" Ring....... ring ...." John call me on 4.10am...... because we are planing ride to Penang on this day ( 14th May ) but......... outside still raining..... since last night :( ....... what to do we have to delay the schedule. This ride is only my self, John & Yeoh actually we plan for the ride since last month hope the " Thean Kong " don't spoil our plan ....luckly the rain stop on 5.30am and we started the ride on 6.00am..... yaaaaa hooooo....... :) Let go.........Penang wait for me.....:)
Did you ppl see the spirit from our face......... ( might be just wanna start the ride kut .....hahaaa especially that guy in the centre one....)
Let..go...........
Batu 17..... 1st 5min stop ..... photo time ....
Guar Chempedak......
Gurun...............
Entrance to Gunung Jerai......
7.30 am .... We reached at Gurun... our 1st stop for b/first " Duck Meat Keow Teow Ting "......time is on our schedule
John..........eemmmm.......
See..... finished all....... !!! u know lah.....hungry mah.... and the " Duck Meat Keow Teow Ting " also best mah...... : )
Oh ....yes..... 100PLUS ..... must have one..... but remember next time don't take ice........not good.... :-(
After the b/f .... the stomach feel better.............
gooooooooood......................
Perwaja Steel.................... Gurun
On the way to Bedong......
Sg Petani 15 km
Kepala Batas 40 km
Butterworth 50km
Penang..................wait for me......
Entrance of Harverd Golf & Country Club
Bedong......
This is another Golf Club entrance..... but i forgot the name........ :)
Three bikes in action....
John say..... " slow...slow....! got speed trap.........." haaaaa........
this tower is at Bedong...
Yes...... Sg Petani......
Sg Petani......... we reached there is about 9am... just stop for photo only than continue our journey..........
now u see is the landmark of Sg Petani.....
After pass by the Sg Petani town we have a stop at this " Tikam Batu " for refill petrol ( 100 + ) ....... haaaaaour next stop will be " Merdeka Bridge "
" Merdeka Bridge " we has been talking for so many time that we will ride MTB cross this bridge.. so today we did it......
After have highway .... we seldom cross this bridge when go to Penang.....
Wah.... Yeoh look like Power Man loh...... :)
After pass by the " Merdeka Bridge " the weather look started "HOT" and we have two stop, one is before Betam and another one is petrol station near Prai...
Finally we reached Ferry terminal about 12.15pm....
Water....water.......
John say he saw a sign board " No Bicycle : ...!
but don't worry our is MTB....... : )
This brother a lot of phone call oh.......
Now we can see the Toll already.... but which lane is for MTB .......heeeee......
" Brother ....how much for MTB ..... "" RM1.40 ..... "
" Alamak tak cukup coin pula ......." haaaa.....
Yeoh...pay for me & John... because we not enough money........ ( coin )
Yahooooo..... let go chase the ferry....... : )
ooopp..... have to wait another ferry to arrive..........
wait...lah....
In side the ferry.....
Cat Eye show that the time is 12.44pm.... wah a bit hungry liao.... we hv a short meeting just now..... Topic is where to EAT.....haaaa....... earlier John proposed makan " Keow Teow Ting " at Prai ... but Yeoh have a good idea why not we take our lunch at Penang Island... he know a famous place..... so ..... Lulus......lah..
Yeeeesssss...... we arrived Penang......
This day 14th May 2009....... we created our history..... " Ride to Penang "........!!!!!
ok.... let go for our lunch.....heeeee.....
before that we will put a stop at this bicycle shop Chin Aik........
Lunch........time....................
Guest what we take......heeeee...... waaa... so fresh...loh
and ....
Pls count how many mirror in side the picture......... : )
me ..... very hungry.....loh
foodddd........haaaa....
John : All in lah.... dah lapar liao..... ..
I like this picture... don't know how every time i saw this picture i can feel the happiness especially yeoh...... although it's really tire but..... we enjoy the ride..... also the food lah.......
Left : oyster + egg
Bottom : Teow Chew noodle ( I saw every table order this so.... i ask for it's also loh.... comment is ...good !)
ah harrr this is special .... do u know what this........?
it's a TURBO FAN for our "steamboat"......
This the restaurant ..........
Yeoh friend from also meet us at this restourant ...i forgot his name...... but he say tomorrow wanna hv lunch with before we go home.... is a nice man.......also is a biker....haaa....
Did u know where it's...? "
Famous Chandoi at Penang ......
.....eemmm .... woi...yeoh ......oh... still busy with the phone call......
Now we started our journey to look for hotel........Burma road....
We plan to go The Northern Hotel.......
We reached The Northern Hotel..... but ..... due to they can't allow us to bring our bike to room...so.....we hv to look for another hotel.......
Next hotel will be The Gurney..... haaaiiiii........
Yeoh...... alamak.... .......
The Gurney Hotel.............
Finally....we stay at this hotel.........
Good rate + nice room = HAPPY
wah....... ....
in side the room ...........
Dinner time...at Gurney hawkers center....
Yeoh ....what happen...... HOT......or ...u wanna to say the food is good ...... : )
For me..... Laksa...... char keow teow + ...............fulllllll....
After the dinner ....John propose we hv a night ride at Penang Island..... but Yeoh is refuse because.....he don't want "mandi" again at night time it's will cause " hong sip " haaaa....... but finally he also follow us lah...... we go for a drink then came back to hotel........
Next morning hotel provided the b/first for us.....
Ok.... after check out from Hotel.......
Gurney......
Tan Sri Loh Resident.......
We are on the way to jetty.... due to still got times so.... we plan to go few places at Penang b4 we leave ....bicycle shop.....CCI and " Kwan Yim Teng" ..........Esplanade..... etc....
Let ...go....
Put a stop at this nice old temple .......
Here will be the famous "Kuan Yim Theng "
wah...did u see the ppl at behind............ :)
our bikes..............
Esplanade Penang............
Dewan Undangan Negeri..........
Jetty.....................
Jetty just in front........!
eeeee..i.i........ii...
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ohhhhhhhhhhh....
Tanjong City Marina Penang......
i like the view .........
Three bikes in action.....
Jetty.......
we now going to take ferry to Butterworth........
as usual need to wait for ferry loh.........
Ok...friends..we reached Butterworth already now is time to go home liao.......
From my meter record show that we total ride 117.33km from Alor Star to Penang times consuming about 06:02:08 might be ppls will feel we take so long time....but actual is we stop many places....anyhow we completed the ride ...... From my view although it's look like very easy but our mental must be firm......if not also very...... susah....loh...
Here i would like to thanks John & Yeoh.... during the journey both of you helpful and take care each other..........and also thanksb to Gurney Hotel security head ...whose understand our situation and allow us to keep our bikes in the hotel room.....
zzzzzzzzz........zzzzzzz.......
...... woi..... ada " nombor ekor tak "
haaa.................
