First Time Naik Beca

wat a weekend last week. i went to Malacca, Malaysia, with my working colleagues, 5 of us, all sponsored by our boss.

a coach ride from beach road to Malacca was a first time for me as i don't take coach to Malaysia via beach road, basically booking tickets at Golden Mile. mostly me and my family book tickets to KL or Malacca from Larkin, Johor or the tepi jalanan coach companies opposite KTM JB Station which is more cheaper.



basically i sat with my buddy, Shah, my head of department, and along the way, we played poker cards. but then somehow my boss wanted us to play the guitar cos we both brought guitars and so we brought up one of our guitar and play some old songs like 'temple of the king' and 'hotel california' and some malay songs played by me like 'kau ilhamku' and my own song, 'sepintas kasih secebis harapan.'

after we reached to our hotel, Hotel Equatorial, we checked in and had lunch at this peranakan restaurant in the hotel and i had my first taste of buah keluak.



then we go jalan-jalan around the historic area like the A'Famosa and the istana cum museum. we head back to our hotel by riding on a Beca for RM10 per Beca. it was my very first time sitting on a Beca and got to watch the sceneries around the historic melaka town.

we head for a swim at the hotel's poolside and after that we were supposed to go for aromatherapy spa and massage, (that would be the first time, tapi sayang...) but there was a miscommunication on the bookings and we were not booked for the spa and massage session, so we head for dinner at the Melaka Rest House at the lobby of the hotel.

it was Italian feast for that night and what a feast! for the first time, i tried oyster, you know the oyster Mr Bean ate in one of its episode? ok lah whatever it is, i always see these Mat Saleh ate those raw oysters in the movies, so i was curious and i tried one. it taste like Kerang but raw. not really nice.



then came the karaoke session. we head outside and went into this karaoke lounge. it look kinda freaky cos there were a few really sexy and pretty hostess outside that reminded me of Geylang.

as usual, the 3 chinese colleagues go for cantonese and hokkien songs while me and Shah go for malay duets. mostly i sang the woman part while he went for the guy part cos i can go for high voice and his low voice were excellent. i became Siti Nurhaliza, Noraniza Idris, Siti Sarah while he became 2by2, Ezad Exists and Jamal Abdillah. oh and my chinese colleagues loved Dikir Puteri by Noraniza Idris, sang by me of course. Heheheh!

the next day we had little time to spend and had a very fast shopping at Mahkota Parade. thought of buying some clothes for work but the prices were mostly 3 digits. might as well go John Little man, much cheaper. so i just bought 2 CDs, Uji Rashid's Song Collections and a compilation of malay songs of the 60s.

it was a great trip. i learnt many things about my colleagues, we talked about life, we talked about having family, marriages, also about the company, SingPrint... and i also had a few first times there. i enjoy it very much. hopefully, there will be more trips like this again.