Sweet Bitter Pill

..last week was a long weekend for both of us...Took the friday off before CNY and drove to Penang on Thrusday night. Wifey got a sudden meeting there, so i volunteered to drove her there..What a nice husband i am..hehehe

Spent the weekend in Penang with all the confusing roads and kiasu drivers...It was nice to just let loose and hang out.. minus the countless sms or call from the boss requesting updates on my sales progress..sheesh..can't you just leave me alone!!!

view frm our room

I know my cust dun celebrate CNY, but i think since we are a multicultured society.."semangat muhibah" we all Malays too kinda join in the frenzy..look at the traffic jam...

Anyway, coming back to Penang story..we stayed in CityBayview..a 3 star hotelmi guess..loud banging music from the club..lousy breakfast menu..exactly same as Seri Malaysia menu..But i was excited for the wireless option for the guest.. I requested the prepaid card from the reception and their reply was.." it was out of stock for month..the vendor from spore have not came back to us" I was like..WTF..ur promoting this option on the counter..yet you dun have it...Since i really need an internet connection..i kinda loose it with the reception..an innocent bystander...hehehe sorry dude...

So, with no wireless, I wanted to use the land line to get connected..but warned by wifey not to use as it would be charge in the rooms later...sigh..In a MSC state here, but I just could not get online..it's a nightmareeee!!

So, my last plan was to go online..with my handphone..I've thought about this for awhile..after i bought my 6260 which have a modem function but never tried it before..so..as a geek like i am..i align my hp beside my thinkpad and activate the infra red...then connect both of these device...and launch the nokia suite app..after tinkering for quite sometime with the settings..i was online..Heaven on earth....hehehe....a very slow heaven experience i might add. Feels like surfing in the 90's where the fastest modem was 14.4kbps...Blazing speed..burning rubber...

GPRS connection was around 11-14kbps around here...When can malaysia have Wimax..or at least 3G...hmmm, probably its time for me to change to 3G phone instead..hunney..Whaddaya think?

I was online during the and happily replicating my email when it struck me..gprs are costed per kb downloaded..i quickly glanced thru the meter and it was already 7mb downloaded..Did a quick calculation for it and it was like 70 bucks..f**K!! Called up helpdesk to confirm the charges and turned pale...i'm broke for a 15 min of pleasure on heaven...now i know to surf after 12midnite for a half rate...Mental Note!!

We arrived in Alor Staq on sat afternoon..and i practically park my butt on the dining chair looking for anything edible...My MIL do cook nice stuff...but not as good as you hunn..hehehe..from there on..i'm like the big eating machine..day in day out...now that's a vacation.....we went to fenot's wedding on Monday...another eating frenzy...think i'm too spoilt for food...too many choices...soo limited time..

Went to Padang besar with the rest of the family during the weekdays...shopping around for stuff...i'm just the designated supir..i always wanted to buy that bonsai plant...but i have my doubt to take care of it. Officially, my ulam pegaga already gone to heaven plant....probably too miserable living with me..ooh yeah.. while we're in Penang.. we dropped by to Penang version of petaling street in batu ferenghi..damn its nice...lots of fake goods...at a good price...alot of tourist shopping around with a garbage bag full of CK designer bags..and also..you wont be harrassed by the peddlers like the one in PS. They can be very annoying and scary...i tend not to even touch the stuff if i dun want to buy anything....And they always approached me for a porn vcd's...for the last time...leave me alone!! I bought a two iron balls in penang with a yin yang pattern on it..i like..hehehe..me like playing the balls..you rotate the two ball on ur palm...ok..that doesn't sound right...moving along....btw...i'm not a porn freak...

Coming back to kedah...zooming in pdg besar...she spent most of the time in the jewellery shop..buying loads of beads..and me waiting for them bored to death. While we're in another outlet...buying a wood vase...i could really see the bargaining skills from my MIL..she's rock.. I can believe she can haggle the poor ol pregnant lady like crazy..I dun want to be in her shoes...I was already sympathize the pregnant lady..afraid she might burst with the kind of onslaught my MIL is giving...another mental..never sell anything to ur MIL..eventhough ur in sales...i think she eats salesmen for appetizer...me very afraid!!

We made it alive during the trip and later that night wifey decided to go back to big field the next day...I was like dumbstruck..huh!!Am i missing something here..we just cameback and yet she wanted to go there again tomorrow...

As a loving and understanding husband as i am....not to the level of pissed of..we went there again..just the 2 of us...luckily...there was not much shoppers as its already working day in here..and guess you can bargain better price...she bought more beads and i just stood there doing nothing..what my life have become...

"i tak suka B**i M**** and Uncle Gla**e* balik, i tak dpt tgk astro"

The rest of the days was routine..get up late..breakfast..read paper..fighting over the remote with my niece Kelly..she's 8, so everybody can guess who wins the remote...i dun watch disney channel for a very long time now...go for lunch..sleep..wake up...go out for dinner...and watch more tv...exactly like ayam ternak minus the astro lah....

We cameback to KL on sat evening..ran thru a recent accident scene with a guy lying on the road face down..i just dun wanna watch that...at least wifey were awake till we reached damansara tolls..quite a feat..as record shows she'll be counting sheeps within the 1st hr of the journey....

Ok...better stop now...or i wont stop at all...its been awhile i've not blogged this long before...think the long holidays do brings a breath of fresh air...rejuvenated...

Btw, the title of sweet bitter pill usually refers to drug related stuff...but i'm just rekindling the memories of my friends in a-level who banded to together and called themselves SBP..and life like this...its a sweet bitter pill to swallow............