its been almost a week since we came back from singapore and things have been pretty normal.. Weekdays are pretty much same.. wake up, go to work, come back and face the computer, doing our own stuffs and sometimes play games together. Weekends were usually spent at home or gallivanting around ourselves.. to somewhere nearby for a meal or to queensbay to shop. Yes queensbay seems like the only place shopping mall in penang for us.. but the truth is we don't know how to go to other places. Taking a cab around has not yet been an option for us because dubious taxi drivers is prevalent in this city. Knowing that we are foreigners, most will offer to bring us to our destination in exchange for some ridiculous price.. which is around 2x higher than what is supposed to be the fare on the meter. They will never use the meter.. except for one driver which is kinda funny...

He asked for 12RM to bring us back home from the bus terminal when we came back from Singapore on wednesday. We thought it was quite reasonable and were also desperate to get back home as it was around 7+ in the morning and taking a cab seems like our only option. But the funny thing is that the driver turned on his meter during the whole journey and it was only 4.70RM when we reached home. lol but still we paid 12RM since we all agreed beforehand. Thats scamming right in our face :( bet he purposely turnd on the meter to indirectly tell us that we got owned.

Seems like the bus is the only trustworthy public transport..but the waiting time can be terrible. I shall take back all my complaints and lavish praise on the Singapore public transport hehe

Anyway, today was spent going to old town coffee house for lunch and then queensbay mall to shop around. Didnt buy anything there though.. but close to getting some music cds because theres this buy 1 get 1 free sales going on at borders. Its buy 1 and get any cd there for free! such a tempting deal. Theres 1 rock compilation album with 4 cds in it for only 69RM! so if i get another of those album.. then its 69RM for 8 CDS. Where can u find such a deal.. anywhere except SINGAPORE maybe. Yet i still didnt get it because it may seem cheap when u convert it back to Singapore dollars.. but i already spent around 100+RM since we came back.. which is only 5 days :(. Soo i shall resist the temptation and not be extravagant.. not until a few days before we go back to Singapore again so as to ensure that i have enough money for my meals and other needs.

And our transport back home was CAB again but this time, the driver seems desperate for customers so..he offered us only 13RM to our house and the best thing is that he asked the 6 of us to squeeze in his car because he doesnt have a partner or someone else with him. Desperation to the extreme! but... the journey back was dreadful.. No air cons in the car and i had to sit on yh. All this torturing for 2RM but the most impt thing is that we are all back safe and sound haha

Speaking about desperation, I was damn eager to watch the big match between man utd and chelsea at 9pm but as you all know, we dun have a tv at home. So i went to the coffeeshop opposite our place and asked whether will they be showing the match on their tv but i think they must be wondering what alien language im using. Speaking english to them is like using sign language because most of the time im either doing weird actions to order to elucidate what i want to say or point at some objects like in this case.. a television. "*points at television* and keep repeating "ada soccer?" Quite amusing actually.

Went back home and quickly search for links that does live streaming soccer matches and i found 1 program called SopCast which is very good. Easy usage and there is alot of channels too but i only focused on ESPN at that point of time. Besides waiting for it to load till around 90+ to 100 percent which takes around 1min or so... there is no buffering needed. Its damn smooth.. the quality is mediocre though. But cant expect much from such free programs.

So my determination paid off and i get to watch the whole match. The results werent that good though.. it ended in 1-1 :( but nvm.. i believe they can do better.. and this is not self delusion

Okay its time for bed.. everyone else has turned in and i shall do so after this. Its raining heavily now.. so it will be an "air conditioned" night for us

bye all and take care!