Desaru and so much more

Just a day trip could get me reminiscing so much........ :')

It's a first farm trip with boy, hpy and xt together to celebrate the guys end of exams and basically a simple outing and catching up session. Yes, I'm the pattern queen who suggested such an outing. Special thanks to xt who went on to say she would prefer exploring farms which would be something fresh for us. I promptly searched for a deal and thankfully, everyone spontaneously agreed! WE'RE HEADING FOR MALAYSIA! Not a big deal I know, but it still got us excited for a while. LIKEAFAST 8 December 2012 came so suddenly after weeks of waiting and anticipation.

Nothing's perfect initially because we woke up at 5am++ to prepare. So damn tired yet excited. My dearest dad sent us to Singapore's People's Park Centre meeting point at 7am as per tour itinerary. We had to wait till our necks grew so damn long before AMW Travel Service Pte Ltd's guide revealed that the coach was STUCK IN JAM. WHAT???? We came early as instructed, then you all late. #1stworldcomplaint.

Now I suddenly appreciated the time I had in Penang and Malacca.

AMW Travel Service Pte Ltd's guide told us to have breakfast first but honestly, everyone was too impatient to settle down properly. Pissed! The question: HOW LONG MORE DO WE HAVE TO WAIT? =.=

SOMEMORE LATE 8AM++ coach THEN FINALLY departed. We can't deny that we got so used to SG that we carried with us our impatient true blue Singaporeans spirit! FIGHTING!!!!!!!

We tried to make ourselves feel better by complaining amongst ourselves. Mood's on the down side even before the trip started, lol. All the excitement and expectations just zoooooooooooomed into pure disappointment. Then, it's JAM JAM JAM AND MORE JAM and a whole long route that felt like forever not reaching. MAN WE JAMMED FOR AROUND 3 HOURS???!!?!?! Seemed like half the day's gone with this list of jams: Traffic Jam, Custom Jam, Immigration Jam, Human Traffic Jam, Escalator Jam!!!!!!

Jam complain finish, now complain air pollution and coughing. SEE THOSE WHITE SMOKE FROM THE LORRY? Why am I making myself suffer??!?!??!?!?! I wanna zoom back to my comfort zone Clean and Green Singapore. It's rare to hear me compliment Singapore after being a complaint queen in the eyes of many. LOL.

Hello Singapore, Hello Singapore mah? I felt like shouting I miss Singapore so so much but well I obviously didn't do that. Contradicting, I know. Maybe I was too excited over the cute payphones I saw. HUH I finally reached Malaysia liao ah? Sua ku me.

We cleared the custom at 11am++ and everyone rushed for the TOILET. NOW WHAT AGAIN?????? TOILET JAM!!!!!!! To comfort myself, I made xt take a picture with me. LOL.

We then looked for our coach and after everyone boarded the coach, we FINALLY embarked on our journey close to 12 noon. We were all already drained..................... and too tired to expect any more since half the day's gone like that.

12.24 pm - a tour guide popped up the coach admist the slightly bumpy coach ride. Uh... we were HOURS behind schedule........ yet he still said never mind don't worry. LOL? Fine, it's not like we can rewind time. He tried to comfort us that we would have lunch first before all the activities and that we should have time to cover everything. Ok, I felt slightly better.

THEN HE SAID THE JOURNEY TO LUNCH: Roughly 45 minutes. WHAT?!?!?!??!!?!?!?!? SUCH A LONG JOURNEY YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?!?!?!? By then we reached late 1pm++ OR MORE ALREADY. He said it used to be 1 1/2 hours but now got highway 45 minutes should reach if fast. Ok, our wide eyes just closed within seconds. BWG. HUNGER AND ANGER probably hit all of us and everyone's too dead to even speak or complain anymore. Most of the passengers just closed their eyes while I stared blankly outside the window. Ahhh.... finally I saw something similar to Singapore........ Malaysia's ERP. Awww.... brought back so much memories of those days when I was young and visited Malaysia for groceries and good food almost every single weekend.

140pm++ we reached the promised lobster seafood lunch place and were SHOCKED with the rundown feel and minimum five flies snatching our food at all times. Food was horrible but I was extremely thankful for an edible steamed fish. Indeed, a hungry man is an angry man.......... and I was always angry probably because I was always hungry.

Lobster and crab were served last and it was like NOTHING compared to the advertised GIGANTIC appetising lobster.

See the difference? I was furious and utterly disappointed. I tried to control myself by taking pictures. Yup, I was the only soul who took pictures while everyone just kept eating. Ok, end of complaints. Sorry to bore you with so much whining from the start of the post.................. I promise that the following activities would be much more interesting okay! READ ON!

After a painful late lunch, Seb took an umbrella to shelter me over this extremely short distance because I shouted it was raining, only to realise afterwards it's just leaking water. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Malu max. It's actually an extremely sunny day. Lol, I just can't adapt to such weird conditions. PCY, PLEASE MAINTAIN. LOL.

ARE YOU READY FOR OUR MINI ADVENTURES and hiccups here and there? HERE WE GO!!!!!!!!!!!!

230pm - Sungei Ringgit Local Product Shop - *Inserts slight whining* NO FREE SAMPLES except one tray of tau sah piah........ so Seb and HPY ate quite a few because they weren't full from the lunch while xt and I took a bite only.

The very auntie me actually bought such stuff home from a shop beside the local product shop. Ok go ahead and laugh at me.

Awwwww such a cute tau huey stall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't buy any though cos I had half a cup of soya bean in the morning in Singapore while I was full of anger waiting for the coach........

We then headed for Machu Temple where we prayed for everyone's safety and a pleasant trip. It's a secluded and quiet place.

LOOK!!!!!!! There's a herb farm beside the temple too! We were all more warmed up in our explorations close to 3pm. Everyone kinda walked free and easy and nobody guided us what to see or do.... soo.... I didn't notice in details about any of the herbs.

Ahhhh... I thought the guide would introduce or something but he just sat down and let us explore on our own so I was lost lol. I chanced upon this dark kampong style shop....

So I just bought a toy for my bro and sour plum for mummy. HAHA.

Fish spa is FREE but nobody dared to try probably cos 1st mindset: It doesn't look too appealing nor anything too close to Singapore's version..... I guess everyone found the whole feel kind of dirty. Singapore is just TOOO CLEAN seriously.

HPY's artistic shot. He must be feeling so proud of himself /wink and I have absolutely no idea where he took this. Haha!

It's just a whole huge area of greens to me but I'm loving the sun and scenery so so much! Wang wang!!!!!!!!

Cheeeeeeeeers to our friendship!!!!!!!! I hope you all felt happy looking back at these pictures like I did. Heh.

Vrrooooooommm..... so windy.... hopped onto our coach and headed for more destinations......

Pictures look real awesome but the first feeling wasn't so...... ah since we were already in Malaysia so the tour guide's right... let's just try to enjoy and be happy? Haha.

I'll share about Ostrich Show Farm, Desaru Fruit Farm, Desaru Mini Zoo and Kota Tinggi Restoran Public, Kota Tinggi Firefly Park River Cruise and Sky Lantern AND SO MUCH MORE in the upcoming posts. STAY VERY TUNED!