Penang – 11 Jun 2014
10:55 am – We make a move heading to Penang. We are armed with sardine sandwich, plain water, coffee, one-bar short of a full tank of petrol, RM100 touch n go, GPS and Google map on my daughter’s handphone.
12:55 pm – We stopped at Perhentian Rehat Tapah. We bought Dunkin Donuts hotdog, local fruits jambu air, jambu and rojak buah. We ate our sandwiches too.
3:15 pm – Re-fueling at another perhentian rehat.
4:30 pm – We reaches Bukit Mertajam, my God-mother’s house. Here we were served with Roti Arab, chicken curry and some bergedil. We were relying heavily on the GPS and the Google map as I am not familiar with Bukit Mertajam area.
7:00 pm – We finally reached our hotel, HelicoNia hotel. Checked-in and was asked to pay RM50 as safe deposit. This is standard procedure in-case if we damaged any of the items in the room. Our room is rather small with no window. We have 2 single beds. Although the room is small but it is clean and is in the middle of Penang town. So we are able to get around like the Chowrasa Market, Komtar and nearby malls like Prangin Mall and 1st Avenue by walking. We walked around the area that night and bought some bread and munchies from 7-Eleven.
Penang – 12 Jun 2014
Our room doesn’t have any window so we didn’t realize the time. We woke rather late. We make our move to the Escape Adventure Park at 9:00 am. We had the bread we bought the other day as breakfast.
When we get there, the queue wasn’t long. I just show them my groupon printout voucher over at the counter. They also asked me to purchase the money card voucher because all purchases at the park must be made via this money card. We topped up RM100. They brief us on the park rules as this is our first time.
It is now PLAYTIME. We started with “Monkey Business”. There are 3 levels of difficulty. Because there are too many people @ level 1, we started with level 2. It was very challenging for me because it requires balancing and utilizes a lot of your whole body muscle to complete a whole route. Alhamdulillah, we managed to complete it. We wanted to try level 3, but we need to get back down to get our tickets first. By this time, there are many people queuing already and we are expected to queue again. We decided to try other games.
Next, we tried the “Gecko Tower”. Both my children compete with each other and manage to get to the top of the tower in 39 seconds. Of course I took longer than 39 seconds.. duh.. No way, am I going to compete with my children. Next, we tried the bungee jumping a.k.a “Atan’s Leap”. Here, I found an 8 yrs old wanting to do it. I was feeling scared, and here he is, the 8 yrs ols kid feeling all excited to do the free fall. At that moment, I wished I was 8 yrs old again – I like the feeling of not being afraid. Then we tried “Flying Lemur” or normally known as Flying-Fox. My daughter loves it. In total, she played it 5 times. I did it twice only. The feeling of freedom sure is nice and calming. We tried the swing next. We decided we didn’t we didn’t want to do “the Maze” and “The Ape”.
By 3:00 pm, we were too tired and sweating a lot. We totally have depleted all our energy. We definitely need to recharge so we stopped for our late lunch. We ate nasi goring, char kuey teow and mee mamak. Each set comes with a soft drink and it costs us RM11.50 each. We used our money card for our purchases.
Before we leave, we thought we will give the “Monkey Business” another try. This time we tried Level 3. Like earlier, my children went first. My son can only passed the first hurdle of the route. He gave up on the second. He asks us to turn back around. I really wished we could do that Level 3. I’m just about to get warmed up to the hectic activities. My daughter then tried a few more rounds of Flying Lemur before we decided to quit. My daughter brought an extra t-shirt which she changed herself into and then we do solat jamak for zuhur and asar. By this time, it is already 5:00 pm and the park closes at 6:00 pm. So we decided to make our move back to the hotel then.
Important Note: if your hair is long, you need to tie it into a bun.
Lesson Learnt: in the park, you use a lot of the safety harness. It is like your best friend. All games will require you to wear it. It is required to ensure your safety.
On the way back, we passed through Batu Feringgi beach. The beach was pretty and inviting so we stopped for a little while and take some pictures. There were not many people around so it was quiet and pleasant. After 10 – 15 mins at the beach we stopped by at one of the eating place near the beach and had ice kacang. We were still hot from the activities from the Escape Adventure Park, so something cold is definitely cooling. I shared with my daughter. My son doesn’t want any. My daughter shares everything with me now as she wants to eat but don’t want to eat too much. Both of us are trying to loose some weight. After that we even stopped by a hawker by the roadside to get goreng pisang and cempedak goreng. My tummy was all happy but we sure stinked a lot by this time and cannot wait to get back to the hotel for a shower.
After showering, we met with my God-Sister at Bayan Lepas. She doesn’t have a car so we had to go to her. We just had her address and Penang is totally an alien place for me. With GPS and google map on my daughter’s mobile phone, we managed to locate her house. Her husband and her took us to a nice Nasi Kandar place called “Makbul Restaurant”. Very nice indeed. So that was dinner for us before we retired back to the hotel for the night.
Penang – 13 Jun 2014
On our last day, we decided to do some shopping. We went to Pasar Chowrasta Penang to get some preserved fruits (jeruk). We bought jeruk Pak Ali. Jeruk Pak Ali is special because it doesn’t makes you cough so I like it a lot. I bought a lot of these to bring back as souvenirs for my friends and my siblings. We also went to Prangin Mall, Komtar and 1st Avenue Shopping Complex. All of it is near to each other. My daughter got herself some kasut raya and my son got himself some tshirt raya too. Amazing that we come all the way here to buy us things we can get in KL. The pricing is the same like KL so nothing special here. We had a quick lunch in Komtar’s food court before taking the ferry to go back to KL.
This is an extremely long posting. I am so sorry if I bore you to death. Thank you for reading my musing this time around.
I hope you have a good night. Till next time, God Bless… Happy Ramadhan. May this Ramadhan we managed to collect as much pahala as possible.
10:55 am – We make a move heading to Penang. We are armed with sardine sandwich, plain water, coffee, one-bar short of a full tank of petrol, RM100 touch n go, GPS and Google map on my daughter’s handphone.
12:55 pm – We stopped at Perhentian Rehat Tapah. We bought Dunkin Donuts hotdog, local fruits jambu air, jambu and rojak buah. We ate our sandwiches too.
3:15 pm – Re-fueling at another perhentian rehat.
4:30 pm – We reaches Bukit Mertajam, my God-mother’s house. Here we were served with Roti Arab, chicken curry and some bergedil. We were relying heavily on the GPS and the Google map as I am not familiar with Bukit Mertajam area.
7:00 pm – We finally reached our hotel, HelicoNia hotel. Checked-in and was asked to pay RM50 as safe deposit. This is standard procedure in-case if we damaged any of the items in the room. Our room is rather small with no window. We have 2 single beds. Although the room is small but it is clean and is in the middle of Penang town. So we are able to get around like the Chowrasa Market, Komtar and nearby malls like Prangin Mall and 1st Avenue by walking. We walked around the area that night and bought some bread and munchies from 7-Eleven.
Penang – 12 Jun 2014
Our room doesn’t have any window so we didn’t realize the time. We woke rather late. We make our move to the Escape Adventure Park at 9:00 am. We had the bread we bought the other day as breakfast.
When we get there, the queue wasn’t long. I just show them my groupon printout voucher over at the counter. They also asked me to purchase the money card voucher because all purchases at the park must be made via this money card. We topped up RM100. They brief us on the park rules as this is our first time.
It is now PLAYTIME. We started with “Monkey Business”. There are 3 levels of difficulty. Because there are too many people @ level 1, we started with level 2. It was very challenging for me because it requires balancing and utilizes a lot of your whole body muscle to complete a whole route. Alhamdulillah, we managed to complete it. We wanted to try level 3, but we need to get back down to get our tickets first. By this time, there are many people queuing already and we are expected to queue again. We decided to try other games.
Next, we tried the “Gecko Tower”. Both my children compete with each other and manage to get to the top of the tower in 39 seconds. Of course I took longer than 39 seconds.. duh.. No way, am I going to compete with my children. Next, we tried the bungee jumping a.k.a “Atan’s Leap”. Here, I found an 8 yrs old wanting to do it. I was feeling scared, and here he is, the 8 yrs ols kid feeling all excited to do the free fall. At that moment, I wished I was 8 yrs old again – I like the feeling of not being afraid. Then we tried “Flying Lemur” or normally known as Flying-Fox. My daughter loves it. In total, she played it 5 times. I did it twice only. The feeling of freedom sure is nice and calming. We tried the swing next. We decided we didn’t we didn’t want to do “the Maze” and “The Ape”.
By 3:00 pm, we were too tired and sweating a lot. We totally have depleted all our energy. We definitely need to recharge so we stopped for our late lunch. We ate nasi goring, char kuey teow and mee mamak. Each set comes with a soft drink and it costs us RM11.50 each. We used our money card for our purchases.
Before we leave, we thought we will give the “Monkey Business” another try. This time we tried Level 3. Like earlier, my children went first. My son can only passed the first hurdle of the route. He gave up on the second. He asks us to turn back around. I really wished we could do that Level 3. I’m just about to get warmed up to the hectic activities. My daughter then tried a few more rounds of Flying Lemur before we decided to quit. My daughter brought an extra t-shirt which she changed herself into and then we do solat jamak for zuhur and asar. By this time, it is already 5:00 pm and the park closes at 6:00 pm. So we decided to make our move back to the hotel then.
Important Note: if your hair is long, you need to tie it into a bun.
Lesson Learnt: in the park, you use a lot of the safety harness. It is like your best friend. All games will require you to wear it. It is required to ensure your safety.
On the way back, we passed through Batu Feringgi beach. The beach was pretty and inviting so we stopped for a little while and take some pictures. There were not many people around so it was quiet and pleasant. After 10 – 15 mins at the beach we stopped by at one of the eating place near the beach and had ice kacang. We were still hot from the activities from the Escape Adventure Park, so something cold is definitely cooling. I shared with my daughter. My son doesn’t want any. My daughter shares everything with me now as she wants to eat but don’t want to eat too much. Both of us are trying to loose some weight. After that we even stopped by a hawker by the roadside to get goreng pisang and cempedak goreng. My tummy was all happy but we sure stinked a lot by this time and cannot wait to get back to the hotel for a shower.
After showering, we met with my God-Sister at Bayan Lepas. She doesn’t have a car so we had to go to her. We just had her address and Penang is totally an alien place for me. With GPS and google map on my daughter’s mobile phone, we managed to locate her house. Her husband and her took us to a nice Nasi Kandar place called “Makbul Restaurant”. Very nice indeed. So that was dinner for us before we retired back to the hotel for the night.
Penang – 13 Jun 2014
On our last day, we decided to do some shopping. We went to Pasar Chowrasta Penang to get some preserved fruits (jeruk). We bought jeruk Pak Ali. Jeruk Pak Ali is special because it doesn’t makes you cough so I like it a lot. I bought a lot of these to bring back as souvenirs for my friends and my siblings. We also went to Prangin Mall, Komtar and 1st Avenue Shopping Complex. All of it is near to each other. My daughter got herself some kasut raya and my son got himself some tshirt raya too. Amazing that we come all the way here to buy us things we can get in KL. The pricing is the same like KL so nothing special here. We had a quick lunch in Komtar’s food court before taking the ferry to go back to KL.
This is an extremely long posting. I am so sorry if I bore you to death. Thank you for reading my musing this time around.
I hope you have a good night. Till next time, God Bless… Happy Ramadhan. May this Ramadhan we managed to collect as much pahala as possible.
