9 - 11 nov 08

Penang!!
i went with amerlyn-sshi!!! ^^
and my mom and g.uncle...
haha
left for penang at around 10am after breakfast...
we were at the penang bridge at 3pm...
lol
we did have a break on the way... so 4 hours drive??
we checked in and we had rest... and i didnt really liked the hotel though...
it's called hotel mingood...
it's cheap what could i expect?! *huhu*
then planned what to do for the next day but had no idea what to do next... xD
so my mom said go to the beach
haha
beach~
batu feringghi~ at first me and amerlyn was just walking on the beach with our legs waiting for the waves to wet them... xD
there were these "worms" on the beach...
i thought it was some tranparent pebble and i pressed it
it was kinda...weird...very worm-y like...
and i shrieked... lol i didnt expect it to be some creature~
then when we had enough we went up to my mom
and my mom asked if we want to go parasailing? *the parachute thingy pulled by a boat*
so we went to ask how much it was
at first he said 140 for 2 of us...
and he kept telling us... it's for one big round...
and we got 100....
when it was our turn... the ppl was explaining what to do when landing...
so when we were flying... i kept panicking and wonder what if i screw up?!
haha
i didnt really enjoy*i should thank my worrying for this... -.-* but amerlyn surely did... she didnt have to do anything...
landing... they asked me to pull some string...
i pull la
then they ask to let go
i let go la
then almost touch the ground already some other guy ask me to pull somemore...
i'm like... huh?!
landing not perfect... almost got wet by the waves... -.-
after that we went to eat
i ramdomly ordered some food... haha
went back to hotel and sleep...

next day we went around georgetown
some UNESCO world heritage thingy?
went to some places
-goddess of mercy temple
-teochew temple
-penang peranakan mansion
-khoo kongsi
-dr. sun yat sen's penang base
then snake temple
and war museum...
the penang peranakan mansion was interesting!
first it's some chinese then mixed with some english culture to their life
then we just knew it was that leader of Hai San's house... *u noe Ghee Hin and Hai San? from our sejarah form 2 text book?? Perjanjian Pangkor??*
this was actually he and his 2nd wife's house...*chunted!*
then amerlyn said "ooo... Chung Ah Kwee ...."
the tour guide said... "no... Chung Keng Kwee..."
i was still blurr i forgotten his name from the textbook then...
amerlyn continued "not Chung Ah Kwee meyh? the text book says so worr..."
by then the tour guide already went on... xD *the tourguide is from the place itself... rm10 admission fees was worth it*
and i realised the ppl back then were...short...
i saw the beds and it was... not big... satu depa... *how do i translate that to english??*
then we ate lunch and went to dr. sun yat sen's penang base...
i didnt really understand what the lady was trying to say though... hehe
and i just made some expressions pretending i was paying attention... xD
then snake temple
lol once my uncle told me mom... "snake temple only got a few snakes" in hakka... it sounded funny
but when we went there true enough there were only few snakes when we first look around...
then there was this snake farm where we need to pay to enter... *so this was where all the snakes were at...* xD
walk around and admire them snakes
then we walked back into the temple...
this time we spotted more snakes than we first did...
haha it was kinda fun searching for them... =)
and then we went war museum...
*this made me realised how BAD road signs in malaysia are... u have to travel few kms to see the next sign...WORST STILL they're covered by trees...perfect!*
well
it was scary for me... first there was like nobody there... except one other group with... 5 ppl? and two of us...
then we lost sight of them... we were on our own...
amerlyn was normal... but i pretended to be normal... while being scared...
when we got to the place where the soldiers slept... WE got freaked out
especially when we saw this sign outside some room saying some torture chamber or something
reading the description freaks me out even more... i said i dont want to go in and see this...
so i just walk beside amerlyn and not looking into anymore rooms...
she got freaked out too... then i said... "let's skip all this and go to the exit shall we?"
and she said okay cos she was freaked out too...
we were almost running... haha!
on our way back to georgetown... we were suppose to stop by queensbay mall
too bad we missed the turn...
so we went to... gurney drive...
for the evening before we head back to the hotel...

for the last day we just bought some souveniers from jln penang...
and went to ipoh...
at first we wanted to go penang hill
but the hotel reception ppl said it was not open when i asked the night before...
and one of them said he would check and call us later.... but he didnt
well
i stupidly trust them.... while on the way to ipoh... i just remembered it WAS OPEN!
...
...

ipoh was next before home!

love'
kimmie