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yes people i was finally in the land of penang. i meant the sunny island of penang i went to the island yesterday to look for a place to stay. was supposed to leave KL at 6am but with much delay caused by my mom/dad/sis we left at 7.45am instead… my dad went to toilet twice so that he wont have to do any big call of nature on the way coz he is the driver.

so we were off to penang and we made several stops for toilet, breakfast, petrol and toilet again… yes i counted the number of times we stopped. my dad nearly felt asleep and i think he missed a few warnings that there is a speed trap ahead the highway. his theory is that they just put the sign that there is a speed trap so that people would slow down.. well kindof makes sense becoz why would anyone put a warning sign that there is a trap if the intention of the trap is to actually “trap” someone doing the wrong thing. it would be like putting a signboard on a house notifying robbers that the house has an alarm system. my dad just make weird sense sometimes..

so we reach bayan lepas, penang at about 1pm and it was really humid and hot. we went looking at where my workplace would be. search high and low and we just couldnt find it. stopped and asked a guard and she pointed to teh right direction. dell looks like a factory from outside. on the sides of the road, there was some bus stand signs. was wondering if public transport would ever reach here and my mom insist that i go and ask the guard who is guarding dell’s main gate. i went and ask and that guard is a nepalase and spoke very little english. i asked one thing and he gave answer to a different thing.. gave up and went back to the car. my mom still insist and i told her to ask herself. same thing happened to her. (that is for not trusting me lar…) then my dad (the big kepoh/busybody) went to ask the guard at the front main gate.. same thing happened to him too.

anyway so after exploring the rest of the Bayan Lepas Industrial Zone for a while, we decided to go and look at this place called Bukit Jambul Court which is just next to the Bukit Jambul (BJ) Shopping Complex. the area reminds me of my first home in kepong baru. noisy and crowded.. went thru some security fellas who took down my details and they have security doors and CCTV everywhere. lifts, hallway, corridors..went up to 5th floor where the place of interest was and i called up this guy, Mr Chan. he wasnt at home and apparently he was out in town and he asked me to come back later. that was fine…

so we decided to make a stop at the petrol station for another refill and i went to the 7-11 to look at some notices posted… saw one interesting one and i called the person.. her name is penny and she told me her place is just nearby BJ court. gave me the full address of her place and we went hunting again… we went round and round and passed the Bayan Baru and passed Sg Ara and we still cant find the place. we were about to give up when we asked the malay lady who was selling goreng pisang told us exactly where the place was. fine when we finally nearly arrived we couldnt see the entrance to the place and ask another lady at the makan stall.

finally we found the place and it was quite nice. it was a condominium with swimming pool and it looked much better than the previous place that we went before. nice girl as well and a much brighter and bigger room. i was sold to the place and didnt want to leave.. well not the swimming pool coz it has been a really hot day and i was sweating like crazy that day and i really felt that a nice dip into a nice cold swimming pool would be most delighting.

anyway sad to say i had to leave and go back to that earlier place at BJ court. went up and a small timid looking guy answered the door. showed me the rooms and i wasnt as impressed as the 1st place coz no windows, really tiny winny toilet and room was not even as big as my brother’s room at home. ask some general questions and left ASAP.. pretty much made up my mind where i wanna stay.

well pretty much that was abt it on the subject of room hunting. next my parents insist that i called my fren’s cousin so they can have a look at where they stay and if i was to stay with them for the time being. anyhow called my fren’s cousin and she drives a really nice Nissan Sentra. she runs an economy rice business and food industry is good. so went to her house and all and stayed to watch some tv, have some cold drinks, more toilet trips and inpromptu house tour and we were off the road again to look for some late lunch.

settled for McD’s coz it was too hot to sit outside.had some ice cream (heaven!) and we were off back home. driving home seemed quicker than goin.. it always seem that way in any kind of travelling that i do.

so i think that is abt it… till i move to penang…