I’m back in Penang now for Chinese New Year. Spending some time with family and catching up with some old friends. During the day I have been running errands for my mum getting stuff ready for the Chinese New Year dinners. Like we’re preparing the steamboat dinner so I went to this Burma Road Wan Tan Mee store to buy raw Wan Tan from the owner.
Then for the beef balls I went to the Bomba beef ball noodle place and bought like 80 over beef balls from her.
Couldn’t resist having lunch there too. That is in my opinion the best beef ball noodle in Penang and it’s done by this pretty girl. Everyone refers to her as “leng lui”. If you’re wondering where it is, it’s right opposite the Fire Station at the end of Beach Street.
I also managed to find some time to pay a visit to my old baby sitter Aunty Nancy who took care of me when I was young.
At night though I’ve been going out quite a bit. My favourite hangout place this trip has been G-Spot at G Hotel because of their Live Music. Been there two nights in a row already.
Last night I was there to watch Dasha Logan.
She turns out to be the sister of one of my old secondary school mates. She’s really really good… I heard she performs in KL too so I’m going to make it a point to bring Shorty to see her one of these days.
Speaking of Shorty…. let me tell you some conversations I’ve been having with her.
It was 11.30AM or so on a Saturday morning. I BBMed her to wish her good morning and we chatted for a short while. Then after the 3rd reply I stopped getting any replies from her. I waited patiently and went to do my things.
Some 1 hour later she finally replied me
“I fell asleep again.”
This happens quite a lot. Shorty is a little narcoleptic.
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Later that day we were BBMing again. I was telling her how Penang had really cool weather this Chinese New Year… unlike the usual CNYs that are really hot.
She said “2012 iz coming”.
My Shorty says the funniest things.
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space