back from penang!
was indeed devastated by my very last paper...essentially half of it was crapped thru! brooded over it for some time... even had McDonald's with the sbs girls in attempt to cheer myself up with fast food...well...it juz got worse...with all 5 of us hanging onto the possibility of failing that subj... but eventually i got over it, especially after i boarded my nite bus to Penang that very nite!!
it was a torturous 10 hr bus ride man.. wanted to get some sleep after much lack of sleep over the 1 mth of exams... did finally fell aslp but was woken up by the bloody music blasting from the stop-over food centre... eventually did manage to get abt 4 hours of slp b4 we reach Butterworth.. another 14km over the famous Penang Bridge, and we're there..
Day 1
it was the wrong terminal!! NOT the one we expected to find ourselves to be at! apparently they've moved most of the long-distance buses to this newer bus terminal... there's a chinese saying "lu4 zai4 jui3 bian1" literally means that the road is juz beside ur mouth.... juz ask lor! hehe....we managed to find out how to get to Komtar with juz RM$1 per person! forget abt RM$20 for cab lah...
next, our 1st choice of accomodation: Swiss Hotel..... SUX!! forgot why leh...but it juz suck! think it look quite torn down ah...or sth like tat...
next down (across) the road, "E&A Hotel"
"Eh...does this look like a chicken house...?" yan asked
yes inded it looked like one.... with slim slim aunties walking ard...and old old ah bei sitting by and topless guys walking ard and no one attending to us.... NeXt!!
"Olivia" (i think...) hmm....the nice angmo atmosphere... bread aroma in the air.... but it's all full...too bad... tough luck!
"oh, u can try the one that's 4 shophouses down this side of the road", the nice auntie of Olivia told us...
and yes, a nice clean guesthouse with a tint of backpackers' attitude... having a common batheroom and lavatory... best of all....it's darn clean! "Crystal Hotel's" the name... the bedsheet smells new too! apparently they've juz opened not too long ago....juz a few months in fact...and we managed to find out from the managment uncle quite a few places to eat all the local foodfares and of course the all-famous penang laksa and chendul (yes it's called chendul there)!! lunch was settled at this chicken rice stall near 7-eleven, the soup there is simply the best.. i won't say it's the best chicken rice i've had (Meleka still wins), but it's good enough, above average.
the rest of the day was juz walking ard, getting familiar with the area and shopping... ooh i got myself 2 polo tee for RM66 and a haircut for RM$15... then wad else did we do next...? i forgot... ok fast fwd... know wad...? the buzzling nite foodstreet is juz outside our guesthouse! had curry noodles and wanton mee... the curry noodle nice lehz...at 1st i tot nth much of it...juz curry mee wad... but when it was served....fwaaah... got cockles and sambal shrimp paste de lehz... and somehow, it's juz nice.... the wanton mee also...the wanton very tender and fresh...... mee very "Q"! got the smell of sesame de.... ok tat's supper! eh? wad abt dinner...? wad did we haf huh.....? urgh! i can't remember!
it was a torturous 10 hr bus ride man.. wanted to get some sleep after much lack of sleep over the 1 mth of exams... did finally fell aslp but was woken up by the bloody music blasting from the stop-over food centre... eventually did manage to get abt 4 hours of slp b4 we reach Butterworth.. another 14km over the famous Penang Bridge, and we're there..
Day 1
it was the wrong terminal!! NOT the one we expected to find ourselves to be at! apparently they've moved most of the long-distance buses to this newer bus terminal... there's a chinese saying "lu4 zai4 jui3 bian1" literally means that the road is juz beside ur mouth.... juz ask lor! hehe....we managed to find out how to get to Komtar with juz RM$1 per person! forget abt RM$20 for cab lah...
next, our 1st choice of accomodation: Swiss Hotel..... SUX!! forgot why leh...but it juz suck! think it look quite torn down ah...or sth like tat...
next down (across) the road, "E&A Hotel"
"Eh...does this look like a chicken house...?" yan asked
yes inded it looked like one.... with slim slim aunties walking ard...and old old ah bei sitting by and topless guys walking ard and no one attending to us.... NeXt!!
"Olivia" (i think...) hmm....the nice angmo atmosphere... bread aroma in the air.... but it's all full...too bad... tough luck!
"oh, u can try the one that's 4 shophouses down this side of the road", the nice auntie of Olivia told us...
and yes, a nice clean guesthouse with a tint of backpackers' attitude... having a common batheroom and lavatory... best of all....it's darn clean! "Crystal Hotel's" the name... the bedsheet smells new too! apparently they've juz opened not too long ago....juz a few months in fact...and we managed to find out from the managment uncle quite a few places to eat all the local foodfares and of course the all-famous penang laksa and chendul (yes it's called chendul there)!! lunch was settled at this chicken rice stall near 7-eleven, the soup there is simply the best.. i won't say it's the best chicken rice i've had (Meleka still wins), but it's good enough, above average.
the rest of the day was juz walking ard, getting familiar with the area and shopping... ooh i got myself 2 polo tee for RM66 and a haircut for RM$15... then wad else did we do next...? i forgot... ok fast fwd... know wad...? the buzzling nite foodstreet is juz outside our guesthouse! had curry noodles and wanton mee... the curry noodle nice lehz...at 1st i tot nth much of it...juz curry mee wad... but when it was served....fwaaah... got cockles and sambal shrimp paste de lehz... and somehow, it's juz nice.... the wanton mee also...the wanton very tender and fresh...... mee very "Q"! got the smell of sesame de.... ok tat's supper! eh? wad abt dinner...? wad did we haf huh.....? urgh! i can't remember!
roadside stall juz outside our guesthouse
we had these for supper!
end of Day 1.
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