February 22, 2007
Post CNY report
Although Chinese New Year (CNY) is not officially ended yet, (last day of the Chinese festival celebration ends during Chap Goh Mei this 4th March) I thought that it’ll be nice to pen down (I can’t believe that i’m still stuck with pen and paper lingo)what has happened during CNY.
This year CNY celebration was rather relaxed. We took our time driving down to Malacca on the first day itself where traffic at the Seremban exit was at a stand still as usual. All thanks to this traffic light, barely 500 meters away from the toll booth. Who in the right mind would have a 2 lane trunk road crossing right in front of the toll booth? The road design is more than 30 years old and the good ol’ government is not doing anything to ease traffic congestion at that place. sigh, what to expect of them. And PL still thinks it’s ok to reuse the 10 year old payment scheme for government employees. No wonder corruption at the lower ranks is abundance where police would prey on traffic offenders rather than solving break-ins, snatch theft and other crime that keep piling up on their desk.
okay, back to topic..
So, we checked into Equatorial, just a stone throw from A’Famosa fort. Suppose to be a 5 star hotel. Suppose. The management did a screwed up job under estimating the number of guest that will be dining for their buffet breakfast. And not to mention a special treat, a lion dance performance which was scheduled at 11am only to show up one hour later. The lobby was crowded with guest waiting for the troupe which never turn up until noon, and boy, was the manager sweating bullets when the crowd got bigger and rowdy. Lion dance that just pounces around the lobby no longer interest me, since i was spoiled by awesome acrobatic performance at 1U where the lion dancers jumped from pole to pole defying gravity.
Anyway, it wasn’t an entire bad experience at Equatorial. After all i did quite enjoy watching Singapore channels especially Channel 5 which was showing Amazing Race All Stars, the same time it was aired in The States. C’mon Astro you are 2 weeks behind! and you are loosing to a Singapore public TV station! Shame on Astro. Grr…
Only went to two relatives house to raid collect red packets. Only tow but did collect around RM200 (just enough for Pipercross filter) since my aunt and uncle was having steamboat + BBQ, so almost all the relatives i know off within Malacca was there. Save driving around town. After the meal, it was rather boring since there is nothing much to talk about.
"dah makan belum?"
"dah…" (I just had steamboat, remember??)
"…"
"…"
