So Shorty and I decided to take the family back to Penang for the Raya weekend. We haven’t been back to Penang in a really long time. When I say a really long time I mean the entire year this year.
We didn’t go back even for Chinese New Year because Shorty was in the later stages of her pregnancy then and the doctor advised against traveling cuz of her preeclampsia tendencies. And after that we didn’t go back because I was really busy working on our IPO.
With all that done though it was time to go back and we picked the Raya weekend for it. We were kinda worried though. We had just recently brought both the kids to Sydney with us and we learned two things:
1) Fighter is a really bad traveler. He hates traveling and is very uncomfortable in foreign places.
2) Penny needs to feed or sleep every few hours which makes it hard for us to go out at all.
Penang though we thought might be different because we would spend most of the time in my parent’s home. Fighter always seems happiest when he’s at home and Penny.. well she can just nap all the time.
It turned out to be a really wonderful trip and one that I’m sure Fighter thoroughly enjoyed. Sometimes I feel that Fighter gets really bored of our apartment because there’s really limited walking space and it’s just 4 walls that he faces every day but my parent’s home is a little bigger, giving him room to roam around.
Here are some of the more memorable pictures of the trip.
Shorty and I went cafe hopping quite a bit. Just like KL, Penang has a lot of little indy hipster cafes. The thing I love about them even more is how they’re all in really old colonial shop lots which add to the more rustic feel.
We went to Big Fat Hen, Secawan at Hutton and this placed called the Rocket or something.
Speaking of old school we also visited this this old toy shop.
Fighter loves cars. One of his favorite words is “kar!”. Something he says every time he sees a car.
So I wanted to buy him one of those remote controlled but also self-driveable toy cars but I found that they’re really expensive in the shops in malls. So I went to this shop
and found one. Tadaa…
Fighter didn’t immediately like it though. In fact when I turned on the engine he got kinda scared and didn’t want to come near the car when it moved on its own.
This is him at Coffee Journey, another coffee place we went to owned by my cousin.
My friend Melvin told me that the coffee there was really good so I went to try it out.
Then of course there was the swimming. Probably Fighter’s favourite activity.
We brought Fighter swimming every single day when we were in Penang and Fighter loved it to bits. Penny too. She was rather expressionless in the water so we couldn’t tell if she liked swimming or not but we knew because when we took her out of the pool she started crying.
Here’s my little Penny.
She spent much of Penang sleeping, eating and smiling at people.
So that was one of our most relaxing trips in a while. Next time we want a holiday with the kids we might just go back to my hometown.
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space