fruitful trip

i'm never going to get my own macbook! i can't believe it! everyone i know have their own laptop but i don't! i'm soo jealous of my sister everytime she takes out her shiny mac out and doing all sorts of cool things on it, things you can never do with windows. everything's so smooth! dang!

penang trip was definitely an unforgettable one. the car broke down halfway through, driving on the highway. called the tow truck but had to wait eons for it to arrive. me, my mom and my sister had to ride in our car while it was tilting at a 30 to 40 degrees angle with the window down while my father rode in the front seat of the tow truck with the towing guy, or whatever you call them. i'm not complaining, it was actually pretty fun to have the wind blowing against my face and through my hair. fortunately the car was fixed and ready to be taken for a long drive in 4 hours so we continued the journey from ipoh to penang and arrived at night. we were so pooped that we went to bed straight after dinner, not bothering to take a look around.

woke up at 8, which is an exhausting thing for me to do for i like to wake up late. took the winding road down from the apartment to town with an empty stomach. vomited at the gas station. everyone was in a sulky mood and snapping at everybody, so i grumpily suggested that we had breakfast first before doing any planning. so we ate and went to these places: fort cornwallis, where i took pictures with the goats and ponies, the town museum, creepy place, the baba nyonya mansion, loved it!! and the toy museum, with it's massive toy collection, said to be the largest in the world. it was amazing! it can be considered a great feat for us to visit 4 different places in an afternoon, 3 within walking distance from town and the other was a 10 minute drive. had dinner at gurney drive, which was pretty disappointing, i have to admit. the quality of the food has definitely dropped the last time i visited, which was 6 years ago.

the third day, the day we were to return, we didn't do much. in fact, we didn't do anything. we just went straight back home, for i was worried about pedro, my cat who's probably in his teens now, who was left at home because we thought it would be better to have him in a familiar environment than in a cage at a pet hotel. pedro doesn't like to be locked up, he goes crazy.

still, my family learned alot during this trip: we just can't spend long hours with each other without starting an argument~