honestly sounded so lame but then again i haven't been to Penang before so i didn't mind the exploration,
(and it was fairly cheap)
Getting to Penang we were chucked into some kinda youth hostel,
with like colourful walls pool tables & cozy bunk beds lol.
So in our leisure time in the evenings, since we're nocturnal bastards we go out in search for cheap "penang food". safe to say that doesn't exist.
I've heard stories and legends of famous fried kuey teow and asam laksa or whatevers,
Little did we know the uncanny resemblance with Australia, all the shops close before you can even think of dinner, which is utter bullshit obviously.
So for three nights all we did was walk for hours in the night in the dirty ass roads of Penang.
Can't really complain about it though we gave each other good company and had pretty long talks about life and society and politics and tax and all that interesting stuff right im joking.
But even in those nights we did manage to find quite a number of pubs and reggae bars, so those were good times.
For such a dirty place with not many places to eat and more alleyways to get lost in than new york city, there were a staggering number of tourists around, as a half tourist i found that real weird.
Anyways on the last full day we had to explore freely, i took it upon myself to part ways with my lazy ass mates and try to find these wall paintings everybody was craving about.
It just happened to be one of those days when you're loving the sun on your body and you walk for hours but all you realize is the beauty in the old structures and shoplots.
May have sustained a pretty nasty sunburn but that's nothing new by now.
Anyways after about an hour of trying to find the 'Armenian Street', i did.
Without a map telling you where to find all the paintings, i swear it was quite the treasure hunt.
But i did end up finding some gems.
Obviously the oh so famous children on a bicycle.
And this baby in the middle of a pole, which i can't remember what they named it but it was just fucking awesome.
Anyways as i walked on (and eventually got lost) i found some seriously cool artworks, most of them barely even known as a tourist attraction which just...baffles me.
And this extremely random painting of roses in an ice cream cone, which i thought was the best i saw in Penang in terms of pure talent, in the middle of some empty street, like literally i was looking around thinking why does this not get attention??
I didn't take pictures of everything i saw but it was truly amazing, Penang has it's absolutely beautiful sides.
Our tour took us to Penang Hill, & Ferrengghi if that's how you spell it, Shit beach i might add, we went in anyway but i honestly i was going to come out chemically changed like a fucking mutant turtle. You would swim for awhile and two pieces of trash would float past you, dirty as ever. But hey it's what the locals do...might aswell join in the "fun".
Trust me ever since seeing the pictures of the trip, i have never known how ridiculously retarded a tank top sunburn looks like.
We visited temples which had stairs for days and tall towers and peaceful music and really old tortoises. And these really cool fake trees which you hang ribbons on with a wish on it.
Overall it ended up a really cool weekend, it's always nice to see new parts of Malaysia, the differences in culture from the city to the island. I do recommend Penang, not for longer then 3 days though. Glad to say that we made the best of it, the extremely long walks to nowhere, exploring new things, seeing old people shirtless all over town (ripped btw). The drunk nights with me classmates and the wasted walks back to hostel which felt like fucking forever, sleeping on roads and going half nude for no apparent reason. And you know...seeing the temples and stuff lol ;) What i loved most though was the extremely random paintings, like cats and sesame street, roses on ice cream cones, i love random things, i could stare at it on the wall of an alley for like 5 minutes just wondering what the fuck the artist was thinking or what drug he was on.
sorry for lack of face.
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