they-call-me-jai: Art Wall, Penang

Monday, March 10, 2014

Art Wall, Penang

Well hello!

Hope you guys still remember me!

Been busy with everything lately but all is well no worries.

Last month we managed to squeeze a short trip to Penang yeay! Will you believe me if I said that the last time I went to Penang was when I was 19 years old? Yeap you got it right, more than 10 years ago. How sad is that right? I couldn't believe it myself. Encek K is a frequent traveller to Penang (due to his work) but somehow I have never managed to follow him all this while. Well, I guess I must make time for Penang again in the future.

Anyhow, when I finally managed to persuade encek K to take me to Penang last month, can you imagined my excitement level????

Finally I got the chance to taste Penang food and the famous Sup Hameed (ketinggalan sungguh I tell you). A lot has changed in 10 years of course, but nontheless it was a fun short trip for my family.

Well the highlight of our trip was our photo session at the famous Armenian Street. Since it was a one night trip only (btw, we have to go to Kuala Senangin, Perak the following day) we already set the plan to directly go to Armenian Street to take photo once we reached Penang.

selfie inside the car with our monopod

nasi kandar feast in Penang!

For those of you who do not know, Armenian Street is a street in the inner city of George Town and within the core zone of the Unesco World Heritage Site.

We love the art wall as it was something different, plus we had fun walking around the streets looking for the different art walls as it was located everywhere. The international tourists seemed fascinated as well with the art wall, they were queuing for photo as well *LOL*. It's definitely a good tourist attraction I think.

We drove to Armenian Street after feasting on nasi kandar lunch, we didn't want to take the 'beca' ride so we just parked our car and walked around Armenian Street to find the art wall.

The thing is; we have a 2 year old toddler who refused to sit still for even 10 seconds. So what do we do? We bought him a manual spin portable face fan for RM5 and we rented a bicycle with a basket attached at the back for him to sit down quietly and play with his fan, the bicycle costs RM10 for few hours. Both things made it possible for us to take decent photos coz he seems to be distracted with his fan and just sat quietly in the basket while mommy and daddy busy cam-whoring. We even managed to snap his photo with the art wall; thanks to the RM5 fan *our investment went well haha* Kalau tidak ada fan and bicycle, si kecik pasti mengganas sampai haru biru. So if you have a toddler on board; these tips might be useful for you.

We finally left Armenian Street around 7pm and headed straight to our hotel which was located right smack in front of Sup Hameed. Overdosed with Sup Hameed that night and we burned off our Sup Hameed calories by walking at Batu Feringghi that night. I finally managed to grab and now completed my Gossip Girl DVD collection *yippeee*. All in all it was fun short trip. A little too short lah, tak sempat makan passemboq. I have already asked encek K for a second trip to Penang middle of this year, this time a proper one hopefully.