top 10 worst things about penang
10. the lousy plane service
argh. malaysian airlines. we've decided tt even valuair, singapore's budget airline, is better than malaysia's national airline.
above: the twilight zone tt is our malaysian flight back home.
the plane was stuffy; there was no legroom and i was feeling fucking claustrophobic in the back; the service was so lousy coz the stewardesses were rude and abrupt; the food was crap (either too salty or too bland), and mona even said tt she'd been bitten by mosquitoes on the flight! bad bad...
above: see? the service is so lousy tt one of our guys' team rowers has to become the new flight steward! *gasp*
9. the spoilt toilet flush in my hotel room
above: that's yirang and i in our hotel room.
i don't have a picture of the spoilt toilet flush, but essentially it got stuck in the 'flush' position, and therefore was just flushing itself continuously throughout our stay there. which although was fine in the day, kinda got a bit creepy at night. not to mention difficult to fall asleep with.
8. the food
well. the best meal of the day is breakfast. tt's coz the hotel provided a continental buffet breakfast tt was included in the whole package and served a whole array of really good food like sausages, french toast, omelettes etc...
except tt in the mornings we had approximately half an hour to eat coz we had to leave for the race site all packed and ready by 7.30 am, and the table only opened at 6.30am. also, we had to rush for food with all the other rowers from the other teams, which meant tt table space was a problem, and the queues at the egg counter could go on for forever! ARGH.
we did however, have more time to eat either a) lousier food (like our cold packet lunches at race site... although admittedly it wasn't *that* much time either coz we had to abandon our food to row); or b) food tt we *CANNOT* touch. like curry, one of the things we'd been banned from.
above: lunch on day 0 - training day: rice with curry. can you see the damn sian look on our faces???
also, because of the slow pace of life in penang, waiting for food is a norm.
so we wait.
and wait.
and wait.
above: notice the also damn sian faces of vic and wendy at dinner on day 1?
yeah. it's okay if you're not tt hungry... but when you've rowed your guts out and you haven't eaten in at least 7 hours... BOY OH BOY.
at least i have my *ice* to keep my mouth busy. heh.
7. the fact tt we keep having to be in uniform outfits.
which is fine when we race... but to the AIRPORT???
above: the really thick hot blue polo tees tt have to be worn by both seniors...
...and juniors.
AND the really kopitiam auntie polo shirts we have to wear for opening ceremony??? eee yuck.
above: at least the guys look ok in them coz they're made for guys. but for us girls... gross. they're so big and baggy.
side view - see how they hang out and flap around?
hey. but at least the kopitiam auntie shirt doesn't deter hotties from taking pictures with our dear lydia.
note: this is NOT part of our general uniform. it's just part of the new 'happy family' range. :) "tie the red string".
6. all the barang-barang we have to lug around!
above: see all the stuff we have to lug about on our long walk to the race site?
ok. the good thing is at least we can play frisbee with our sponges. erm. as well as sit on them, use them to fan ourselves, shield ourselves from the sun, whack each other on the head, swat mosquitoes... well. you get the idea.
5. the lack of RnR time.
argh!!! from the moment we touch down till the time we leave it's work work work! wake up 6.15am to run in the morning and do circuits and push-ups in the car park, train in the afternoon, race from 7.30am till 5.30pm on sat and sun... only to leave the moment we're done?! argh!!!
above: our 'warm-up' for mixed race. yar lah. i look damn cool. i know. wahahaha!
...and us (from far away) when we're racing.
well. okay lah. at least we get to walk out for dinner and buy a bit of cheap fake adidas stuff... (that's yunshan btw...)
...serene and vic get to play a bit of pool...
and mona (the captain) and vic (the vice-cap) and david (our coach) get to ride in a trishaw WHILE THE REST OF US WALK. right.
4. the ungodly sleeping and waking up hours. and all that WAITING.
LOOK WHAT IT'S DONE TO US!!!
*warning: unglam shots alert!!!*
presenting...
vic!
wendy!
yirang!
jul!
and lastly... yes. ME. (yar. must be fair lah)
3. the fact tt we have to leave on Day 2 of our race, such tt we don't even have time to shower properly!!! eep.
*WARNING: SHOWER SCENE ALERT!!!*
refrain from scrolling down if you do not wish to witness 1 girl and 1 guy bathing together...
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...arhaha. fooled you didn't i? ;) heh.
outdoor showers. sigh.
2. the bloody slow hotel lifts
above: the bane of my stay in the bayview beach resort.
the hotel has 3 elevators, which are shared by *all* the teams tt are racing in penang. the problem is tt:
a) the lifts are FUCKING SLOW can?
b) the waiting time is FOREVER
c) the lifts stop on EVERY FLOOR
d) 1 of the lifts will ALWAYS stop on the 2nd floor even when there is no one waiting.
and last but not least... ...
1. THE *NEVER-ENDING* STAIRS!!!
we're climbing stairs ALL THE FUCKING TIME!!!
above: this is the stairs leading down to the boats at the race site.
it's damn fucking xiong to climb. especially when you're finished with your race set and all your energy has been sapped and you still need to climb those fucking steep and uneven stairs tt are about 3 storeys high... just to get back to your camp!!! ARGH!!!
can you *tell* how bloody tired we all are dragging ourselves up the long long stairs?!
even in the HOTEL, we can't escape the fucking stairs!!!
we ended up taking the stairs up almost 10 floors coz we wanted to avoid waiting for eternity for the lifts... but when we reached the 10th floor of the fire escape stairs we found that IT WAS LOCKED!!! it was a REALLY FUCKING KNNCCB type experience.
and YES. my inner thighs and quads fucking ached like HELL throughout the entire trip.
argh. malaysian airlines. we've decided tt even valuair, singapore's budget airline, is better than malaysia's national airline.
above: the twilight zone tt is our malaysian flight back home.
the plane was stuffy; there was no legroom and i was feeling fucking claustrophobic in the back; the service was so lousy coz the stewardesses were rude and abrupt; the food was crap (either too salty or too bland), and mona even said tt she'd been bitten by mosquitoes on the flight! bad bad...
above: see? the service is so lousy tt one of our guys' team rowers has to become the new flight steward! *gasp*
9. the spoilt toilet flush in my hotel room
above: that's yirang and i in our hotel room.
i don't have a picture of the spoilt toilet flush, but essentially it got stuck in the 'flush' position, and therefore was just flushing itself continuously throughout our stay there. which although was fine in the day, kinda got a bit creepy at night. not to mention difficult to fall asleep with.
8. the food
well. the best meal of the day is breakfast. tt's coz the hotel provided a continental buffet breakfast tt was included in the whole package and served a whole array of really good food like sausages, french toast, omelettes etc...
except tt in the mornings we had approximately half an hour to eat coz we had to leave for the race site all packed and ready by 7.30 am, and the table only opened at 6.30am. also, we had to rush for food with all the other rowers from the other teams, which meant tt table space was a problem, and the queues at the egg counter could go on for forever! ARGH.
we did however, have more time to eat either a) lousier food (like our cold packet lunches at race site... although admittedly it wasn't *that* much time either coz we had to abandon our food to row); or b) food tt we *CANNOT* touch. like curry, one of the things we'd been banned from.
above: lunch on day 0 - training day: rice with curry. can you see the damn sian look on our faces???
also, because of the slow pace of life in penang, waiting for food is a norm.
so we wait.
and wait.
and wait.
above: notice the also damn sian faces of vic and wendy at dinner on day 1?
yeah. it's okay if you're not tt hungry... but when you've rowed your guts out and you haven't eaten in at least 7 hours... BOY OH BOY.
at least i have my *ice* to keep my mouth busy. heh.
7. the fact tt we keep having to be in uniform outfits.
which is fine when we race... but to the AIRPORT???
above: the really thick hot blue polo tees tt have to be worn by both seniors...
...and juniors.
AND the really kopitiam auntie polo shirts we have to wear for opening ceremony??? eee yuck.
above: at least the guys look ok in them coz they're made for guys. but for us girls... gross. they're so big and baggy.
side view - see how they hang out and flap around?
hey. but at least the kopitiam auntie shirt doesn't deter hotties from taking pictures with our dear lydia.
note: this is NOT part of our general uniform. it's just part of the new 'happy family' range. :) "tie the red string".
6. all the barang-barang we have to lug around!
above: see all the stuff we have to lug about on our long walk to the race site?
ok. the good thing is at least we can play frisbee with our sponges. erm. as well as sit on them, use them to fan ourselves, shield ourselves from the sun, whack each other on the head, swat mosquitoes... well. you get the idea.
5. the lack of RnR time.
argh!!! from the moment we touch down till the time we leave it's work work work! wake up 6.15am to run in the morning and do circuits and push-ups in the car park, train in the afternoon, race from 7.30am till 5.30pm on sat and sun... only to leave the moment we're done?! argh!!!
above: our 'warm-up' for mixed race. yar lah. i look damn cool. i know. wahahaha!
...and us (from far away) when we're racing.
well. okay lah. at least we get to walk out for dinner and buy a bit of cheap fake adidas stuff... (that's yunshan btw...)
...serene and vic get to play a bit of pool...
and mona (the captain) and vic (the vice-cap) and david (our coach) get to ride in a trishaw WHILE THE REST OF US WALK. right.
4. the ungodly sleeping and waking up hours. and all that WAITING.
LOOK WHAT IT'S DONE TO US!!!
*warning: unglam shots alert!!!*
presenting...
vic!
wendy!
yirang!
jul!
and lastly... yes. ME. (yar. must be fair lah)
3. the fact tt we have to leave on Day 2 of our race, such tt we don't even have time to shower properly!!! eep.
*WARNING: SHOWER SCENE ALERT!!!*
refrain from scrolling down if you do not wish to witness 1 girl and 1 guy bathing together...
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
...arhaha. fooled you didn't i? ;) heh.
outdoor showers. sigh.
2. the bloody slow hotel lifts
above: the bane of my stay in the bayview beach resort.
the hotel has 3 elevators, which are shared by *all* the teams tt are racing in penang. the problem is tt:
a) the lifts are FUCKING SLOW can?
b) the waiting time is FOREVER
c) the lifts stop on EVERY FLOOR
d) 1 of the lifts will ALWAYS stop on the 2nd floor even when there is no one waiting.
and last but not least... ...
1. THE *NEVER-ENDING* STAIRS!!!
we're climbing stairs ALL THE FUCKING TIME!!!
above: this is the stairs leading down to the boats at the race site.
it's damn fucking xiong to climb. especially when you're finished with your race set and all your energy has been sapped and you still need to climb those fucking steep and uneven stairs tt are about 3 storeys high... just to get back to your camp!!! ARGH!!!
can you *tell* how bloody tired we all are dragging ourselves up the long long stairs?!
even in the HOTEL, we can't escape the fucking stairs!!!
we ended up taking the stairs up almost 10 floors coz we wanted to avoid waiting for eternity for the lifts... but when we reached the 10th floor of the fire escape stairs we found that IT WAS LOCKED!!! it was a REALLY FUCKING KNNCCB type experience.
and YES. my inner thighs and quads fucking ached like HELL throughout the entire trip.
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