Malaysia trip part 3

Sunday 15 February 2009

Hello all!

Today is a very grey day, both the weather and what I feel inside T__T. I have no idea why, but I suspect having too much sugary food could be the culprit T__T.

Nonetheless, life goes on. Tommorow's going to be yet another Monday, and I can finally wear my new shirts now that I bought my cuff links!

I can't wait to go to the gym.. and possibly martial arts training later this week. That's like the highlight of my week T___T. See, no life once you start working. Treasure your student days. These words never sounded so true (well, it doesnt' apply to my final year in Uni though)

Alright, Pictures pictures!

If you noticed, I've blogged about one day of my trip in one post. Now, this is the last day in Penang.

First, we start off with the pictures of the cat. hahah

So manja

*Scratch scratch

*Posersss lol

Kuey Teow soup! Not the best, but its still making me crave for it now

Alright, a bit more description about the pictures. My dad, brother, and I decided to do some jungle trekking (soemwhere at the north west of the island). My aunt told us about it, roughly half and hour's trek to this place called Monkey's Beach and we being such outgoing nature loving guys (well you won't believe it if you only read the previous posts about food lol) decided to give it a try.

Anyways, we decided to stop by at the Hotel Rasa Sayang because the beach there is very beautiful. I still remember long ago when I went there there was quite a lot off ppl there, horse ridding, paragliding, at a very beautiful beach.

So, we masquereaded as hotel customers and casually strolled to the beach (you need to pass through the hotel) and even used their toilet T___T

Anyway,s pics:

They have quite a good landscaping done

aih.. looking at the grey skies outside.....*shakes head

A line of trees.. i still don't know the name of these trees...Pine?

The beach was quite empty because we were there in the morning. Not to say that fantastic after all, compare to this beach i went to on the East Coast.. ugh.. can't remmeber name..starts with C

Anyways, we continued our journey to the..er.. apparently it's a nature reserve... err.. monkey beach. So, we signed in, got some biscuits and water, and started off!

LOL magnify this picture and read the words.

It was a very nice trek, as we had the jungle on our left and the sea on our right. We could hear the sound of waves breaking upon rocks throughout the trek. From time to time, we get a view of the sea like this one here:
And this:

Army of ants marching

Oh yea, the trek was quite challenging as well. At a few points, there were ropes to hold on to because it was too steep or there wasn't any good footing. exciting!

Strange berries that would probably kill you if you try them. Just kiddng.

Spider and it's prey.

The sea!

At one part of the route, we had to walk at the beach. It was near a.. err.. something research centre.

Straight road ahead

We saw some ppl trying to light a fire...

Monkey see, monkey do. Monkey fail. Miserably. AHHA

Dead...clams?

Hmm couldn't really capture the transparent leaf. Gotta photoshop this picture one day.

Big roots.

So, we finally arrived at the Monkey beach! It took us about an hour! The estimated time was one hour and 10 minutes so we weren't that bad after all. lol.

The beach wasn't that.. well spectacular. So. no picutres.

Cool eh?

So, since we took a more time then we expected, we kind of rushed on our way back. That's why there isn't any pictures taken on the way back.

Monkey seeing us off.

For lunch, we had some Indian fried noodles. Not too bad.



Afterthat, it was a drive to somewhere near Ipoh for dinner. We were told to look for some big peanuts (that area is famous for it's peanuts lol.. something...er Menglembu I think haha)... we thought it would be a big picture of peanuts.. it turned out to be a sculpture T__T. Got lost a coupla times before we found the restaurant.

Anyways, we found ourselves in a restaurant where thre was a wedding dinner going on. T____T They still served us nonetheless lol so we ate, surrounded by the wedding dinner guests.

Ohhh we tried the prawns and it was nice! The sauce, is very fragant! I think it's the smell of the salt, fried till it's fragrant.
And we had some dear meat cooked with black pepper! The meat is very tender! One of the most tender meat I've ever tasted.. yet my dad said that he has tasted deer meat that is even more tender than that!
The.. ginger and herbs chicken wasn't that fantastic though. It was supoosed to be the restaurant's best dish but turned out to be so so only. Dissapointment. However, the kangkung belacan was fantastic! Tastes very good!
Anyways, that's the end of the Penang trip. We all arrived home at about 1 am, stuffed and tired.

I too, am quite tired of blogging now.. too many pictures, and not really in the mood too lol.