Wednesday, November 03, 2004 @11:41 AM
First of all the coach ride... I knew it was going to be a full day’s ride so I kept myself busy the whole early morning making a mould for one of my course module. So I board the bus and before I could fit into the seat comfortably, the man taking the seat in front of me lean back on his seat. A 17 seat bus, but still my legs were too long and were fitted 'nicely' in between the seat gaps. In fact it was perfectly fitted; I have no space to move. At least I was too tired to bother, waking up at each roadside toilet stop. Not much of a good nights rest, but at least I manage to sleep up to 4-5 hours. And about the starry skies??? The road lamps killed it, however in the first place, there were just too much clouds in the sky to see anything. At the last toilet stop before crossing Penang Bridge, a banged up Coach tow next to us. The front of that coach was totally destroyed... wonder what happened to the drivers, not a good sight to see when you're in a coach yourself..
Across the bridge and there I was, 1st day on Penang soil 7:07am. From breakfast till dinner, I had MEe (noodles) all the way, starting off with wan ton mee, followed by clay pot mee for lunch and Lor mee for dinner. I didn’t do much shopping. Instead my Sisters were the ones looking around buying stuff as they were leaving the following evening. After shopping, it was off to viewing a penthouse that my uncles might be moving into, not a bad apartment, but I question the cross ventilation, there were a patch of yellow stains on the ceilings too, could it be a roof leak that can't be fixed??? Arrrhhhh.... dun care...
After the house viewing... we set off for the feet of Penang Hill in my cousin's car More on her driving skills later. Got our tickets for a ride in a railway cable car thingy up the 'Hill'. We tried to board the cart but it was packed like sardines, thus we waited for the next ride. Lao asked how long will we have to wait for the next ride, the crew there answered 7. So my sister replied 7mins to double check, but what the guy meant was 7pm, which is like 30mins from when she asked. 7mins, maybe for MRT bah, but for that 45 degree slop going cart, that will be some kind of rollercoaster ride, won't it? Hehee. The hill was high enough to make my ears go pop (need to check on the altitude again) and it was absolutely foggy, cold and dark up there. The city lights looks damn cool from up there, we took a few shot and hopefully it will turn out ok.... photos will be up as soon as I receive it from my cousin. Walked around the hill and we headed back down to the foot of the hill and..zzZZ back to cousin's place...zzZZZZZ...
DAY 2.... Went to my little uncle's place and had breakfast at the KopiTiam just downstairs across a few not traffic light what so ever roads. It was dangerous, 4lane 2 way road with no traffic light that has parallel parking along the road??!?! WTH!!!! How to cross when you can't see passing traffic from behind those parked cars??? I order chicken rice for breakfast...
Breakfast done, we set off to 'ji le shi' a Buddhist temple up on the hills... we spent around 15-30mins climbing up the stairs... there was this turtle pond, MAN was it filled with turtles!!! Hundreds if I’m not mistaken, ranging from tiny ones to tremendously large ones. Lao Da bought some “gan gonk” for us to feed the turtles.. Cool~ going up and up we came to the temple’s hall. Words will not do justice to how HUGE it was. Alright, we looked around and headed back down for lunch. Cousin took us to this Char Sew rice store that was in the middle of a living estate.. okok, not surprising… you get that every over in Malaysia… and more shopping, I got my self a long sleeve red shit… I love it I love it I lOVE!! RED!!! NICE… HAhaha… Soon, it time to day Tata to my sisters… OH NO… I’m All ALonE~ HAhahha Crap…. Back to uncle’s place and took a nap till dinner time coz I was so damn bored. Horror awaits me as I woke up, my cousine’s kids… Yes kidS, two… two times the horror!!!! Nothing much happened during dinner time, but as soon as they got back to my uncle’s place and their parents are just ignoring them… u_u …. They got to know me a little and started hopping and hugging me… my legs if I was stand up.. Pounce onto me if I was sited down.. no kidding…. WILD KIDS!!! HELP!!! HAhahhaa…. Couldn’t stand them any long… I tried to entertain them… some simple magic tricks to do with coins... HAhhaa…. Their expression so damn Cute! They were astonished, amazed and entertained.
…zzzZZZ
DAY 3….. Couldn’t remember what I had for breakfast, but I recall I had it in the city area. Had lunch out too, and some shopping, and its back to more eating…. Boy, am I going to weight like 70+ kg after this trip… arriving and the door step on my uncles place… the terror sounded… they’re here for me again… Worse!! Show me their panties & underwear (one girl and one boy)… FREAK! I grab hold and shut their legs up tight… what is it about kids? The more you don’t want them to do a certain thing, the more they will attempt it… Dinner at Kopi shop downstairs…. Brup.. What more can I sad???
…zzzZZZ
DAY 4… Ohya, I can see the sea from the room I’m sleeping in… can see sunrise some more…. Nice Nice… doubly nice… THE KIDS are BACK!!! Why?? Why? Why did my sister left me with them? Why…. They tackle me till I was on the floor… then they used my legs as slide… Hmm… Hairy slide.. Wonder why they liked it that much… but it was painful for me!!!! This isn’t the kind of hair removal solution I had in mind… HAhaa… okok… my mum wanna go down to the pet shop to get 2 birds to set free.. Must be some thing to do with a save trip back to Singapore. I’m not really sure… anyway… I went along… Yes, I go, “they” went… what? They want me to hold their hands?? Why? wHat the!! whY not Mummy??? Okok… part time baby sitter in action!! Held their hands as we crossed the roads & streets… really need to hold their hands tight man, they were merely walking… I had to look out for traffic and pull them back if they were walk way in front of me. Kids & pets = I’m free!! HHAhaaa.. I was sausage puppies!! KaWAiI ! Hahhaa…. And mIni pooch… so KE AI leh…. Put your hand on the cage and their lick.. ticklish!! HAhhaa…. I want them!!! okok… next time, I will own a rear a doggy.. they were much cuter then lester’s summer.. HAhaha… alright wash hands… and back to uncle’s place with hands locked. Their mum bought them ice cream on the way back… they were messy eaters with one hand… right, coz I was holding their other hand… Yawnz~ nap abit more before lunch… OMG.. why haven they leave?? Have to bring them down stairs like daddy again… I went back up right after lunch and slept, partly to escape from them and also because I was so damn bored… ok… work up just in time for a shower and set off of the airport. Mum was separated from me and dad coz there no way to squeeze in a car with all our luggage. So mum was driven by my uncle, Dad and I in cousin’s car…. Wow, traffic jam sia… what the hell? They did road works in the day??? Adding on to that was a stupid truck that broke down in the center of the road… took us 40+ mins to get out of it…. Hmmm….. upon reaching the airport.. Cousin got a phone call from uncle… WAHahhaa… car battery went dead!!... Mum’s stuck there with our pastport!! HEhee… funny thing was… soon after the call was made… mum arrived… my Uncle stopped a car and persuade the driver to dive mum here to us.. Wahahhaa…. Mum was like in shock…. Can’t really blame her for looking like that. Getting on to a unknown car and racing against time to reach us before our flight leaves.
Evening flight… but all I see were dark rain clouds… siahz…