Pearl of the Orient - Episode 3

25 December 2007

We woke up quite late on 23 December 2007. HA was the only one who got up early enough and spent his morning productively having jogged around the lake garden area. Aku dengan MZ, bongkang tak sedar diri. By the time we had our breakfast, it was almost 12 noon. NM and NA arrived soon after as we had promised each other to go the wedding together. Hisham's wedding was just nearby and we got there just in time to see him bersanding. The food was nice and I thoroughly enjoyed the kampung environment there. We left the majlis at about 3 p.m. After dropping MZ off at one of the hypermarkets in Taiping (tak ingatlah...Giant ke Tesco), both myself and HA made our way to Penang. We arrived at about 4:30 p.m and went straight to Zurina's. Selepas shopping segala, and aku dah borong more than RM1k, we made our way to the Batu Feringhi resort that I booked.

Dalam pukul 6 baru sampai resort. After checking in, aku just lepak2 at the resort. Sembang2 dengan the caretaker and beberapa orang colleagues yang turut occupy the apartments there. Disebelah malamnya, aku dan HA decided to have mee udang for dinner. It was recommended to us that the best mee udang on the Island is the one next to Balai Polis Teluk Kumbar. So, pergilah mencari malam tu. Sampai sesat-sesat ke Balik Pulau. We finally found the place which is located by the sea. Service punyalah slow, and the waitress kept on apologising for their poor service. Takdelah sedap sangat mee udang tu... other than size of the udang yang gedabak. Sampai hotel dah lewat malam. zzz...

Keesokan harinya, seperti biasa si HA pergi jogging. Aku tak tau pun dia pegi jogging sebab bungalow ni very spacious. He occupied guest room kat atas, aku kat bawah ambik master bedroom. So bila kat bungalow, memasing buat hal masing2. Baca buku, tgk tv etc. Dalam pukul 11 lebih baru kitaorang keluar for breakfast at a nearby restaurant. I had nasi lemak which I thought was quite nice. Lepas tu we went straight to Gurney Plaza...saje jalan2. Kawan lama si HA pun nak datang jumpa kat situ. Lepas pusing2 kat Gurney Plaza (Nintendo Wii...masih lagi tiada) we went to TGIF for lunch. Kawan si HA got caught in the traffic jam... so lambat lagi sampai. Lepas lunch, baru kawan si HA sampai. So sembang lah kat Starbucks for a few hours. Sampai dah kering idea, baru lah majlis bersurai.

Si Y pulak kirim suruh beli some sporting gears. When I checked, kedai kat Gurney Plaza recommended that I go to Queensbay Mall. Aku dgn HA yang memang dalam mood bercuti ni pun terus bergegas ke sana. Lepas membeli apa yang patut dan hari pun dah malam... baru lah gerak balik ke bungalow. But instead of balik bungalow, we drove all the way to Teluk Bahang for nasi Kandar. Most people rcommended us to go to Line Clear... tapi aku dengar banyak tikus.... so memanglah tak selera nak pegi situ.

Lepas dinner, balik bungalow, salin baju, aku and HA keluar lagi. This time berjalan kaki pusing2 night bazaar. Banyakla dvds yang menarik. I bought some decorative lights yang quite unique. Lepas tawaf kat situ baru balik zzz

Besok paginya, lepas mengemas...we left Feringhi resort dalam pukul 12 noon. Lepas lunch at the same restaurant that we had breakfast yesterday.. aku ngan HA menghala sekali lagi ke Zurina's. Memanglah tak serik. There, I spent another RM500 plus on shirts etc. Lepas tu baru gerak balik ke KL. Sampai KL, kelam kabut cari gas station sebab minyak dah nak habis sangat. Sebelum balik kerumah, we decided to have dinner kat KFC. Pegilah ke the Mall for dinner. Kat situ jumpa pulak Nintendo Wii. Yahoo... So now I'm a proud owner of Wii. Tapi ntah bila larr nak main.... sekian.

Nota kaki: Selamat Pengantin Baru buat Hisham and wife. Juga selamat bertunang to my sister dengan jejaka pilihannya :-)

Gambar2 adalah courtesy drp HA. TQ dude!