When you said "yes" to a relationship,
Is it enough if you only like the person but not love yet?
Is it alright to later fall in love with him?
Many hometown folks ask me why I kept on bringing uni friends back to my hometown as they commented that our town is a sleepy town.
Well, precisely, Bat Town is a sleepy town with slow pace people.
However,
you dream when you sleep right?
and dreams are fun, right?
so you can find entertainment in this very little town. Here are some:
1. FOOD!
After going places and visiting other parts of Msia, I realised that actually some of Bat Town foods have the same parity as other districts.
They taste as good as foods from other parts of Msia and guess what, it's even better than some towns for example:
Kaa Jang*,Bangee* and Srem bun*!
In the morning, you can go for Kluang Railway station coffee and have a good toasts of bread and soft boiled eggs.
If you're up for some solid foods, the Wantan Mee and fish ball noodles await you.
(Wantan= chinese dumpling, filled with pork)
In the afternoon, if your friend is not a Muslim, you can bring him/her to try the BBQ pork at Sam Kee BBQ house in Jalan Lambak in front of Chi Luan Kor haha. Juicy succulent barbeque pork accompanied by generous amount of rice is a great way to have lunch :)
Or else, you can have some Botak (Baldy) Curry Mee!
One of my Sarawakian friends said that it's nice and rich :)
For teatime, there's COFFEE AGAIN! in Ha Nee Land*
(but the owner is quite arrogant so please bear with the attitude haha)
or you can have Yong Tau Fu in the shop next to Ha Nee Land. I like this shop better because it's clean and new :)
plus the owner is friendly :P
You can also have some pseudo-Malaccan dessert and Baba Nyonya Laksa in the shop which is a few shops away from Ha Nee Land haha.
In conclusion, Ha Nee Land and its adjacent shops are good places to have tea.
For dinner, there are a few chinese restaurants which are quite nice. Even though I do not deny the fact that the foods are filled with MSG, but I still love them.
Some examples include Shi Wei Tian in Intan, Sin Kwong Tong in town and Curry Fish Head in Lido cinema.
If you fancy Indian Muslim food, you can have them in NSM, an area known as Little India with a lot of pidgeons.
To be continued....
* not their real names
Our last stop for that day was
Gurney drive Plaza
where it impressed me with all those branded outlets. We had a great chat in the McD there and got to know each other better too.
It’s great to know JX,
he’s a great guy with a generous heart.
He barely knows me and Ah Huang but agreed without hesitation to bring us around the island. Girls, you should really consider this type of guy? Haha
After JX sent us back to our guest house, we were on our own again. After dinner, we wanted to identify the location of the Jetty so that tomorrow we will be not fluster. Plus because of the storm yesterday night, we didn’t really finish exploring Georgetown.
We walked all the way east towards the sea and we reach the jetty area.
Prior to the jetty, we came across a bunch of people clustering in an area where there were melodies.
To our amazement, we got the opportunity to witness a Chinese opera. Even though the story was quite lame
(it’s about a paranoid prince who chased his wife out after suspecting and accusing her for having an affair) but we were awed by the makeup, music and how our Chinese culture is preserved in this island. It’s a shame, most viewers are old folks. Young people should watch it too!
Next we walked towards the jetty and see cars lining up to get ferried back to mainland.
We walked away from the jetty when the authorities there thought that we wanted to have a sneak into one of the ferries along the cars.
After a great breeze at the jetty area........................we decided to walk back to our guest house but Georgetown area is filled with lanes and we were to lazy to carry map so it took us sometime to get back to our guest house.
As we walked back to our guest house, i can't believe it too but.....
WE GOT CHASED BY WILD DOGS.
What a way to end our last day right?........
ya, don't worry, we managed to get back to our guest house, but how did we dodge off the dogs?
Just ask me personally and i'll tell...
In the dark,
where I searched for you,
I called out your names.
Your faces appear,
no warmth nor smile
as cold as ice.
Desperate,
my eyes, nose and mouth spell those words.
You are God-given,
but fall short,
never try to meet up His standards.
I still depend on you.
Back in the dark,
I'm helpless.
I reach for your hands.
Cold, as cold as the world,
are your hands.
I didn't get to grab hold.
but with scornful yaps,
you drive me away.
Why? why are we mouded from the same clay?
Why? As we are from the same soil are you such aliens to me?
Why? CAN'T YOU EVER UNDERSTAND ME?
Thank God the storm was temporary.
As I was too hungry, I polished off Ah Huang’s “wantan mee”
(you guys must be scolding me for finishing her food hehe) and finished my fish ball noodles too.
Even though those were simple road side hawkers, but they dished out great delicacies!
Not forgetting the food there was extremely cheap!
RM 2.20 for a plate of “wantan mee” (I can’t even find that price in my hometown!) and RM 1.50 for a pure original just-nice apple juice!
That generally sums up our day 1.
Day 2 arrived with JX, Ah Huang’s friend coming to our guest house to pick us up.
Our first stop was the antique house. This house is owned by a very wealthy antique collector and his house was one of the setting of the
famous Singaporean Drama: the small nyonya*
Indeed, it’s the same as shown on TV, only that we had to pay a hefty RM 9 to enter it!
As we spend RM 9, we get a cute Burmese-Thai tour guide who explained in really inaudible English
(Ah Huang couldn’t understand a word he said)
and we were given the liberty to take pictures anywhere in that mansion.
After that, we carried on our trip with JX driving us to other parts of Penang Island.
As I was pestering JX to bring me back to Black water district* for its well-known and really delicious Laksa, he did. The laksa was as nice as ever!
Thick sour fish soup accompanied by black prawn sauce with silky noodles is making my mouth salivating even now!
Besides having the Laksa, we even had Char Kue Tiow and visited Kek Lok Xi*, a very big Buddhist temple with fame across south East Asia.
Next, we turned our way to Bota Nical* Garden. Ah Huang, not interested at all by the delicacies of Penang was attracted by ice cream buns sold at the entrance of the garden. Yea, she’s really funny (:S)
JX brought us to Feringghi Stony beach* too. This time, what I found amusing was Ah Huang could actually fell asleep on the winding journey to the beach whereas I was trying with great effort to control my dizziness while JX drove skillfully to tackle the bends.
When we reached there, there were huge waves and I thought they resembled a mini Tsunami. It’s quite rare according to JX and I second him because we were in the west and the west is shielded from the wind. Could it be human activities which change the wind directions? (to be continued)
