Sat, 26 Apr: Went shopping at Kamdar with Sze Lin. I bought 2 lengths of cloth, one white and one purple - more than enough for me to experiment with. Can probably wrap myself into oblivion? Yup! Very likely. We later met up with Vijaya at Gurney Plaza. I managed to find some accessories while Vij bought herself a pair of pants.

Sun, 27 Apr: Woke up early today for my road trip to Taiping with Chin Chin to visit Lokie. Left Penang at 8:15am and reached Taiping in slightly more than an hour later. Luckily for us the directions to Lokie's place were easy to follow - if not I'm sure we'd be lost in an unfamiliar place.

Lokie & her husband took us round Taiping. First stop - we had koay teow soup for breakfast. It's slightly different from the one we have in Penang. Next, they took us round to see Lake Gardens and we decided to go into the Taiping Zoo too. It's a pretty nice place and most of the animals looked OK except for the ostriches who look like they are half plucked. We also had the chance to play with a young horn-eared owl. Cute little fella... :)

Later on, they took us round to see some other landmarks near the town. We were also taken round the base of Maxwell Hill (Bkt Larut). Then it was lunch in town at a place Chin said her colleague said that the "Mee Rebus" was good followed by a little bit of window shopping. After that we went for tea before heading back to Lokie's place for a short rest before heading back to Penang at 4pm.

Later at 8pm, I went to Gurney Plaza's Nandos to meet up with Dan Khoo, Malcolm, Ash, PK, Jen, Pei Ling, Poon Wei, Jacob, Steven, and Norlman. We later moved to Segafredo's to chat. A busy but nice day indeed.