Thursday, September 29, 2011

Great Time in Penang


Every year my school sends all of its employees on a free trip. This year employees could have chosen one of four destinations, one of which was Bangkok, which would have been my first choice. By the time I learned about the trips, all of them were fully booked except Penang. I had been to Penang twice before and one of those times was a school trip like this a few years back. I wasn’t totally stoked, but a free trip is a free trip.

I must say that I was totally happy in the end with going to Penang. We went there on Friday morning and came back Sunday evening. The school put us up in a five-star hotel with a killer buffet breakfast included. I’ve learned from experience to skip the planned activities on these company trips. Instead of visiting fruit farms and a pewter factory, some fellow teachers and I spent all day Saturday at the beach. It was awesome.

The pictures below are from Friday night in Penang. Another teacher and I were hanging out at Overtime and a bunch of other people from our school came in. We joined them in a drinking game that I’ve never played before and had a great time.

I’m looking forward to next year’s trip wherever it happens to be.



Saturday, September 17, 2011

Ice Hockey


This is a picture of me taking a face off at the Malaysian International 3 on 3 ice hockey tournament. In Malaysia you have to specify ice hockey because people will automatically think of field hockey if you don't. Malaysia entered two teams. I was on Cobras 2. I was just playing for fun, but some of the massive beatings we took hurt a little. During the game against Cobras 1, I asked Lyna to go shopping and not watch the massacre the was about to take place and she agree, but the sneaky one watched the whole 11-1 beating. The Singapore Manimals took first place and thankfully they were not in our pool so we never had to get spanked by them. We did manage to win our final game so we didn't finish dead last. 




My school sponsors a team in the local ice hockey league. I'm happy to be the newest addition to CPU hockey team. We played our first game last week and had to settle for a 5-5 draw. I didn't get any points and I'm still not totally back into game form. I haven't gotten my own jersey yet. The one I'm wearing is a loner. Hopefully, I'll get mine soon.











Selamat Hari Raya


During the Hari Raya holiday my wife and I went to Ko Samui. As I rode my motorcycle my trip actual took me from KL to Ipoh, Danok, Hat Yai,  Ko Samui, and back again. These posts are actually in reverse order. I don't typically post this way, but I'm too lazy to go back. 


I grew my beard for 9 days on this trip. In November some of the male staff are going to have a mustache growing contest for charity. I should do well. 


We had some brewskis and dinner on the beach our last night in Ko Samui. actually it was the worst meal of the trip. 




We walked all the way from the land you see in the distance and we're hanging out on a small island. The water never went about my chest all that way. 




Trying to even out my tan.





We downloaded the Angry Birds app and spent a lot of time playing.






After one day in Hat Yai (all you really need) we took a bus/ferry to Ko Samui. We only had three full days, so we just stayed a Chaweng the whole time. Chaweng is where all the restaurants and pubs are. The beach was also totally awesome by my standards.




I rode from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Hat Yai, Thailand on my motorcycle. By some miracle I managed to find the tiny hotel my wife was staying at. This is a picture of Lyna inspecting our new I-Pad 2. 





Although it's typically 30+ degrees every day, bikers here always wear light jackets. I always thought it was because they were afraid of getting a slight tan. This is what happens when you don’t protect your arms from the Malaysian sun.