I
was in the East Coast during the weekend. Took half-day leave on Friday and
drove to Cherating. We reached The Legend Resort Cherating after three hours
and fifteen minutes on the road (including a fifteen-minute break at Temerloh
rest area). The highway was thankfully clear with the occasional heavy vehicles
which stuck to their left lane. We checked in and after showering and
freshening ourselves up, we walked along the beach until it turned dusk before
checking out the hotel surroundings. My last visit was some four years ago,
just weeks before Mummy’s passing.
After
evening prayers, we drove out to find dinner. We eventually settled on a
restaurant across the street from the mosque about a km away. We returned at
almost 10 and spent the evening playing Scrabble before retiring just after
midnight.
On
Saturday, we woke up to catch the sunrise before returning to our room to
resume our Scrabble game. As a result, we left quite late and had a late
breakfast of nasi dagang at Tropika Café en route to Kemaman. We found a parking
and walked to Kemaman Centre Point and the block of shops behind. I spotted a
shop that provided blood cupping services and we went to check it out. So glad
we did because it only cost RM60 for females! And to think I paid RM200 for the
service in Kota Kinabalu!!! We were told not to partake any heavy meal for at least
an hour after the treatment.
We
went back to Kemaman Centre Point and wandered around. It was disappointing to
say the least. We didn’t spend long here and walked to the mosque to perform
prayers. We then drove and parked outside A&W and had a rootbeer double-scoop
float each. We then drove to check out the food court near the Geliga bus
station but they were mainly selling rice and we’d already had that for our
late breakfast. Spotting a turn for Kuala Kemaman, we took the turn and found
some stalls selling keropok lekor, otak-otak and satar. We bought some to bring
back to the hotel.
We
drove back to Cherating and even stopped by Cherating Beach. It was too hot
however to venture too far so we turned back and drove back to our hotel to
have our late lunch of keropok lekor, satar and otak-otak. I must say I was
disappointed with the keropok lekor though. The heat made us drowsy and exhausted
so we had an afternoon nap before venturing out to the beach just before
sunset.
That
evening, we drove out to check the local night market. There were not many
traders – I’m not sure if it’s because it was almost 9 pm or if the traders
still hadn’t started trading after the Eid break. We had dinner at the same restaurant
we ate the evening before but my meal tasted a lot more spicier and nowhere as
good.
We
returned to the hotel and spent the rest of the evening playing Scrabble. Both of
us had really awful crappy tiles though.
On
Sunday, we checked out and left the hotel just before 9 a.m. Neither of us
liked driving when the sun is already up and the day is already too hot. We had
a late breakfast at Temerloh rest area and I decided to try some patin fish
cooked in tempoyak gravy. It was somewhat spicy but the fish tasted really good
so I didn’t mind the spiciness.
We
drove on and reached KL at 1245. Oh I had a bad case of insect/bug bites
especially on my left leg that left patches of angry red spots all over. They were
very itchy and the unbearable itchiness even woke me up on Sunday night. I decided
not to scratch them even though the itch was so unbearable that I wanted to cry
out from having to control myself.
Hope
you had a good weekend too that didn’t end up with you feeling itchy (except
for any travel bug itch...!)
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Arsenal
beat Nasri and co on Sunday in the Community Shield. Woohoo! Santi and Rambo
scored in the first half with Sanogo involved in both build-up, and Giroud
scored a screamer in the second half. And our World Cup German trio winners are
finally back too.
