Penang Trip - Purchases for Daryl

This long pants is bought with the mind of matching the RL polo tee which my dad bought for Daryl in HK.

New clothes for CNY 2010. The shirt and short are bought separately but can be match together and wear.

Pajamas for our growing boy.

Penang Trip - 5 day (last day)

We are too lazy to take photo today.

As today is our last day of stay in Penang, it was more of a rest and relax day for us. We went to eat the dim sum we have on our first day again as our breakfast. Then we bring Daryl for a short swim at the hotel pool. Then later we leave Daryl with my parent so Shawn can relax while I can go went to do my hair and massage before we check out and call the friendly cab driver uncle to fetch us to airport.

Holiday is forever too short!!

Penang Trip - Day 4

We went back hotel to freshen up then we decided to go for supper at the hawker centre nearby our hotel. There we tried the indian rojak which is very nice, but the indian man selling the rojak is so funny. He look so girlie as he will turn round and round while he put the rojak gravy onto the rojak.



Daryl dancing caught on camera when we do our last night shopping in the shopping mall beside our hotel.

Hotel Lobby night view.

This fish head curry restaurant was our dinner for our last night of stay in Penang. In fact, Shawn have been aiming to dine in this restaurant since we spotted it on day 1 when we went for our breakfast before checking into the hotel. Well the food was nice as you can see.

The overall experience in the temple was okay, except that we find it too commercialise as the pagoda and huge godness of mercy statue have to pay entrance fees. Other then that, we enjoy looking at the tour and praying. Oh ya, Daryl was happily praying. In fact, he will automatically put his hands together, say 'pai pai' and start to pray.

The 4 heavenly kings!

The huge godness of mercy statue which again one have to pay in order to go up and see.

The building structure and colour look nice for photo taking.

The pagoda which one have to pay in order to enter.

Taking off the shoes to enter and pray.

The exterior view of the temple

The view down from the temple.

The famous Kek Lok Si which is highly recommended by those cab driver and mummy's friend.

There is alot of such spider and spider web in the hill top. It does look eerie right?

Daryl is more interested in the water than phototaking.

Daryl enjoy the piggy back ride on his ah gong.

View from the hill top.

Daryl is tired after the long wait to board the train to go up to the hill top. He fell asleep shortly and only wake up when we reach the top of the hill.

The train that need to change a few times to go up to Penang hill.

This is our first day without the hotel breakfast. As we did not confirm with the friendly cab driver last evening on whether we will book his car today and when we call him today, he already have customer on his cab, so we just hop onto the first cab in the queue. As usual we 'book' the cab for our whole day event. Although the cab driver is okay, but somehow, we prefer the yesterday uncle who seem more honest to us.

The cab driver drove us to New Lane for breakfast as he say that the fish meat mee hoon is nice there. However, he is not aware of the Wang Zhao Jun restaurant which my mummy's friend introduce us to go for nice fish head noodle. Same time, he get someone to queue and bought the Penang hill train ticket (of course we have to give some coffee money to the person when we collect the ticket) for us as according to him, today is school holiday so there might be long queue by the time we reach there.

Penang Trip - Day 3

Mummy and me learn how to call the Penang telephone (home and mobile) after we call the cab driver successfully in the afternoon. So mummy finally get in touch with her ex colleague who shift back to Penang. So her colleague came with her husband to pick us from our hotel and brought us to another famous night food centre around the vicinity of our hotel.

Well, of course we eat again (that what holiday is about right, shop and eat) and mummy enjoy her short catch up with her friend.

The interior.

The exterior of the shop.

After the nice feast of food, the friend uncle drove us to Penang oldest tau sa piah shop to get some local goodies to bring back home as gifts before we head back to our hotel.

Daryl say :"Oh no, mummy I dun want porridge!"

I order the porride for Daryl, but who know he prefer other food instead.

Penang prawn mee.

The food stall along the street.

Penang Char Kway Teow

The tasty wanton mee which Daryl love to eat.

Well we call the friendly uncle (cab driver) and he brought us to New Lane to eat their local hawker food which is cheap and good. Doesn't the popiah look make you hungry?

We have a good time shopping (meaning we buy more things) in this big mall. Although the lunch in their food court is not so great but it is acceptable. However their freshly make kueh bulu in the food court is very delicious, which is why Daryl keep asking for more, till I have to hide it out of his sight.

The Christmas decoration in the Mall.

As Penang is an island surrounded by sea, you can see the sea almost everywhere.

The exterior (the other side from where we alight) of Queensbay Mall.

We took a cab straight to Penang biggest shopping mall - Queensbay Mall after our last day of hotel breakfast. The cab driver was chatty and friendly, providing us information of where to eat and go etc.

Thru him, we then understand that it was not easy being a cab driver in Penang coz in order to queue outside the hotel or a shopping mall, the driver have to be member. Also, you can only get cab at shopping mall or hotel but can hardly get it along the roads. As he is not a member of Queensbay Mall, he is not allow to pick up customer from there unless the customer call him. Also, he is not allow to wait for us there, so he give us his namecard and tell us to call him later when we are going off and he can drive us to eat some nice local food and also to buy their local goodies at a flat fare (forget how much le).