day 2, kl

second day of the trip started early from melaka. we boarded the bus at 7a.m. yawn and the destination was beryl's chocolate factory in seri kembangan. another yawn!
i read an article in the star published 2 years ago about them letting ppl to visit the factory and how the writer felt like the character charlie and the chocolate factory. so my expectation was high.
well, as you know, i was disappointed. i din feel anything like charlie. i dun even feel like roald dahl. basically they show u video on the manufacturing process of chocolate and then they focused more on the different mouldings and packagings. sigh. that was over in about 10 mins. then the brought you to see the different machines used (all behind glass) and voila, the end of the tour.
oh not yet, how can we forget the store where you will get 5% discount for all your purchases.
all in all, this stop took us only 30 mins.

then we headed to sunway pyramid which should only be a stone's throw away right? unfortunately the driver went out all the way to federal highway and then back to sunway. still, only 30 mins. what if he took kesas? 10 mins???

had so many hours to spend in sunway. we only had to board the bus at 4p.m.

so i was looking for a place for either a massage or a facial to use up the time. and i found it in 'reborn'. it is a massage parlour on lg1. i took their foot massage and full body massage package. only rm110. one hour for each. my feet felt so relieved after that massage but i can't say the same about my body. gosh, when she pressed those strained points, they were really painful. she said my right shoulder was especially stiff. i had expected that. i could feel all the muscles there screaming with tears coming out when she pressed the right side. the left was all right. gosh, such a big difference.

the massage ended at 1p.m. time for lunch.

and i went to canton-i as recommended by pikkien. time for something plain. the food here is delicious but a bit expensive. i ordered wanton noodles (rm14) and we also ordered a plate of honey roasted pork aka charsiew and roast chicken (rm24.90!!). the rest ordered dumpling noodles, fried noodles with shredded chicken and mushroom and 5 combination rice.
the charsiew was heavenly though. the roast chicken was nothing special. that meal came to around rm110. expensive hor??? but luckily it is good.

i still had 2 hours to kill. wanted to do a facial at institut clarins but the therapist was out. well, save money. so decided to get newspaper and found a place to read it while waiting for time to come.

on the way to bukit tinggi, had a fight with the bus driver in the bus. i thought the driver knew where we were going. he never asked the exact location. i knew we were going to selesa resorts but he thought we were going to berjaya resorts. so when the bus passed the turning to selesa, i knew something was not right. so i asked someone to go and asked (i was never in charge of the trip ok). the driver said something about that way was a less steep way so i thought he had another way of going. mana tau, he brought us all the way to berjaya...the entrance. then he started shouting how come we never told him this and that. gosh, i had to pacify him although i wanted to scream at him at the same time. the sky was not dark yet so no problem. i comforted him that the way was going downhill now, so his bus would not be suffering. he told me how the company's bus once 'died' because of bukit tinggi. yadda yadda yadda.

well, luckily we arrived safe and sound and the bus driver calmed down and we could talk without any anger. phew! in fact, he treated me better after that. hahaha.

there was nothing to do for the night but luckily we had the pool. spent an hour there....so relaxing.