from kl to penang

While walking past a store that sells travellers equipment , i noticed a sign " the world is a book, those who do not travel only read a page " st Augustine.

This is spurred me to finished something long overdue and i believe i shall have many more places i will be going.

We checked out of the hotel at 11am, had lunch with high hopes of scoring a cheap meal but it amounted to no different from a meal bought in Singapore.

Pudu raya is boiling cauldron filled with touts ,it is impossible to maneuver without bumping into the person beside, such places breeds pickpocket activities and syndicate, last i heard an ex classmate of mine had his passport picked from him pocket.
Not being able to speak much malay, engaging a chinese fellow is an obvious choice, a big sized man was standing at the front of one of the many bus ticketing booth.
He said the bus would take us to georgetown ni bong terminal bus, i remember reading that the terminal is at mainland butterworth, sounds like a typical con man, nevertheless wilson said its cheaper than other booths, we should give it a shot.

5-6hours later we reached georgetown terminal. ok he is legitimate, my apologies.
we got into a guesthouse at the main street of love lane , my first impression is a british colonial architecture at the exterior would be a posh to place.
So it is the extreme but not to what i assumed, the walls have dark water marks, patches of algae , the image of slime oozing from the holes keep appearing in my head, to complete the grotesque condition, the beds are massage bed used by what a masseuse would use.

We turned the propreitor down politely and came out , an elderly man cycled pasted then stopped in his tracks, turned around and asked if we are looking for rooms,i hesitated for an honest answer while wilson blurted out " YES ! " .
He mentioned of a place at the left lane which might have some vacant rooms.
I told my partner that i hope we are not getting into any trouble when he cycled off.

Starlight offers reasonable priced rooms, so much for being paranoid. But being in a foreign country, one shouldnt let his guard down.

At the bar, an english guy told us of a full moon party at koh phangan in mid october , he invited us to check it out.I was looking forward to it. however it is a high chance i wont make it, vietnam is like next door to thailand.Furthermore we are talking about south of thailand, i will be middle of vietnam by then.


some funny photos i took.
Saw a badly burnt car stocked with cheques at a rest stop.