this is Kukup! a small town located at the south-west corner of Johor. and this interesting village is where i spent my third day of CNY (i'm not going to blog about day 1 & 2, same thing every year), with my family and relatives (maternal). my aunt has another house located in Kukup, so we all decided to have a small little holiday there.
no pictures of her house, and her house is not in the picture. this picture is where the jetty and seafood restarurants are found. the actual location of my aunt's house is somewhere inside a forest where it gets really dark at night. and i really mean dark, pitch dark. Kukup is kinda undeveloped, not much street lamps along the road, alot of houses are made of wood, no MRT, no high tech machines seen. the life in Kukup is really simple. and during the day, it's really hot. but at night, it's nice and cooling. there's hell lots of insects too. from spiders to flies to even juicy beetles. someone stepped on a beetle, and it had juice oozing out from its body, damn gross!
did i say that Kukup is famous for its seafood? haha, their seafood is damn nice and fresh. had chilli crab and steamed fish! their chilli crab is damn big, their pincers are really big, bigger than those found in singapore. and the meat is really fresh and there's alot of meat inside. their steamed fish was really nice too. the meat is fresh and tender. and they also have this coconut pudding, i don't know the name but its basically a coconut with pudding inside and the pudding is made from the coconut juice itself. damn nice! eat until damn shiok.
ok, besides food. there's one thing in Kukup that you can do but not in singapore. and that's playing with fireworks and firecrackers! the fireworks aren't those big big type that we see during big occasions in singapore. they are small ones. totally enjoyable! and i killed a beetle with some small sparkler than shoots off sparks. ok, i am bad at describing things. but it's really damn fun! saw how the beetle died, it started getting black then suddenly the body caught fire. and i learnt never to be the last one to play these stuffs, because you would have to clear them up yourself. apparently, all my relatives and cousins started to disappear into the house. and my cousin tricked me, to finish playing with those remaining. then i realised that i got tricked after sweeping up all the mess.
Kukup sure is a nice place. although the life there is simple, but it is a great place to get away from all the stress. didn't regret going there over the weekends, although exams are really round the corner. it's really refreshing!
exams are coming soon! time to study like there's no tomorrow...( ya, right. like who will do that man?)
