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Long way around Malaysia road trip. SG->Kuantan->Kota Bahru->Penang->KL->SG Decided to go for a long road trip, to somewhere unfamiliar in MY that I have never been before and may never visit again. Wife said ok but must stop at KL for her to shop. So I did all the planning and the places of interests to visit. 21st Jul 2018 Set off from home at 6am in the morning. Reach Woodlands Causeway at 6.20am and there was a queue already formed. Same thing at MY side. Time check, 7.20am and we cleared both custom and immigrations. Exactly 1 hour to clear both sides. First stop, heading to Kiang Kee BKT for breakfast. It has been a while since I travelled on Tebrau highway. There were some changes in the scenery, more urbanised but basically the roads still the same. Was driving at a leisurely pace and just follow the cars in front. Reached Kiang Kee BKT around 8.30am. Not too crowded, there are still seats behind the stall. So we settled sitting behind. First look, it is the same old familiar piping hot claypot BKT. But after tasting it, the familiar taste is gone. Sad to say, IMHO, the taste has declined since my last visit couple of years back. Standard has dropped. The meat on the bones does not fall off easily already. You have to yank it off with your teeth. Very sad. I guess, with increased business, quality also suffer. But what to do, just eat lor. It will not be a must eat for me anymore, go into the “optional” category liao. After breakfast, 9am, set off to East Coast Mall, Kuantan on Route 3. The roads to Mersing was the same, up and down with left and right twisty bends. Took it slow as I don’t wish my passenger to vomit her breakfast on to my car mat. Was doing 80 to 90km/h. The scenery was the same old plantations and the odd kampong here and there. It was until Rompin a sleepy fishing village that the roads are finally clear of traffic and twisty turns that I can allow my car to stretch her legs. 120km/h was the norm now, woohoo. The passenger did not ask for a pee stop and I don’t need a pee stop. The car was more than ready to continue on the journey without stopping, thatz the advantage of having a 70L fuel tank that I had it full tank from SG. Pekan town flashed by and at around 12noon, we are in Kuantan city already. It was slightly hazy when we arrived. There was a strong smell of burnt forest in the air. East Coast Mall in Kuantan was one of our planned stop for rest, food and shopping. Had lunch, pad thai and proceeded to shopping in the mall. Then we crossed over via the back entrance to the mall next door, Kuantan City Mall. This mall was quieter but as modern as East Coast Mall. East Coast Mall attracts younger crowd cos it has a cinema within the mall. We did some grocery shopping at Giant, looking for lower priced household items and some necessities for the road trip like stocking up on mineral water to hydrate ourselves. They wanted to charge us for plastic bag but lucky we had our recycle bags with us.

KELANTAN - The body of a Singaporean university student who went missing after slipping into the mountaintop lake was found today on Gunung Stong, Dabong in Kuala Krai. The body of Lee Jun Jie, 23, an undergraduate from the National University of Singapore (NUS), was found by a search and rescue team at 9.50am, about 100 metres from the camp. A Kuala Krai police spokesman said Mr Lee was among a team of 23 Singaporeans who were on a camping trip on the mountain. A NUS spokesperson said that while not all 23 participants are from NUS, arrangements are being made for the group to return to Singapore as soon as possible. In the statement released to the media on Sunday, NUS said that it is deeply saddened by the student's death, and added that Mr Lee's family was informed about the accident immediately. Two university staff are accompanying the family to the camp site and will be on hand to provide assistance and support, and the university is in touch with the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Malaysian authorities. According to Malay-language daily Utusan Malaysia, the slippery path caused Mr Lee to lose his balance while he was admiring the scenery at around 7pm yesterday evening. It is understood that the search and rescue team took over two hours to recover his body.

This trip has been confirmed just looking for more enthusiates to share the fun. I have done the Penang to Kelantan before, for just the cornering parts is enough to justify the whole trip let alone the sceneries and food.

Swede robbed on seventh visit to Kelantan Tue, Feb 17, 2009 The Star/Asia News Network KOTA BARU, Malaysia: It would have been a memorable seventh visit for a Swedish visitor to Kelantan but for the ugly incident in which snatch thieves stole her bag containing RM1,500 ($628.35) in Jalan Tok Hakim last Friday, leaving her with injuries to her arm and thigh. Paula Ljunggren, 64, said she was thankful that she did not lose her passport. "I love to visit Kelantan and this is my seventh visit here and before this, my previous visits had been blissful. "It happened so fast and all I knew was that I fell to the ground after they snatched my bag containing the money which I had just changed at the moneychanger's," said Ljunggren, who is a hairdresser from Vasteras, Sweden. She said that her friend, Sven-Inguar Eriksson, 68, a former policeman, managed to grab the thieves' motorcycle but was not strong enough to unseat them. She received outpatient treatment at the Raja Perempuan Zainab II Hospital. She later lodged a police report at the Kota Baru police station. "We love the people here, especially our local friends, the food, nature, and it's a shopping paradise," said Ljunggren, who was in a wheelchair when visited at a friend's apartment here. "We will come back to Kelantan in future. This incident will not stop me and my husband and friends from coming back here. However, we hope that there will be better security in areas which are prone to snatch thefts." Kota Baru OCPD ACP Zahrudin Abdullah said police were investigating the case under Section 379 of the Penal Code. -The Star/ANN