Dean's List

Congrats to Kh for getting into the Dean's List! Keep it up! =)

Penang Trip 2009 (Part 2)

After visiting the Tropical Spice Garden and the Butterfly Farm, we drove further down to visit the waterfall. Apparently there are 3 waterfalls in Penang. This is the only one that is accessible to the public.

Dennis REALLY enjoying himself in the waterfall. His skin was baby smooth after the mineral bath and he kept asking to go back.

Monkey

Lunch at seaside restaurant along Batu Ferringhi

Arm wrestling

Toy Museum

Night Elf- Warcraft

Shrek

Dinner at Gurney Drive Hawker Center

Penang Laksa

Breakfast the following morning at our hotel lobby. (Tanjung Bungah Beach Hotel)

Went to visit Penang Hill after that

View from the top

Funicular train

Street stall

We paid a guide about 30RM for a 20min tour around Penang Hill. Ironically, our guide is a Singaporean indian who lives in Choa Chu Kang. He was just there for fun.

Penang Laksa once more

Went to Queensbay shopping mall after that where Yuting met up with us again.

Sunset

We left for home at 10am the following day and dropped by Malacca for lunch.

The last time I came here was so long ago... Can only remember the buffalos. This place reminds me so much of Joo Chiat. hah.

Chicken rice balls with Assam fish

Durian Chendol

Penang Trip 2009 (Part 1)

For the first time, I made an actual effort to plan for a Malaysian trip and I can honestly say that it is without a doubt the most enjoyable one. Went to Penang during the National Day weekends with Kh, 6th Uncle and his family. It was my 3rd time to Penang- 1st time by plane (SIA somemore), 2nd time by cruise, 3rd time by car- but it felt like the first. I guess I never really knew Penang before this.

We embarked on our journey at about 2am on Saturday morning and arrived at Penang island at about 8am. 6th Uncle was kinda crazy. He was driving at 160-180km/h, weaving in and out of traffic. If my parents know about this, they'd probably not let me go travelling with him again.

I took over the wheel for about an hour. 6th Uncle's Nissan Teana was very very stable. So much more stable than his old Toyota Picnic, which I honestly thought was already very stable. I kept a good, comfortable speed of 120-140km/h but it really really felt like 60km/h. No kidding. You have to keep an eye on the speedometer else you'll be speeding your way without realising it.

The moon at 7am.

6th Uncle's Nissan Teana

Love his car. Super high tech haha. Keyless technology. The driver's seat felt like a massage chair. And the handbrake is, well not really a handbrake, but rather a footbrake. Kind of like where the clutch used to be. Oh, and the GPS lady has quite a nice voice. Hehe.

No worries of getting lost with this super high-tech GPS.

Penang Bridge, longest in South-east Asia

Famous Penang Char Kway Teow for breakfast

Went to visit the Tropical Spice Garden at Batu Ferringhi after that.

Cousin Pei Shan and Dennis

Nice sea view behind here

Cooking class using spices from the spice garden

Cheeky Pei Shan and Dennis imitating Kh from behind

Fighting again

Tray of spices

6th Uncle and aunt went to lie on the beach while waiting for us to finish our tour

Next stop: Butterfly Farm

View at your own discretion.

And don't ask me why non-butterfly creatures are in the farm. They should rename the place "Farm for disgusting and scary creatures"

This butterfly just came out out its pupa. How did they manage to squeeze in there?

Giant millipedes

Scorpion

Alligator Snapper Turtle

Green Iguana

Leaf Insect

Another leaf insect

Butterfly museum

Nice landscape

Leaf frogs

Glow-in-the-dark scorpions

Face insect

Giant centipede

Day 1 is not over. Part 2 coming right up...