Trip to Pulau Pinang

I attended my high school reunion last week and took that opportunity to have a weekend break in Penang. It was the boys' first trip to Penang, Along has been looking forward for nasi kandar and papadom...partly an influence from the movie Papadom which we recently watched in ABO and my free of charge promotion on food in Penang.

We took the Penang Bridge and the boys were excited knowing that it is one of the longest bridge in Asia...but someone did mention kena baca doa , not sure who and only Angah was brave enough to come out of the car and took a picture.

After checked in into Eastin,

we went for nasi kandar at Gurney drive and dropped at Fort Cornwallis right after

with Mr Francis Light-the first white man who found Penang??

Capsule fort...

Nothing much but it looks like fun to the boys as they were running around enjoying themselves. Along actually requested me to take a picture in a prison, but i refused him, saying that someone might had been hang in that same prison...and they screamed!!!! kah..kah..kah....the truth i was scared myself if that imagination of mine is true! Kang kena badi...wahahahahahaha...
We also took this opportunity to visit my "playground" - those places where i was being raised

My standard one was in SRK Bangsar KL, and i was 7 years old when Tok Bibah, Tok Haji and the whole lot moved to Penang...our first house was in Bayan Lepas but with development and all i cant figure out which part of Bayan Lepas is the kampung now....

then when i was in standard 2-5 we moved to Sg Glugor our house was the 4th or 5th from that row of houses....

We moved again when i was in std 6 to a government quarters in Jalan Imigresen off jalan Burma...

Suprisingly now the whole strecth was converted nicely to a hotel named as 1926 Heritage Hotel Penang
This is Uncle's Boy primary school just next door to Imigresen Road...I think it was called Westland school , not anymore now.
We also came across this Dewan Sri Pinang, there is a library here where Tok Haji would drop myself and uncle boy and later fetched us after work.... He would give us some cash for our pasembor,rojak or mee mamak..

Last but not least a must to any vacation that we had i.e. shopping....another shopping spree at Gurney Plaza...Adib got a toy, a small transformed Ben 10 and Angah got nothing at first. Being overwhelmed with his new toy, Adib bragged to Aimran, saying things like how pity he was to Angah for not getting anything.
This made Angah turned sulky that later Abah agreed to buy him the control car he has been wanting....Now it's Adib turned to be very dissapointed that he didnt even want to touch his new toy and commented " tadi cakap kat adib tak leh beli mainan besar tapi angah boleh pulak "...there you go.....thank god it is not difficult to reason with Adib (even easier actually than to talk to Angah) and he was ok again the next minute phewwwwwwwwwww....

Overall i think we had good time in Penang...vacation is always great.. being away from the routine and seeing new places....

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