PENANG : hard rock

As you all know, I went to Penang during the RAYA holidays and
i just loved malaysia a wee bit more because we have RAYA, CNY, DEEPAVALI and all those nonsensical public holidays =)
that's so me - TAKING ADVANTAGE OF EVERY SINGLE FRIGGIN HOLIDAY. so what?

Last Saturday afternoon, my family took a 5 hour drive up north to a little island called, PULAU PINANG.
sigh, the rain was splatting all over the windows and the traffic jam and accidents, oh boy.


but on the way there, we took a little stop at a place called Bukit Tambun for some good ol' food from under the sea. OCEANFOOD!
the oysters in the ho chien were FAT AND JUICY plus the crabs were filled with extra yummilicious orange eggs.


oh not forgetting those small lil blahhhdy cheap kuihs in all sorts of flavours like corn, red bean and my fav KACANG!
your never gonna find things like these in KL, EVER.


crossed over the penang bridge and head straight to BATU FERRINGHI where our hotel was - BAYVIEW HOTEL.
quickly settled our things down and did the necessities like pooping and WAHing over the huge family room thats supposedly fit for 4 but more like 8 the way i look at it.


oh, not forgetting to CAMWHORE.
(notice the remote i borrowed from a friend, it made camwhoring so much easier)


off we went to the pasar malam to get ourselves some REAL DIRT CHEAP movies.
dirt cheap as in 4ringgit per dvd and the 'buy 10 free 2' tagline.
we cheapskate people smuggled 80ringgit worth of dvds back home. if we were at KL, if woulda cost 160 minimum!



kebetulan pula, that day was PENANG'S HARD ROCK HOTEL'S SOFT OPENING meaning they didn't have the whole opening ceremony thingy but the rooms were available to book.
we did check out the rooms for that hotel, it was fully booked on the weekends till november =/ apa ni lah.
but i gotta feeling they soft opened it during raya to rake in some cold hard $$$$, hmm you thinking what im thinking?


but we did enter the hotel and c-c-c-checked it out.
the hotel was sparkling NEW with fresh furniture and those little artifacts everywhere like what hard rock is famous for.
statues and paintings and alcohollll!


there was a club thumping thumping and the bar was serving drinks like they were free, but they weren't. whaddya expect anyway, 15bucks for a glass of carlsberg. ouch.
BUT it was the cheapest thing there so, gotta sip some up =)



they had this type of chairs which were shaped like round beds that can fit 3 people lying on em with their feet dangling off the chair which i thought was pretty cool but rather space consuming.
oh they had board games for use too! monopoly and some cards, yee typical.



but it was pretty boring though, all the hype was concentrated at the club and there wasn't any performances at the bar/lounge area.


all that was left to do was, camwhore =)
that's ringo from the beatles.



and that was just DAY 1.
stay tuned for more =)