On Saturday 3rd August 2008, I was joining the Methodist church trip to few interesting places at Penang island. A few days before the trip, I was excited to join the trip. However, on the Friday night, I was thinking: “Oh man, I wanna to sleep till Saturday morning ler.” Suddenly, my mind almost make me to quit the trip just for sleeping. Haha. Still I able to wake up on the morning to join the trip. The group was consists of around 80 people with mostly USM students (I think I’m the one only that are not, HAHA)
First destination of the trip (around 9 am to 11 am): War Musuem of Penang
Never in my mind before, these kind of museum existed anywhere in Malaysia. According to the staff of the museum, this is one of its kind in the country as most of old World War II camp site have been destroyed by time or land development. Here I can see some underground army base and artillery storage places. However, those places also served other purposes especially when it is taken by Japanese army after they have defeated the British army during WW2. Guest what, it served as prisons and detention camps for those who opposed the Japanese occupation of Malaya
Second destination (around 9.30 am to 12.30 pm):Aquarium of Penang
Enough of history, we headed to more natural things which is the water living creature. Here there are exhibits of various kinds of fishes and others sea creatures such as the turtles, star fishes and coral reefs. The one that excited me the most is the sharks in one of the big aquarium. Haha, I never been so close to sharks (don’t laugh at me, ok)
Third Destination (around 1 pm to 2.30 pm): Tesco
Afternoon coming, we go to Tesco at Jelutong (I’m still not yet familiar with Penang, so any mistakes please notify me, Haha…) for our lunch. As the area around has few food court too, I was indecisive about where to eat. So Emily suggested that we should go eat inside Tesco instead. So we and few others went to Tesco and see what it offered to us. After finishing our dinner there are still time left for us to go jalan jalan at Tesco.
Final Destination (around 3 pm to 6 pm): Pantai Teluk Kumbar
Here I mean the final destination for our trip, not like in file, Haha. Upon arrival, we all rest a bit while enjoying the scene at the beach. But it seems to the beach wasn’t so clean especially the area of grass where we going to have our activities later on. After some prayers and singing some songs, we are divided into 8 groups. The first game that we going to play is the “creative group member introduction” My group decided that we will be marching the army style except that we will be marching by same legs same hands (haha, what is it?!) The second game that we are going to play is the station based group game. We must cooperate in order to win some points at each station. To add some excitement, there are people who will be “responsible” to catch our team members until all of us are gone. The team leaders will be the one that responsible to protect them. Me at first played in the role of catching other group members and ended up playing with my group members. In the end, my group gets the third place. Haha…
After that, we headed to Teluk Bayan’s food court to have our dinner together. I arrived at my house at around 7.30 pm and I was feeling tired but happy because it was really an enjoyable day for me. As I planning to go sleep on 10 pm, Ahmad invited me to play DoTA. Haha the game lasted almost 1 and half hour. In the end, I fall asleep as soon I on the bed. Haha…
PS: Feel so sleepy when going to church service at Pulau Tikus the next morning. ZzZzZzz…
