PENANG TRIP
after 1 month terperuk in melaka town i finally get to go to penang to jalan-jalan.
the last time i went was almost 10 years ago…all i could remember was i bought a mickey mouse t-shirt there….dunno where it went now also
ngam ngam this trip is after pc fair in klcc…so i went to see see lo…and bought an external hard disk…many people there…reminds me of the bus in russia…felt like sardin..
stayed in subang before going to penang the next morning…almost missed the bus by 2 min…
in the bus i realised charlie gave me 3 miss calls….but wierd that i din hear it before this…when i called back i realise he was in pudu together with candice..they took diff bus….which is good in a way that i don feel guilty mengacau daun…although i really wanna have a long chat with them…long timeno see adi
the bus journey was 4 hours….i slept most of the time….
reached penang around noon…was impressed by the blue sea around penang…long time since i’ve seen it…compare to mlk, which looks grey when i drove along klebang beach…
diana came to pick me up…wnet to gurney plaza to meet up min yuen, john, shu yu and her cousin….then jalan jalan in shops while waiting for charlie and candice to arrive…
2 pm…went to gurney hotel along the same road…wanted to check in but too bad non of us are eligible becoz apparently we are not 21 years old yet…so cannot register…(wierd rule to me..)
an hour later….janet and seng hau came….luckily janet is elder enough to register for us…
we got ourselves a suite…2 rooms with one of them having jakuzzi….10 of us in that room….namely kelvin,xiao tian(both arrive after we checked in)…min yuen, john, seng hau, diana, shu yu, candice, charlie and me…
we didn’t waste any time. went to Sua Tau Lane to eat ais kacang, hokkien mee, chai tau kuey there…very nice… the ais kacang is diff as it has lots of fruits, the hokkien mee is not as i expected becoz it is eaten in soup unlike in mlk we eat it like loh mee…i never liked chai tau kuay but i find it quite nice in penang…somehow the texture is smoother… and most importantly it’s cheap!
then we went to the youth park….a nice recreation place for people….many workout facilities here…something like hutan rekreasi in mlk…but it’s more well managed
after that went to the nearby botanical garden…we walked onli part of it….all i can remember is alot of monkeys and ferns…on our way home saw a kancil with tayar pancit…helped him change and we joked about buying 4D of his number plate…which some of us actually did buy it…haha…
at night after bathing…went for dinner juz down gurney walk….had alot of food…we ordered abit of this and that and shared it….we had rojak, laksa, wan tan mee, mua chi, sotong, poh piah, satay, and some other things which i forgotten….some of them are quite nice…
thanks to xiao tian, shu yu, diana, min yuen for belanja-ing us for some food..
went back….din’t want to sleep…so played card untill 330 am…..
woke up at 8am…. went down for swimming…(john, min yuen, seng hau and me)…till 9 am…nice view up there…can see a private pool down there with a "crocodile" swimming in it..
went for dim sum…one thing about it is that the dim sum are super large and quite cheap compare to mlk….and more delicious too…they are more creative in making dim sum…and the aunty worker there are super warmhearted and enthusiastic in a way that they keep serving food( even when we din order)….although some of them mght be abit sensitive when it comes to age….
after breakfast went to bukit bendera…took cabel car…it was quite cool..although my ear kinda tersumbat on the way up…. very nice scenery up there…. can see penang bridge from up there (that time still no haze problem yet)
we rent bicycle up there for canopy walk…it was quite fun riding in jungle breathing the fresh air…..but one of the bike broke and we had to push the bike back….but it was still a nice experience…
in the afternoon we went to kek lok si…ate the so called "best penang laksa" at kaki bukit….then went up the hill…there, some of us pai pai for better health and luck, some buying charm to protect themselves from malapetaka in russia, while others going around admiring the amazing architecture of this building…we din go up to the kuan yin statue….but i pai pai before leaving…
went back to hotel…while waiting for dinner, some of us went down for dart,archery..etc..seng hau and janet went for swimming…leaving diana alone in the room enjoying the jakuzzi….none of us brought the key…when we finally went up, tried to call diana who was still bathing but failed, seng hau and janet went down in swimming attire, bare footed asking for extra keys… everybody was staring at them…giving them the wierd look…the receptionist took a glance at them and didn’t doubt word they say…terus register another card for them….that was the joke of the day…
we went for buffet dinner, italian style at the next hotel….cost us 42 ringgit each….which is not very worth it for most of us as we are full halfway….excluding me of course….i can only describe myself as having a blackhole in my stomach….
that night…rendam inside jakuzzi for 40 minutes before sleeping….
next morning, went to hawker stall in pulau tikus for breakfast. then went to see sleeping buddha…according to candice..it’s an exact duplicate as the one in kelantan…
we checked out from hotel at 1230….it has been a great fun travelling together…sadly we couldn’t stay for much longer….
i really enjoyed the trip in penang…ate alot…now got 3 extra tyres adi…can’t blame me…the food is really nice…
this will be a memory that will stay in me forever….
every fun time must come to an end….but for min yuen , john and me, this is only the end of part 1….we know that it leads to the beginning of 2nd part of our exciting journey……
