关于那个跑到抓狂的地方

今日Cover ft. 我自己　hahahah

Apparently, I'm done with my practical training and reports.

But, no, I'm not as free as you thought I would be, 

there's still quite a plenty of things on-hand that I should really be doing right now.

So let's first tick this off the list : Blog about Penang trip.

It was a very last minute trip, I even booked the hotel 4 days before we depart

Since it's the off-peak period, I still had a handful of choices by then.

So here goes my Penang/Ipoh 3d2n trip!

Day 1

 驾车驾到麻木 终于到了槟威大桥 心里自己OS一阵欢呼声 *HOOORAYYYY

Check-in 酒店然后赶快开始我们的疯狂走路

今天还好，我们都搭免费的巴士CAT FREE HOP ON BUS

酒店走到巴士总站大概只要5分钟

只是找巴士用了更多时间 -.-

搭到另一个总站 就在姓氏桥附近

然后才真的开始我们的疯狂走路

那个酒店的小姐还说姓周桥是最大的桥

满怀希望的 结果有点失望 哪里有大到啦

没关系振作起来从Armenian Street开始壁画寻宝

听说你没有拍过这张壁画 等于没有来过 hahaha

这是什么情况.

我妈在推脚踏车要撞我妹 然后我正在拍下这悲剧..?

Busy Bodhi 的Coconut Ice Cream 好像很出名　可是我忘记拍哈哈哈

Busy Bodhi Cafe
64, Lebuh Acheh
 10200 Pinang George Town, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
Operating hours : Mon - Sun: 7:30 am - 1:00 am
Tel: +6012-4975599

这个...我忘记店名了..

省略了很多壁画的照片 嘿嘿

 And yiharn said I must go and try China House Tiramisu and so we did.

It's huge! 

But the architecture and interior in this long shophouse is more superb.
It's the same typical traditional china shophouses we usually see in Malacca.

Walk from the front until the very end with the sprained ankle, and it's all worth it.

What a view at the back! Love love love.

Chinahouse
153, Lebuh Pantai, Georgetown, 10300 Georgetown, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
Tel: +604-2637299
Opening Hours: Sunday to Thursday 9am to midnight
Friday - Saturday 9am - 1am

Went to the 美食街 that day being told it's very big with wide variety of food

and again get disappointed...........

It's so small, but 

nevermind we still get yummy foods, and the people are all so friendly. :)

Georgetown is beautiful at night too
But the crowd disappear as soon as the sun sets.
It quiets down so quickly.
So apparently, there's not much night life at night,
the most crowded place at night
should be the food courts and 24 hour nasi kandar. hahaha

Day 2

Next morning, woke up at 9am.
And then walked to Chowrasta market.
We found this kopitiam in the alley.
你不觉得看着就觉得那里一定有好吃的东西的感觉？
通常这种特别的老店都一定特别好吃.

多春咖啡
140-184, Lebuh Campbell, Georgetown, 10200 Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

And yes, their coffee is one of the nicest I tried in Penang.

 The half-boiled egg in the lil cup. so cute right
The toast is not bad too. :)

吃饱了 就继续走
继续找没有吃到的好料 没有看到的壁画
在这里找壁画真的有寻宝的感觉
只是天气真的很热很热.

Just some alley I saw and thought it's beautiful.
What a nice back drop for #ootd right hahaha
Too bad, I'm not an #ootd kind of person

Penang Road Famous Teochew Cendol
27, Lebuh Keng Kwee, Georgetown, 10100 Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

I used to drool at the sight of this on the internet, but it's all in the past now.
This is seriously overrated, sorry to burst your bubble, but seriously, no.
I think our family favourite cendol in Seremban is billions more times better than this.

Someone told me The Camera Museum is worth a go, and indeed.
And one of the wall painting is just next to it.
The staff at the museum showed us the place when he overheard our discussions
about the whereabouts of the rest of the wall paintings.
Yes, penang people are friendly!

RM 20 for adults
RM 10 for students and senior citizens
I was over thrilled by the fact that I still get student price, like finally T.T
Remember the days when we get student price for almost errthing,
movie tics, karaoke, all sorts of tickets.....Ah, gone were the days..

Double Exposure Cafe in The Camera Museum
errr... don't try the cheesecake......

The Camera Museum
49, Lebuh Muntri 10200, Penang Malaysia
T: 04-2613649
Open daily Monday - Sunday 930am - 630pm

Done with camera museum, and carry on with our wall painting hunt.

Hainan Temple.

Streetscape.

Another must-shot in Georgetown.
这个壁画也太偏僻
太阳在最热的时候
差点连命都赔了

Mama-mia Coconut ice-cream.

It's still too early to head to Penang Hill, so we found a place to rest a bit.
Air-conditioned is a must at the time.
We are at The Rustic Heritage Cafe btw.
Georgetown has all sorts of cafe popping out, like Malacca.
They renovated the shophouses, turned them concept cafe, like Malacca.
You can see creativity everywhere, like Malacca.
Basically, Georgetown is more or less like Malacca,
Just that Georgetown has wall paintings and busier traffic, (and hotter weather?)



Took bus to Penang Hill.
It's my second visit, but I have zero memory towards this place.
'Cause the first time I was in Penang, I had a fever
and I only recovered on the last day.
And this time round, I had a sprained ankle.
Have I ever do you wrong, Penang? Why.

There's a 360 degree panaroma viewing tower in construction.

The Love Lock bridge is also......hahaha
Maybe I should just name this trip as Bubble Bursting Trip.

有人说这张好像壁画 哈哈哈

Nice sunset view at the back of the hindu temple on Penang Hill.

It's quite foggy by the time we were there,
but we decided to wait for the sun to set for the night view.
And I had a chance to try out my camera's manual setting. hehehe

Gurney Driveeee
在这里找到我整个槟城trip最好吃的东西-- Asam laksaaaaa
其实有几档　我们就看招牌就老就旧的　应该都是最好吃的

回酒店　迫不及待就冲进去冲凉
整个就是想唱：解脱～～～
回到酒店好好回想一下才发现
我们昨天从KOMTAR巴士总站搭到姓氏桥附近的总站
我们今天用脚走完了整个路程..............
我的脚...我的脚...都好了.......
你说我们是几会跑
扭伤的脚都跑到好去. -.-
我和我妈总结　这绝对是我们跑最多路的旅行.

躺在床上看Astro在播Maleficent 很好看
然后敷脸敷到睡着（那个，敷脸只要10分钟）
好吧让你们看一下房间啦

Comfy right ~~
RM220 for 2 nights :)
Air-con, heater, hair dryer (upon request), and TV with astro somemore!
It's very near to Komtar, 2 mins walk.
And there's a lot of shopping mall within walking distance.
Like 1st Avenue, Penang Times Square, Komtar, Prangin Mall.

118 Hotel Penang
Address: 29, Jalan Dato Keramat, Georgetown, 10150 Pulau Pinang
Phone:04-228 8118

Day 3

Woke up at 10 like a boss.
The perks of travelling on your own, free and easy.
And we had 2 good night sleep there too.
It's been awhile for me to sleep through the whole night.
'Cause we are dead tired thanks for all the mad walking?

Breakfast at Restoran Zim Sum
35, Jalan Anson, Penang, George Town, 10400
Monday to Sunday 630am - 100pm

And part 2 breakfast at Ah Lai Kopitiam,
also known as Kopitiam under the big tree.
Erm, another overrated food in Penang. -.-
And brace yourself for the shitty service too.

The look-nice-but-don't-taste-so-nice toast
Okay, so we bid farewell to Georgetown with this shitty attitude kopitiam. -.-

Ah Lai Kopitiam
15, Gat Lebuh Gereja,
10200 Georgetown, Penang.
Tel: 016 - 477 1332

Business Hours: 9:00am - 5:00pm (Weekday) & 9:00am - 1:00pm (Weekends)

IPOH IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE. LIKE REALLY.

As I drove down from Penang to Ipoh,

I was amazed by the view along the highway.

I didn't know Malaysia has such majestic mountain view along our highway, until that day.

Is it because I was always sleeping when I'm not the driver....?

Ipoh is so beautiful, I just had to say it again.

Decided to stop at Ipoh for lunch.

"Google search sia, where's the best ngah choy gai"

Hahaha, and it leads us to Lou Wong Ngah Choy Gai

and it really was nice. :)
Btw, Nga Choi means beansprout 芽菜 , Gai means chicken 鸡. so it's beansprout chicken.

Lou Wong Nga Choi Gai

30000, 49, Jalan Yau Tet Shin, 30000 Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia

+60 5-254 4199

And then 土产shopping around there, 

less than 30 mins and we already spent like almost RM300. #tourist

See how important it is to develop our tourism business?

See how much money we can earn that easily?

所以说旅游业真的很重要.

旅客的钱是有几好赚.

Okay, so this is literally the most fascinating place we went throughout the whole trip.
We need to drive a little distance from Ipoh Town, but it's worth it.

The Ghostly Cloister.
The whole building is still not complete.
You can Google for the whole story.

It's my first time seeing such weird combination of architecture.
The form of the building basically takes after the Neo-classical style.
But the arches are definitely not from the same styles,
The horseshoe arch (or keyhole arch) and pointed arch (or ogival arch)
is a key element of Moorish Architecture styles, one of the branch of Islamic Architecture style.
So it's like western architecture mix with Islamic architecture? I never thought of this though.

And I did some study, so there's this 2 architectural styles:
Moorish Revival & Indo-Saracenic Revival
Generally, it's made up of elements from native Indo-Islamic and Indian architecture, and combined it with the Gothic revival and Neo-Classical styles favoured in Victorian Britain.
I was like Wow, new input. Hahahaha

Cursped Arches / Scalloped Arches (Influenced by Moorish Architecture)
I don't know about you, but I've never seen this cute arch before.

Photo credits to beloved Jayd Wei (Name macam yes),
whose photography skills has improved rapidly in this 3d2n trip HAHAHA

Somehow, it ended up like a history of architecture presentation. Forgive me, hahaha.

It was worth a visit for me, obviously.

But to those who don't get all the architecture blah,

You could just go and take a look, it's a beautiful place

and also you can take all the macam yes photo here. Hahaha

然后我们依依不舍的踏上了归途.

Here, have some of my face.

Georgetown, in a summary, is a beautiful place.
It's picture taking  > food hunting kind of place, to me.
So, if you've never been there, then you should.
But if you ask me for a second visit, maybe not in a while.
I would prefer Malacca for a getaway, either for food hunting or just a relaxing getaway.
Anyway, I have been talking about wanting to go to Penang for a while now.
No, more like 2 years. -.-
And so I finally get to cross it off the list now!
So long, Georgetown, see you when I see you ~