Cuti Cuti Penang!

so i think the quote for putting up pics in one post is filled... but anyway, we managed to reach Kek Lok Si... after a hards hr work of climbing stairs while window shopping.. though i don't really like the ppl that sell those things... they're too pushy, worst than the ppl at Batu Feringghi night market...

we reached and i was in awe... the temple is so huge!!! and lovely!! (it was abit dirty at the pathways though) the buildings were so colourful....

on the way up, the entrance to this place, it's like going through a hidden city, shops are built on stairs... not on flat land and when u reach the top and see the path u just took... fuhh... u actually went through the whole village!

the scenery from up here is lovely, luckily we had blue clear skies.. though at one point, we were afraid there was rain..

here's one at the main temple...

since we are here, it'll be a waste if we didn't go see the mighty huge statue! so Rm4 was paid each and sat on the AIR-CONNED train-lift... noted the AIR-CON i stressed? yes, it was our only 5 minutes of luxury... yes we were so hot from the War Museum and the "hike up" through the shops to the temple, that even standing infront of a fan is wonderful!!

when we reached up there, there was a park, had a pond with waterfall and fishes, and infront of the temple, there was statues of all the animals in the Chinese Zodiac, all 12 animals! we found our animals and "posed" with it... very nice indeed...

i was just thinking, just imagine if we came in a group, it'll be so much fun knowing which animal are u...

she and her dawg!

when my turn came to take a pic of my animal

she : go ride your cock!

me: ...uh?

we: LAUGH LAUGH LAUGH!!!

me: how can?!! got ppl!! ( i would u know, if there were no one around, sit on the chicken..)

the scenery here was better.... u can see practically the whole of penang.... town part la... we were just imagining the crowd of this place when Wesak Day comes... and the beauty of this place at night....

if u noticed there's some pillars being built around "her"... they're actually making a roof over her head.. can u imagine how high and huge that would be? so to get finance for this project the temple came up with so-called selling of tiles... where u can pay RM30 and above for a tile and write your name and wishes, these tiles will be used to build the roof... we saw quite a number of tiles that were "bought" and some were of orang putih's ones... interesting...

me and my cock! hahahah

since there were 2 of us, it was quite hard taking pics of us both in the picture with "her"... my tripod wasn't canggih enough so we had to do it manually.... unfortunately, i wasn't good enough, we had all of our heads cut off!! hahahha sorry!! hey, at least u can still recognize who is who... though i don't know who the gold one on the top right... hahahah

4 half heads

see how magestically "she" stands?!!! and see how freakingly small we are??!! amazing uh? and they want to build a roof over "her" head... OMG!!

so then, we had enough of the sun... it was sooo hot!!! and we decided to take the luxury 5 min air-con trip down.. and hike down back to civilization...

when we reached, i couldn't help it but suggested to have wonderful COLD coconut water!!! u can just imagine our faces when we took our first sip!

the next stop was at the BLUE Mansion!! Cheong Fatt Zhe (ros.. spelling?) we were tired and yet excited as none of us been there and not too sure bout the story of this chinese tycon....

look how small we are...

we reached there at 2.30pm.. the tour starts at 3pm... i brought her to one of the shopping boutiques and she was in awe.... hahahah.. too bad we only had bout 20 mins there... got to walk to the mansion to be in time for the tour... in the end we didn't get anything *phew*

so there, there was about 10 of us, half were orang putihs... and the tour started.. very interesting, it was about the guy who wanted to be a business man at 16.. managed to do so with 8 official wives...

i like this pic

the mansion actually belongs to his favourite wife, the 7th one... then it talked about the perfectness of the place in feng shui.... fuhh... impressing...

we were also showed that some deco in the house were made by broken bowls and that Gates took the method of "cut and paste" from the ppl who did these decos.. hahahha.. u have to go see it for yourself to know what i mean bout this place...

we couldn't take pics in the house, only outside... so we only took outside at the entrance...

at the Blue Mansion

so after the mansion, we decided to call it a day, got home to BATHE!!! we were waiting the whole day to take a bath because of all the walking, hiking, sweating.. hehehe... we met up again for church and dinner... didn't know where to eat...

we decided for this place at e-Gate... Tao... managed to get a place but when we saw the menu... it was Japanese!!!! if we wanted Jap, we could easily go to Sushi King! hahah so malunye, we left and went to another place down the block for western food... it was nicer, quieter and half empty... we could talk...

we talked and talked and talked till our eyes couldn't open anymore... was supposed to wait for her other half but it was getting too late for me... i had to drive back home u see.... so over all we had a wonderful day... loved it... must do it often.... now got to think where else to go... hahahah.....

anyone wants to join me for a day trip?