pearl of the orient

Those of u who wish to view the penang pictures may do so by visiting Choon Weng's Blog

Here's a very noob & simplified version bout the recent updates / significant happenings in Penang:

- it was a road trip. 10 of us( me, pw, wf, ernest, alex, alfred, charles, jw, cw, joe) went in 3 cars- (Alfred's , Jw's, Alex's ) There was some miscommunication regarding the number of days we were gonna stay in penang and bcoz few of them gotta go back earlier than planned ,hence, the others came back in just 2 cars.

-We rented an apartment somewhere in Batu Ferringhi. There were 3 rooms-the girls, obviously, got a room by themselves, and the remaining 2 weren't enough for the rest of the guys so in the end, few of them sacrificed to sleep in the living room instead.

-Reached Penang the first day at about 10.30pm. After allocating the rooms and unpacking our stuff, we decided to go clubbing at ChillOut, a club in Gurney Hotel- said to be one of the most happening club in penang..

-It was alredi almost 1 am when we got into the club. The moment we stepped into the club, we were horrified by the sight of 2 sexily dressed fat women baring their spare tyres, lying down in the middle of the bar singing "God is a Girl" with the microphones! and they were surrounded by a few uncles who were somehow seemed to b enjoying the 'show' -very much.. eww*

-All of us started to worry and stared blankly thinking we were gonna spend the sat night w that horrible singings & awful crowd but thank god, there was actually another room further in which is where the younger crowd is, that played R n B musics. phew*

- the crowd was very diff from that of kl's. In kl, we call them "lalas",hehe. There was a group standing next to our table throwing ice at each other, and ppl pushing into the crowd without even saying "excuse me" to you.Culture shock..and the music they played was by no means-weird. Linkin park songs were played several times that night, just imagine.(???) Later we were told that there was actually another club somewhere called GLOW which was supposingly better than Chillout.. wat the hell?? if only we knew earlier..

-We were all very tipsy that night. Back at the apartment, the guys went high and started singing stupid songs and laughing at their own lame acts=p Had no idea wat made them so hyper since we only opened 2 bottles that night. haha,,

-the next day was fine. We were all so holy ,visiting places which were mostly- Temples!=p KekLokSi being one of them, the snake temple, etc etc.. most of the time we had no idea how to go to the destined place and we ended up getting lost ..so half of our time was alredi wasted there. We were dumb enuff not to get a map from those nearby hotels until dinner time..

-Nothing much u can actually do in penang cept EAT..eat and eat!! Yea, lunch was nice, we had Char kuey teow at the famous sisters' stall at Lorong Selamat, dinner was great at the hawker street in Macallister Road but supper was bad coz being a noob in penang, we couldnt find any other places to eat at such late hour besides mamak. Other than that, we went to the Feringghi tourist street where the guys bought many dvds and music cds since it was so cheap=p

-The guys had a make up session done by the expertise-ME! hahas* if u actually viewed cw's blog u can c some of my work there=p No i wasnt the one who suggested this , ernest did! he wanted his eyes to be eyelined, so i was jus returnin' his favour, lolss* not bad tho,both joe & ernest actually walked around the street shopping for dvds with make up on! passerby must b thinking they were some sorta punk rocker or something, ahhaz

-Nothing much happened during the last day.We slept late-bout 4 to 5 am, but woke up really early the next morning-bout 7am, hoping to find good food to eat before we leave penang but were left in disappointment. jus found out that penang ppl are reallie very slumber. They(in the F&B field) only open their shops at 11am so peeps,now u know "early bird catches the worm" does not apply in penang...pretty pointless for us to wake up so early that day actually..