Tiring but Enjoyable Saturday

Another Saturday out to JB.

Usually we would meet around 11am at Kranj MRT and I must say that the few recent trips, there's lot of people travelling into JB. Long queue (really long) waiting for Bus 170. Even for the yellow bus, there was a queue.

After clearing the Singapore immigration, the bus queue (to JB) was amazing long. We used to wait a short while but nowadays, the queue was like 3 times the usual and we have to wait much longer to get on to the bus, simply because the frequency was bad. I remember once we waited for 15 mins and still no bus!

The weekly congestion into JB started on the bridge and then slowly onto the F1 track and finally into the JB immigration/custom. Immigration was fast as there were not many people (surprisingly).

First stop was lunch and as usual, 顺发肉骨茶was the choice. Managed to get table and soon the food was on the table. This time, we told ourselves to take our time to eat and enjoy the food. Every time the food came, we gobbled it down in no time! We talked about the lunch and we reckoned that this is the best we had so far (in JB)!

Massage was next and we managed to have the masseurs that we wanted. Me having foot and Raymond having body. By the time we finished, it started to pour. Went over to Sakura for dessert n drink while waiting for the rain to subside.

One more stop at Leisure mall before dinner. Went into Giant but did not manage to find the stuff I wanted.

Decided to have dinner at that Modern Revelation Restaurant (Jap rest), recommended by Derrick. The restaurant serves Ala - carte and set meals. We ordered steamboat with Tom Yam and chicken bone stocks. The meal was average and the ala-carte order was not cheap. We had 7 slices of luncheon meat for M$7! The drink (fruit tea) was rather delicious, though. Verdict - not going back again! Hahahaha!

Back to City Square to buy bread/bun at Lavender before heading back to Singapore. The coming back traffic was very smooth except had to wait for Raymond to clear immigration.

Was to meet up with Derrick for dinner (again!) at Chinatown. By the way we got there (almost 9pm), Wong and Tony were there too! Couple of nights ago, Gerald and I had dinner with Derrick and Raymond at Chinatown. We decided to have dessert at Mac and Derrick mentioned that he recently bumped into Wong and Tony often. Having said that, we actually met them at Mac!

We went over to 兰州拉面 shop in Chinatown and ordered the 招牌炸酱拉面 and some other dishes. The portions were not huge but the food was delicious. Then, we went over to the dessert stall along the food street for cold desserts before calling it a night.

By the night I got back, it was coming 11pm.... a tiring day..... but enjoyable!


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