June 6: First Day in Penang, Malaysia

Walked around Malaysia. Ate. Reminds me of Thai and Laotian food.

Bahasa Malaysian = Malaysian Language
Nasi = rice
Ayam = chicken
Daging = beef
Sotong = squid
that's all I remember for now.

So hot and humid. We were walking along the beach and we were both DRIPPING with sweat. My sweat was raining on my forehead and my arms. I felt like people were looking at us...possibly because we were creating our own rain, but whatevs...haha. My body's not used to the temperature.

Hoàng Yến Adventure #2 (#1 in Phu Quoc, VN)- Batu Feranghi (sp?) (supposedly the best beach in Georgetown, Penang
So James took me to this beach and of course being him, he wanted to go to these large rocks in the water and climb up. Getting there through water, I fell on a rock and got pushed over by a little wave. By the time, we emerged on the other side on those rocks, I had some cuts on my hands, my arm, my thigh, my foot. They stung, but whatever. Like he always says, "You're already here!" so I was game to continue climbing. Fun. Sandals were slippery, but the barnacles (sp?) on the rocks hurt if you didn't wear slippers but they were near the lower rocks only. Also, I learned stuff about tides (coming in 4 hour sessions and high tide/low tide and how you should watch it before you decide to go out to some rocks in the water). We made it kinda far but didn't make it to the top because then we would have to go down to this rock with a whole bunch of bat droppings on it, and we could also hear the bats under flying under the rocks so we came back and climbed some rocks on the sand side and just hung out and talked. Always an adventure with him.

"You can have potential all your life but if you never realize it, what will that amount to?" -James Hoang Nguyen (Yea EAPers, he does say things that makes sense sometimes!)

Then we bargained for some sunglasses and cases and got both of ours including cases for 65RM, $18.50 for BOTH.

The toilet in James's place...when you flush, water comes into the toilet as well as out on the ground and then goes into this gutter...he says it's clean water but I should wear sandals. It's so odd.

I knocked out at the end of the day. So so tired.