Penang Trip Day 1 *overdue post*

It's been a trip that we have been looking forward to, partly due to the fact that this is the first time I've been to Penang. Yes we adhere to the rule never go on a trip without planning. And so we've been talking about and planning for this trip wayyy earlier, even before STPM started. :P

So the 8 (Zhi Wang turned us down at the very last minute. We even bought his bus ticket =.=) 7 of us gathered at the bus station that day. I had to hand over my notes to Sin Yee, and since Chean's meeting up with her, I'd asked her a favor. OK make it 2. So I passed her my notes, and since she's going to school, might as well as her to fetch me as well. :P

Surprisingly I'm the last one to reach there. So we met up and boarded the bus. Chee Kar has two seats to himself because Zhi Wang ffk-ed. The journey was rather tedious. Everyone got some sleep in the bus, albeit the seats were rather uncomfortable for sleeping.

The bus broke down after several hours on the road. So we had to either switch to another bus or wait for a couple of hours to get the bus repaired. We chose the former since we're behind our schedule even though the bus wasn't heading to where we wanted to.

HH's calling her relatives for direction. Stupid bus =.=

After an hour, we had to switch to another bus to get to the jetty. So at the transition station, I did an experiment, ala Mythbusters...

Situation : A rather unfortunate lad had stepped on bubblegum, dragged it for quite a distance before realizing it's already sticking on his jeans.

Myth : Ice cubes could remove the gum easily. (Ya know, the same ol' trick that they play over and over again on education channel where they make this little kid thinks he's the future Einstein after removing the bubblegum off his shoes using ice cubes)

Verdict : TOTALLY BUSTED

It doesn't really help much. Instead of removing it, it actually smudged the jeans even worse. =.=' Education channel kononnya. Pfft...

So we paid for the bus ticket another time even though obviously it's the company's fault that the bus broke down, and boarded the bus.

As tulan as the situation may get, must pose for the camera :P

So we reached the jetty after half an hour. This is the first time I've taken a ferry, so I was kinda in awe and all that. Sigh... =.=

Ohh look... Ferries...!!! *jakun*

Ohh look...!!! Small fishing boats...!!! (Apparently the others are ignoring me)

No one's sharing the same excitement as I do. And so I pretend to be emo :P

Hannah and CC with Penang as the background

Kent, HH, Hannah and me

The 7 of us obstructing the ladder to the passenger seats

We got down the ferry and took RapidPenang to the hotel. Frankly, it was nothing much different than RapidKL. In fact they don't sell daily pass as RapidKL does. So much for the publicity. =.=''

The same yellow handle and blue seats...

After going around town, we'd finally reached the hotel. Well that's at least what I thought we would be staying in, until HH brought us to a motel next to the hotel. LOL. No complaints though. In fact the motel probably provides better accessibility to the beach than the hotel since our rooms are just steps away from the beach. XD

While they pay the bills and checking in...

...dono-who took my photo

After chucking our bags into our rooms, we headed to the food court just in front of the motel to grab something to eat since we'd totally missed our lunch due to the earlier predicaments. It was still too early for all the stalls to open, so we just had what's available. Not much choice, but I had to sacrifice my virgin gastronomical adventure in Penang in this food court that doesn't impress me much cause we're all starving already. Fortunately the food doesn't disappoint me. In fact it was quite good. Haha.

Satisfied, we headed to the beach straight away for a walk. And this is also the first time I've set foot on a beach after many many years when I was 1/4 of my current height which I can't recall. Come to think of it, I'm kinda like a classic example of katak di bawak tempurung. =.=

WWE - Water Wrestling is Entertaining :P

We all watch them kick sand to each other till the sun comes home

Self-timer rocks

Walking in the water is way better than walking on the sand :)

CC has to hold the camera, and so we did the HSM jump shot without him :P

The sun came home, and so did we.

We went back to our rooms and showered. We one-two-jus-ed to decide our turn to shower cause we're that childish to be fair. :P

Chor-tai-dee-ing while waiting for our turns

After everyone's finished bathing, we went for supper at the food court. This time all the stalls had opened and we ordered quite alot of dishes.

Everyone's full yet still feels like ordering more XD

Full and satisfied

After the hearty meal, HH suggested to walk to the nearest mall since we're not prepared to call it a day yet. Well I'm not quite sure what's her definition of 'NEAR' but the mall is nowhere near our motel. We walked for a total of 15, or maybe 20 minutes yet the mall is nowhere to be seen. By the time we saw it, it's probably closed so we turned and walked back to the motel. So much for nothing. But anyway, there isn't anything we could do at that hour so it's kinda good also to get some walk. Everyone's enjoying the walk I think as nobody's complaining about it.

Took this photo of the motel we're staying in during the stay. The shadow makes it looked like it's haunted or something

Upon returning to our rooms, that's when all hells break loose when the girls suggested to play 'Truth or Dare'. And we did pillow-talk kinda thingy session. We got to know quite alot of dirty little secrets from a few of us. Haha. Well those secrets are best kept within the few of us. :P

We slept at 3am. By then most of us were already too tired to do anything already. Haha.

This is only the first day of our trip and we already had so much fun even though we spent half of the day travelling on bus. :)