Pulau "Penang"

For Our (Moon and Me) block leave, which was to last for 10 days, we decided to spend a few days out of KL, namely to Penang and back home to Teluk Intan…And, in the usual Horny Bassist style, it would b a 5 page story… haha.. but, let’s just get to some of the highlights of the trip…

At the start of the journey, we stopped at one of the rests stops for breakfast.. .and we noticed these carriers..

haha.. guess what they’re carrying…


Goats!!!

Hahaha…Bet you never knew that did ya…

Next, we hit another stop after driving for another 2 hours… I can’t quite recall which stop it is, but its got an escalator!! Damnit.. I don’t even know why I’m so fascinated with it. Haha.. But having an escalator really got me excited…I had to ride it up and down a couple of times.. hehe…

Also, I don’t know whats the history of this, but that stop really doesn’t like dogs.. otherwise they wouldn’t have this sign there…

and man.. its huge (the sign, or me, whichever you prefer to think of first..hehe.... hehe)…
The sign is probably bigger than most other road safety signs I’ve seen…

In Penang, we were joined by Vincent Lee, my child hood friend from Teluk Intan..

We had lunch at New World Park, apparently the new happening makan place at Penang… not bad… clean, lots of options, and we discovered one thing.. the meals there are in rather small servings, so you can other more stuff, without having to eat too much of one thing… hehe…

Oh, and this shop got me and moon confused for a moment.... Kuay Teow "Thing"?? What Thing?? huh?? Whats in the Kuay Teow you say?? A Thing?? haha... actually, most other shops would use Kuay Teow Th'ng... haha... talk about a bad case of typo errors...haha..

We also stopped by this Bakery, which Vincent mentioned was also famous & popular among the locals… hehe..

I couldn’t resist getting this bun…

My curiousity absolutely got me.. the name of the bun? German Longan Wolfsberry…hahaha
I was disappointed to discover that there weren’t any Germans or Wolfs in the bun.. just longan & berries.hahaha…

We checked in at the Northam Hotel, a business hotel, nice, spacious rooms, which isn’t expensive by KL standards, but maybe by penang standards, a tad little expensive perhaps? I paid RM299 for the night.. one living room, free internet, two toilets, a bedroom, and the highlight of the room? A Jacuzzi.. hehe…

The view from the room is also pretty good.. sea view.. with me ghost in the window...

In the afternoon, we went to Kek Lok Si, where we had some laksa (apparently the best in Penang.. haha).. nice nice… then at Kek Lok Si we were just tired out already…

Unfortunately, the famous Kuan Yin statue was currently under maintenance, so what we got was a full metal armour Kuan Yin.. Cool...and here are the famous tortoises of Kek Lok Si....

Me, doggie style.... (nyek nyek)

And more tortoises..

Went back, rest, and at night went to Gurney Drive by foot (its about 20 minutes from the hotel)… Didn’t take any pictures though.. just had some random hawker food..
As we aren’t quite familiar with the roads there, and moon wasn’t feeling too well, we left right after lunch the next day…Overall, Penang, great place for food lovers, but hate the roads & jam & drivers… hahaha

Hepi Burfday to Me

In most of my life, and Im most people would’ve also experienced this at one point of their lives as well, I’ve always dreamt of getting free stuff… y’know, like winning some lucky draw, free gifts for participation, or heck, just some reward for great performance over the fiscal year.. hehehe…

Aside from presents & stuff which my parents & two brothers have bought for me (which the list is pretty long), then I can only think of this Thompson Mini Hi-Fi which I won through a lucky draw back in Marcus Evans (it was the 3rd biggest prize, and its pretty good, so I was pretty darn happy)… but besides that, nope… zilch… Zero…

But already, in the short span of time that I’ve been with Moon, she’s already done it three times (excluding of the naughty stuff)… The most recent, was for my birthday…

This

is the Canon IXUS 870 IS…the latest in Canon’s wide arsenal of point & shoot cameras…. Utilizing DIGIC 4 processor, 10 megapixel, 4X zoom & a whole lot of little functions to take great pictures which you can later view on its big 3 inch screen..

I am sooooo Happy… exhilarated, explosive… I’ve always wanted to get a nice camera... most of you who know me personally (actually, all of you do.. I don’t have many readers anyway>..) know that I’m a cam whore, and I upgrade my phone pretty often to get better camera phones.. hehe…my current phone is pretty good also (Nokia N82), but it all loses to the power of a true camera…

Here are some pics of my birthday celebration with my new extended family…

Also, many thanks to all my friends, colleagues, buddies, acquaintances who wished me on that day… Ah Piau, Shir Leng, Bar, Vincent, Lisa Goh, Hazel, Ridzman, Lin, Tamil, Jason Thean, David Owen, Inverted Coma, Lawrence, Natalie Tan, and many many more….
Compared to last ( I believe only Ah Piau wished me on time.. haha)… this year has experienced a 100,000% increase on birthday wishes!
Its been a good Birthday… I must’ve done some good stuff this year to deserve such good karma…
Have you ever seen a happier Hornier Horny Bassist ever? Cheers!

Smile!! You're on Camera, Moon.... erm...

Ok ok.. this was a few nights ago.. I know... I should update posts like these immediately.. and not like after it's out in the news, on radio, forwarded emails.... hai~~.. but.. as the saying goes, "better late than never".. hehehe..

For those of you 'non-believers'... hehe... who got my sms and thought I was pranking you.. here's proof...

See the little speck above the houses? No ? Not really.. here.. let me zoom it for ya...

There ya go... cute , ain't it? hehe.. took me like 15 test shots to get this good one..hehe.. and all with simple canon point and shoot.. ehhe...

Greatest Tioman Blog Ever (Day-2)

DAY 2
Got up to a mild drizzle outside. The drizzle would soon stop and the sun would shine.. hehe.. we decided to be a little kiamsiap and have our own home made bfast…


After bfast, time to play! Haha.. we hit the beach, and moon was clearly on a mission to get her tan evened out! So, I just kinda chilled with the sea on my own.. hahaha.. sounds sad? No way! It was Fun Fun Fun!! Haha.. and I have a good time snapping pics of Gwai Lou all the way..

That’s another thing… the whole place doesn’t seem Malaysian.. the majority of the guests are either gwai lou from the west, Europe, Aussie, or from Japan (we saw like 8 different couples/families of Jap there) a few Koreans and Chinese nationals… the workforce there is more like from the Philippines or Indonesia…. They’ve all got some slang going on… except for the odd 1 or 2…

Around 2 we decide to rent their bicycles and venture out to Kampung tekek to check out the place. Bicycles go by the hour (RM15 per bike per hour). Be forewarned, there is a little hill to go through between the resort & kampong tekek, so its not quite the breezy cycling only… but after the hill, the rest of the place is quite flat. We went around, saw at least 6 duty free shops, got some little souvenirs for myself...cycled to the airport, u turned, and finally ended up having lunch at the only Chinese restaurant in sight… Sarang. We were the only people having lunch at 4pm, so it was a little quiet at the restaurant. But next to the place, was a burger shop, with this kid (probably 13-14yrs old?) singing his heart out to malay hits! I guess Karaoke must be big there! Hahaha.. before we knew it, he was joined by 2 other frenz, and the karaoke session expanded! HAhaha..a little annoying, but acceptable lah…
As my wife and her family pointed out, Pak Lah was supporting me all the way in the background.. hehehe...

Oh.. did you notice anything wrong with the above pic??? Like... SPCIL?? and how about a real local "cis!" burger?? haha
Headed back to the hotel by 5.30, but was only charged for 2 hours bicycle rent. So happy… hehe.. .considering we returned the bikes like 10 minutes before the clock hit 3 hours.. haha…

On the way back to the room, we noticed a few monkeys just casually walking around… realy damn lepak man.. they walk damn slumberly while the rest of the human world revolves around them…hahaha….

Since it was only 6, we decided to still have a go at the pool, (cause I initially wanted to chill at the jacuzzi.. ) so we hit the pool and had a drink there as well. Nothing special other than tons of kids… but after the pool, then we saw…. We saw such a beautiful sunset it was impossible to ignore..here’s why…
Oh, thats me btw.. yes yes.. i know.. my posture s*cks.... Oh, this picture is just classic... Me and Moon tag teamed to take this picture of some nutcase, doing a mask on the beach???Weirdo....

That night we decide to have ala carte meals at the Nelayan (local cuisine n buffet)… nothing special about the food, but great band! The band is so good… well rehersed, and good selection, and can even sing Japanese Song (Albeit, only 1.. haha)… The band also does a session at the sunken pool bar, but we never got to be there when they were performing at the pool…

That night, I intended to surprise Moon with a complimentary cake from Berjaya. But couldn’t cause they never sent it until I had to call .. =( Mission fail.. haha…
Anyway the cake was cute, 250gm… and to fast forward a little, we ate the cake the next night, but it was really quite a nice cake… soft inside, sweet and not too sweet… just now… we finished it even though we already had the meal of a king earlier that night. Story later…