My hubby and I took the new fast route, the new Desaru-Pasir Gudang highway from Ulu Tiram. The journey was cut by 30%. Originally, from Ulu Tiram to Desaru its 97km, but with the new highway its been cut to 54km. The  ride was smooth, fast and scenic. Its truly scenic as the route cuts across a few unknown large rivers and I get to see oil platforms. Hehehe.. yes I’m a bit weird but being brought up with heavy marine industry as one of my interest, I was chirping with glee when I caught sight of them.

Initially dad wanted to check out Tanjung Balau Beach. We did reach Tjg Balau.The resort looks promising and the amenities were surprisingly good. However, the beach is below my expectations. Having brought up almost with a visit to the beach almost weekly, I was dissatisfied with the man made looking beach. The waves were too choppy and only thing anyone could ever do during the Monsoon season with the red flag firmly planted to the ground is either to play sand castle or to surf (at your own risk).

However Tjg Balau has their own surfer rescue life guard, complete with the surfboard and is always ready to save any unfortunate(stubborn) souls who cross waves with the notorious sea.

After the short visit to that place, we once again headed out to our favourite place to swim, Batu Layar. It’s quiet, clean and the toilet is in much greater condition than the rest of the paid toilets found further up. It’s Mutiara Bay. Lovely friendly locals who charged a reasonable price for the usage of their facilities and parking space. It’s kept clean so visitors would never have to worry about their packed food being attacked by unwanted pests.

Since the location of the place is not that open into the South China Sea unlike to Tjg Balau and Dessaru, its a much safer place to swim. You may try your luck at fishing but the best I’ve ever gotten from there is just a baby grouper and Unga Tanda. But be wary of where you swim as some places has rocks and corals located in the waters.

Apart from it, everything is enjoyable and great.

Too bad I can’t be part of the shoppers. After looking through all the items in my inventory, the only thing I really need right now is a few well established landed properties, a handful of profitable stocks and a vast amount of good investments. I need something that can generate a steady income without moving my bum from the computer.

After having those in my hand, I don’t need to wait for the YES to buy things, I can just buy anything from the rack at any time. So now I am currently trying my best to make more cash.

Go Go Fighting!

Currently what I have is considerably Ok but no harm in trying to get the best cheap stuff in town. If it can save a few dollars I’d still consider but if the service stinks, I will not hesitate to just pick up the phone and get my agent to do it. Lesser chore, same price and its delivered to my house.

Its Eidul Adha today and I didn’t do much except eat and sleep. Literally sleep from 1pm to 5pm and the weather was a perfect catalyst for a hibernation. The bruises on my body is still visible but the pain, well it is painless, most probably I’m used to falling.

At around 5.30pm or so we head out to some close relatives and had dinner at one of the houses. I love visiting time but not many seem to reciprocate the idea.

Anyway I gotta go now. Need to make hot drink for myself. Been feeling woozy again. Bye!

Visited Watson for a little window shopping. Their acne products department is sadly lacking and so is the rest of them. They do however have Simplisity make up in their inventory. I was tempted to buy her gold glitter eye shadow. It looks very nice!!

Almost all of the shops on their level two has closed down and its more of a dead town. The McD is still there. Unfortunately they do not serve my milkshake. I went there with a craving for milkshake and was disappointed that do not serve them.

I am not sure what the management or the sales of Perling Mall is doing. The place is getting more empty instead of filled up. Oh well, need to serve dinner now.

Oh yesh, that’s me at my sister’s place at 12.40am. Everyone was going nutsy, topsy and turvy. I love my cute Puss-In-Mah-Boots.

I also wanna apologise to all my friends whom I had made prior arrangements to visit you during raya. Really SOWI!!

Anyway, I am happy to say I finally managed to meet my distant relatives whom I kept hearing but never met. I am talking about my aunt Asiah ( I don’t really know her full name) Had a good reception at her place. The food was lovely and the chit chats was entertaining (smiles mischievously).

I managed to get another person to realise that idolising these celebrities are a total waste of time. Hahaha.. Anyway here are the pictures, although I did load all of them on Facebook.

Went to Grandpa’s, Mak Long Jah and Mak Busu’s house in the first day. Second day was spent in the car, visiting my brother and his family at Kuala Pilah. We had decided to head off to KL however after taking a look at the jam, we turn tail and headed back home to JB.

Third day was spent visiting my Grand Uncle, Cik Lala, Cik Bulat and Cik Ani. It was great fun mingling amongst my darling relatives especially those whom we rarely meet. And lucky for us, there wasn’t any traffic jam in and out of Malaysia and Singapore. Wee!!

I am still waiting for the pictures to be uploaded since most of them was snapped by my aunts and cousins.

There are no MRT or LRT that can ferry the locals from a city to their main city. Johor itself is huge. The beautiful land stretches from Johor Bahru to Rompin to Segamat and to Muar. An MRT should be made to ferry commuters to their workplaces especially the badly congested areas like the main city, Johor Bahru.

The Pasir Gudang highway and the Skudai highway itself is a major headache for motorcyclists. Every peak hours it is always in a jam. The title of worse traffic jam has to be given to the Pasir Gudang Highway. It only has 2 lane for both sides of the traffic and it becomes a quicksand when there is a heavy rain because the drains are all clogged up! It is even a bumper-to-bumper crawl after the peak hours.

The government should also think of other states if they wish to improve the public transport system. It is not fair to concentrate on the main capital city itself when the money they use is contributed by the tax payers, who came from all states and cities.

They could build an MRT route with Johor Bahru (Jln Wong Ah Fook) as their main point and then branches out with Gelang Patah as the West Point, Masai as the East Point, Kulai as North Point and Tampoi as the Central Point where commuters can change platforms to get to another part of the MRT line.

From there, the government could make a central bus station and coax the public bus operators to branch off their buses to other parts in the city. While the government is at it, they should have an audit of the public buses. Most of them are not in a good condition. Being stuffed in a bus with faulty air-con while the driver puffs away on his cigarette is a vomiting experience.

Some of them only have two working bells and trying to reach for the bell while being crammed like sardines in a can is a frustrating event. Plus, most of the buses carries more than they can carry.

I myself have the experience of the driver packing all of the commuters in the dingy bus that with unclosed doors and rounding corners at top speed nearly flew me out of the bus. If the bus is full, the driver should consider the passengers lives and not overloading their capacity to the point of the doors not being able to close.

No harm in losing 3 or so passengers while they drive safely. Forking out thousands for medical bills, summons and claims and bearing the deaths of many passengers should never be the option.

It became worse when I have to read those little numbers on the account books. I can count how many times I wrongly clicked a link. I really should install a plug in to have a pop up message that say ” click here ” every time I wrongly clicked a formula.

Anyway PIKOM PC Fair is on tomorrow at Persada, JB. I am going to go there and get my mouse! The current one died on me and it’s such a chore sharing my mouse with my other PC.

I wonder if there are any good deals there. Hehehe…