Ahh, long awaiting update. Busy with work, decided to extend my hotel day job to part time, every morning. Then night time work 4 hours as motorbike despatch. Earn $$.
But anyway! Went out to icebar to relax with Berney, met Guishan there and everyone decided to celebrate his birthday early. haha
Managed to get my passport back to go for a short trip into msia by motorbike. Initial plan was to go the Muar and come back on the same day. But things never seem the way they are!
There was a massive jam going into JB from woodlands customs at 5pm on a Saturday, probably all the msians working half day thus the jam. Stopped at the 1st petrol station inside JB to taste JB petrol! SG RON95 petrol = SGD1.80. JB RON95 petrol = RM1.80. SGD1.00 = RM2.38. Shiok!
David and his Daelim!
Our bikes.
Had light meal at danga bay before setting off
1st time go past Plaza Toll and riding on North South Highway.
Sunset
Me and David swap bikes for awhile. After like 100metres, we swapped back. He cannot tahan my bike super vibrations. lol
Rolling hills ahead. If only we had a faster bike to enjoy North South Highway, fantastic piece of clean, open road.
Drama of the trip. At 134km away from Singapore, my bike broke down and could not be revived. It was 8.30pm at night, at the middle of the highway. Was quoted RM250 for bike towing. No thanks so expensive.
Thank god the PLUSRonda came. They are sorta like the police of the highway. The officer teach us how to "push bike".
After seeing the demonstration by the PLUSRonda officers, David had a go and pushed me and my bike to the nearest town of Pagoh. There we stopped at Petronas where i managed to seek help from some Malay guys at the Petronas station to help.
They were really helpful and even called the motorbikeshop uncle to come and help. They were kinda fascinated by my old...old ...really old bike, one even expressed his interest to buy it from me. lol
Anyway, it was a truly eye opening experience at 11pm. Where every workshop is closed, who knew these dudes from some small town would be willing to open their workshop just to fix your bike? It was still cheaper the "big carrot" towing service of RM250 to the nearest workshop.
The mech replaced both coils and checked the bikes wiring, apparently it was a electronic issue which caused to sparkplug to have no spark. Took nearly 4hours to finish fixing. It was already almost 3am then.
Back on the road at 3am. Towards Muar. It was pitch black, my bikes headlight was not sufficient. Had to rely on David's Daelim to light up the road ahead.
Found a place to stay in the town of Muar. RM80 nett per night, not bad. We were running really low on cash due to the RM130 used to repair my bike. All the ATMs were closed after 12am. Luckily the hotel accepts Mastercard Debit!
Room was clean, aircon was working, bathroom has water, towels and soap. That is enough to make it a pleasant stay.
Some night supper before we went to sleep.
RM2.5 per bowl which works out to about SGD1.10 per bowl. Wanton noodles.
Slept from 4am->11am the next day.
Simple brunch
Not really nice, maybe just not our taste. Lots of locals though.
Muar.
There are 2 bridges at Muar, this is the older one.
Muar second bridge.
I told David. Me "hey Melaka is only 40km away, lets go" David "haarr" Me "Can one laaa, lets go" David "ok lor"
lol.
Stopped at the coconut drink stall in Melaka. The coconut drink is made from fresh coconut. Super good, lots of locals stopping their cars beside to take away.
Nasi Lemak
The "touristy" part in Melaka. Lots of ang mohs and asian tour groups walking around. Probably more than the locals!
Asked the locals where is the chicken rice ball stall. One of them offered to lead us there by car. "Follow me i bring yall go".
Famosa famous chicken rice ball.
Quite unique, personally i never tried before.
Tried this Nonya Chendol. Its bloody fantastic! The brown sweet stuff is a killer!
Stuff there were not cheap though. RM4.80 for the roast chicken rice ball set, RM 3.00 for the chendol. I liked the chendol alot!
Went up to this St Paul's Church to feel the breeze and see the Melaka Straits.
These two buskers very cool, know Malay song, Mandarin song, English song, Hokkien song.
View of Melaka Straits. Picture dun do justice, go there feel the breeze, shiok!
Their trishaws are super pimped.
Melaka, world heritage site. Indeed. I feel as though i am in a different world there.
Went up to North South Highway after that, shot straight back to Johor in about 3 hours. Maintain 100km/h. Felt numb after that. haha. Dinner at Ah Gua Lane.
Overall it was a crazy adventure, especially when my bike broke down was quite scary in the middle of NSH at night. Luckily had the PLUSRonda officers help us out and the mechs at Pagoh which helped fix the bike. Muar was quite dull for us, maybe because we didnt know where to go. But Melaka was quite colourful.
We didnt have any maps, just follow road signs and rely on asking people where and how to go to the places.
