Another Penang Trip

I bought the ticket to Penang on the 4th of November, at 11pm. It was a midnight trip. I thought I could get to Penang as early as 3am, but I was wrong. I came back from work around 10pm, bought McDonald's already wasted 15 minutes, by the time I picked up my baggage, I have only half an hour left. As I walk out from my apartment, I saw a taxi and I decided to go to bus station by taxi. Can you believe it, I was so unlucky, so bad luck that I poured the Cola on the seat of the cab, it wet my jeans and shirt… yuck!! I was panic, fortunately the taxi driver only said something like he wasn’t please or something. Sigh~


Arrived Penang at dawn, nearly 4am plus. I had my earliest ever breakfast at 5am. During the first day, I didn't do anything much, I wanted to go to Butterfly Farm but my brother didn't know how to go(how ridiculous??) Anyway, the second day I went to Khoo Kongsi. The Khoo Kongsi (邱公司) is a large Chinese clanhouse with elaborate and highly ornamented architecture, a mark of the dominant presence of the Chinese in Penang. The famous Khoo Kongsi is the grandest clan temple in the country. It is also one of the city's major historic attraction.



Got this brochure, the entrance fee is RM5, this is actually a post card



The main entrance of Khoo Kongsi
The temple

The side walls

The souvenir shop

Inside the temple

The ceiling

They have a net around temple, I think it's to prevent the birds from flying in?
The Tourist Information centre, so unsual right?

The second night, I went to the restaurant where brother worked there, it's called The Electic. It's a semi fine dining restaurant, I snap a picture so fast so that nobody will notice(that's why the photo is so artsy). I had the dinner set, cost around RM70++, an appetizer, soup of the day, 5 main course and a dessert. The 5 main course are(in order) chicken, fish, lamb, beef and pineapple. The best thing is, you can ask for more after you finish each cost, it's like eat all you can!!(How I love that!!) My favourite is the fish, and the sauce for the appetizer was amazing, not bad for the lamb too.

My brother ordered pizza, so huge, can't finish it of course so we take out. The vegetable is the starches for the main course, mashed potato was yummy~, cauliflower and saute potato. The 4 sauces over there is for the main course, one of it is mint sauce, sweet and spicy sauce and I forgot about the other 2.

This is 32 at the Mansion, it's the best restaurant in Penang. The owner also owned The Electic
Inside the restaurant, there's nobody there cause it's not operation hour.

The bar area

The sea, this is the view from outside of the restaurant

Recently(not really, bout 2 weeks already), Fui Shan moved out to hostel and no!! It's not like what you think, we didn't quarrel, no fight, no break-up, nothing... it's simply because she wants to save money. Staying the hostel can save a lot especially from the electricity bills and the utilities, but... there's a lot of buts for me so I guess, forget it. I'm so close to be Jennifer Lopez now, haven't I told you the good news yet? I'm now 49kg~~!!!

Thank you, thank you~~!!! Have a nice day~

The Sovereignty-Club Clique

On the 28th is my first day of class, my lecture of Pengajian Malaysia. No need to elaborate on that topic, it's not interesting at all, it was extremely dull. During class I was asleep, when I woke up I suddenly got the idea to go for a movie when Mrs.Amara said class of tomorrow(Wed) is cancelled, so coincidentally that she cancel it on Wed. Everyone started agreeing, Ann also said after the movie, we should go for a karaoke. At first, we thought we want to watch 2 movies and go for 3-hour karaoke, but then Guan Jie & Beng need to go home around 8pm or earlier, so we can only pick one movie out of 2.

On Wed(29th) Guan Jie & her brother came at my house around 8.30am like usual day she goes to college around that time, she need to come early cause her father is fetching her. So, I woke up at 8.30am, and I'm done at 10.30am.(please guess whether I'm late again or not?) We arrived at Times Square around 11am, The Coffin(horror movie) were sold out, we can only watch Tropic Thunder. We were absolutely blown away, the action scenes were actually very well done and pretty epic, and most of all it was hilarious.

After movie, it was already around 2pm, our karaoke start at 3pm. So we went to Sungei Wang walking around, I'm looking for some tour agencies to ask about tour packages that I planned going with my parents during Chinese New Year next year. Anyway, Ann & Guan Jie's brother(his name is Guang Zhong I think), are awesome... they got amazing voice. We force that X to sing, if he refuse we will make him pay the bills, so he sang Bye Bye by Mariah Carey.. quite impressive huh~(note: not impressed by the voice, it's the courage he has)
On the way to Pavillion, it's not clearly as I'm walking while taking the photo...

Beng & Ann at Sungei Wang...The 6 of us...

We called have formed a group, I named it The Sovereignty-Club Clique, Chinese name is Huang Zhu(means emperor or royalty)... how childish? While we were walking around, Ann got this idea he said:"Hey, lets buy something that we can wear together, something that can be seen, we shall wear it together when we come out." I thought:"It's not a bad idea neither..." So we choose the jade ring because we don't want it to be too flashy, and in the ancient times the emperors wore jades. However, Ann told me the next morning he broke the ring, but he'll buy it the next time. We also said those who forget or don't want to wear it will be punish, by buying Starbucks Coffee for each and everyone... So Ann, when will you buy the ring? Just buy me Starbucks coffee I don't mind~... Fui Shan at Old Town, before the movie...

Connie; deciding what to eat, it's breakfast plus lunch.

Guan Jie waiting for his brother which she thought he already ran away with some hot chicks, in the end it turned out that he went and buy cartoon...

After karaoke, it was already nearly 7pm, it's too early to go home we thought so we went to Pavillion. It's nothing to see except all those flamboyant stuff, I can hardly see any human buying things. While walking, we got another idea for another activities, we thought we should save RM150 per person to dine at a fancy restaurant, but we just can't think of a place... so I said:"Let go to Chilies!", as I already make a deal with Nicholas that I'll visit his Chillies in Dec before Christmas, he wanna show me what the real service is, and Nicholas if you're reading this, you're so dead if you can't do any better... Moreover, dine at Chilles won't cost as much as RM150 person, it's a great activity!!

By 8pm, we decided to go home. Beng's another ridiculous idea:"Hey, let's walk to Hang Tuah LRT, it's quite near and it saves money!" We're at Imbi monorail that time, concluded that we'll walk to Hang Tuah. Just to save that stupid RM2, we walked for nearly 15 minutes, Guan Jie complaint non-stop(this time it's Guan Jie, not me), we're sweating, shoes were 'eating' our foot etc etc. But then I thought, for RM2 I can lose 2 kilos... isn't it great?! Thanks to that X!

Okay, that's it for now... if anyone has any idea or activities which on one condition... it must have something regarding with food, please let me know!

Seeking That Long Lost Motivation

Working has made me more mature, I realized a lot of things. Experience is precious because it's not an easy thing to go through most of the things. My new friends at college are nice, they told me not to regret for choosing this college, or else we wouldn't know each other... and it is true. Getting to know a new friend, getting around a new place was hard, I hate this college at first, it was lousy, lecturers were so not cool, bad facilities, bad classmates, I hate nearly everything!

Slowly, I get to know new friends, new classmates, even the juniors. They're not as bad as I thought, it turned out to be the other round.. as usual, I always guess it wrong. When I thought :"Hey this dude is great or that chick is awesome~" In the end, the person that I thought 'cool' was awful and the person that have me bad first impression became my closest friends. I'll always remember that 'never judge a book by its cover' from now onwards.

I hate KL, I told Fui Shan :"Why do I have to suffer like this?" She'll say:"Someone out there is worst than you but they just don't give up, why?" Then I need to ask myself why... I just don't get it. I hate this place cause it not my territory, whenever I got bullied I can't do anything cause I don't fucking belong here... nearly everyday I recite :"I hate this place, can I go back?" Sad thing is I can't, I have to be here, always look forward and not back. I hate KL cause every time I go out I need to go with public transport, and everything is just expensive, I got lost more than twice, I walked more than 20 minutes without knowing where am I... Damn! I just hate this place!

Fui Shan, Adi & me, fooling around at work...

Each day I go to work I learned new things, each day I wake up I see new things, each day I go college I do new things... it has become more and more interesting, living in KL is part of my life. It's not what I hate anymore, because I realized that to achieve what I want next time I need to do what I have to do, so that I can do what I want to do. Not much people can read what I think, but I got a special friend that can guess what I think, it wasn't nice I thought at first, I like to keep things by myself, I prefer to be mysterious, let others ponder. He said something that makes me rethink what I want to do, or will do... I learned that experience... in order to gain experience... that process was painful but... after you learned from that experience, you are someone.

I can't regret, Fui Shan always tell me, :"Do not regret what you chose, live with it." But that feeling of resentment will come each day when I'm down, I can only say "I can't regret, I won't..."

It is a bittersweet day today, I've got great friends, great colleagues, I sense greater things are coming... I love all of you, I love everything!

Gosh~! What am I writing?? As though I'm going somewhere and never come back~~!!

Fui Shan trying something new...

I've been dieting for years, the most successful ever was at 51kg, everybody said I get thinner already. Now, my weight just keep fluctuating, I'm seeking that long lost inspiration, what had inspired me so much that I can restraint myself... Sigh~ I need that motivation back! I don't want to be fat until die... I don't want to commit suicide(I have to marry Jay Chou), I don't want to get diabetes, no high blood pressure etc.. So I say... let gambate Beng & Ann!!

I went to Shangri-La hotel, came back with ache heart, broke, fail to meet that expectations that I wanted... Am I asking too much?

Getting back to work was fun, I started working on the 20th, the same day that our 3rd semester start. The new sem wasn't nice, Mrs.Amara hubby passed away(so sorry), so we got 3 days of class cancelled. Aroused at first, but then only to realize the worst, she replaced nearly the whole sem class! I heard a lot of interesting stories from classmates, saying how 'interesting' the class was, until everyone falls asleep, some were chatting, some listening to Mp3, some were starring at the walls... I can already imagine that, as though I was there. I can't wait for the coming tuesday class, Pengajian Malaysia... I'm gonna make that class interesting!!

I was furious that she arrange lousy replacement class for us, without discussing with us... She replaced it on Friday and Saturday, I promised to come to work at 1pm on Friday, I hate Saturday classes cause they're wasting my time and money, I skipped today's class but I can't do that all the time... I just fucking hate Friday classes!

Came back early

I came back from Kelantan early for that so-called 'fun & exciting' cooking competition. I went back of the 8th, and then came back 4 days later because that X said we should practice before the competition(competition is on 15th). In the end, oh my god you wouldn't believe it!! We didn't even practice, no big deal but then we became victims of the college!! I became Legend College's slave... lecturers asked(actually compelled by them) us to move things around, then Beng also told me that XX lecturer asked him to buy Nasi Lemak & Nescafe Ice. My gosh she's already enormous but still eat Nasi Lemak?!

On the 15th morning, Fui Shan come along too since she said it's boring to stay at home. We woke up at 5.30am and of course we're late again, plus waiting for that stupid LRT to Sri Petaling. At 7am, we arrived at Sri Petaling, I'm so glad to hear that Jeck haven't arrive yet, and he's lost at Bukit Jalil. It took another 15-20minutes for him to come to Sri Petaling, Beng's parents drove us to the UPM(University Putra Malaysia). At first, we thought we should take a taxi there, but his parents are nice to bring us there.

I think UPM is located at Serdang. When we arrive UPM, it was so huge... it's like a small town, you wouldn't want to walk. We were lost for about half an hour and nearly late for the competition, then Beng called the event organiser, they sent a 'tour guide' there to pick us up. We followed him to the Food Science Technology Campus(I don't remember), then we thought :"We're not lost, this place is so isolated and besides there's no sign board... they should've put a sign board some where. It's not our fault that we couldn't find the place.(blame that X for his idea)

Details about the food that we cooked... guess you already know?(from Beng's blog) Well, apparently it sucks! We're the youngest students ever... everybody were seniors and some even from Semester 7. How can we cook like them? I didn't take the photos of our food... oh no... we're so ashamed of ourselves...

Hate that X!! I don't want to join him anymore... But hey, one good thing is... I manage to get paprika powder sponsored by Ajinomoto, I didn't steal it... I just put it in my bag~! Thank you X!

At the front door of the building...

Chong Jeck Beng & the 'tour guide'...

Opposite the campus...

During The Semester Break

Wow! Tomorrow will be our third semester. Time passed so fast and I didn't realize it. Can't wait for tomorrow's result!!

During the break, I was busy working and incidentally Yue Ann joined us to work in Parkson for around 10 days. It was fun and boring at the same time when the time during the Malay colleagues ‘buka puasa’, there’s no one at all! Ann kept saying ‘boring until die’… he brought comic for us nearly everyday, how nice (for us) then he talked to himself like usual or kept looking at the mirror. Well, can you imagine how narcissism he is? And not to mention that he also has a long lost twin brother (please ask him for more information), his name is Onn Onn( see? Shares the same name too), even the way they hold the pen is the same!!(Please note: the way Ann hold pen is like you won’t see anyone else holding it like that unless they’re unusual people)

It’s amusing when recall back about the conspiracy to sabotage Ah Beng’s diet plan by buying him Apetton Weight Gain milk and the muscle building powder, the weight maintenance milk, buy him a dozen of chocolate, force him to eat fast food, called him in the middle of the night so that he’ll sleep less and eat more… how immature we are? Then only I remembered that Beng & I said wanna make Ann forget about the bet.

Sigh~ I guess nobody will win?(Of course I’ll make sure nobody win if I can’t win) So, we decided to extend the date of expiration,(yes, I’m very kind) I’m not sure when the deadline is, but I wanna make it till the last day of third semester, which falls on 5th of December. I’m pretty certain we all can make it by that time! May we all do well!
See that expression....

He'll look at the mirror whenever he can...

Hiu Zhi ; she worked for Arrow.

He thinks he's taller than the model beside him...

So boring Fui Shan is playing the sudoku... Beng she's going to finish the sudoku that you gave her.

The Gardens, for assignment.

2 weeks ago, Guan Jie, Jun Jie, Fui Shan & Me went to The Gardens, Mid Valley for our Food & Beverage Management assignment. We decided to do research on Din Tai Fung, a famous restaurant started in Taiwan, we tasted the food last week... it was tempting but guess what? It wasn't nice... they're famous for nothing. *Disappointed~*

Sickie eating up his "fuck fish"...

See what did that sickie carve on his food...

At the Long John Silver, LG Mid Valley; Guan Jie

Fui Shan

Jun Jie

My next target, Thai food... this is when a security at The Gardens came and asked me not to take photos... I'm not a journalist for god sake!!

In the college, waiting for the letter from lecturer to go to Mid Valley

On the way to Mid Valley at the KTM

Role's Play videos

Well, it's just a short video clip.. I don't have the full videos...

Tara introducing the group members...

Tara's video 2

Tara's video 3

It's getting boring

Fui Shan's Group(Group 1)

Fui Shan's video 2

My Group

Just a short drama...

Ravi's role play

Ravi's Group

JunJie's Group

Chilis Grill & Bar Restaurant

We heard a lot about Chilis right? Our fellow classmate working there, and you can hear it during every practical class. So, after the role play Fui Shan & me went to Mid Valley, I wanna buy new shoe she wanna buy new traditional clothes(for 2009 Chinese New Year perhaps?). I'm not sure what is wrong the idea of trying out at Chilis just came to us, then we decided to give it a try.

The bar

It was full when we were there at 8pm, you can see there's a lot of guest still waiting. We went off but then turned back to Chilis because I saw the portion of the food, my gosh~! It's tantalizing!! We waited about 15 minutes before they seat us, it's a very busy day, so you can't expect good service from them. A lot of people were celebrating their birthday in Chilis, I don't know why but at least 4 people shared the same birthday just now! Isn't this astonishing?



Lamb Shoulder, I had this

Fui Shan's dinner: Country's Fried Chicken

Our drinks: Pina Chilada & Chocolate Shake

The table setting?

Chilis's at Mid Valley

It wasn't disappointing, but somehow I prefer to eat buffet cause I can eat as much as I can and there's a lot of varieties. The 2 entrees + drinks already cost around RM80++ so I'd rather go for a buffet. Shangri-La Hotel is my next target, after Legend Hotel & Seri Pacific Hotel...

Role Play!!

Eventually, the day has come.. today is the role play. Actually, this role play/drama is part of our assignment for the Social Psychology of Tourism. We need to get 30 audiences(like we have that amount of students in the college??), guess what only like 15-20 students including seniors and juniors, that's good enough I think.

So.. photos first, videos later.


Khrisna & Nadia, I forgot which group they were.

Guan Jie preparing for the role play; they're group number 2

See how 'excited' the rest is?

Ravi's Group; I didn't get to see the whole thing, we're rehearsing outside

Group 2: Vinod, Beh Tey, Tara & Guan Jie

Lucky number 1: Fui Shan, Nicholas, Vivien & Priscilla

My Group: The criminals on tv

My group: We're the last group, the fifth one

The audiences

We finish the whole thing approximately at 5pm, we can feel the relief after so much preparation we've done. I thought I did great, did I? Except my laughing part on stage of course! The juniors just keep teasing I can't help it, everything seems to be amusing and odd.

Everyone can't wait to go home after it end~!