Chewed Up

Well, I have been in Penang for about a week now and I have been chewed up terribly by the mosquitoes.

They sprayed this area for mosquitoes, but it didn't do any good.

I have counted at least 25 mosquito bites on my body. Even burning a mosquito coil hasn't helped.

Usually having a fan blowing helps keep them off, but not today. I was woken up by a lovely mosquito-buzzing-in-my-ear-serenade.

Otherwise the trip has been a lazy trip.

Siew's eaten a lot of Penang food. I managed not to spend any money, despite my efforts.

I looked at some computer parts I want. A new case, game controllers for pc to run Dreamcast games, printer toner and board games.

I found no deals at all.

I did, however, manage to make a decent dice tower. Later I want to improve it and decorate it, but it is functional.

It is really a neat idea. You drop the dice in the top and the dice roll down and out into a tray that prevents them from bouncing all over a table, destroy everything you've carefully setup in their paths.

Later, IF I am hardworking I'll put some pictures of it up.

I have quite a few pictures of the terrain in Cameron Highlands that I need to sort and post.

We're heading back to KL tomorrow. We'll leave in the morning when people are still sleeping off their new year's celebrations. It should be less crowded on the roads that way.

Siew had wanted to stay longer, but I said we should head back earlier. We'll need to clean the house and shop for food. We can't do that in a huge rush, so it'll be less stressful if we do it slowly.

I have to go back to work on Monday. The classes will be smaller groups again. My Tuesday and Thursday class has been scattered and I'm supposed to be given a TOFEL class that I'm not overly keen on teaching. *sigh* Well, whatever. So long as I still get paid.