OK, if this new post goes through, it's 99% credit to Eik, who has tried all kinds of tricks from his secret sachet to drill a little blog-savviness into my head. But i'm pretty sure it does since this box that i'm writing in looks as foreign to me as newfoundland.
So, before the road trip bubble bursts, can i start throwing in some ideas of where we can go? For a start, a short 3-hr drive to Malacca can be nice. There's really nothing much to do there, except heading straight for the chendol and chicken rice ball at Jonkker Street. Of course there's Mahkota Parade but that's a little like any shopping mall here. On the way, we can also make a detour to Segamat for what else but durians.
If we have a night or two to spare alternatively, we can venture up to Cameron Highlands. HC and I took our outdoor wedding photos there (then drove a gruelling 12 hours to Terrangganu for part 2) and it was a really nice, cool place to hang out. Obviously, there's none of the buzz in the city but the drive up the windy road (sometimes foggy) is really good in transporting your mind into the subliminal realm of nature. There are some civilisation at the top, which offers pretty good food and even a Pasar Malam on weekend evenings. The yuan yang steamboat is a popular dish that heats up the body inside out on a typically chilly evening. Overall it should be a great place to hang out, talk and just soak in the surrounding nature, if we can afford to commit a night or two.
At the end of the day, it's really not important if there are exciting things to do, famous food to savour (which is why i didn't even bring up KL), but rather a trip that really allows us to re-establish the bonds we once had and to share it with our loved ones too. Over the past years, there were several attempts to keep it going, some did it rather nicely, others were pretty lame. Once in a while, the memory of one of these attempts popped into my mind and reminded me of the fun times we used to have. Just that day i was reminded of a beginner's windsurfing course a couple of us took at the Sembawang Canoe Club. WK was one of them. It was a really silly course as the Johor Straits was dead calm. So much so that most of the time we had to balance the sails with our bodies rather than make use of the winds. For me the lesson learnt was how bad a backache could be.
Then there was this idea that we could all go and learn how to sail a keel boat, and then buy one together and go sailing every so often. Well, let's just say the plan shelved itself after we finished that exciting discussion. But we did have some nice moments with the sea, and some of those on the yacht that my dad works on. Didn't we go to Pulau Hantu in a big group and stopped right by a gigantic oil rig to fish? Even as recent as Kiwi and PS's wedding, we were out at sea again taking their wedding pictures. Maybe we can do the yacht thing again sometime in the future? Any other suggestions?
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