just me and my thoughts: March 2008

Residence Hotel @ Uniten... A place I was put up in for two nights, as a workshop I had to attend was scheduled to from 8am till 10pm. I thought, the workshop venue was all the way in Uniten, which is located in the Serdang/Bangi area, and since accomodation was arranged for, why not... (Despite having heard a negative review of the hotel) As a result, my room at Residence Hotel @ Uniten was called "home" for two nights.

As usual, after checking into my room, I "explored" the room... Checking out the fridge contents, which switch turned on/off what, etc... My first impression of the room as soon as I stepped in was probably 2 stars, as the room didn't look that well maintained... Little did I know the surprises in store for me as I started checking out the nooks and crannies...

When I opened the fridge, I was greeted by little creepy crawlies - baby cockroaches! There were at least 2 or 3 there... I don't know how they managed to get into a fridge, which was supposed to be airtight... It was obviously left off as it wasn't even cold when I opened it... No wonder our little uninvited guests made it their playground!

I then proceeded to check out the coffee/tea making setup... Cups - check, spoons - check, kettle - check, coffee/tea/sugar/creamer - check... They were on a tray, which when lifted... Creepy crawlies - check!!! Gross!!! More mini cockroaches... eww!!! I then started to notice that there were little unwanted guests running around on the table!!!

Obviously, my rating for the hotel dropped... duh!

To top it off was the surprise I got when I woke up this morning!! I think you can see where I'm getting to here... hehe! Yep, lo and behold, I was disgusted to find a cockroach in my bed!! It was about 1.5cm long!!! The biggest one I've seen yet!! Super disgusted by now... It crawled onto my pillow, which I immediately picked off my bed and tried to shake off the little pest onto the floor... I thought it had dropped onto the floor and ran off, but oh was I wrong!! It managed to hide from sight... When I looked again a few minutes later, there it was on top of my pillow!!! Argh!!

So, I took the pillow to the bathroom and tried to shake off the cockroach again... It was somehow annoyingly impossible to shake the little critter off the pillow... So in the end, I had to muster up all my courage and overcome my utter disgust, took a tissue paper and quickly pick it off my pillow and toss it into the toilet bowl... Kim 1 - Creepy crawly 0!

My rating for this hotel now is way, way, waaayyy below the initial 2 stars that I rated... I hope I won't be awakened to anymore surprises tomorrow morning! And also, that none of these unwanted pests hitch a free, uninvited ride home with me... ewww!!!

Time to sleep... Will try to post some pictures later on... Just a note that the food is not too bad, but the buffet spread is limited and mainly a Malay food spread... The meeting venue was not too bad also, but it certainly was freezing in there!

Signing off from the unpreferred Residence... Goodnight.

Yes, I'm back... finally!!! Been super busy and occupied, so the blog has been super abandoned too, sighz...

Anyway, I got to drive back to Penang this year... We left really early in the morning and we made it to Penang in one piece, woohoo!! =) Stopped over at Tapah for a short while for a caffiene boost before continuing on to Penang...

Before heading up to Butterworth, we stopped by Tua Kor's new house, where she was all smiles to see us... Even tried to get the dog to smile, hehe!!

As usual, if we get back to Penang before Chinese New Year, the food hunting ritual shall commence, and commence it did!!! The must-have favourites: (From L-R) Ais Kacang; extra "attap chee" for the ais kacang; Laksa; Tar Mee; Hokkien Char...