Xiaoville: A day in Johor!

Met up with Jit Hwee, Kheng Siang and Chin Seng on Wednesday to celebrate the latter's birthday. Them being my good friends in the unit, 2 has ORDed and 1 is posting out. I'll be left alone there soon! No worries! Because of course i have other good friends there who will hopefully be there even longer than i! Anyway we had dinner at Plaza Singapura's Cafe Cartel and dessert at Gelare. After dinner, i went to meet Henry at Zouk for my 2nd consecutive Mambo night in a row. There was a significant increase in the number of girls and people that night as compared to the previous week. More of the University students has probably finished their exams and came out to play. I didn't get drunk or high that night again because i had to drive! I can't say the same for many others that night. There was even this girl wearing skirt lying flat on the curb just outside Zouk...now how ugly is that?

Recently, i found out from Facebook that someone thinks that i'm not adventurous! I've no idea why he/she thinks that way because that is so not true! I do a lot of things that you guys don't know about k! And i rock climb, dive, travel, club, got myself a class 2 license, cook, signed on etc etc and that is way super adventurous! Haha.

Anyway went to Johor with Weijian, Puss, Bernerd and Remy yesterday. And what a trip it was! We ate, we shopped, we sang, we joked, we shouted and we ate some more! We all met somewhere before noon at Boon Keng MRT before setting off for our trip. We first visited City Square where we had lunch at this Chinese restaurant similar to Crystal Jade Kitchen style. The good thing about Malaysia is that almost all its good food is half price as compared to Singapore! So you can enjoy the Kenny Rogers, Secret Recipe, Auntie Annes, Manhattan Fish Market, Genki Sushi etc etc and not worry about the bill! All of us also ended up buying lots of clothings and other stuffs, its the Malaysian Great Sale after all and we were all in shopping mood.

After City Square, we went to Holiday Inn for awhile to buy DVDs, games etc before we continued our journey to Pengereng-Renjit, our original destination, for our sumptuous seafood dinner. Its almost a 2 hours drive from Johor Bahru and i slept 3/4 throughout the journey leaving Bernerd with all the driving haha. The place that we had seafood called Jade Garden is apparently famous for their cheap lobsters and we just had to order some. Adrian Pang and Michelle Chia from Yummy King apparently traveled all the way there to feature this store too. The seafood turned out to be delicious but the whole meal didn't turn out cheap no thanks to the lobsters which already accounted for exactly half the bill. But compared to other places, the lobsters are really comparably cheaper. So if you're a lobster fan, you should really try out this place. Just a 2 hours drive or a 1 hour boat ride from Changi Village and you're there!

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An idea of how Renjit looks like

Walking towards Jade Garden

The lobster tanks

Gong Gong

Drunken Prawns

The delicious fish. Its apparently called underwater chicken fish when directly translated

Doufu

150RM worth of lobsters

After dinner, we rushed back to Johor Bahru because we wanted to check out their new Giant Mall before they close. We managed to get there at around 9.15pm and the place was still buzzling with life. And when Puss asked one of the shop assistant of Jusco their hypermarket, we were pleasantly surprised when she told us that the place will close at 12am. We shopped out heart out and Weijian even bought one whole set of office wear preparing for his internship at Hong Leong Finance coming Monday. We also went to their groceries section where i decided to buy a few steaks to cook and try out at home.

And i did cook this afternoon. 1 for my mum and 1 for myself with 2 more still in the fridge. It didn't turn out too nice though, it was kinda tasteless. Its probably because i didn't season it long enough for the taste to get in. Shall try my 2 other steaks again either tonight or tomorrow. You never know! I might become a top chef someday somewhere! Start placing your orders now!