Heyloz (again)!

Okay, I know I haven't been writing for quite some time, so here it goes:

Man, I'm currently enjoying myself in Singapore (quite the case, since there are some work to do). Allow me to present....

Day 1 (20 December 2007)
Left Kuala Lumpur at around 8.55 a.m.
It's way later than we expected since we (Mom and I) were seemingly hogging everyone.
When we reached there, though, I have only seen Grandma and Aunt Suet Chin.
Merissa, Katrin and their parents were actually getting themselves breakfast outside! Time-lagging....
Fortunately the car was enough to fit all those packed things; luggages, sling bags, presents (lots of them) and all. And still enough to fit 6 people in a car!

Then, the journey....
Halfway in Ayer Keroh, my Mom was worried that Aunt Suet Chin did not have enough petrol to last the drive. The meter said that it was around 176 kms left.

Okay.

However, it started raining when we reached Johor (in fact, halfway towards the Pagoh exit). The rain was pretty heavy; it seems that area is flood-prone (remember the 'Bridge Over Troubled Waters'?). But it hasn't flooded yet.

Good.

But...
When we reached the Senai Airport exit, my aunt's car was running low on petrol. Grandma said that once the meter shows nearly rock bottom, the meter will move faster than usual. It proved pretty true; the meter was hitting almost rock bottom when we reached the last toll plaza in the Second Link, and Mom was doing a countdown on how much kms the car could actually go.
Fortunately, there was a Shell station somewhere along the way...and we had a good run for it.
(The meter, by then, was showing 4kms left.)

Great.

Then, we had to go past the Tuas Checkpoint. There were fewer glitches than usual: maybe the public holiday has caused that. In addition, we were the last to go past the counter for checking-in before it closed for the day.

Phew.

Reached Singapore by then. The usual unloadings at destination after that.
And started decorating the Christmas tree. ;)

Later, we had to fetch Aunt Pek Cheng and Uncle Chee Wah from Copthorne Orchid Hotel (it's the Singapore stop for the Nice coaches travelling from Malaysia to Singapore).
Not many glitches, too.

After that, Aunt Suit Fong (my close relative in Singapore) have taken all 10 of us (Uncle Teik Soon was out of the country, cousin Sara fell sick that day) to Boon Tiong Lim for dinner.
But when we reached there, we were told that there weren't any tables at that moment; we had to wait outside. This made it quite unfair since my aunt had booked a reservation at that restaurant in advance.
To add salt to the wound, one lady bringing a large group of people came barging to the counter and told the lady in charge to give them a table straight away while we were waiting. Apparently they were trying to go past the waiting crowd, claiming that they are regular customers there.
The lady, however, did not allow that to happen.
After a few minutes, the lady gave us a table upstairs before the charging group. (It seemed there was a miscommunication downstairs: that's why the reservation did not go in.)
The charging group then came upstairs about 15 minutes later, going to another table.
The food there, other than the chicken and lotus root, were nothing much to shout about.

There was nothing much after that.