Nenek`s Hometown.

Last holiday, I went back to my friend, Nazliah`s hometown with another one of my friends, Ain at Pontian, Johor. The place is located at the most southern part of Malaysia. Reaching nenek`s (grandmother) house at about 3 o`clock in the morning really made us exhausted after the four hour journey from Kuala Lumpur. At least we had the opportunity to salam (kiss hand) nenek before we got back to sleep. After about five hours sleep, we awoke. Then we ate the delicious Johor nasi lemak.

Surprisingly, nenek could memorize my full name and Ain`s. The funny part is she called Nazliah, her grandchild with a different name, ‘ Jijah’. Nenek kept asking us to eat, eat and eat. That morning, although nenek has reached about 65 years old, she hooked petai ( Malay traditional vegetable ) with a five meter rod to reach the petai on the tall tree. I was so amazed.

Talking about food, nenek`s dishes were so delicious. Maybe that was my first time tasting Johor dishes, but trust me they were delicious. We ate rice for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I couldn`t imagined if I were there for one month. I would be fat!

On the second day, Nazliah`s auntie took brought us to Tanjung Piai, the southernmost point of Peninsular Malaysia and thus the most southern point of mainland Eurasia. The place was so beautiful. We needed to walk through the mangrove, filled added with some monkeys, many kinds of slugs, snails and crabs for about one kilometer to reached the sea. Reaching the beach part was the most amazing part. There, we could saw in front of us was Singapore and on our right side was Indonesia. Amazing! And at that point, the sea was ‘divided’ into two parts, the left part was Johor straits and the right part was Malacca straits. We were so excited to know about that.

Before we went back on the third day, nenek cooked something special for us. Our bus was at 10 o’clock in the morning. Nenek cooked and packed our lunch before we went back. She also packed another three packs of breakfast in case we were hungry during the journey. It was so wonderful to live with nenek although it was just three days. I will not forget that moment.