What a week!

Kelantan Trip 31st May to 2nd June

Trip was planned eons ago by JH and LL from HYS. Woke up at 5:39am on a Sat morning and drove all the way to this land of wau bulan! It was quite refreshing to drive litterally through contry roads...lalalala" Country road, take me home..." Nice scenary! :)

Our 1st stop was Jeli Hot Spring... Well, it's on the way from Grik to Jeli town... it's pretty secluded and abandoned... Pity.. The hotwater there was pretty hot.. took lots of time and courage for me to put my foot in.. the 2nd pool, i didn't want to cook mine in the first pool where the water was steaming hot. We stopped for lunch at a Malay Food Stall in Jeli town.

After satisfying our tummy, we proceeded to KB town to check in our Hotel, then we out to the silversmith and then later to PCB where we had our dinner.. and then we were guided by TX's gps to look for Wakaf Che Yeh, a open-air night market.

The 2nd day, we started off after a good breakfast in the hotel to all the temples + the duty free zone (market) near tumpat. Not going name them 1 by 1 here, but you can see them in my picasa album, which i took pains to name everyone of them! We managed to bump into a nice chinese Restaurant about lunch time and had a sumptious meal, We had a big fish, prawns, oysters etc.. and the surprising bit was that the bill only came to RM140 for 10 person! Wow.. cheap...We find Kelantease food tasty, just a wee bit of the salty side. hehe...

After our pilgrimage to all the tumpat temples. we headed back to town and visited the Royal Museum and the Handicrafts Museum. Then the laddies wanted shopping... so we went shopping for batik... Me, and the rest of the guys were getting pretty bored... We were looking forward to our next stop, Kite Flying!

We did multiple stops on batik shopping, much to my and Little Jun's missery.. We just wanted to fly Kite... Not shop shop shop... haha...Anyway, finally our wish were granted and we had a fabulous time flying kite in Kelantan.....

Dinner at the famous thai restaurant was alright.. not really outstanding, but then, by that time, i was pretty tired. After dinner, we proceeded to KB Mall... No Karaoke here in Kelantan, but you can go bowling...

3rd day.. Hmmm... going home day.. Visited the famous colourful Siti Khatijah Market! and the state museum.

Well, the bit i enjoyed the most is of course the flying kite session! The wind was so strong there that it almost take no skills to lambung. had fun just running along the beach, and lazing about on the beach under the sun!


The interesting bit about the colours! I would think it is almost the most colourful state in the country! Well, for a start, the cars on the road are even more colourful than penang( where we tend to stick to all the dull metalics). The women there of course tend to wear colourful, bright batik baju kurung. That;s a strange description for kota bahru, however, i suppose, it is the first thing i notice, having come from a grey place like Aberdeen. Haha...

Colourful Kites


We visited 8-9 temples near the tumpat region on our 2nd Day. Most of them were pretty impressive! I suppose most of them were more impressive than penang temples. I mean you just have to take a look at the scale of size of the statues to know what i mean. In this state, you will see huge statues of buddha in Standing, sitting (various positions), and standing position.


This is one of the most unique templesWat Mai Suwankhiri i would say in the region is this dragon boat one... Literally a temple on a dragon boat. This pic is actually taken from the dragon boat... Impressive!

Kelantan, although a poor state under opposition rule for the past 20 years, has better roads than Penang!!!! At least most of their major roads are well maintained! Just drive around the affulent areas of bayan Lepas area, you will see what i mean...

KY's Birthday - 3th June


Hmmm, had lunch at Secret Recipe, than followed a cake cutting ceromony in TAO room and followed by big big seafood meal in Hai Boey! We went to Hai Boey about 7pm, after TT pimple removal ordeal. 8 of us sat on a table for 12.... haha... As we wanted to order lots of stuff! And we did, lalas, balitungs, helicopter, fish, crabs, prawns etc etc.. Had a really full meal and of course the company was great! Yup, I think i am gaining weight from all these outings! Oh no... Maybe i should follow Botak to the gym!


Besides the hearty meal, i also had a good laugh on the way back to town. Haven't laugh so hard for quite some time. Poor me, getting breathless laughing!

Petrol Price rocketed

I was swearing all the way home....hmmpf.. what lying scumbags! wtf!

RND treat 5th June

had lunch at palace de India followed with Hagen Diaz..... We managed to try all 14 flavours by ordering 2 7th Heaven! Haha.. My favourite still all all the coffee and rich chocolate ones, like Belgian choc, Tiramisu, Coffee, Rum and Rasin!

Really need to get to the GYM!