Holiday Postmortem

June 2, 2008 in Close Encounters of Misadventuring Kind, Holiday Mayhem, Random Ramblings R US
Tags: cable cars, Chong Yi Xiang, Chow Zhen Long, holidays, Langkawi, Lee Sze Shee, Penang, Su Yintse

Through this trip to Penang and Langkawi, we learned never to watch Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull at 12.30 a.m. ever again. One, wrapping your head around aliens and the fact that Harrison Ford and his alias Indiana Jones will never ever die in this franchise even though the rest of [...]

Part Two, and We Were Just Getting Warmed Up for Penang!

May 31, 2008 in Close Encounters of Misadventuring Kind, Holiday Mayhem, Non-Events
Tags: 10000 BC, Batu Ferringhi, Bayview City Hotel Penang, Chong Yi Xiang, Chow Zhen Long, Feist, ferry, Gurney Drive, Gurney Plaza, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, John Rambo, Keh Lok Si, Langkawi, Lee Sze Shee, Penang, Su Yintse, Teluk Bahang, Teochew Cendul, Tropical Fruit Farm

To cut an inhumanly long story short, we managed to locate the car rental company, buy the ferry tickets as well as some buns before we embarked on an even more inhumanly cruel 3 hour journey to Penang from Langkawi.
If the ride was not excruciatingly slow enough, they decided to show pirated versions of [...]

The Unplanned Trip of Penang/Langkawi 2008: Langkawi

May 26, 2008 in Close Encounters of Misadventuring Kind, Holiday Mayhem, Non-Events
Tags: Air Asia, cable car, Chong Yi Xiang, Chow Zhen Long, Langkasuka Hotel Penang, Langkawi, Langkawi Oriental Village, LCCT, Lee Sze Shee, Penang, rented car, road trip, Su Yintse

For the sanity of my readers (yes, the few of you) and myself, I am pondering breaking up my recent holiday to Penang and Langkawi into a few parts, but if I am feeling up to it, I may just mix everything together into a blog post of gigantic proportions. Anyway, I just returned to [...]