Penang Trip and Back to Teluk Intan

Warning, this post is quite a long one with many useless words inside it(since it's my on9 diary which I'm gona show my grandkids one day so I put in all the teensy weensy details) so if you're bored of reading, just look at the pics la, I took the liberty of uploading soo many. Please comment also =D

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Cool road name ehh? Too bad its a hoax

I must be the last person on Earth to be watching Heroes but better late than never ehh? I've watched 4 episodes till 3am last night and the only thing that strikes me funny is that, 5 strangers from across the globe find their special powers. Across the globe? HELLO! 4 of them are in USA and one Japanese? Like What? China and India? Most populated countries? LOL.

Okay okay so I promised to blog about my vacation, and Daniel is bugging me nonstop lol, so voila here it is.

So our last paper was our uhh what was it again? Chemistry paper 1? Yeah that was it. We would have shouted like crazy mental sakai baboons after the exam except that Pn Azian had a debriefing so all of us like calmed down so tangga 11 was not crazy as usual. We had a quick change of clothes and threw our books onto the already-burning bonfire and left for Bukit Bintang.

The 5 of us (four 11-2-A2 + Chai) took the KTM and then Monorail to Hang Tuah and went to Times Square 1st. Had a ginormous meal at The Chicken Rice Shop and left feeling filled to the brim with food(its been awhile since I've been that full, never in KTT). We went window shopping as we didn't really had anything in mind to buy. I got myself a new earring(okay that sounds gay but its not). Then we headed over to Romp. Passed Krispy Kreme but we were too full to even have a second look(craving for doughnuts now).

Wow a Hummer. It was HUGE!

U like its sexy ass?(U know who you are =D) Mummy this is how our car should look like haha.

Romp bla bla tried on a few shirts and jeans and stuff. Got myself a pair of jeans and a shirt. Didn't want to pay cash since if I did, I'd have to withdraw again so I used my plastic money =D with my mum's approval of course. Thank you mummy. Then we headed to Lowyat and got myself a Laptop Cooler and Chai got his new Laptop Bag.

SS-ing somewhere.

We watched 10 minutes of Indiana Jones and it was SOOO DAMN BORING! So we switched to Yes Man coz Bryant recommended it but it turned out to be some lame comedy. Finally slept around 3am.


THURSDAY
Miraculously after 4 hours of sleep, woke up to go jogging at 7.30am, amazing? Yeah I know. The thing is there were seniors jogging at that time too, wow. Thought no1 else would be that crazy haha. Then we had massive cleaning of the apartment which was in such a sorry state since we had exams and all. Packed, left at around 4.30 for KL Sentral.

The train carriage

Mua on the top bunk. Yes it held my weight, thank you very much.

Had McD for dinner, met Chai and Selvan there and boarded the train. Each of us had a bunker to ourselves and it was quite cosy and comfortable. I'm an extremely light sleeper but I think that 4 hours of sleep made me dead tired so I just pengsan-ed after an hour on the train. Amazingly with all the jolts and bumps I slept soundly.

We reached Butterworth at 4.30am and had coffee while waiting for the 1st ferry to Penang which was at 6am. We reached Penang around 6.30am and took a bus to Gurney Drive and walked around till we ended up in this coffee shop which we had breakfast. Chai as usual addicted to internet, left the table and went to online with the free WiFi. The fella actually ordered Bloody Mary(vodka mixed with tomato, tobasco, pepper, salt and who knows what else) for breakfast. Of course I had to try. Barely the taste of alcohol, the other ingredients overwhelms the vodka, didn't like it.

So then we headed over to Gurney Plaza at 10smth and had to drag our bags all along coz the stupid mall had no lockers. After that headed over to the hotel where we had to wait sooo long to check in. After we checked in, had our baths and instead of resting, we obviously went out =D

Bag dragging ceremony. *Stare* What are these people doing la.

We thought ahh what the heck, take the bus to Batu Maung then get lunch there. It took us 45 mins to the jetty and another 1.5 hours to Batu Maung by bus. Like WTF? It u-turned more than 3 times! Damn bus. So we were dead starving with no lunch till 4pm when we reached the musuem. The cafe was closed so we ate Chipsmore. It was the BEST chipsmore I've ever had. Could you believe it? We STARVED in PENANG. Those 2 words are like impossible to put together in a sentence yet we did it lol.

No we're not a pic of you, aunty. Its of me, sleeping at the back of the bus. On the way to Batu Maung.

Joel looks like you've got competition =D

Off to explore the deep dark mysterious tunnels of the war museum

Gunning down some pesky mosquitos with my AA gun

Blah de Blah, big whoop.

Should have gone for this! Own risk makes it even more exciting.

Old man Jenkins was killed while he was pooping.

Climbing out of the secret tunnel. Quite a climb.

This is where we climbed out of. It said do not enter, not do not exit haha.

Trekking up a steep part of the terrain. Nah it was kinda flat actually haha.

Male model happily posing with the bomb shells

The war musuem was ok-ok la. The tunnel part was exciting and I wish we had gotten the torchlights and explored the dark tunnel with bats. Should have been more interesting than some boring sej crap.

So since we saved money on lunch, we ate like uhh hmm starving KTT people? HAHA. We ate and ate and ate. We had altogether, a few Laksa, Char Kuay Teows, Prawn Mee, Muar Chee, Pork Satay, BuBu ChaCha, Ikan Bakar, Pari Bakar, Lala Bakar, Sotong+Kangkung and sesame seed sauce. Lucky no space for Pasembur or not that one also haha.

And that was 5 people only lol. Selvan ready to ko already.

And so they did. Look how much space is left for me to squeeze in. LOL.

Saturday

This was round 1 of my complimentary breakfast on the followong day. Round two and three didn't take pics haha.

Chai and Keshan woke up 1st so they had the complimentary breakfast for 2 at the hotel's restaurant. And here starts Chai's diarrhea problem. We headed to Kek Lok Si temple and well I've been there like twice before and it was normal la coz not during CNY and all. Had our brunch there and I wanted the herbal tea, the waiter thought I wanted a Carlsberg lol. There were more shops there and we had good bargains there.

Mr Chai at Kek Lok Si temple.

Anyway, then we got off near the Komtar bus station to have the famous Kassim Nasi Kandar for our 2nd lunch, it was gooood food, yummy. Then we went back to the hotel and went out to the pool in the evening where sadly my swimming sucks like mad. Lost to Keshan badly =D but I haven't swam in like years except that PD trip. One day, when my body is a bit more streamlined......HAHAHAHA.

Night we met up with the ever beautiful and graceful(she paid me to say this) Cheeky Christine who I can never win an arguement against. Anyway, we met up with Christine and took a bus to Batu Feringhi. There we shop shop shop lagi and makaned a lot as usual with our table number getting confused. 68 and 89 is similar. So there was a major confusion with the food delivery haha.

Botanical Garden + Balik (Sunday)

So in the morning, the best tour guide money can buy, Christine(sorry hehe, thx a bunch), drove to our hotel and took us to the Botanical Gardens. It was really a nice place to relax and have a morning jog. It was really peaceful and serene, until we shattered the peace and traquility HAHA.Taken with my DSLR. Nah with my 5610 la haha. This should go on the tourism website or smth. What an awesome sight.

Vibrant colours of beautiful flowers.

Exotic(i guess) flower.

Enough of peace. Time for HAVOC!!

Watch out for the escaped Doo-Doo bird!

HAH! We killed it!

Oh no, he lives again.

Didn't know Doo-Doo's liked nectar from flowers too haha.

Ooo is that a bird? A plane? Nooo....Its.....(next picture)

..just Shawn with his Usain Bolt/Superman pose.

Journey Back + Teluk Intan
She then dropped us off at Gurney Plaza where we had our lunch and then balik to Butterworth. Thanks a lot Christine for making time n driving us around n all. Then we took a bus back to Ipoh and then Chai left for Pusing and we 3 took a bus back to Teluk Intan. Reached around 8pm++ i think. Went round town, bought Chee Cheong Fun then went back. Selvan really liked Rocky and Keshan 2.

Keshan with Rocky and my dad's bike

Selvan with Rocky and my dad's bike

Rockyyyyyy.

Baileys, my fav. Joel remember u had a small glass for Rm15 at Republic? This whole bottle is around Rm70 only haha =D It's my fav alcoholic drink yet.

Famous landmark of Teluk Intan, the leaning tower.

Mum cooked for us dinner then next morning went round town again, went to Nana's(grandma) house for awhile, had nasi kandar style lunch and found out in The Store that I needed to lose 8kgs(walaoeh die la). So after the holidays, serious diet and jogging again(sigh). Got on bus, bye the bye and balik.

Famous Teluk Intan Chee Cheong Fun(made by chinese people LiYing btw, I checked =p)

My outing(small one as friends not on holiday sigh)
Went out with the usual bunch of friends minus Jeya and Pei Wen(who is too busy =p). Anyway, we booked the whole cinema for a private screening of Angels and Demons. Nah it was just empty besides us 6 and another uncle, sad huh? Could even take pics in the cinema(like what?). Anyway then we headed over to Giant and the layout is 100% like Nilai's one so I got a headache thinking im in KTT. Ate and drank Coffee+Tea mixed at Old Town. Had Hor Fun which tasted
below average and full of oil, service was terrible. Had to go home early coz Gan was sick.

Not bad la the entrance n all, but empty. Doubt it'll survive in TI.

On the inside. Empty as you can see.

Anyway going out to SteakFactory 2moro and gona watch Terminator, last outing before going back to KTT. Sigh, anyway, cya guys in KTT then. Juniors watch out, your seniors, they're crazy people. Crazy crazy crazyyy... *sinister laugh*