Kampar, here we come!!! 24.05.09

The time had come for the bro to pack up his things & leave the palace - he got evicted... haha!! hardly, cos mummy would never let that happen, if anything, she'll evict me! So anyway, he's going to uni to do computer engineering. the same uni as me, only in Kampar cos they pindah there. lucky for me, i did my degree in PJ, the land of 1utama, mid valley, jaya one, KIM GARY & most importantly, 2 hours from melaka. UTAR seems to be the family's choice. I went there & am probably going there for my masters next year, Big D is an avid fan who went for orientation (my orientation) & is wearing my UTAR shirt :-) & now he's going to go for Kampar orientation ^-^ my tuaku went to KTAR, before UTAR existed. Big D went to KTAR too.

We started off at 9am-ish, in the chariot, heading to Seremban.

Big D, the chariot racer.

Piggy in our stuffed chariot.


Sampat sis.

Me & my bruise.

We took the old road & saw a TRAIN!!!!

We city folk never saw this before.

Everytime we head North, we'd stop by seremban to eat beef noodles. It's the only thing seremban has to offer, but it's situated at the MARKET... ewwwwww.... suprisingly, i never got ill eating it. Mummy banned me from going to market since i was a little girl. I wasn't allowed to go market with her cos she did not want me in the marketing field. haha, just kidding, after all, i learned marketing as part of my degree :-) hehehe... mummy don't allow me in market cos say i embarrass her!!!

Seremban Market

the beef noodles stall with the old man - he's the boss.

beef noodles, it's lai fun.

springy spritngy de :0

makan...

makan...

After makan, we hit the highway for our long journey up to Perak... nothing interesting along the highway... we stopped at Tapah to give the chariot a drink.

Shell petrol station with funny name - Potty Gold???

Big D & chariot

After chariot had her fill, continue driving, pass toll drive drive drive till we saw something familliar - UTAR logo :-) heehe

UTAR sigh board.

we're finally in Kampar!

When we reached UTAR area in Kampar new town, it was 3pm, just nice for check in. We stayed at Grand Kampar Hotel, it was super "Grand" all rite. Lucky thing i got hotelier rate, if not we'd be paying more for the "grandness" of the "Grand" Kampar Hotel. So we brough our stuff up to the room... it was the family suite..

the king size bed. Big D so tempted to sleep.

the other 2 single beds & Big D

exhausted Big D

Princess with Piggy looking at the room service menu - pig all rite!

we stayed at 308, which suits pig as she's sampat - 38!

leaving to find the bro a room or else he kena stay tepi jalan like Bala.

After going round & round, looking at each & every house in the blazing hot sun for 2 hours plus, we finally found a reasonably priced house with a fairly large room.

the bro's new accomodation.

Big D fixing up the bike.

In Kampar, everybody cycles. Boys have bikes with baskets. Utar has bycycle parking. Countless bike shops are available. Ppl sell bikes from home!!! another reason i'm happy i finished my degree in PJ cos i don't really know how to cycle.

Sampat was really bored by now...

Yeah! finally finished!!! that's around 6.30pm d...

so now, we kena go cari makan... drove to Kampar old town & we found claypot chicken rice - cooked the traditional way. Kampar is super ulu so everything is super old. It's like... dunno how to say la... no action there, i'd die if i live there.

Claypot rice on charcoal stoves.

so unique.

My barley which is thick & yummy.

The claypot chicken rice with salted fish, chinese sausage & egg.

Big D stirred it for us.

Lettuce.


Some sort of vege soup in an antic pot...

My food. It was yummy indeed.

After makan, we had to go to Tesco to get supplies for the bro. I wanted to see if Tesco Kampar was the same as Tesco Melaka. Cos my Ah Ma said that Tesco in Damansara was the same as Tesco in Melaka. She said all tesco is the same. So, we headed for Tesco, but only in the wrong direction until we reached Jalan Mati!! hehehe

Jalan Mati, like duh... ;)

we had to turn around, obviously... then police men came, it was like a carchase, they were so suspicious on why we were headed to Jalan Mati, they tahan us, we were cornered, only thing is that this all happened in my head :-) hehe..

they waved at us & Big D asked them how to get to Tesco. They laughed & laughed & laughed.... & laughed at us before giving directions. Probably continued laughing after that too!

We were the highlight of their otherwise boring evening.

Finally!!!

Mummy's favourite place to shop.

Tesco Kampar.

It's not the same!!! i kena tipu, it's mini tesco ok!!!

we went back to the hotel aroung 9pm, but it felt as if it were already 12am... so tired. I had to boil water for the family, if not we'll thirst to death... & they only provided us with a o.8 liter mini kettle!!! Grand all rite...

Big D & Big Me

Mummy washing the water bottles.

waiting our turn to bathe.

Piggy big tummy, after all, our Papa IS Big D

After bathe...


Drink Sarsi before sleep :-) hehe

what felt like 12.30am was actually 9.30pm. we slept early & i had a headache from all the going around in the blazing hot sun. worst part was i woke up at the real 12.30am to go toilet. tummy ache :-( then found out our big kettle we brough for the bro to boil water went kaput!!! so i boiled water in 0.8l, fill up every available mug & let it cool by morning... the morning after will be in my next post :-) tata for now!!!