Penang Trip- Sights, Tasty, Rainy and Closing…
Just got back from a 3 days 2 nights trip to Penang. And the title could very well be summarize the whole trip…
ay 1:
First off, 3 of us, Clarice, Clement and Me boarded Transnational bus (I have faith in this company) and after 5 hours of sitting in the bus, we arrived at Penang Island…
~Clement~
~Clarice~
We stayed at a fine hotel located in the more desolated area of Penang Town, the Regal Hotel, Penang. However, despite its location, the price is really quite low compared to other more classy hotels. We spent RM 115 for a deluxe room which has 2 big beds and could easily fit 6 people if used efficiently, a really budget hotel for people like us who wants luxury but don’t wanna pay too much for it. The RM 115 is inclusive of complementary breakfast for 4 persons every morning. The breakfast wasn’t anything special to look out for though.
~Regal Hotel, really not a bad place…~
~The lobby~
~The deluxe room with 2 beds… Clarice got the pleasure of getting a big big bed for herself~
~View from our room~
We managed to get really nice guides for the 3 days that we were there… We got my sweet direct buddy (junior) Olivia and JJ, another junior for the first day…
~Olivia, really knows her food~
Olivia is the type of guide who really knows what to eat and not to eat… She could very well have her own food show on TV about Penang if she has one… The other thing I was amazed at was her level of planning for us… It was simple but it made me really appreciate her…
~The plan she prepared for us… On PAPER… Normally I won’t even write down all the details of where to go and what to do~
When she was bringing us about in her car, she will keep recommending different types of food at different food shops that we passed by… So much so that after checking into the hotel, she straight away bring us to buy banana pancake and yam kuih at the nearby Burma Road…
There are many stalls beside the road which sells these pancakes or better known as Apom… But she knew which was the nicest… Look out for an uncle and an auntie, both in their elder ages, selling these pancakes by the roadside…
~The pancake stall by Burma street~
You may be thinking, roadside, pancakes, uncle auntie… How good could it really be… There wasn’t much people lining up for the pancakes when we arrived… And I have my doubts on whether its that good… My doubts cleared when I was placing my order… I ordered 10 pieces (He sells one for 30cents… Very cheap only) and he told me to wait… Cuz there was an order for 50 pieces before me… I was like… Wow… Penang people feed their kids pancakes for breakfast, lunch and dinner is it?? And the 50 pieces are actually ordered by someone who lived in Ipoh, Perak which must be.. what… 50km away?? Now, this must be some pancake stall to be that famous… Till even Perak people know about it… And yup… The pancakes really live up to their name… It might be small but its really tasty… Pancakes on Burma road… The pancakes worth trying if you’re at Penang…
Olivia suddenly realized that the stall on the opposite site and a little down the road sells tasty yam kuih as well… Which she went to buy for us in the end… And yes… It’s even better than the pancakes… Arrived in Penang for not more than an hour and I felt I’m already in Food Heaven…
~The yam kuih served with bits of nuts and possibly bits of small prawns~
The original plan Olivia got for us is to buy the popular Tao Sa Piah, another kuih in Penang… But we arrived there too late… It was already 5pm. The shop was found further down Burma road as well… But with the preparations she made (She even wrote on the paper… Taste taste first)… We found a box of the kuih in the car… along with a box of preserved nutmeg which she bought for us taste… Apparently, she visited the shop earlier that day to get a box for us to taste…
~The Tau Sa Piah and the Nutmeg she bought for us to taste… Olivia… If you keep doing these stuff… I’ll really fall for you… Haha… ~
~The shop which sell the nice nice Tau Sa Piah… Taken when we revisited the place the next day… They bake the kuih here fresh every morning and you can see many people queuing up to buy it every day…~
And then… Stomachs full and all… We went onto the ferry to head for the mainland… And it was a long wait (Cuz of the rush hour at the time)
~The three of us on the ferry… Ya, I know… I’m chubby~
~Penang Island, taken from the ferry~
We are on our way to St. Anne’s Santuary at Bukit Mentarjam and after around half an hour after getting off the ferry… We reach there and saw this…
~It was closed… Cuz it was already after 7pm… :sweats:~
So what can we do… We just lingered around and take more photos… Percy ‘The Twister’ even came to join us…
~The few of us… JJ’s taking the photo~
Since it was closed, we thought of continuing what was on the plan… Eating steamboat… Before we heard that the place was closed as well… :sweats: And so… We made our way following Percival to a nearby hawker center for dinner… It is nearby the OldTown Coffee Shop at the Mainland… (No photos on this place… Sorry)
And I found a pearl in this hawker center… Make it two pearls… The first being an extra spicy Nasi Lemak with Sotong which has gotta be the best Sotong Nasi Lemak I ate till today… It was so spicy that even Clement (who grew up eating peppers) said it’s spicy… And I absolutely love it…
The second pearl will have to be… this..
~Ikan Pari bakar… RM 9… With hot sauce… I felt that I went to heaven again…~
The food there was cheap and really damn tasty… rools looking at the pictures:
And with that… We returned to the hotel with filled stomachs and the jeans felt tighter on the waist…
We even had a bible sharing session before bed… Weird right??? All thanks to Clement bringing his Bible along~~~
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ay 2:
JJ and Vi (her friend) were our full time guide for today since Olivia was off to somewhere else…
~JJ… I think she’s quite confused about the roads in Penang~
Plans for today was to go and visit the Penang Botanical Garden and the Butterfly Farm in the morning… Have lunch in a restaurant at Little India and then shop till drop at Queensbay Mall before having dinner…
The botanical gardens is filled with people jogging when we arrived which I found quite strange since it’s a weekday… I was more amazed to see some of the mother’s bringing their baby along to jog with them… :salutes:
~A big big tree in the garden~
~We were attempting to pose~
~The wooden thing behind us looks like a Japanese bird stand… Taken with self timer~
Nothing much happened which we are on the gardens except the incident with Clement and the monkey… Apparently one of the monkeys got quite annoyed with Clement and wanted to jump onto him… And we quickly retreated…
~He looks really annoyed…~
It is advisable to not bring any noticable food or plastic bags to the gardens as the monkeys may attack you for it…
~Another type of monkey~
~Us and self timer~
And then we went off to the butterfly farm… Along the way… This happened…
~And it was heavy~
And so we took one hour to go up the hill and then down again… Since it was raining… :sweats:
Lunch’s up next and I’ll really have to recommend this place for you…
Its called Karaikudi restaurant and is found somewhere in Little India in Penang… (The place where there are a lot of Indian Shops)
It looks something like this from the outside but don’t let looks fool you…
Because the insides are like this…
~Very high class look…~
And the food was great…
~From the left: Calliflower Masala, Prawn Pepper, Chicken 65 and Briyani Rice…~
The servings here aren’t much and one dish may be suitable for 2 person or so… But the Briyani rice is really a lot and can fill you up… The dishes felt like side dishes in the end… But very delicious side dishes… If you’re up for some Indian food… Give this place a thought…
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JJ took us to her church next… The Church of the Holy Spirit… Since we didn’t managed to visit St Anne’s the day before…
~The church and me…~
And then we went to Queensbay Mall to shop…
~Taken fron Queensbay Mall~
On the way back… We passed by this overhead advertisement…
~They are showing me their behinds 
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JJ took us to dinner after that… There is a small hawker center which gets more and more crowded the longer we were there… Its located in front of Sunway hotel and the food there is also really tasty… I tried the Ikan Pari Bakar here as well… And it was on PAR with the one at mainland…
The only downside to the Ikan Pari here is that it costs RM 14… Apparently, the food here are tasty… But really quite expensive…
~The hawker stalls~
~The nearby Sunway Hotel~
I tried out the Chee Cheong Fun here as well… Not bad also…
And I went back to the hotel feeling that I’ve gained a few more pounds…
And feeling so tired that I was practically sleeping when Clement was doing the Bible Sharing…
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ay 3:
Another different guide for today… Another food expert of Penang… Dominic…
~Dominic… Food expert extraordinair~
He wanted to bring us to eat till we drop again… And so he brought us to try out the best Penang Hokkein Mee… And we saw this… again…
~Closed… Whats with Penang and stores closing ya???~
The stall is located in front of Lorong Bangkok… Closeby there is another stall which sells delicious Mee Goreng…
~It looks spicy but its not… Wonders what is their secret~
~They cook the Mee Goreng here… Don’t look really clean… But then… One should be brave to discover new tasty food… But please make sure you have had your shots before…~
We also visited Kek Lok Si temple… A great sight for tourist and those who wanna take photos of Buddist statues and temples…
~The gate guardians I think…~
~Me and my animal, the Rabbit~
~Also took a photo with the pig…~
~The temples~
~The Guan Yin statue was being renovated~
~The Pagoda~
~Group photo with self timer~
Along the way back from the temple, we managed to stop by a stall selling Penang Laksa, as recommended by Dominic again as one of the nicest in Penang…
The uncle open his shop quite late in the mornings… At around 11am plus the time we visited… So do take note if you’re interested… Its located along the road to the temple…
Aside from the temple… We also managed to visited the beach… Because the other two keep wanting to go to the beach… And we ended up running to the car when we noticed it was raining nearby the beach again… (Raining again… Haiyoooo~~~)
And we also did make a trip to Dominic’s apartment… (Don’t play play… Very high apartment) before having another food trip to this place…
The Lobak and Char Kuey Teow here is really damn delicious as well (I’m starting to think whether Penang has something which is not delicious)
The Lobak uncle actually export his Lobak to KL to be sold… Thats how good it is… I heard he’ll also be going to the Hawkers fair in Singapore this coming few months to cook there…
~Lobak and Char Kuey Teow~
The Kuey Teow here gives a whole different meaning to the Kuey Teow I normally eat… Its totally on a different league…
And with that, we made our way to the Nibong bus station to board our bus back to KL (PlusLiner buses aren’t too bad too)…
We left Penang after tasting some of the nicest food Penang has to offer… And still missing out a lot of other tasty food which we didn’t have the chance to try out… Lets just hope that the next few times I visit… The stalls will be open and it’ll be less rainy… Haha…
Penang… Haven for tasty food… (I’m really going to get very fat if I stay there)
~Alan… Weight gained and exhausted…~
P.S: The total spent for this trip is around RM 200 for the food, the transportation and the accomodations… Not too bad for another budget trip… And now… I can finally go to sleep
The coming 3 weeks
I’ll be all over the place… I’ll be going off to Penang today and returning on Friday… And then play host to Stephanie from KK on Saturday and Sunday before going back to Labuan on Monday…
On the 8th of June, I’m most probably will be off to KK as well with Stephanie being my host…
Will update when I have the time…
Malaysian KTM are the worst…
There’s no doubt about this. Not when you have waited over one hour and watching 2 different trains passed by. Stopped and then went off without you on it. Certain Malaysian’s attitude aren’t helping at all. No queues. Pushing others to get onto the train. And those who went in couldn’t fill up the empty spaces in the middle without others telling them how to. I’m finally got onto the 4th train which came… Sigh…
Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core :spoilers beware:
I managed to finished the game just a little while ago… And frankly I’m impressed… And I obtained these photos from my run through the game…
Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core talks about the happenings before the original game of Final Fantasy 7 which came out around a decade ago (thats a long long time ago)
And those who had played the original Final Fantasy 7 will no doubt be interested in the storyline of this game. Crisis Core tells out the story of Zack, who in the original game is already deceased (So you’ll already know somewhat how Crisis Core is going to end)
:Read on but be beware of spoilers:
Being in an elite group of soldiers (called SOLDIER), Zack and his mentor Angeal looks into the mysterious disappearance of another comrade Genesis. Crisis Core will also showcase how Zack first met with Aerith in Midgar’s Slums (and how there was chemistry between them), how Zack and Cloud first met, how Sephiroth found out about his birth from the Ancient Jenova cells, and how Zack eventually fell in the hands of Midgar’s army.
~Zack: his dream being: To become a hero~
Prepare to revisit places you have seen in the original game such as Midgar, Nibelhiem, and even Junon. There are also several familiar faces you will meet along the way (Such as Aerith, Tifa and even certain summons). Unfortunately, the game didn’t really showed one of my favourite character, Vincent Valentine… All you can find about Vincent is the coffin which he’s asleep in…
~Aerith (I love how she says HELLLLLOOOOO~~)~
The game still retains the usage of Materia (stones which contains magical properties). Expect to spend some of the time reorganizing and leveling up the Materia to make them more powerful. Materia fusion is introduced here at which you could fuse different materia together to power them up and even create new materia.
~Genesis (fan of LOVELESS)~
Unfortunately, since Crisis Core is a hack and slash type of game, there are no other playable characters in the game except Zack. To make up for this, DMW is introduced. In battles, this DMW will spin like a slot machine and your summons and special moves will be triggered when you get the right combination. The other thing to note about DMW is that your leveling up is also dependent upon it which means that it could be very very easy for you to level up or very very tough for you to do so. To enhance the playability of the game, missions are introduced. Now frankly speaking, playing the mission alone will take a few days at least to acheive 100% mission progress, but the mission mode eventually become very repeatative after a while. And certain missions tend to be really easy while some others tend to be almost unbeatable. I failed to beat one mission where the enemies can make a ONE-HIT-KO on you if you fail to evade the attack even after playing that level numerous times. There is also one mission at which you have to kill off 1000 Shinra Soldiers… That mission alone took me almost an hour to finish…
~One Act from LOVELESS.. Nothing should stop my return… to become the dew that quenches the land… to spare the sands, the seas and the skies… I offer thee this silent sacrifice~
I managed to finish around 48% of the mission before it became either too tough or too repeatative to continue.. And at that time I was already at Level 50… And could easily dispatch any other enemies in the main storyline… So hack and slash seems tedious after attaining higher levels…
~One of the battles in Crisis Core~
Storyline-wise… The game really cleared up a lot of uncertainties which I did have when I played the original FF7. One particular memorable scene which could be found in both games as well as the movie Advent Children is The Burning of Nibelhiem… I’m guessing that if there is an award or a ranking for the best fire burning scene ever… Nibelhiem scene will top the list…
~These two are around as well 
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It also amaze me to see how close Aerith and Zack were… And how their relationship developed… And how sad the story was when Zack suddenly disappeared, not being to see Aerith… And how heartbreaking it was to learned that Aerith keep on writing letters to Zack for the four years that Zack remained unconcious inside Nibelhiem manor… And how the normally cold stanced Tseng, kept all the 88 letters that Aerith wrote for Zack… And how the Turks (hired arms that does the unspeakable) attempted to locate Zack and Cloud before the army in an attempt to save them… Crisis Core shows you parts of the story which you never really know about… Like how in the ending of Advent Children we see Aerith and Zack together waving goodbye to Cloud… It dawned on me that when Aerith died in FF7, she was reunited with Zack… And I’d always thought that its pity that Aerith died so early in the original game… But after watching Advent Children and playing Crisis Core, I felt that she is happy being with Zack again… (Especially how she wanted to have more time with Zack in Crisis Core)
~Aerith’s letters,in Tseng’s possession which never made it to Zack~
I’m also amazed at how the Buster Sword changed hands from Angeal’s father to Angeal and later to Zack and finally Cloud… How Zack leaves his hope and dreams to Cloud after he died… I’m also really disgusted at how the army managed to kill Zack off…
~Zack’s last stand… This scene was totally heartbreaking… Seeing your hero getting worn out and later shot~
Another intriging point is what really happened to Genesis… We saw him getting hoisted by 2 men who mentioned that he will become one of their brothers… And we could see that one of those men seems to have white/grayish hair… So my speculation is that could Genesis be one of those grayish haired guys in Advent Children… or possibly related to one of those guys?? Another mystery left unsolved…
~At least it seems he died peacefully~
Music and BGM-wise… Certain familiar tunes have been reworked and sounded even nicer than the ones before… And I still got teary eyes as the ending credits rolled with the BGM of Aerith’s theme and Cloud’s theme (Yes, I’m a soft one)
And the ending of this game shows where the original Final Fantasy 7 takes off… With Aerith selling flowers in Midgar and Cloud jumping off the train
~Cloud… the hero of the original FF7~
Another particular memorable scene was when Zack flew into the air (figure of speech) and just moments before the credits rolled… He asked… Hey… Do you think that I’m a hero now?? And yes Zack… I really think you are a real hero now~~
A great game which solves many unanswered in the main game and leave certain new ones… I believe that there’ll surely be another game about FF7 since the story has not ended yet…
Thank to Square-Enix for developing such a memorable game… Even after ten years the game is still going strong… You all are the greatest for coming out with the whole FF7 story… From Crisis Core till Dirge of Cerberus… The whole story is just amazing!!!
Anyone with a PSP out there…?? This is really a must play!!
Another photo from Langkawi
A small girl… A childlike boy and a guy who looks like a girl~~
Langkawi – Day 2 and 3
We spent most of our mornings in bed… I even remembered waking up at around 9 plus… Half a morning gone… After having breakfast, we left for the next stop on the list… The Langkawi Cable Car and Cultural Village which is located north-west of the island… Its about a half an hour drive away… And along the way, heavy rain dampens our mood again…
~Rain rain go away… Come again another day~
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Luckily when we arrived at the cultural village area… The rain had already subside into a small drizzle.
The cultural village is more of a ‘tourist-please-buy-all-these-souveniers’ place. I got myself a wind chime here… One of the few things that fascinates me here is the toilet… I went into the toilet and the first thing I did was to take a picture…
~You might find yourself taking a photo in the toilet if this is the first thing you see upon entering it~
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Moving on… The cable car up to the mountain is also found here in the ‘village’
~Its goes up really really high ya’ know~
The cable car takes us up Mount Machinchang, 708 metres above sea level… And its certainly not for the faint hearted… Being inside a cable car, with only a rope holding you up, you’ll start to wish that you hadn’t gotten off solid ground… Especially when you see something like this from the cable car…
~Its a long long drop down~
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~I think this is the seven wells waterfall… Taken from the cable car~
But once you got to the top, you’ll find that the cable car ride was all worth it…
~You can see almost the whole of Langkawi from up here… You can even see those distant islands…~
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~Group photo… Without me… Cuz I was taking the photo… And Annie… Cuz she was too busy drinking her mineral water~
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One could choose to take photos up the the peak of the mount or take another cable car to a nearby peak and journey down onto a platform in between the peaks
~It makes you wonder how they manage to put this platform the whole way up there~
And you could even walk onto the suspended walkway (Its quite solid) and take photos… (Yup… This is a place to take photos only…)
~The platform~
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~Me, on the walkway with some rock formations behind me~
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~Taken from the walkway~
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Getting down was nicer than going up… Cuz you know that you’re returning to solid ground… As much as I love the place… I’m happy to be back on the ground…
The next stop here would be the Seven Wells waterfall… Its just a few minutes drive away from the cultural village and you must hike a few minutes up to the base of the waterfall… And the waterfall was simply mesmerizing…
~Someone had to be in the photo while I was taking it :p~
A word of advise here before taking any photos is that you may want to wipe your lens everytime you take a photo because after a while you’ll see a lot of water droplets on your pictures… And it can really spoil a nice photo…
Unfortunately for me… I got droplets on most of my photos… Lousy…
~This is the best photo among all the other photos without anyone in it… (But you could still see the droplets)~
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The water was cooling and so refreshing… I could hardly stop myself from going into the river… And felt it hard to leave the mesmerizing place
~Only photos left of me and the waterfall… I wanna go back there (Someone else in the picture again…zzz…)~
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You could even see the cable cars from here
~See how high we were at??~
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Finally and relunctantly… We left the waterfall… And visited two other beaches before calling it a day…
The first beach visited was the Black Sands beach… And as you guessed it… The sands are black here…
~My hairy leg and the black sands…~
Why is it black?? I haven’t the slightest idea…
But there wasn’t much to do here as the shores are really very short and there wasn’t really anyone around… Kinda sad for a tourist attraction site… There was some shops selling very tasty keropok nearby though… And I have fallen in love with their sotong keropok… Its a must try if you have a chance…
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Last but not least… We visited Tanjung Rhu beach… Which is called the best beach in Langkawi by our Mama tour guide (Dunno if its true or not)… The beach is about 20 minutes drive away from the Black Sands beach and has very nice sands… One could have a picnic here or even play frisbee or some beach games here… But being the unprepared people that we are… We just stop and run around and took photos and got our feet wet…
~The beach~
I even managed to take this photo of the sun behind the clouds
~Dazzling…~
And that was our final destination for the day… I arrived back at the Kondo with wet jeans (too much time in the water), 2 packets of sotong keropoks (couldn’t resist getting more than one) and a whole plastic bag of chocolates and wine chocolates (Langkawi is duty free so stuff like these tend to be cheaper)…
And so end our Day 2 at Langkawi… Some of us slept early that night being exhausted while others chit chatted till morning… I had to spend a night on the sofa cuz someone someone took control of the pillows and blackets in my room… -.-”’
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The next day… Most of us were like this…
~We didnt wanna wake up…~
But we had to since our ferry leave quite early…
And so came an end to our Langkawi trip… Miraculously… The total amount spent on this trip (excluding chocolates and other self expenses) only total up to around RM 250 (Talk about a budget trip).
And after arriving back at Kuala Perlis… We had to part ways since others are going to Kedah for a prolonged trip and I’m going back to KL…
~Waiting for the bus to arrive..~
Another tip from this trip is that if you have the money to spare and if you’re staying far away from the island (in KL), do take a flight to Langkawi instead (find cheap tickets from AirAsia) cuz its really uncomfortable seating in the bus for 7-9 hours for the journey… And you’ll feel nauseatic faster if you’re sitting in the back row somemore… And you’ll save a lot more time to look around and visit places…
All in all… I really did enjoy the trip there… And I am awaiting the day when I can go back to see the enchanting waterfall once more…
~Goodbye Langkawi…~
Langkawi Trip -Day 1
The trip to Langkawi must have been the wildest I had so far. It wasn’t only that… It was thrilling, and even scary at some point. All 9 of us made through the whole 3 days without much of a problem besides SHiung who was looking kinda sick on the way back…
The participants:
Tingting
YHui
’Mitsuki cyan’ KMSin
‘Killer look’ SHiung
LCYong
- CXin (Individual photo at McD not available)
- CTeng (Individual photo at McD not available)
- Annie (Individual photo at McD not available)
- Alan (thats me)
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We boarded a bus to Kuala Perlis and then made our way to Langkawi via the ferry there.
The bus ride was 7 hours long… So eventually when we reach Langkawi after spending hours and hours trying tossing and turning trying to get good sleep, you’ll see us looking like this
~Exhausted~
~Having breakfast~
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The ferry to Langkawi took at least one hour… Since we’re taking the 7am ferry there, I thought we would be able to see some nice enchanting sunrise or something only to find that… It was rainy and cloudy…
~Quite discouraging.. eh~
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~This made it even more discouraging…~
Eventually we arrived at Langkawi in the midst of a storm… 
~The eagle of Langkawi didn’t have any shelther… So pity…~
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We checked into the ‘haunted’ Kondo Istana which I have mentioned about in the last post… And for the 3 days there… We didn’t experienced anything out of the ordinary… (Lousy haunted web reviews). The place was really very comfortable… Clean and very well equipped… There are maids coming in to make up the room everyday so you dont have to worry about being messy… There is even a toaster and a stove in our unit which we can use to cook and make toast bread (but we didn’t though). The rooms are clean with air-conditioning and its quite amazing to say that we only spent RM 56 for our accomodation for those 3 days and 2 nights
~Clean rooms~
~The living room… There is even ASTRO to watch~
~Taken from the 7th floor of Kondo Istana~
~Langkawi Island (Taken from the 7th floor of Kondo Istana~
One bad part about the place is the windows… Some of the windows in our unit couldn’t be lock… But when you’re staying at the 7th floor, I don’t think thats a problem
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We rented a van for a sum of RM 180 for the 3 days there for 9 persons which cost RM 20 per person ( Not bad either eh~~)… But it may be a good idea to make sure the van is working fine before filling in petrol… We had to change the van to another one cuz the first one wasn’t working really good… And we had already filled in petrol… So bye bye petrol money…
~The ‘not-working-well’ van… They look as if they are PTI caught by the police… ~
And this is our ‘Mama’ tour guide and ‘Papa’ driver
~They are not yet engaged though…:P~
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We visited the Langkawi Book Village only to find it close.. :sweats:… And ended up taking a hike on the nearby grounds… The river there wasn’t really clean… But the sights is still something to look at…
Further down the hiking path… The stairs into the forest got sealed off… :sweats again:… Whats with all this sealed off places…
~The stairs that are sealed off~
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And so the whole morning was filled with sealed offs… Kinda like a waste of time there… The afternoon was a different story…
We went island hopping… And by that I don’t mean this…
~Some ‘crazy’ people hopping on the islands … with some ‘crazy’ photographer taking photos of them hopping (Not to mention a few bellybuttons shown)~
Island hopping here means visiting some of the islands located nearby to Langkawi… And to get there… We used a speed boat…
~The ride on the speedboat…~
One of the islands visited was Pulau something beras… The shores here are just terrific…
~Taken from the island~
~Me~
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There are even monkeys all over the place to welcome you here
~My good friend… The monkey…~
These two girls welcome you to Langkawi…
~Welcome to Langkawi… (Can be used as an advertisement for Visit Langkawi Year, don’t you think so?)~
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We also went to see some rock formations of some sleeping pregnant woman… (No nice photos of this) and took photos of the eagle feeding…
~I’m kinda disappointed cuz these two photos didn’t turn out too well~
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After that we went to another island… The island with the the Dayang Bunting lake (I think)… Its where you could go kayaking, swimming and even play with those cycling boats…
~The lake… With those cycling boats~
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Now so far… The trip hasn’t been too thrilling with the exception of the speedboat making sharp turns and the occasional waves hitting the boat…
Everything was fine until we saw this…
~It wasn’t really that dark yet.. But for the dramatic feeling… I played with the lighting a little and got this…~
We were stuck out at sea with a storm… The waves got really big and the winds got very strong… It became scary… Soon it rained heavily… And we couldn’t even see the island anymore… The man steering the boat even had problems navigating through the storm… It was cold and we were all wet… Needless to say… Some of us got scared that we may not make it back…
Luckily the man steering was an experienced one… And managed to get us through the storm… And we finally managed to return to Langkawi island in one piece… Thank God…
But needless to say… All of us were wet… Luckily the phones and camera are still working…
~Wet!!…~
~SHiung tired and wet!!…~
~Still camwhoring even though we are wet!!…~
~Hungry and wet!!…~
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Later at night, after dinner, we went to visit the poor helang who didn’t have any shelther…
~Ya.. I know… This is a terrible photo… Lousy lighting… And the eagle still looks kinda sad…~
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There isn’t anything much to do in Langkawi at night… And since we were all exhausted after our very very thrilling island hopping trip in the afternoon… We just stayed in the Kondo and rest…
And also to celebrate someone’s birthday… (It was suppose to be a surprise but someone found out about it when she opened the fridge… Spoilt surprise)
~And here it is… Papa SHiung giving Mama LCYong a present… Where did the kiss go??? Why no kiss ?? ~
~~ :End of day 1: ~~
Langkawi: Here I come~~~
I’m off to Langkawi for 3 days and 2 nights…
Luggage: Checked…
Camera: Checked…
A lot of batteries for my camera: Checked… (I even included the charger)
Novel: Checked…
Lets move out…
Will be staying at Kondo Istana… Read some haunted reviews on it on the web thou… :shudders:… Lets just hope we dont experience anything out of the ordinary…
I’m done~
~Yay… I’m finally done…See~
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~Me and my son~
~Another angle~
