my penang trip!

hello my internet friends!!! i am here to document my one night Penang trip. also i have to leave for ipoh in like 3 hours so im going to make this quick so i have time to pack and surf the web a little bit. on saturday morning ma had to wake me up at 9am because i couldnt get up myself. dad had packed breakfast of nasi lemak for me so ate it, mostly the white parts because the chili parts were really spicy. i ate, showered and did my hair and we left at nine-ish almost 10. you can actually watch my video on my channel soon. we went to get some food first so we went to a little chinese food shop and i got a bowl of soup noodles with chicken, fish balls and fish cake. it was pretty good. then ma realised she didnt pack a tooth brush so we went a drugstore to get one and then i found a cute shop that sold clay and clay models. then we found a truck shop and i got a cup of coconut pineapple shake and it was so good like really really nice. then we went to sent ma to the hotel to meet her nurse friends because it was on the way to the butterfly farm. the last time i went to penang butterfly farm was like more than a decade ago but i still have fuzzy memories of my time there. then it was one big enclosed space with plants and like a hundred thousand butterflies and you walk around letting them buzz around you. so the infant me remembers passing one lady and she was freaking out because she stepped on a butterfly. i dont really know what happened to the lady or the butterfly for that matter but i do remember the atmosphere being really tense because i was afraid of stepping on one myself. then there was a tiny gift shop and sissy picked her gift right away! she got this necklace with a butterfly pendent and i was like taking forever to pick my gift and i didnt want the same gift at sissy so thankfully my parents were like we gotta rush and then they bought a heart key chain with an orange butterfly in the middle. fast forward like 12 years and i dont remember the place at all. course the entry tickets has now quadrupled in price and expanded it's space like tenfold. there was no line at the ticket counter (thank God) and we got in in no time. we went to the reptile house first and we saw frogs, snakes, worms and spiders. now almost everything in that enclosure was venomous but i suspect the spiders were like dead and stuffed with styrofoam cause the little cage for the spider was only half closed and nobody did anything. then the walkway leads to the butterfly garden and you watch butterflies and flowers and ooh and aah and then you see some iguanas, lizards and chameleons. next to it is a dragonfly hut thing and we walked in to see absolutely no dragonflies at all. after all that was the indoor learning centre so there were like 8 stops or something and there was a cinema thing where they play this educational videos and there was a stop where you see fireflies but i only saw 2 and there was one where there was a phase by phase caterpillar to butterfly room and also a lot of stimulated games like find the glass winged butterfly in this picture. there was also a made up town for insects like an insect bridal store, a library, a beehive real estate shop and some restaurants all for the insects. the stop before the gift shop was ants, beetles and the white ants that eat wood. i thought having glass tubes with ants in it on the walls were really clever. 

at the gift shop there were bags, clothes, watches and a tonne of stationery and the reg like magnets and stuff. i bought 3 necklaces but im only keeping one because 2 are for my sissy and a sticker sheet and some pens. then youre led to an eating space and then the hobby centre where you can actually but the bugs and worms. then we went to our hotel in gurney drive and on the way you'd see a lot of these double decker tour buses and they are open aired at the top so you can fly out anytime if you fancy. so our hotel was next to a thai restaurant so it's really hard to spot. we were also kinda stumped on where we were going to park because dad had paid for parking when he booked the room but there was no parking at all so we parked at the reg public parking and we put 2 very hostile receptionist on the hot seat, asking about our promised parking but they clearly couldnt care less and that irked me like what happened to 'the customer is always right' or 'we shall never deny a guest even the most ridiculous request'. now this was our first time at the hotel because we used to stay the Tanjung Bungah Hotel but it closed to become some other named hotel so we dont want to go to that one and tried this one. we just parked like across the street. we watched tv until 6.30pm and walked out to the next door crepe cottage for some dessert before our meal. we were the first customers so we didnt wait long but if you go to their website, a lot of reviews say their service is snail pace. they tasted pretty good and the menu is creative and the plates are big. so yeah try them if you want. honestly i have seen the exact same shop -house every time i drive by penang but that my first time actually eating in. we dropped by two more malls in the way to the food court for dinner and we saw this canon competition going on and the prize giving happening. now walking at night is a gamble i tell ya. you have got to be on high alert because you might step on a sharp stone anytime and treat everyone on the street as a suspect for a crime because you never know if someone on the dark, unlit pedestrian walk is going to jump out at you going berserk. my advice is never walk alone and wear bright colours. also to pray.

at the food court i found that penang works very differently from where im from. so when you order, the shop keepers dont bring the food to you, you have to wait in line and carry it to your table, like when you buy lunch in school. we saw a lot to sea food stalls but our quest was for fried oysters and we packed ours to eat in our hotel room. we made a stop at wendy's because we've only had dessert so we shared a large set. we walked back and we paid more attention to the street vendors like there was this one guy, he paints free hand portraits of animals on bags but most sold toys. 

at the hotel we watched tv and ate.

next day we went to a corner coffee shop. one that im familiar with, and had breakfast then to the beach. i really liked the part of the beach we went to like it was clean and there werent many people and there was like no 'where am i going to park' scenario. i collected a bag full of sea shells and i plan some jewelry from it so thats cool. i love sea shells!!

we checked out at 11.30 and went to pick ma and then a midlands mall which was closed and then a paragon mall(again) which was super big and thats where i got sissy's christmas gift. then we headed home and we had take out for dinner because eating out is hot and messy. i had some cider then bed till almost noon today!

that was everything documented! i hope you had some form of fun from reading it and if youre malaysian i hope it inspires you to go have some one-day fun. have a good year end holiday and christmas! the next school year will start soon so collect all the fun you need to see you through the year now with your family and treasure all this fun times.

see ya lovelies! merry christmas