The Day We Went Away

YengPing • WenChieh • KengYean • LaiYing • PuiLi

We have been graduated from high school for about 2 years ago. All the while, we went to trip with different friends. But, five of us have not been to trip together. Never.

Many arising reasons caused our plan to excursion failed. However, we made it happened finally. Penang, here we came. Actually, we were planning to travel a bit further, to Sabah or Sarawak perhaps. For me, it does not a matter. I am looking forward the moment five of us travel together but not the destination.

There were many first times in this trip.

The very first time five of us went to excursion together.

The first time I was on flight.

The first time we rent a car and travel around.

The first time I used GPS to travel.

And the first time we stayed together.

Day 1
We arrived to penang airport around 5.30pm. After settle all the car rental stuff, we headed our way to our hotel – copthorne orchid without further delay. Neither the small or big nor detail or brief maps we had brought along seem helping. Thank god that GPS was created in our generation. Such a useful kit, man! We able to reach hotel on time, everything just goes well. Just that our dinner time was delayed. The reason was simply because we insist to explore for delicious and nice food in Penang rather than eating in any hawker stall or restaurant that can be easily found elsewhere. Lastly, we found the restaurant...

Finally I can enjoy my dinner =)

Day 2
As planned the night before, we wake up very early to start the journey of the day. Char Yee was joining us that day and be our tour guide. Our journey strated from Georgetown to batu ferringi then to teluk bahang to balik pulau to bayan lepas and then back to tanjung bungah. Referring to the map, we had actually made a big round of penang island. So can this considered as Island hopping?? We had travel the whole penang island in a day I guess!

Dim sum breakfast at Jalan Anson.

Pray Pray in tokong-tokong at Jalan Burma.

Cendol and durian icekacang for lunch at Jalan XX …
hehe.. I had forgotten this one.

The most interesting part would be we travel from penang island to butterworth port then back to penang island by ‘free ferry’. credit: edited photo by mellisa

We skipped out the ferry fares and escaped! What a brilliant idea from our tour guide!
Now, we are heading to beaches in Teluk Bahang. Freaking hot weather here. So u can expect what we would do…
Its best to quench our thirst with some coconut drinks..

Typical sunburn phobic aka puteri lilin with umbrella in beach..

Heading to the next destination, there were no more highways or straight roads on sight. We passed by hill roads, durian farm, waterfall and kampung village. After that, I was like half awake half asleep. When I was awake, we reached the next destination without knowing the name of the place. That night, we had a seafood dinner! Our stomach was grunting contentedly with the food on the table.

Exhausting but fulfilling journey for day 2. So let’s the picture tell the rest..

credit: edited photo by mellisa

Day 3 was the last day. But, we were like just arrived and settle down ourselves in Penang. Penang is the food paradise in Semenanjung. So, before we left Penang, for sure we won’t miss out the famous local food. Here we were – Lorong Selamat Joint. Everyone told me that Penang “Char kueh teow” is the best! I doubt that before until I tried this one. What can I said?
Penang “Char kueh teow” is the best!

It's time to back to home...credit: edited photo by mellisa

Bye, Penang!

Tao Cuisine lounge

Heard the name of this lounge quite often from my friend, yin su.Whenever we go to sushi king with yin su, for sure she will talk about the dishes in Tao! From the variety of sushi to sushimi then to tempura, grilled food and etc.. It's so tempting!! As we are food enthusiast with the mind of " live to eat" instead of "eat to live", we have planned to go for TaO at beggining of this semester. However, due to some reasons, the visit to Tao was postponed until the end of semester.

Finally, we got to there....

GoodBye, my friend..

GoodBye,

my best friends - Siow Man

Friendship may be a simple thing,
But lots of love, it can bring..

All my life, friendship lasts

Through the years, when i looked back

Remembering the Laughs and Happy times

Along with the cries and sorry sigh

We may not have the time to share things and talk about

as we are far apart to persuade our dreams

But,

Friendship can never come apart

Especially when its straight from the heart.

Take Care well..

Best wishes from me

sayonara^^

She is lovely,

A pre-birthday present from her before her flight to India..

That's a memorable present

**Thank you **

is

just a small thing to say to someone

who is such a big part of my life,

but i hope you know how much your friendship

means to me today

and always...

Randomness

What is to be done is KNOWLEDGE

How it is to be done is SKILL

When it is to be done is COMMON SENSE

.End.

The Misconstrue

{Dialogue}
Doctor: Tan Keng Yean??
Me: Ya. Doc, I am having sore throat and flu
Doctor: Ok, let me check ur body temp n blood pressure first
A moment Later
Doctor: No fever. but your heartbeat rate is fast [hr: 130/min]
Me: So what is the normal heartbeat range?? **getting nervous
Doctor: I recomemd u go for ECG test in room 6. And we ll c the result later
After ECG test
Doctor: The heartbeat is normal, just that the beat rate is too fast
Me: ** Remain silent
Doctor: You are susppect to have THYROID.
Me: ** What ?? Thyroid??
Me: What are the symptoms of getting thyroid?
Doctor: Palpitation, shacky hand, lose weight, trauma..
Me: Ya,ya my hand tremble quite often. But I am gaining weight instead of losing weight.
Me: Is that serious?
Doctor: If untreated there will be critical.
Me: ** rigid worried look
I keep asking question related thyroid as I am so worried.
Doctor: I cant tell u anything now. You are required to do blood test to check is a positive or negative result.

This incident make me worried for the whole night, until i cant fall asleeep. I start to think nonsence.. many if IF ef EF .... over my blank brain.

My brother take the trouble fetch me here and there to go for blood test, seek for another doctor just to prove that whether I am diagnose with thyroid or not. Appreciate all the things my family did for me. Also, thankful to my close friends: ping, fa, pui n ying that concern for me.

Finally the result is out. It's a NEGATIVE result. I am NOT diagnose with thyroid.
Thank god! Finally relief..