Let's Steam Together

MEASURED drawing project was finally submitted. Structure test was over. Now there is only one paper left on next Tuesday. And our lecturer was kind enough to 'leak' some the questions out for us to prepare for that. Therefore we declared ourself to be in pre-holiday mood already.

On yesterday the guys decided to have steamboat for dinner. Few of them went to Jusco and Tmn U to get some food while I was sleeping in the room. As usual, Teck Yong prepared most of the food and people like me just ran up and down getting the plates and utensils ready.

By the time we were ready to steam the boat, it was already 9.30pm. Wah lah~ 

That's right, tom yam soup

For the first time we utilised the common room

Before starting to makan

Can see that Chang was hungry

Look at Jim busy munching

Right after the meal, what do we do normally?

Haha. Washing and cleaning up of course.

If not, nobody is going to clean that for you

Chang and La Zi

After the meal, we had a small movie session in a small movie theatre in Hall 202 (Chang's room). A stupid and nonsense Hong Kong horror movie. But we still watched it til the end anyway. Well, that's for yesterday and I guess here will be more plans on next week. =)

Penang I Reach

I am in Penang!!! It's been a long time since I visited this island. The last time was about 6 years ago. Much has changed.

KOMTAR is still standing though

Our uni bus dropped us at Chulia Street and it went off to god-knows-where. As we are only staying for two nights and we don't have anyone sponsor for our accomodation, we choose to stay in a budget hotel - Banana New Guest House. Yup, banana that is! And the owner allowed us to see the rooms and toilets before we agreed to stay in this guest house.

Open banana, peel banana, smell banana~

The rate is quite reasonable as each of us do not have to pay more than RM50 for a two night stay except for Yuveelai who prefer to stay in a single room with attached bathroom. The rest of the guys stay in two seperate rooms. It has air-con. And what's even great is that we are able to online in the room as there is FREE wifi services provided. Listen, FREE!!!

Banana Guest House is located at Lebuh Chulia where are there rows of cheap inn with fill with foriengers mostly. Suddenly I felt like I was in Phuket or Pattaya. At night, there are stalls and hawkers selling food which makes the place kinda lively. There are also several cafes and pubs nearby to chill out.

Chulia Street is near the heritage area in Georgetown

We stay here

Our (Chin Keng, Choon Wah and me) room

Their (Ryan, Balut, Ujang and Asrof) room

View from my room

Earlier...

The bus departed at 6.30 in the morning from the faculty

There are only 8 of us occupying the entire bus. Weee...

Reaching the Penang bridge toll gate

The bridge having its widening construction

Reaching the peak

Chin Keng, the tour guide

Some shots from the bus:

Perodua showroom

Bon Odori coming this Saturday

Schoolgirl pumping tyre

After checking-in the room and settled ourself, three of us walked around the area, snapped some pics and looked for dinner after that. Then we continued to Perangin Mall which is just beside KOMTAR. There is nothing much to see there and it is not as happening as what I expected. I hope Gurney Plaza will be better when we go there on the next day.

Street pavement

Kapitan Keling Mosque

Pre-War houses and KOMTAR

Strange kaki lima

A nostalgic restaurant

Shop houses under refurbishment

It started raining halfway. Perangin Mall at the back

Our dinner in a Teocheow restaurant

That's all for day 1. I'm starting to feel a little hungry now. Might go hunt for things to eat in a short while. Tomorrow we will be going to get our site plan, visit the site and start doing works.

I'll be RM50 Richer

JUST checked my Nuffnang account. My advertisement earning has finally reached RM50!!!! Yeah!! RM50.80 to be exact. I registered Nuffnang since Christmas in 2008 2007 and ever since the advertisement thingy has been in my blog for 6 months (sometimes it does get disappear though). And when the earning has reached RM50, we can choose to cash out the money but I think I'll just keep it accumulate first. Wait till a lot only I will withdraw. Muahaha. Like that only feeling syok ma! XD

My nuffnang

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Left four more days before heading back to JB. Aarrgh! all the nightmares will then begin. Measured drawing assignments!! I have never done anything since I came back from Negeri Sembilan. Except there was a few times that I opened the sketchup, edited the window conponents abit, orbit around the house, saved and closed the whole thing. That’s all for the measured drawing.

Most of the time, I will play Mahjong Titans and lately I started playing Chess Titans. I don’t play it the last cuz I don't really know how to play and I always have this fear that I’ll sure lose and the King will kena makan. But it’s not bad after all. Cuz there is always an ‘undo’ button. =p

Checkmate! Haha I'm white

However, there are some things that I am looking forward to when return to uni. I’ll get back to see my lovely course mates *wink*, moved to new hostel up the hill, staying and happing in the studio, drive around JB and Skudai, eating Choon Wah’s cookies, and going to Singapore! The motorshow will be in held September. Can't wait wow!

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This few days I was busying with my car. Dad says that there is no need to spray the car since it is not worth it for an old car. Might as well save up the a few hundred to a thousand bucks and spend it on other beneficial stuff.

So I ended up spraying the car myself. Yea, DIY style. Of course I’m not gonna spray the WHOLE car. I'll die of toxic! Only a few patches that needed to be cover up.

Before

As I am not the very artistic and patient guy in painting and colouring thing, as a result I erm…I give it a pass (by closing one eye). Aiyo, anything la. As long the patches are not there anymore =p

After, at the same spot

Some are just nice

But some part looks like cheap plaster

Up here also got

Hehe. But I am satisfy. Period.

I also polished the car. See how reflective it is *proud*

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Tomorrow I will be heading to Puchong for a steamboat dinner with my friends at Shabu shabu. I can’t wait for that! Looking at the reviews from the internet, the place looks wonderful and the food tastes yummy. Tomorrow I shall puasa for half a day so that I’ll eat more during the steamboat. It’s RM25 per person for an all-you-can-eat meal.

There are other things that I wana eat before I go back. Few days back I saw an McD breakfast advertisement on the TV and suddenly feel like eating it. Also, the Starbucks breakfast meal. For only RM4.50 per set, it looks quite worth it for me! So right now what I’m going to do is to sleep early so that I will able to wake up early for the breakfast next day.

Free a cup of coffee

See ya guys again =)

Genting Day Trip

ON Monday night, Jason suggested a last minute Genting trip since he has a two days leave off his work. Planned to meet at my house at 11am on Tuesday morning. But according to MBSian tradition, an additional of 1 hour will have to add to the suggested time, which turned out to 12pm.

After having our lunch at Quan's cafe Pandan Indah, we left for Genting at 2pm. Jason and Siew Ki are going up by their car while the rest of us (Randy, Yee Mei, Perry and I) took a cab up. It cost RM52. Quite convenient and a fast way to reach up the hilltop.

On the way up

We reached Genting Highlands at 3pm. The cab dropped us at the First World Hotel and we met up with Jason there. The people inside the First World Plaza were damn lot! It is Christmans season and also holiday season in both Malaysia and Singapore.

First we went into the Casino @ First World Hotel. We didn't put any bet but just walked around and see how the people played inside. There was this machine which made us all wonder how it should be played. People just pressed the button and waiting for 'something' to happen. If not mistaken it is the Jackpot.

Most of the games there are handled electronically. And the number of CCTV inside the casino is enough to fill the whole ceiling ady.

We went out to the First World Plaza. The queue for all the rides were full of people and remarkably long. There was no way we could wana play any rides at that time. At first we planned to play the Adult bumper car but it was later put off after looking at the terrible queue. And the so called 'Adult' bumper car are mainly children.

So what happened to the Junior bumber car? For babies only?

Then we headed to the Snow World but the ticket was selling the 6.30pm session. A little bit too late since we are planning to leave Genting on that day itself.

So in the end we just walked around the place and enjoy the cool breeze outside. Also making fun of the people screaming on the Flying coaster ride. Hehe.

L-R: Siew Ki, Jason, Randy, Yee Mei

Perry. It was his 1st time to Genting since 3 year old

Quite foggy during the month of December

After a long walk we wanted to find to place to sit and have drinks so Jason suggested Coffee Bean at the Resorts hotel. When we reached there, there weren't any nice seats available outside and the view was not very nice so we headed back to First World hotel for Starbucks coffee.



Some shots at the park outside First World:

The couples

What was Jason doing?

All of us

We saw this front desk with nobody and so went to fool around with it.

The three stoges

Inside the First World Plaza

At night, we went to Taman Yulek for steamboat dinner at the Restoran Choong Huat. They have the normal plain soup, Tom Yam and also herbal soup, which I never tried before. Apart from the steamboat dishes, we ordered grill fish and BBQ chicken wing for side dishes.

We ate till very very full until we couldn't finish the vegetables and the mee hoon. But it was quite enjoying and feeling good to meet again, talking back our memories, crapping all the way and we really had a nice day.
Like what Yee Mei said: "It's not the journey that matters, but the...." Ermm, I can't really hear what she said after that. =p


So, when is the next trip?
**Correction: "It's not the destination that matters, but the journey." Hehe