A Monkey Tuesday - WITH PICTURES!!!

I have a rule-of-thumb: If it’s a festive season, do NOT go to Penang Island. Yesterday, I decided to break it. And just as I was entering the bridge, it hit back on me right on the face. I was stuck in a traffic jam for >30mins. And it was scorching. Great.

But once on the island, surprisingly, everything went smoothly. No traffic jam to speak of. Which is weird, actually. Anyway, we headed straight to a Mamak restaurant for a “good food, bad service” chow-time. The Tandoori Naan and Briyani Rice were so GOOD!

We couldn’t get to Bukit Bendera as the cable car tickets were sold out. What a blow coz we were really looking fwd to it. If only I had six-sense and the power of prophecy, I would have saved RM2 on the parking fee. Oh well.

Next stop: Botanical Garden. People come here to enjoy its lush greens and river streams, in addition to getting close to human’s primal root by befriending monkeys. Yup, Botanical Garden is infamous for its monkey. Speaking of primal, here are some observations:

1 Monkeys are afraid of humans. Esp. the big ones.
2 Human too, are afraid of monkeys. Esp. the big ones.
3 Humans (the big ones, in particular) pretend that they are not afraid of the monkeys even though they sprint away when the monkey runs toward them.
4 Marsha, who is small in size, is not afraid of the monkeys... judging by the sound imitations and flying kisses she does.
5 Monkeys are not afraid of Marsha too, coz she’s small.
6 When a monkey and Marsha get too close to each other, humans get afraid and started to panic and frighten both of them.
7 Then, small humans get afraid of big humans.

I guess, size really do matters here. Anyway, Botanical garden is SOOOPARRR! Here I learnt that Marsha could actually walk on uneven surfaces. I’m such an observant Dad.

We then had a Penang style Coconut drink on “a stretch of sand and rocks on a reclaimed land that’s located by the sea” or simply put; “something-like-a-beach”. Followed by another “good food, bad service” seafood dinner by the sea.

To sum it all up, Penang rocks! For 87.03% of the time, you’d probably meet people who are NOT rude. This is GOOD coming from a place where 96.12% road users are rude (the remaining 3.88% are visitors). Hehe.. :P

I have sooparrrr pictures to share. I’ll post it later.