penang trip 2006

i'm baaaackkkk!!! lol. had a fun time in penang with my family this year. possibly the best time so far (and *ahem* best year for checking out hotties too *coughs*) we went around the town quite a bit this year. we usually just bum around batu feringghi but this year mum insisted we do more. lolz.

we left on friday at 5.30 am!! madness. i haven't woken up so early in a loooooong time. surprisingly i didnt have much problems. considering the fact that i slept at about 2 something. anyway, it took us about 4 hours plus to reach kedah. we went to kedah first to pray for my grandma. that's the main reason we go every year. after praying we went to penang. had lunch and checked in at about 2pm.

the view from my room

on the first day we basically just bummed around our hotel. went to the beach for a while, swimming pool, went for dinner, came back and played pool. hehe.

on the second day we also hanged out at the beach for a while. after that we went out looking for lunch and went to island plaza just to check it out. the supermarket there was amazing. seriously their cold storage is wayyy better than the cold storage in pj. it was damn huge and you could find almost everything. on the way back we stopped by at the shangri-la rasa sayang resort. cos dad wanted to go check out the prices for their buffet dinners. lol. he wanted to give us a treat but we didnt let him. rm 100+ for one person? NO FREAKIN WAY!!

anyways outside the hotel we spotted this:

damn hot right? haha. it's a bentley in case anyone is wondering.

anyways on sunday dad decided to drive around the whole island. lol. thats pretty much what we did. found ourselves at the snake temple which we've been to before mind you. what surprised me was the fact that the toilets were actually clean! lolz. we got back to the hotel and my brothers went for a swim in the pool. and me? i went to sleep. haha. went out walking at night to look (and shop) at the night bazaar along the roadside, along the stretch of hotels at batu ferringhi. surprisingly i always enjoy myself here since i'm not a fan of pasar malams. (maybe the fact that there are always hot foreign guys around makes it even better lol)

on monday morning we went out to look for breakfast outside the hotel. we found ourselves at this seafood restaurant for dim sum. and this is where we spotted one of the strangest (and may i add perverted) looking sea creatures i've ever seen.

lol! canada geo duck??? my little brother said they mispelt it. he thinks the 'u' in duck should have been an 'i' instead. lmfao!!!

anyways after breakfast we decided to go to penang town. and we somehow ended up at Fort Cornwallis. We've all been there before except for my mum. so yeah thats how we ended up there again.







oh yeah we went to kek lok si too. cos dad wanted his assam laksa. ended up going into the pagoda as well which was so damn boring!!! and may i add "we've been there before too!!!" sheesh.



after kek lok si we dropped by a petrol station to refill petrol (er..duh) and they had this carwash machine. and to be honest i've never seen a carwash so popular before. lol. cars just kept coming and coming. so since my youngest brother hadnt been inside one before my dad decided to go for it. haha.

later that night we went out walking again, had dinner, walked back, played pool and went for a short walk on the beach where my dad caught a crab. lol.

don't worry, it didnt become our supper. he released it after i snapped these pics haha.

so tuesday was our final day in penang. didnt manage to do much as we had to check out at 12. had breakfast, bummed around a bit packed our stuff and it was time to leave. reached pj at about 5.30 pm and had an early dinner at the chicken rice restaurant near my place when it started raining. check out these birds. so cute lol.

i have to say i think i enjoyed myself in penang this year more than i ever have during our previous trips here. getting away from this house and certain people felt so good. now it's back to my dreary life here. lol. oh well. all good things come to an end eh? now what i really need to do is some catching up with some the B's. hehe. Eragon anyone?

*whoa this has gotta be the most pictorial post i've ever done!*