Back From Penang

Exams in NTU should have ended officially by now. Enjoy yourselves while you all can ya! Just came back from my Biz trip to Penang. Praise Jesus! This trip was a safe and pretty good trip. Took the Xiamen Airline..heard of it? Don't really have a very good experience taking the flight though. First thing when we step in the flight, realised our seat is right at the back and the cabin overhead where you can place your hand carry luggage are full already. Most pple on this flight are flying to Xiamen and are the older generation, so naturally, they are more Kiasu and rough. Sigh....My colleague and I are so glad we are getting off after 1 hour.

While we reached our hotel (Copthorne Orchid), realised it's a 4 star hotel. It's pretty ok and the view from our room is good..mountains on one side and also overlooking the sea. We had a crazy idea suddenly. In order to travel around Penang, we found out that the cab is for a short trip is very expensive and so we decided to rent a car for 2 days...and I drove!..haha..Cool! We approached the bell captain and he assisted us in renting our car..Thanks Kumar!!..hee! After a brief instruction of how to get to the city, we set off and reached Gurney Plaza. Oh yes, 1 thing about the traffic in Penang, pple there dun signal even if they wanna change lane or do a right turn. I'm still a good Singaporean who signalled..hee! Gurney Plaza is a pretty nice place, like any S'pore shopping center. Brought two pairs of shoes there. We had ice-cream wafer for lunch and after the shopping, we drove down to Island Plaza to check out the WIFI there as we heard that the whole building there is WIFI-ed..hee! There are a few coffee place there..starbucks, dome and coffee bean. Starbucks will be our place to work the next morning..set! After exploring there for a while, we realise opp Island Plaza, there are a few shops and also hawker food. We decided to go back to hotel and leave our shopping bags so we can drive back there again for our dinner. After resting a while back in hotel room, we came out again and drove back to the hawker near Island Plaza and there we settled our dinner. After that, we decided to walk around the area and explore around. After a while, we decided to try Penang Cha Koey Teow. It's drier than S'pore, hmm..I would still prefer S'pore's version..hee! That's day 1 in Penang.

Day 2 in Penang, we set off for breakfast in hotel itself and drove to Island Plaza Starbucks to start our day "at work". We lazily started...after a while, realised the network there sucks!..keeps on connecting and disconnecting. Mt colleague's notebook crash and have to wait for more than half an hour before she can start again. In summary, we din get to work much and it's lunch time..keke..We decided to drive around to look for food. This time, my colleague requested to drive, so she took over from there and set off to georgetown just for lunch..I can almost hear KC saying "Siao! Go so far just for lunch!"..haha..and as we dun really know the road and was driving for almost 1 hr...hungry and warm!...We ate cai fan at some small shop and that's lunch...and i can't finish cos I dun like the food..We are lost!..Dunno how we can get back to Island Plaza. I approached someone on the street and asked and he offered to let us tail him since he is going back to city to send the rest of his goods and he brought us back to Island Plaza! Praise God for the favour and asking the right person! We are back in Starbucks and since it's hot, we decided to sit inside with the air condition. The heat is killing!..I was having a headache after the trip to georgetown and had to popped in pandadols.. Both my cooleague and I has no mood to work at all, so we just clear some emails and do the necessary stuff and declare off...keke..We are so dazed after that and just sat in Starbuck stoning away..It's evening time and we decided to head back to hotel. We had our dinner in hotel since i'm lazy to go out again. We had steamboat buffet..and waited in our room for Randy, the car owner to call so we can return the car. Getting ready for Sat's morning event (the reason why we are in Penang).

Day 3 in Penang. Wore our EPS t-shirt and set off to Hotel Equatorial after breakfast in a cab which effectively is a proton car. This hotel is a pretty nice hotel. It's on the mountain and therefore the view is great and the place where we settled down to start our recruitment exercise is just in front of a nice jap restaurant..yummy!..My stomach started to growl at noon and with my fav food in front of me yet can't eat yet made me soo....argh...We din eat there evetually. We finished and left at about 330pm. Book a cab from hotel to Komtar which is another huge shopping center and settle our lunch there. My colleague decided to go for foot reflexology there and I went around shopping. Nothing much actually..the clothes..erm..quite ah lian..hee!..We met up with a KL colleague and his galfriend in Penang for dinner at a very nice place near the sea. We had seafood and I think that's the best meal I had that day and also for the whole trip...keke... We had a fun time trying out stuff and he drove us to the airport after that. Finally, I'm going back home!!..Missed my bed! My colleague and I slept the whole journey from Penang to Singapore. Reached Singapore at midnight and my parents and bro came to pick me up.

With that, I ended my trip to Penang! Home sweet home!