I went to Melaka this Saturday.

For Krishna puja.

Uh-huh. It's like a ceremony where you tie these strings called rakhis which the girls braid, on guys in a gesture of brother/sisterhood.

No it's not a girl/boyfriend thing you jakuns.

Bright, bright colours!

Anyway, I left on Saturday morning after attempting to go to Erica's funeral. More about the 'attempt' later.

After a 2 hour car ride, we had yummy satay for lunch. I accidentally ingested a piece of pig's intestines which resulted in some gagging. But, being a super-tolerant person, I managed to get it down after realising it tasted exactly the same as normal pork meat...

Wu liao go and play with the sticks, haha.

...except that you know, the organ had processed...pig shit before. Ewww...

Can go for fear factor now, w00t!

After that most satisfying lunch, we checked into The Bayview Hotel Melaka, after dropping two other passengers off at the Renaissance.

Bad pic la, I know. Was lazy to get out of the comfy, comfy car.

"Omg mom, we're staying here? Yayyy!"

"Er no, we're just dropping Dr Kim and Dr Leela off."

"Awww..."

Anyway, after making a couple of rounds in the slightly jammed Melaka traffic, we found the newly refurbished Bayview which had no sign.

It was directly opposite the Renaissance hotel, of course. -_-

Super bright reception.
Not surprising, as the whole wall of the entrance was made of glass.

Anyway, the moment I entered, I knew I was going to love the place. Great, great hotel! Beautiful reception, friendly porters and an unbelievably fast lift that took us 7 floors up in like, 5 seconds. Whoosh!

sCups. The hotel cafe. Again, super bright and cheery.

Oh yeah, did I mention that the rooms were huuuuuuuuge? For RM 50 a night, I mean. Haha.

Got TV set, got radio, got super-wide single beds...

They also had this fake duvet. So embarrassing, I stuck my feet in to snuggle in for warmth, and...

!!!
The cover ends!

...my feet shot out the other end! Cis. Tricksters. Makes me wonder what the cover was even there for. Colour, maybe?

And I found this under the covers:

Orientation of this picture's funny. I can't fix it.
Even if I rotate it, it stays this way. On my cam too. :S

Haha. Good service, yeah! On the way to the puja venue...

Old-style buildings in the rain.

A Trishaw! A real, live, trishaw! Wow! (macam jakun, haha)

Okok, enough about where I stayed. Puja time!

It works like this:

Girl ties rakhi for brother, girl is nice to brother, brother gives present to girl, brother has to do anything girl says, if asked sweetly.

Except when you ask for their picture. I didn't know guys were camera shy.

Here are a few of my very unphotogenic bros:

Khaielaash.

Theesigan and Joshua.

The rest are: Brandon, Rohan, Jun Yan, Jun Ren, Vimal, Shabari, Theepen and Shash.

Just 'cause I had so many rakhis, I tied for way more than my usual 3. Bleh. (More presents too *evil cackle*)

And my gorgeous sisters:

L-R: Laksh, Shan, Me, Sashwiny
I didn't take this blurry pic, obviously. =P
Nor the previous 2.

Oh, and did I mention presents? Presents presents presents!

The loot:

Woot! My bros rock!

After the ceremony, I couch-potatoed with JY, JR and Shan in their room until 2.30 am, when a very furious someone demanded that I get the hell back to my hotel room now. xD

Thus ended my weekend. (Nah, I just gotta sleep, haha)

Ciao.


Song of the Day:

"Message in A Bottle - The Police"

Stuff on Erica tomorrow.