Sitiawan and Taiping

It's rather a busy weekend. Daph bro is getting married and the preparation is a little havoc. Now only got time to do a little blogging. I went to Sitiawan to attend Daph younger bro marriage dinner last Saturday (19/9/2009) with her family. We took the old road to Sitiawan and to Pantai Remis which is her brother's wife hometown. It's rather interesting going via small road as you can see many small town or pekan. We took the Kuala Selangor road and the journey took us a total of near 4 hours from Kepong to reached Pantai Remis. We stay in a rented house while we were there and it situated only a few KM from Sitiawan and 50KM to Taiping. I was glad that it's very near to Taiping as I will be going to visit my sister new born baby on the next morning. I must admit that 'kampung' wedding dinner start exactly on time unlike in KL. The wedding dinner is 6pm and by the time we reached there at 6.05pm due to some hiccups in our journey, everyone has already arrived. Wow! We were the pig leg (Daph bro and his wife) and yet we arrived late! It’s so different from KL, as normally the pig leg will be standing in front of the restaurant waiting for everyone to arrive. In KL, if the wedding dinner is said to be 7pm, it's actually 8.00-8.30pm before everyone can start to eat. Not to mention some even start at 9pm! I wonder if KL following Thailand time. Maybe we need to set out KL GMT to +8 instead of +7. The wedding dinner finish early at around 8.15pm in Pantai Remis. I am so not used to it as normally it will finish around 10pm something. The celebration is quite good but the food in the restaurant is kinda below par. It is said to be one of the best restaurant in Pantai Remis but somehow it's not up to our expectation. The food here really is only a so so. After dinner, we went home to the rented house and it's photo shooting session. The next morning, we visited Daph bro's wife house and her parents is kind enough to offer us a few fresh coconut to bring home. Anyway, there is a lot of flies in Pantai Remis especially her wife’s house. Just imagine if you were to drop a piece of 15" pizza on the floor, it will be fully covered by flies within a few second! No joke! I am not sure the reason behind this but I regretted that I closed my car door a few second too late. Lucky enough we managed to fought and expel the flies out through the window while on the way to Taiping. Daph family drove back to Kepong while we continued our journey to Taiping. The journey along the kampung road to Taiping was really refreshing in the morning. We drove slowly while enjoying the weather and sightseeing Malay celebrating Hari Raya festive in kampung. Sister newborn baby Brian is really cute. He was only a few days old. Youyou is getting cheeky and naughtier but he seems really happy moving from Singapore to Taiping. Maybe it was due to Singapore houses was small in apartment while here in Taiping the house is so huge and he was able to run here and there. Moreover, there are a lot of people to play with him too. Ah Hun bought us to makan makan while we were in Taiping. We went back the next day via old road but different route from where we came from. We stopped at a few places such as Ipoh, Bidor, Kampar and many more places which I couldn’t remember the name. It took us a total of 7 hours driving slowly back from Taiping to Kepong as we took our own sweet time exploring lot of small towns. It's a tiring but lovely trip.