It's the start of the June school holiday. Together with Steven's family (Samantha, Kenneth and Clairice), we decided to have a short trip to Malacca over last weekend. We left on Saturday 11am and check-in to the Kings apartment at 3pm. Traffic is very heavy with many tourists from Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. We headed to Malacca town for our Peranakan dinner after wash up. As we're early (restaurant started at 6pm), we first treated ourselves to cakes and white-coffee from 'Secret recipe'. It tasted extra yummy when you've skipped your lunch. After a good dinner, we visited the Jonker night market. We saw a woman calligraphy artist. She wrote great chinese characters. Only difference is she has lost all her fingers (no hands). Her achievement in calligraphy is from 20 years of hard work and practice. I saluted her for her courage and determination. We also witness a young lady playing electric organ. But, she is blind. Handicap is in the mind but not the body, as I reflected how fortunate we are, especially the Singaporean.
The next day, we woke up early for our 'food hunt'. Have a complementary buffet breakfast at the hotel before heading back to the town. We visited the A-famosa, Christ Church and St Paul Church. Have our lunch at a famous Teochew restaurant whom Steven has booked before the trip. Before heading back home, we dropped by a shop to purchase the local delight and food product.
We took another 3 hours drive back to Johor Bahru where we stopped for our dinner at one of a chinese restaurant for its famous herbal chicken. We reached home safely at about 8.30pm. Unpacked, bathed and put the kids back to bed. It's supposed to be an easy night until I received a call from citi bank customer officer that someone found my pouch with all our passports and my credit card. We're lucky that a group of Indonesian students from NUS, took the trouble to track down my contact and returned my belongings. I'm so glad of their kindness. I strongly believe there is many more foreigner working and living in Singapore whom is equally kind and sweet.
Cheers OKY
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