Ipoh & Penang Trip (20 - 26 Sep 09)

On the nite of our weddding anniversary, we took a coach up to Ipoh for my grandma's 80 year old birthday celebrations. It's going to be a big and grand celebration. All my the other 10 aunties and uncles will be back with their children & grandchildren.

Waiting for our coach

Good Morning Ipoh!
Waiting for our cousin to fetch us fr the bus station to the rented apartment to freshen up Waiting for take family photo at my Da Gu's hse
San Shu & us
The Family photo...try to look for me and dear..hahaa..and try counting the no of pple in the photo ;)
Grandma & her Sons
Grandma & her daughters

Grandma & my family

After the photo taking, we all queue up to give our wishes to grandma and also our eldest cousin gave the birthday shared by all the cousins to her.

The celebration dinner was at a restaurant. There were a total of 21 tables . The portion of food is super big and we are almost full when the 4th dish is presented. There was also KTV to entertain the guests, anyone can go on stage to sing.

Cake cutting time...

All the cousins, ie my grandma's grandchildren and great grandchildren gathered on stage and sang a birthday medley for her.

All the guy cousins..

All the girl cousins...

Capturing the smiles my Xiao Shu's 2 sons...cute but notti..keke..

The next day after the dinner, 1 of my Si Gu's fren brought us out for breakfast & shopping. I remembered when i was young, we had many guests staying over at our hse, like my Gu Gu and Gu Gu's frens, my uncles and their frens etc. This Si Gu's fren is 1 of those guests whom my parents have extended their hospitality to. Though it has been more than 20 years, they still remember how my parents took care of them when they stayed over =D

We visited the Bi Li Tong after breakfast ..1 of the famous cave in Ipoh. We used to visit this cave whenever we went Ipoh where we were young. It's much nicer now. And this is dad's playground when he was young! So can imagine how long the cave has been there.

Dad & dear trying to hide some Sgp coins in 1 of the holes, hoping to find it when they go bk there many years later..haha And these 2 men posing at the spot where the coins are hidden, hoping to use this to identify the spot many years later..duh...

Dad found his playmate! They used to play in the cave with a few others. And he is in charge of the cave now..haha!

After the cave trip, we drove to the kampong where dad used to stay, continue with lunch before heading to shop for a little while.

Eh, model with white hair? Haha

Another weird one..

After spending 2 nites in Ipoh, Dear and travel up to Penang by bus which took us about 3 hours from Ipoh. We stayed another 3 nights there.

The hotel we stayed (Bayview Resort) was at Batu Ferringh by, where all the beach resorts are siutated and where the Pasar Malam is located. Beach is not fantastic which we expected. Basically we just want to relax and indulge ourselves in Penang local food.

We did not go to many places of interest. Just a few. And because we have lots of time to kill, we took their public transport ie bus to the places that we wanted to go. Hee..And sometimes, we can wait up to an hour for the bus, we were really patient lor! Haha!

Every morning after breakfast, we will go to the pool to soak ourselves for a while before we venture out ard noon time. It's pretty convenient as the bus stop is just outside our hotel. We have to take a 45 mins bus ride out to Georgetown to transfer bus to the places that we wanted to go.

Our first night dinner @Batu Ferringhi

2nd day - Travel out to Georgetown. We spend the whole afternoon at Georgetown, shopped at the shopping centre and explored the coffee shops ard the area. We found a stall selling chengdol and the traditional ice kachang ball which pple used to use their hands to hold and suck.

2nd nite dinner at The Gurney Drive. The famous nite hawker centre which sell their local penang food. We had char kway tiao, rojak, penang laksa..yummy! And we also had A&W at the shopping mall. Really eat alot! keke

3rd day to Penang Hills. We waited for an hour for the bus to penang hill and by the time we reached there, it was abt 3 plus le. And the next tram to go up was at ard 5pm. So we walked out to some coffee shop outside and get some food. Heehee The tram ride took abt 40 mins one way...quite interesting as the tram is moving upwards and some part of the journey is very steep. and ttz explain why it moved in a super slow manner which me and dear almost want to fall asleep

Finally we reach!
Scenery at the top of the hill

Last Day, after breakfast, i started to run to the toilet. Not LS but vomit! I vomited out all my breakfast. Could not drink or eat for the whole day, watever went in came out. Not to spoil our plan, we packed our bags, checked out the hotel and took our barangs to go to the snake temple. The journey was quite xin ku for me. Got ready plastic bags in case i vomit on the bus. Hee...

Our next destination after the temple is Queensbay Mall and we waited another hour for the bus! And i left quite a fair bit of vomits on the grass patches while waiting for the bus..Keke..

Snake Temple

Queensbay mall is actually quite a nice place, new and very big shopping mall. The mall is by the side of the sea as well and we can see the penang bridge from there. But by the time i reached there, no energy to explore and shop liao. No food intake for the whole day and can feel myself dehydrating. =(

Nice sunset..taken on the bus to the airport..nice pic to end our trip..

Maybe coz i wan sick or maybe we jus missed our home too much..for the first time, we were quite happy to be heading home after a holiday...Heeheee