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Here are my holiday photos taken with my crappy Nokia phone (but which does the job just passably. Sniffle for a camera that’s gone with the wind).

So we drove down to Malaysia for the weekend, my aunty’s family and mine (sans the two firstborns of each family who weren’t free).

The Straits of Johor (I think) from the bridge over the Second Link (Linkedua). We left right after my last paper which I walked out of half an hour early. Hurhur.

Okay first stop MELAKA!

Eh Melaka rawks lah they always have such cute wall art and graffiti around. This one was on some construction site barrier.

We stayed in the Hotel Equatorial. Not bad. This is the award-winning Peranakan restaurant there and this is my cousin Raphael being funny with the interior decor. Cute turquoise lion.

Restoran Famosa Chicken Rice. My favorite chicken rice place in Melaka. It’s this ritual I can’t pass up; everytime we go into Melaka I must have the chicken rice from here. It’s just so darn good. The chicken rice balls taste crappy though. Cue many jokes from my uncle about balls and, uh, dumplings.

My other cousin Reuben who is just one of many younger male cousins who have now grown taller than me. How dare they.

More funky wall art. I love Melaka.

Next up: CAMERON HIGHLANDS. We’re here almost every year for our family holiday.

An adorable little baby selling hats at the pasar malam (night market).

Parents make us go hiking there too. Urgh exercise :/ Climbed up a hill and a watchtower to get to this nice vantage point looking down on the valleys of Cameron Highlands.

Prata and tandoori chicken - another must-do thing on our list. That’s Raphael in front of me at the little kopitiam we ate at. Aiyah I keep forgetting photos of the food because I’m always too excited to eat it all up. Then empty plates don’t make very interesting photos.

Me and Daddy.

ISN’T HE SUCH A LITTLE CUTIE!!! This is Ricky. He’s a Dalmatian/Retriever cross and promptly waddled into all our hearts when he looked at us with his soulful widdle puppy eyes and don’t you just want to cuddle him up!!!!

Last stop: KUALA LUMPUR. How to go to Malaysia and not stop in KL? The food! The shopping! The food! The shopping! See?

The kids in the lift lobby of Dynasty Hotel, where we stayed in KL. IT SUCKS ASS. DO NOT STAY AT THE DYNASTY HOTEL IF SOMEONE PAYS YOU TO. Too many reasons why, but basically it’s a seriously crappy hotel. No go. Never again.

So we took the monorail from Titiwangsa down to the city center, to visit Sungei Wang (lotsa pirated DVD shops, cheap shoes and clothes) and Times Square and have a tasty dinner. KL food is good. I think all I did on this holiday was eat and shop. Seriously. I’m just really annoyed that the durian-eaters in this group were a minority. Blah.

Haha passed by ZOUK! on our way to KLCC. So cool! At first I was all “Ew, ugly building” then I went “AW MAN LOOK IT’S ZOUK!” and then I got all hyped up and started doing the mambo actions for ‘You Spin Me Right Round’, but if you tell anyone I will deny it so there.

Why can’t Singapore build pretty buildings like the Petronas Twin Towers instead of monstrosities like the fugly new Supreme Court?

One of the awesome things about Malaysia is that they have…DUNKIN’ DONUTS. Okay why doesn’t Singapore have Dunkin’ Donuts? Seriously! Their cinnamon donuts are heavenly. We cleaned out the rest stop on our way to Cameron of cinnamon donuts and demolished most of the stock at the KLCC outlet too. Hurhur.

Me in a cheongsam in a dressing room in KLCC. It was size S but still way too large for me (angmoh-sizes, what to do) so I had to pull the back tight to look halfway decent in this photo. I like this cutting for cheongsams. I want to make one. This dove color is awfully pretty.

Celcom for teh win! You know why? Because LEE HOM and STEVEN GERRARD endorse Celcom! WOOOO! Two of my favorite pretty men in one large ad. What’s not to like?

Driving back to Johor we saw…a rainbow! So pretty!! I couldn’t stop squealing over it for a good five minutes because it just kept getting bigger and brighter and stretched into a full bow right across the sky. I daringly stuck my phone out the window while we were doing 130km/h down the freeway in order to bring you these photos.

And it got better:

A DOUBLE RAINBOW! WAAAHHH!

This is only the second double rainbow I’ve ever seen and both times we were driving down the freeway in Malaysia.

Okay photos out!

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