This was the first time for my dear Valerie and I to go on a vacation (literally). Since it was New Year Eve and Valerie was back in Seremban for her semester break, we decided to go to Malacca, which was the nearest tourist spot to Seremban, to celebrate the coming of year 2010.

I had to work on 31/12/2009 so after work at 5pm, I went straight to Valerie's house at Seremban. Surprisingly the traffic on the North South Highway was smooth on both directions. It took me only 45 minutes to reach Seremban from Balakong. I had dinner at her house and left for Malacca at around 8pm. Traffic was still smooth and we were in Malacca at 930pm. We spent a lot of time searching for the hotel that I've booked online - Hotel Seven, but ended up giving up and stayed in Aldy Hotel, China Town, which I had stayed in before and felt that it was OK. Luckily only my 10% deposit was forfeited.

Shower and we walked our way to Jonker Street. Not much crowd on the road. It was a 15 minute walk to Jonker Street. Jonker Street was as usual, but added some "snow" spray cans on people's hand. We walked along Jonker Street and I bought myself a PoPiah while Valerie got herself a Waffle Cheese Sausage - both were good.

We stopped in front of Geographer Cafe because we saw many people gathering in front of it so we guessed there should be a countdown here - we were right :)

Some DJ in Geographer Cafe started the countdown and the crowd was excitingly following him... 10... 9... 8... 7... 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010!!!! People started popping the confetti and spraying foams.

Since both of us didn't like to be sprayed so we quickly left the place and walked our way to the Stadthuys (aka the Red House), and from there walked our way back to the Hotel along the Malacca River.

The very 1st day of year 2010...

First we went to the Tan Kim Hock shop to get some foodstuff for our parents. The shop was just across the street from our hotel. After that we decided to have lunch at 和记 ("he ji") along Jonker Street - yummy chicken rice balls. This was the shop I went to few months back and I like the food. To read more on my previous trip you can go to here. The queue was long, as expected. Weather was hot but luckily we brought umbrella and Valerie had this tiny fan with her which operates on batteries.

We were lucky that we got to "jump queue" because the we were able to join table with another pair of couple from Singapore. Lucky us. I estimate that saved us 30 minute of waiting time. We ordered the usual food - Chicken, rice balls and vegetables.

While waiting for the food...

Here comes our food

Sorry, Oakley Half Jacket was not in the menu =P

Photo first before the feast =D

Yummy yummy...

After lunch, the plan was to have chendol for dessert but since both of us were stuffed with our lunch. We decided to walked around first. So in short we were at St. Paul Church, A'Famosa Fort, Stadthuys as well as Dataran Pahlawan and Mahkota (yes both are shopping malls).

This trip really reminds me to train my muscle well so that next time we can take self portraits with my heavy DSLR... Here are some samples =)

Cheeky Valerie with different facial expression...

Enough of walking and we headed back to Jonker Street for our final target - chendol. I brought Valerie to the shop I went before and she loved her chendol so much. She ordered the Durian Chendol while I got myself a Mango flavour one.

For more photos please visit my flickr @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/mauinsons/sets/72157622994155709/