. lols. The place is called Selat Panjang, some island in the Indonesia Riau Province. It's freaky small and the people there lead quite a simple life. No shopping centre (place too small?), no amusement park (no security standard?), no swimming pool (the water is too dirty) etc..
The food there are all simple fares like nasi lemak, satay, fried noodles and etc. Thus, my didi and u conclude that no wonder the people there all live to a ripe old age? with little ailments.. haha :D Oh wells, my didi and I being grew up in a city cannot get used to eating the food and drinking the well or rain water there; ended up having diarrhoea and stomach upset. My mama brought me to eat the lontong sayur that she used to eat when she was small and my ahma showed me the place where their kway tiao stall used to be.. The trip was enjoyable especially with the bechak aka trishaw. The trishaw driver was damn pro, he can carry four passengers!!!! which is around 200 plus kg... can he's not even panting and sweatiing like mad.
I used to thought that there is only the traditional trishaw, those with the bicycle but now there is those with the motorbike! so diao! and it is super fast... likt tut tut.. haha. We also went to pay our respects to our yeye.. since it was also his hometown and went around visiting relatives. My gugu really very nice.. She was so delighted to see us and cooked a lot for us to eat and her cooking skills was superb! She gave us big hongbao though it was far off after new year. We wanted to reject it but she said something so diao : 姑姑要給紅包不用管是不是新年。lols
Back in batam, went to quite a lot of places.. and there's is this place called coastarina. It's a seaside places just like east coast, esplanade and sentosa. Though there's no flyover but there is ferris wheel which is abt 10 storey high?? and there is bumper boat, rolling ball etc.. all sortof fun activities. ate a lot of seafood.. got my favourite crab!!! haha! nonetheless, went to uncle's house to bbq and play with my super cute cousins! I just realised that I got plenties of cousins and nephews, nieces on my paternal's side. Imagine I have 9 uncles and 4 aunts, on average, they had 3 child each... oh my freaky god...
On the way back to Singapore, met this custom officer think age around 20 plus or early 30s who's so lame..Maybe he's too bored from his work and kept chatting with us. First is my mama.. he pronounce my mama's name while checking her passport and ask did he pronounce it correctly. So my mama was like yes yes ..so he say: wah auntie.. u everything also say yes... then he looked at my studentpass and wah: hou sei la.. uni student leh. which course? then i was like..lols.. there it is written on the pass. so he was like ooh.. and then started to test me. I didn't catch what he say as I was rather tired and feeling a bit unwell. so he said.. eh nvm.. nvm hear nvm..According to my mama, he was asking what is 10% of 100..lols
Then at the luggage checking point, there he was again. I wondered why is he there again? Is he that free?so he start crapping with me again la.. and this time round i caught wat he said: mm, how much is it after giving 10% to $148.. so i told him the ans.. Then he was like, mm, dun bluff me ar, if not i go to your house find u.. I was like about to say.. you didn't even know my address. on second thoughts.. he does have coz ofthe custom records. Then he said exactly what I was thinking lols... I should have say.. JUST COME IF U DARE!! lols. but forget it.. i was like damn tired.. n wanted to get out asap... so just keep bye bye... if not dunno what else he wanna say... Is working at the custom that free? Maybe I should go to... lols
At coastarina..
Back to the kampong..
this is the legendary 'zhu long'.
the tortoise is so damn big. wonder how old it is?
my cute little nephews:)
The rubbish chute.. so damn dirty imagine living next to it...
"bechak"
"bechak"