UuFooooOoO~

Wohoo first of all credits to Adrian who told me bout this super awesome stayover.


apparently ChingYee told Nash and Nash told Adrian and Adrian told the monash gang which includes me :)



ChingYee --> Nash --> Adrian --> ME



Okay ShanqYeet, Lok Soon, Adrian, and i took a train to klsentral to meet up with nash. then we walked to Museum Negara. (fucked up taxi drivers were on a strike to show their ultimate love for the country, woops i mean money)


Ok we went there, registered ooursleves, realized we still have another 30 minutes before the activities start, and guess what a group of professional blogger wannabes like us did?






First pic of the day (my camera) -> Lok Soon with the piece of junk behind him. (no offense all antique car lovers)


Surprise, surprise. The army will parade their vehicles and stuff at the merdeka procession the next day so they parked their vehicles at the museum.







I Lol-ed when i saw this. Hahah imagine a bunch of soldiers running in a hamster wheel kinda thing to power up the vehicle.


*PLEASE CLICK TO ENLARGE*


My personal favourite. The only non-blogger, Shanq Yeet took this picture.


We walked back to main activity area. On our way back, we saw ...

T A D A !!



Digi yellow men!





These yellow men are freaking funny okay. Hahah the way they try to act cute was simply hilarious.


and the activities havent started yet. .. we decided to do a TOUR de MUSEUM NEGARA



Whateverrrrrr~




Legendary guitar wohooo




THEN





the activities started and we had some ice breakin session. broke some ice got a couple of new friends and we were assigned into groups. Played some group games , had lotsa fun, laughed alot, talked to chicks, lauged, joked, talked to more chicks .... yeah


then we had dinner. WTF they gave curry fish, fried fish, fried chicken and rice. I do not like fish so i only took the curry and the fried chicken and rice. Then came the big bomb.






the U L A M.




according to wikipedia Malaysia,


Ulam merupakan gelaran kepada tumbuhan yang dimakan secara mentah atau sekadar dicelur (direndam sekejap dalam air panas) sebelum dimakan bersama nasi. Ulam juga biasanya dimakan bersama dengan perasa seperti budu, cencaluk, atau sambal belacan, sebelum dimakan bersama nasi. Ulam sudah terkenal sebagai hidangan harian utama di kalangan masyarakat Melayu di kampung-kampung. Ulam diambil dari berbagai-bagai bahagian tumbuhan yang boleh dimakan. Ini termasuklah pucuk, daun, umbut, biji, buah, ubi dan kadang-kadang bunga.


according to Joe,


ITS THE MOST TERRIBLE FOOD ON EARTH. (this is solely my opinion so u dont have to feel offended if u eat, drink and bathe ulam everyday)


It looked like grass to me, but nevertheless i told the helper i want some of it. She then gave me a whole BUSH of ulam. So much that i can plant them all around my house and people will aactually think i live in a jungle. Ok cut the crap, i know. I took a tiny leaf of it and put it into my mouth.


Wohoo i had a m e g a sensation. It felt as if i had just biten a dynamite. the combination of spiciness, bitterness, smellyness, grassyness was too much for me. I knew i couldnt finish the wonderful ulam. so i did something that will make every malaysian proud. i took the whole bush of ulam and put them onto the plate of my new friend Nicholas. :)


After dinner we changed into our Tshirts and marched to Dataran Merdeka..


The night view of KL was pretty awsome. after talking, laughter, and crap, we arrived at Dataran Merdeka 30 minutes later.

Look at the crowd man.

There were 100,000 people there.

We proceeded to the field at the dataran merdeka where we could get more air and also a better view of the events by lookin at the big screens.

We talked, and talked and talked and talked since we were early and we had to wait for about an hour for the countdown.

And they played all the nice LOVE-MALAYSIA patriotic songs and we sang like mad dogs. i even called wun and kavi to let them have a feel of the atmosphere but sadly neither of them answered my calls. when i finally saw a 'Connected' word flashing on my phone screen, i thought kavi had finally picked up my call. So i just left the thing on and we sang and sang and sang. in the end i realized i was singing to a voicemail. WTF ~~~

However, Kavi saved the voicemail and she gave me a very long 'hahahahahahahahah' when she listened to it so hardos if u wanna hear me and adrian's lovely voice, give kavi a call :

we waited for the countdown to finish, and then after the 7 shouts of Merdeka! from our beloved PM Badawi, we all expected fireworks to shoot out from all directions. but no.

HE DECIDED TO GIVE A FUCKING SPEECH.

we waited.

and waited ...

and waited ...

and cursed.

and waited ..

45 minutes later, i heard some loud claps so i guess the speech must be over.

FIREWORKS YEAH !

NO.

they decided to do some flashbacks of the great things our past PMs have done for our country. as it was a very special day, i did not want to ruin it by using the f word.

But i said it anyway hahahaha.

Then 5 minutes later, i heard the golden line. "Pertunjukan bunga api akan bermula sebentar lagi"

WOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoOOoo

and thanks to the wonderful blogger, Myself aka the photographer who sacrificed my own enjoyment to video u hardos on Space shot at genting,

you guys will get to watch the fireworks, in 3 parts. No sound sorry. but who needs sound anyways? people WATCH fireworks, not LISTEN TO fireworks

FIREWORKS PART 1

FIREWORKS PART 2

FIREWORKS PART 3

After the fireworks the entire crowd left almost immediately. and guess what? The true color of malaysians surfaced.
Look at the enormous pile of rubbish. After 50 years of independence what have we REALLY achieved?

We walked back to museum. boy we were so tired that the long walk wasnt that enjoyable anymore. But there was this taylors gang that sang out loud some songs and the whole crowd sang together and wow it was kinda cool.

we reached the museum at 2 am. decided to brush teeth and wash up alittle before sleeping, and i snapped some pics again

From left: Adrian, Nicholas, Leehom, and .. from the shape of the ass i think its lok soon.

we set up our sleeping bags in the video room of the gallery (thank god we dont have to sleep with those patungs )

wanted to play chor dai tee but ended up sleeping after just one round. I was havin a terrible headache argh

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WAKE UP SLEEPING BEAUTIESSSS !!!!

I opened my eyes .. and mumbling a soft 'tiunyama' i turned my head and saw the CHIEF , MR DASS beside me! Walew super hardo .. he didnt have to shout standing beside me

everybody woke up, washed up and went down to the main activity area.

and a super hot dance instructor was there :)

She taught us some aerobics dance moves and sometimes we just stood there lookin at her dance on the stage .. Haha

After the exercize we had breakfast, 1957 style. That meal was the best meal in the 2 day stayover IMO. we had traditional food of the 3 main races, namely PutuMayam (indian), some kinda porridge, not sure whether its hokkien or teochew (chinese), and nasilemak with boiled kentang (malay)

Super nice meal it was. i took all 3 wahahaha i have national unity in my stomach. we had a treasure hunt sorta game after that. we were divided into groups and we had to like pass all 10 stations. at every station we had to accomplish tasks like flag hunting, puzzle hunting and stuff

I took this when i was at one of the stations. The ancient papers to papers of today.


Shanq Yeet's group was first from the bottom wahahahha. gay la.

then we merged with another group and we had to do a presentation. we were give the topic 'People'.

we decided to write soem stuff on the mahjong papers and also perform a play.

I loled when i saw this. This was done by the other half of the team. They just HAD to highlight the Malay word. anyway no racist sentiments here :)

when we got onto the stage and performed our play. i was in the cina gang fighting the malays before independence and national unity came into the picture. our team leader aka narator completely forgotten how the story should go so we were pretty screwed. but its just for fun and we enjoyed it anyways



The last presentation was by Shanq Yeet's group. It was a so-so performance ... UNTIL ..




they started singing Jalur Gemilang.




what happened after that was totally inpromtu and it all came from our hearts



as i was recording Shanq Yeet's group's performance, we could see people standing up, one by one, singing along Jalur Gemilang. and a moment later the whole hall was roaring with our singing. and mind you there wasnt any music playing. we sang from our hearts :)


The organizers were quick enough to play the song when we were about to finish our singing. This time, we sang MUCH louder and for once i felt true patriotism. The organizers joined us and went on the stage and the atmosphere was totally filled with patriotism as the youths of malaysia sang out loud while waving the jalur gemilang flags. Tourists were fascinated with our inpromtuness and soon cameras began flashing. and journalists took pics too


Boy that was serious ly the best part of the stayover. I dont know how to describe the situation then but i have a video of part of it. (not with me yet will upload later)


after all the hyper activities .. me adrian nash shanq and loksoon decided to go back. Actually the thing ends at 5 but we got lotsa stuff to do so we decided to ciao early. We didnt even have lunch there, as we had enough of 1957-ness and wanted some 2007 food haha.


on our way out, i saw this ancient ice kacang machine and i decided to show u guys









Walked back to sentral, went to midvalley, and had teppanyaki.

I wanted to wait for all the food to be served before taking some shots but i ended up remembering this only after finishing most of my meal. so i took a pic of whatever that was left





yum yum



adrian and i took a train back to klang after that.





SLEEP OVER WAS REALLY FUN ! GUYS ! Join us next year. we're goin again !!!



One last tribute to our beloved country, Malaysia.





M E R D E K A !!!