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Penang Trip 2006
















08.07.06
In penang about 2pm with Peggy,Moon,Wiiliam Chok,Steven Tan,Yvonne,Cynthia and myself.Went to Vistana Hotel to check in.Rested for awhile.Played cards as usual.....:)
Called Elisha Loke(Penang Branch).She and her husband to be,came to the hotel.She took us to a small coffee shop to have penang asam laksa,cendol,ice kacang and fried kuey teo....food tasted good.Went around penang after eating.....Elisha lead us the way to few places.....gurney drive,tele,bkt bendera and etc.Soon after that,Elisha had to leave.So,we went on our way to bkt ferringi.Beach not so clean as Redang....but yet many ppl on the beach that evening.
Guess we left Bkt Ferringi around 6pm......decided to have early dinner in gurney drive.Ate alot.....fried oyster,fried fish,satay,sotong and etc.Later,headed back to hotel to rest and relax.....



09.07.06
2nd day journey-Woke up about 7.30am.Everyone decided to have dim sum for breakfast.....yummy!After that,we went to bkt bendera....took few photos.Bought tickets and line up for our turn.Hoop in to the train......journey about 20mins.Hoop into another train to go right to the top.....just stuffy.Nothing great uphill like langkawi cable car......:)
Later,we went to kek lok si. Went see the sea creatutes.....tortoise.After that,went to see the "sleeping buddha"....wow,very nice.Decided to have fried kuey teo for lunch.Found our way to a coffee shop.....delicious!Bought durians along the way and food stuffs in Bkt Jambul shopping mall near our hotel.....Went back hotel to rest for football world cup 2006!The young ones like steven,yvonne and cynthia decided to go for a walk.The old ones like myself,moon,william and peggy decided to take a nap for tonight......woke up nearly 8pm.Guess we were hungry......went to "upper penang road"..... something like bkt bintang kl. Had the fb world cup fiesta there......crowd with ppl and noisy.After dinner,we headed back to hotel to watch the finals at 2am......Well,we played cards and watch fb.Eventually left william and myself watching the finals.....everyone fast zzzzz....

10.07.06
3rd day-Woke up around 8am......Everyone packed their luggage.Check out around 11am.Decided to head for breakfast in Nasi Kandar Penang.....had roti bomb and nasi lemak (shared with moon)...full man!We called Elisha.Headed to tele branch.....took few photos with the manager.Then,we went to the famous shop to buy "heong piang".......
Everyone agreed to stop by Ipoh for lunch......Called Brandon (PC) that we stopped by.He took us to have "yong tau foo".Soon after that,we headed back to KL.........reached home around 8.30pm.