shopping across the border

growing up in an archipelago, i never had an experience of traveling across the border until i came here to singapore. i found it tedious but at the same exciting as it gives me an opportunity to be out of singapore. tedious because it means going through two immigrations. from the singapore side, it has never been a hassle. but once you cross over, that is where the difficulty...

but in the interest of maximizing a one day public holiday, i decided to say yes to my friend, melissa's invitation to cross the border and visit johor bahru. not really a very nice and clean and cool place to go, but what the heck, it is the nearest one across singapore.

so off we went last may day (1 may) and did non stop shopping and going around this one big mall nearest to the border. the immigration check was so tiring, no aircon, so hot and so many people like us, wanting to get away even for only a day. it took us about one hour i think just to get through the immigration at the jb border.

so would i do it again, cross the border just for one day? perhaps not too soon...