struck down by the kitchen gods of chinese new year

since I contacted some sort of viral food poisoning that gradually became a bacterial one.

do you know the difference? well, a viral food poisoning will most like strike you with violent sudden bouts of vomiting but little or no diarrhoea at all, whereas a bacterial food poisoning will hit you both ways, but diarrhoea being more common.

don't know which contaminated food i took it but i'm banging my money on the VERY COLD otak-otak we bought the first night we were in penang. the next day i woke up not feeling too good, a bit bloaty and requested to lie in for a while. around 12 we were supposed to embark on a food adventure. so i got in the car, got a wave of nausea, opened the door in a nick of time and puked my guts into the sidewalk. i give myself a 10 for reflexes.

after that i felt completely fine and dandy.

so i thought it was a case of indigestion.

until halfway through our first meal of the day (yummy beef ball noodle soup), i decided that i couldn't finish it.

this time i puked into the sidewalk. the next day i puked into a restaurant toilet, and later night at night into my bathroom sink.

T-T

i miss food so much.

the only thing i can consume and not upset my stomach is some form of clear broth either in the form of porridge or white bread or something as disgusting as the above two. eurgh.

ANYWAY, what we did on our first day. Armed with Luaczeeyong's trusty GPS, we decided to check out... Malaysia's oldest planted tree. HAHAHAHA

So this GPS led us to a busy road with many many many cars and nowhere of stopping and we were like "WTF WHERE IS THIS TREE". and i was telling him i bet it's dead now and he said there was probably a building in it's place by now.

but then! We saw it, in an intersection along a busy road.

So czeeyong parked his car outside the compound of this humongous mansion and then we crossed the road to get to the tree.

All that hype for this...tree?