Hunting treasure and curing coughs

The silence on the PB front can be attributed to 2 events:

• the fact I’m as sick as a dog; and
• the fact I was in Penang over the weekend for my first ever treasure hunt

I’ve been nursing a very bad cough since last week, which put me very much under the weather. There is nothing worse than nursing a cough especially when it wakes you up at night in a coughing fit, and your body is going hot-cold-hot-cold from the fever and chills. I’ve been wracked by intermittent fevers for days and it is only today that I am feeling relatively fever-free.

However, a new development has manifested – my ears feel blocked. I’ve been feeling it since yesterday but thought it might have to do with the travelling I was doing. But today, I’m sure it isn’t and I’m worried that though my sore throat is gone, its infected my ears. It might explain the slightly unsettled feeling I have too. So, I’m off to the doctor later today to get my ears checked, and to see if anything can be done about my hoarse voice. At the moment, I’m slightly deaf and my voice is at a husky sexy barely-above-a-whisper. Sigh…

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As for the Penang Food Hunt, it was awesome. It was my first ever treasure hunt, and I loved every single crazy minute of it! I opted to be the driver which was no mean feat seeing as I’m not familiar with Penang roads at all, and was running a fever at the time. I’m glad I chose to drive though because having the adrenaline course through the veins must have helped break the fever because it did make me feel better.

The Giddy Tigress was of great help too because she helped give me an idea of how to get to New World Park hawker centre where we were to meet up after the first leg of our journey. I’d just been driving all over the island, from Balik Pulau and then back into Georgetown, and it was no mean feat to eventually pull in at the hawker centre!

The next leg introduced me to the concept of “tulips” – directions we had to follow and clues we had to find answers to. We later found out that we did pretty well in this leg, finding most of the correct answers, but we did not win anything Maybe we were placed No. 26th because prizes were only given out until No. 25. We did end up getting a little bit lost towards the end, but some nifty drives down side lanes and a ‘never-say-die’ attitude saw us getting back right on track, and completing the course right on time! Kudos to an excellent navigator!

The fun thing about this trip is that I now have an idea of how to get to places around Penang Island, and I have an idea of where to find good food to eat in Penang! I cannot wait to go on another treasure hunt – maybe the next time I’ll even win something!