Penang Trip @ USM tournament part 2

Gosh, I never thought Penang would ever possess such a challenge in terms of road recognizing. A quick slip in terms of road recognizing and I overshot to another junction heading towards Jelutong. I never expected by following the Ayer Hitam road sign would bring me to another area of Penang. Luckily I could recognize the poscode of our hotel. Spinning around Penang fearless finally earn me my return to our accommodation area. I was relief that I only needed half an hour even though I was lost somewhere nearby Jelutong.

Through the hospitality of our host USM Tae Kwon Do club, we were invited for a welcoming dinner. The dinner venue is known as Foyer Pharmacy. We were rather lost when we were heading towards our destination. According to the direction given, we headed into Pusat Penyelidikan Racun. Racun = Poison. Our first impression was we were definitely wrong in terms of taking the junction turning. "Why would the organizers want to treat us a meal of poison?" a statement that pop out in our mind at that moment. Popping a call to the PR in charge, Albee finally concluded that the location we were in indeed was the location of the welcoming dinner.

To tell the truth, we were kinda expecting Yao Chung, the PIC of USM open 2008 would provide a restaurant dinner. At least the venue we expect it to be air-conditioned. Perhaps it is our style in our campus to organize everything in an air-conditioned manner till lacking of air-conditioned seems to be not right. Anyway, I believe the organizer has strive to provide the best facilities available to see fit everybody welfare. The flow of the dinner program was quite smooth. Everything was done in accordance, as if it was well rehearse. Good job done, USM guys.

The speech, the recognition etc was done smoothly. Every prize giving ceremony was done in accordance. At the end of prize giving, buffet dinner was served. We eventually start off by getting the Bryani Rice or white rice follow by various meats served by our host. I enjoyed the rendang chicken the most out of all delicacies. During the dinner period, local club held a drum performance to entertain the guests. It is performed by the KungFu Club of USM. The drum performance was rather amusing, but it isn't the best that I have enjoyed before. The guy at the sideline seem to possess more spirit, power, skill than the center drummer. I guess the center drummer is the captain, but I believe the guy at the side should be the captain instead due to his performance(did I mentioned the rest of the drummers were girls?)

After that performance, a gal enter the center stage and pronounce herself and start off a string of singing performance. The first 2 songs was rather boring. Luckily her sound wasn't too bad, if not all of us might bored to death. Tae Kwon Do demonstration was upnext in the agenda of the night. It was cool as it shows the spirit of Tae Kwon Do in the most proper manner. After that, the girl resume her singing and lead the crowd into a rather high mood due to the crowd support provided by her fellow Uni mates. In my opinion, the drum performance was the best out of all. If the could switch it to the peak of the event(towards the end of the night) would gain a better overall effect. When everybody spirit is high in the beginning, I believe they expect something more exhilarating towards the entire performance. Towards the end of the night, we had a photo session involving everybody. That concludes the end of the first night in USM(infact we only spend 1 night in USM).

Tesco was the destination we were heading to after dinner. We were wandering around for supplies for the following days. Bread, 100 plus etc was on the shopping list. These are the protein necessity required for our players. We also get our supply of water from there as well. By 11.30 pm, we were in our hotel preparing to rest for the night as we knew the following day would be a long one.

Please look forward to Penang Trip @ USM tournament part 2 within the next few days. As for now, I shall retire from my current work and take a short rest after a long day of conducting interview for our Orientation programme in Utar FAM, Bandar Sg Long campus.