Alor Star Trip - last day

Day 3 -- 24th April 2008 Thursday

There are not much to say about Day 3 as we didn't visit any places....
Everyone woke up not that early -- 9++am..
Last day of the trip... everything was great, felt sad to leave... it's really a relaxing vacation, left lots of good memories too....

We brought along our "luggages", had our breakfast at a restaurant nearby, then Shi Yen's mum sent us to the bus station.... Shi Yen helped us to buy tickets, each ticket cost the same price RM7.50 like the one we bought for Butterworth to Alor Star; of course, Shi Yen didn't go back to Penang with us lah... Alor Star is her hometown what... haha

At Jetty's bus station, we took Rapid Penang back... however, those 3 guys took different bus than mine because there's another bus which directly sent them back to their hostel area; while the bus I took only sent me till Sungai Dua USM entrance; the hostel they stay was different from mine, mine was inside the campus....
really hate to take bus alone.... =.=... very lonely... and it was a quite-long journey, more than half hour.

Thanks to Shi Yen for being such a good tour-guide hehe... without her, we wouldn't know Kedah actually has those nice places to visit! We had eaten lots of nice food too! The house we stayed was big than enough for 5 of us to stay, it's very comfy... but we didn't take photo before leaving the place aiya...
Too bad that we didn't have the chance to view nice paddy field scenery as now is the time they replanting the paddy... we could only see 'lake-like' field...


That night Wee Wang and Aaron would leave Penang back to their hometown. Hence they were actually in rush to pack their things...
That night too my roommate back to her hometown -- Kuantan.
Before farewell to her, I went to the-3-guys' hostel area and had "farewell" dinner with them.... haha...then I rushed back to my room and helped my roommate to carry her luggages and said good bye to her....

A farewell day? ==;

Alor Star Trip - 2nd day

Day 2 -- 23rd April 2008 Wednesday

Woke up at 8++am, waited everyone to be well prepared, then walked to the Pasar Pagi nearby and had our breakfast. Then, after short discussion, we decided to stay one more day here!

At first we had planned to have only 2Days 1Night trip, but then it would be a rush for us and might miss some places... Then, we bought shirts at Pasar Pagi since some of us had only brought one set of clothes here....

After that, we took some rests and played cards.....and by the time we were prepared to go out, it was late noon already..
The first destination was Tun Dr. Mahathir's birth place! It was open for public to visit, without collecting any fees.








Then, Shi Yen brought us to a restaurant, like a yumcha place and we had lunch. The restaurant was not bad except for its higher charge, just like the price in KL.



Then, our next destination was Lye Huat Garden 来发公园. It was quite far from town, and located along the highway. Each adult ticket costs RM10, but since we are students, we paid only RM8 per person.
It's quite cheap actually, because this garden was not merely a garden, but with animals and some antiques/statues.


there are many statues of this kind... lol.. each of us chose one to take photo with...


Qin Shi Huang Terracotta Warriors and Horses @ Lye Huat Garden..
this photo was taken while testing the timer... our poses not bad huh, cool!


Another timer-capture... at the bridge...


Ming and Me.... like Thai emperors? (Thai.. because of the elephants?)
The elephant-shaped statues... had been vandalized.... some plants like cactus too... too bad la those people..


too far? haha... timer again..


near this time... timer...
Everyone of us comes from different places oh


timer again lolz... traditional musical instruments?


Aaron, Ming, Wee Wang

We took a lot of photos there.. and actually Wee Wang's mobile phone was almost out of battery, we even brought along the charger and charged the mobile phone for minutes there kekeke...
There were lots of animals! But I lazy to upload those photos here... such as tiger, crocodiles, deers, various types of birds, snakes, swans, even dogs!
There's an aquarium too!


Before going off.....

After long walk in this beautiful garden, we were planning to go for 'kayak-ing'. We were searching the lake saw by roadside (highway)..

Finally.. we reached the garden! The only purpose we went there was to 'kayak'... hoho... each of us paid RM3. Ming wanted to kayak by his own, while Wee Wang with Shi Yen; Aaron and me.
It was a good experience, at first we didn't know to control kayak at all... haha... the scenery was very great! At the end, Aaron and I could kayak the fastest among us hehe...





It was already 8++pm by the time we had our dinner, each of us ordered a set of steak and all of us shared a bowl of tomyam! Yummy...!!!
Then we went to the very last destination of the trip -- Alor Star Tower (Menara Alor Star)

Adult ticket RM6.. student like us RM4, however only Wee Wang and I brought along the Matrics card, others didn't bring... we must show the card to get the student price.

Before this, I didn't know there is a tower in Kedah lolz... paiseh...
Nothing much could be done other than observing the night scenery of Kedah.. and also observed through the telescope; while enjoying the wind blowing...


Asked help from staff there to take this photo...

Too bad it was too dark to take photo of the whole tower from outside. After enough observation done, we went back to the house.
Again, we took turn to take bath.... and watched tv... and looked the photographs taken! Shi Yen brought her laptop and Wee Wang transferred the photos to the laptop through bluetooth.

Alor Star Trip - 1st day

Day 1 -- 22.04.08 Tuesday

Just finished final exam the day before lol.... met my friends at Sg. Dua guard house at 10.45am and then took bus to Jetty. Aaron, Ming, WeeWang and I were following ShiYen back to her hometown at Alor Star, Kedah; while YanFen was going to Sungai Petani to find her friend before going back to KL. 6 of us were taking ferry to Butterworth together.

Then, 5 of us (except YanFen) took Transnational express bus to Alor Star, paid RM7.50 for the ticket and the journey took us 1.5 hours. On the way to Alor Star, we could see many paddy fields which are hardly could be seen in cities, it would be nice if the paddy was not yet been harvested....

ShiYen's daddy went to fetch us... and we had our late lunch at her house ^^ yoyo... 'home' feel! hehe...
Shi Yen was forced by us to perform some piano playing after that.. she could play it quite well although she had not practised it for long! We also had some chatting with her parents, they were very nice people!

The place we stayed there was just nearby their house, it was Shi Yen's grandma house which nobody staying now. wow.. it's really a good accommodation for us! =)

Since we were short of time, we were only able to visit two places. First destination was Paddy Museum (Muzium Padi; National Rice Museum). Paid RM2 for the entrance and RM3 for the approval to take photos.
It was too bad as my camera was malfunctioned =.=" ... luckily, Wee Wang had just bought a new mobile phone k800i with 3.2 Megapixels camera! If not.... no photos for memory!

However, the people in charged suspected us using two cameras while we had only paid for one camera... in fact, mine was really cannot be used at all, I proved to him and finally, the matter was settled but was 'lectured'.


Me, Ming, Shi Yen, Aaron, Wee Wang


Pretending to view scenery...haha.. looks real huh?

After climbing staircases, we reached a round-shaped room, with nice backgrounds, which are actually the actual scenery around this paddy museum. These backgrounds were drawings (murals?)... and they looked quite real, as if we were looking the real ones surrounding this whole building. The outer ring of the round ground could move slowly for visitors to admire the scenery by merely sitting on the chairs haha....


Ming and me... Did I look like a malay girl? =.="


wah.... doing hard work -- ploughing haha...
Again, quite real hor?

we tried the first timer-shooting using Wee Wang's k800i hehe...


'sayang sayang' the lion lolz...not bad, my lower legs -- calves looked slim keke..


nice background wor... (is that Gunung Keriang? I'm not sure haha)


All these were taken outside the museum..


another photo taken using timer function =p

After taking photos, we departed to the next destination -- Gunung Keriang.. the place where many crystals are sold. However, we just walked around and took a look at those crystals but didn't buy any.

After that, Shi Yen sent us back to her house (oh ya, she was our driver hehe). We were planning to have our dinner at a seafood restaurant! However, it was raining heavily suddenly.... we waited some whiles and then her dad and mum respectively drove a car and fetched us to the restaurant. Wow... we had a very full dinner, and the food was indeed yummy and cheap! This dinner had only cost RM80+ for 7 of us! Thanks for Shi Yen's daddy for treating us this yummy dinner!

If it was not raining, initially we planned to visit Alor Star Tower after that. Since it was, we had to cancel that plan and went back to rest. 5 of us took turn to take bath and were lazying on the sofas to watch TV.... it was very cozy and relaxing! Everyone of us were quite tired because lacked of sleep, we just finished the exam the day before! Therefore, we didn't sleep at late hour... we need lots of energy the next day kekeke!