wahlao eh !!

..so i was up in genting lo for the malaysia day holiday..like most chinese people, i went gambling lo..hahahahaha (not really true..but we get stereotyped anyway...hehe, just like what i'm gonna tell you about the movie we watched up in genting..)

and the good news is i won RM 800 betting on a single number (18) at a roulette table. my only attempt at a table on the second day and my one and only bet on that day..sekali the number came out, i grabbed my money and walked straight out of the casino..wheeeeeeeeeee...

and of course with that winning, i had to belanja my friends all go makan and watch movie lo..and we decided to go see Nasi Lemak 2.0, a movie directed, co-written, and acted by our "infamous" local boy.. namewee....wahlao eh..i thought i was gonna die laughing from beginning to the end of the movie...granted there were a few scenes i didn't quite get or understand, i just laughed because everyone else was cracking up !! on the whole, it was really really boisterously good.. for a first timer at acting and directing..namewee is talented..

a lot of stereotypes were depicted but in a most hilarious way and i don't think anyone of us was offended in that cinema..i saw a mixture of audience, although the majority number of patrons were malaysian chinese..but everyone laughed like mad throughout the movie..i think we all saw the funny side of "us" in that movie.. :O)

i especially loved the curry neh dancing scene, it was so bollywood but yet the song was sung in chinese..and that part about people hiding behind trees & bushes was really steroetypically hilarious..david arumugam's face alone in that scene really cracked me up..and all the acting was quite natural..not bad really.. everyone should go see it..

and i think the language/dialects that are spoken in the movie is rather original..people actually do talk like that out there.. if we only really stop to listen..and i think if we could all take time out to laugh at ourselves once in a while, this country might just be a happier place for everyone of us..

and so after a good laugh and a happy time in genting, it was back to our normal grind again in KL..

so good....

...it was a long awaited holiday for me over the past one week during the raya holidays..so off i went with some friends to melaka..

it's been a great many years since i last visited that place and much has changed since then..for one, melaka raya area seems a little bit bigger than previously, a lot more busier than previously and the people much much more than previously...

but it was a leisurely trip for the bunch of us..to just play tourists but of course we avoided those obviously touristy sites like a-famosa lah, the stadhuys lah etc..etc.., and instead just went walk2, cari makan, beli-belah...as in curi2 malaysia...and i tell you, i have never seen such a huge underground shopping complex as i saw in the dataran pahlawan under-field complex.. wow..so many shops, so little time, so so tired from the daily walks in air-conditioned comfort...hahahaa..

but for this post, i just wanna tell you about my discovery of this little art cafe in jonker's walk area..i'm pretty sure it's already famous without the need for me to rave about it...anyway, it was the highlight of our visit to melaka..

it was actually a chance walk-in into this cafe coz we were so tired from walking under the noon day heat and we saw this cute little cafe which seemed to be blowing a cool breeze at us as we walked by...so anyway, i just had to say that this was the BEST tasting nyonya melaka laksa that i have ever ever tasted in my life..it was so good, i almost drank all the soup..the color and texture were almost perfect, the taste was exquisite..really..u go try and see and then tell me..




one of us ordered this somewhat normal looking nasi lemak, although it came with yellow rice (? nasi kunyit..) but i took a spoonful and found it rather tasty despite its plain looks..








this samosa & springroll combo was simple & nice too..crispy on the outside, fresh fillings on the inside..






this is what they are famous for actually..coffee !! i had the ice blended local coffee mix..i think..beats SB or CB any time..







...this is the cafe lo..from the outside..








...and this is how it looks on the insides..nice & cosy, a cool atmosphere for the always hot melaka weather !!



so..if you ever thought about making a visit to melaka, this place is good enough a reason for you to make that visit..the place is called calanthe art cafe.. :O)

...on a side note..see these people queuing up to go into the coffee shop ? it's supposedly one of melaka's famous chicken rice balls outlets....hmmm..the weather was too hot for us to join in the silly queue...maybe next time..