7 days roadtrip around Malaysia (Penang Part 1)

as usual, everybody will still be sleeping if someone doesn't wake up and cause a stir..it was our 5th day (7th January 2008) travelling around...there was no pressure as we only had to check out of YMCA before 10am..me darren and sin loong (3 of us who woke up the earliest) decided to cross the road and go over to the indian and chinese temple *the not so famous wan la..* we walked over to the chinese temple and the doors were closed and we were too afraid to go into the indian temple so early in the morning :( in the end we went back to YMCA to wait for them..suddenlyyy,

darren : eh f*ck! i think i lost my phone!
*me and sin loong started taking out our phones to call his phone, while we followed darren back to the room*
darren : eh not in my bag ballz..wah siao liao la... *throwing things up and down*
me : you go see at the lobby just now we sit down watch tv there see got or not?
darren : okok...*100m sprint*

unexpectedly, somebody called my phone using darren's number so i answered,

me : harlo? who is having this phone?
anonymus : harlo?! gua jumpa ni talipon kat indian temple sana
me : serious?? uncle, ar you boleh bawa itu handphone ke YMCA
anonymus : TAK LEH!!!!! *hangs up*
me : oh knnccbomgwtfbbqsauce *face turns pale white :(*
wai hong : oh you're dead man...

THEN, darren burst through the door aughing his head off!!! he was that stupid uncle over the phone!!! i got punk'd early in the morning man...grandmother t*t*k!!! *grab his neck by elbow and started dummy punching his stomach*

everybody got packed and headed for the bus station to take the bus to penang..we took the bus which stops in butterworth instead of georgetown so that we can sit the ferry across..
the yellow taxi



inside the ferry

l-r : justin, sin loong. jin wen
map of penang

as soon as we reached the jetty, taxi drivers came up to us offering their service..we took the one that promised to take us to some place cheap to stay some sort like a budget hotel la..the taxi driver said that they will bring us to another place if we didn't like the budget hotel they recommended..where we reached, we were like waaaa budget hotel huh..it is actually an old colonial house which is huge..

not recommended for budget travellers
inside the budget hotel

darren, jin wen and me went to discuss the price of room with the boss..he gave us such a high price which couldn't be reduced anymor *so says he since he's the boss* then so we decided to take 1 room only and just squeeze for the night..and mahai the boss! he go raise the price for the big room! where got such thing??? matta-farker know him..we wanted to tell the taxi drivers to take us to another place but they became david copperfield and vanished! *poof!* so we didn't have any choice but to stay in the stupid hotel rather than carry our BIG bags and walk around georgetown under the scorching afternoon sun rite? each of us paid bout 17bux for that nite at the 'budget' hotel..anyway, the workers there all tu-lan and bo-song the boss for giving us a high price so they gave us extra extra pillows and treated us nicely :)

we went out looking for food and found a small lil kopitiam and decided to eat there since got one aunty says that the mee goreng is awesome..so we had mee goreng, wan tan mee and satay for late lunch..we shared everything since dinner time was approaching..after lunch, we walked around the place and found so so many small hostels for backpackers! knn punya taxi driver..

we then walked bout 45 mins from georgetown to gurney drive to have dinner..since it was still early, we decided to walk around gurney plaza..guys gotta wash eyes a bit ma..everyday wake up see the same 7 people you think not boring?? but ipoh and penang girls really different la..tall, fair and pretty..hmmm turn left turn right always got new surprises eh lim? ;) also got some SMB but it's okay..

one arse-hole go suggest that we watch movie since we're still early for dinner..HORROR movie summor! the title is 'the house' some thai movie which is not that scary la..the whole cinema went out laughing *those who have experienced watching horror movie with me before, knows the reason why :)* anyway, the movie was a complete was of money! hmmph!

the movie ended at bout 9pm so we decided to have dinner at gurney drive..to our shock, it was raining hippopotamus and bears! *potong steam only* so we decided to send 2 scouts over to see whether it's still open dispite the heavy rain while the rest went to buy umbrellas..walked around trying to find a place to buy cheap umbrella since it's a budget trip..the scouts called back and said it was still open! so we quickly quickly bought umbrellas and you know from where? GIORDANO ar! don't play play..from that minute on, it was no longer a budget trip, it was a normal trip..

we were the only customer under the heavy rain..we all squeezed into a small table and since it was raining so heavily, we had to open up the umbrella to cover our sides..had char kueh teow(not so nice cause too comercialised), fried oyster(good cause the oysters kinda big) and the best of all, indian rojak!! it was the best damn food that we had eaten that day! the boss was so generous to give us a BIG serving for a small price :) anybody who goes to gurney, find the indian rojak man who dances while making the rojak!

after our dinner-supper, decided to head back home since we're all wet..waited at a bus stop for half an hour then realised it was the wrong bus stop so walk again to another bus stop across the road but still again no bus..then all decided to sit taxi back to the hotel..when we told the taxi driver we walked to gurney's, he was shocked!! he said the walk was bout 5-7km!!! woohooo we also got a shock *nearly fainted*

developed slight fever that night due to high exposure of acid rain in penang..did not do our gambling routine but slept straight after takin panadols..

*lights out*