So penang wasn’t really THAT good

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?

But it was quite cool though, i mean it was dying and withering and totally bald by now but they still hold up the trunk with supports and placed this placard to describe who planted it and what kind of tree it was.

All this was pre-crazy vomiting spree so i was still as happy as a bunny

After that, we decided to visit...

SPCA Penang. AHAHAHAH Well the stupid GPS doesn't have a very good TOURIST destination hotspot so they pointed us  to the SPCA so we pretended to be a couple looking to adopt a dog (while our very own Buddy is stuck in a pet day care somewhere in Subang) and asking to look at the dogs at the SPCA in penang. The guy was very accomodating though, he took us to see all the doggies there.

Most were mongrels, except for the pretty cocker above (first row, second from right). She was found in a drain, hair matted and in a very sorry state. She was also found to be pregnant before. SPCA penang assumes that her original parents, those fuckers, decided to keep the puppies and throw her into the drain. The fire brigade found her and kept her for a week to see if anyone claimed her before they gave her to the SPCA.

So. Anyway. After we left SPCA, we went to this weird ass ulu mall called Prangin Mall and I wasted no time comparing it to KL malls. Very conceited of me, but ohmygad, where the heck is topshop? And I made a joke and said that movies there are probably only 7 bucks or something and IT WAS ACTUALLY CHEAPER IT WAS SIX BUCKS ONLY that place is awesome.

And much much later we grabbed a bite at this Wantan Mee shop beside our hotel. It was pretty gooddd, but from here forth, every dish is a food poisoning suspect