Piggy Bank

It's that time of the year again!

The time to 'break open' my SMILEY piggy bank and count how much I have saved this year. The money is to buy Christmas presents for my nephew n nieces.

This year is not too bad.....slightly more than last year.....

The problem is...how to change the coins into notes!!!!!!

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Last Trip to JB for This Year....

Wanted to go to JB last weekend but unable due to bad weather and traffic. Yesterday, decided to go in even though the traffic was bad.

Was supposed to meet Alan at the SG custom but he overslept and could not make it! As usual, Raymond was late but...... at least he made it!

Initially we queued at the CW1/CW2 but then we noticed only the SBS buses were coming in. So, we decided to switch lane and then the CW1/CW2 buses started to appear with no SBS buses in sight! Just not our day!

Finally got onto the bus and glad to get a seat as we expected the bad traffic on the causeway would take a while. The bus got onto the causeway, moving slowly, and suddenly , the driver took a right lane and then drove up a lane next to all the trucks and made a left turn for bus only and soon we arrived at the Malaysia Immigration! Wow! We did not have to queue together with the cars! That was great!

We stopped at OLD TOWN for a coffee n snack before going over to take a look at the IPad store at City Square. The IPad is cheaper over here in Malaysia! Raymond was so tempted to buy.

Took a cab ride to our favourite lunch venue (near the STORE) - 顺发 Bak Kut Teh. As usual, I would order the same stuff and the waiter would look at me with disbelief! Sure you could finish the food?????!!!!!! As always, we finish everything!

Too full for massage, we went over to Leisuremall for Raymond to get his magazines/comic books! I always tease him on his 'Sailor Moon comics'! At the massage place, found that most of the masseurs were no longer working there. Decided to try a new Malay masseur and I have to admit that he was pretty skillful! Will definitely request for him again!

Went over to Sutera Mall,near 皇后 to wait for Jason. Have not caught up with him for many months and decided to stay back late to catch up dinner with him and James. While waiting, decided to get a hair cut. It was quite good - M$35 by senior.

Finally around 8:30pm, they came and took us to somewhere nearby for dinner. We went to a shop 家乡 for Chinese 煮炒. The dishes were delicious. We had 7 dishes and the billed came up to about M$105! That's very cheap! Definitely going back there again!

Jason gave us a lift to the immigration and though there was no queue at the immigration, the SBS bus 160 / 170 queue was terribly long! We decided to take another bus - 950 where the queue was short. The, the same thing happened, buses for the other queue started to come in, except ours. Finally the bus came and we managed to get on board with a seat. Even though it was already 11pm, the traffic going back was bad. The congestion started just when the bus leaves the building. I noticed that the F1 track is gone and the vehicles did not have to meander down the F1 track at all. Also, I found that we could skip all the queue and soon arrived back into the SG immigration.

By the time I got back, it was just before the clock struck 12! Hope the taxi did not turn into pumpkin and Raymond had to walk home.......


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