Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Trip to Sungai Petani, Kedah

Last Friday, I went to Sungai Petani with HM, KV & JD for 2 days 1 night trip. The purpose for this trip was because KV participating in the mental arithmetic competition.

Before we went to Sg. Petani, I thought Sg. Petani is a small & rural town. But when I reached there, it was totally different from what I thought earlier.

Sungai Petani (abbreviated "Sg. Petani" or "SP") is a town in the state of Kedah, in the northern part of Peninsular Malaysia. Sungai Petani is the second largest town in Kedah after Alor Star. The name Sungai Petani has its roots from sungai meaning river and petani meaning farmer in the Malay language. Sungai Petani in full means "Farmer's River", due to the huge concentration of paddy fields and farmers in the state.

The town is clean and foods are not expensive. We stayed in Park Avenue Hotel (PAH) which is next to the Sg. Petani (South) Tol. A few hotels is near PAH within the walking distance and Giant Hypermarket is just nearby about 5 mins drive. The Store supermarket & GSC cinema is just 10-15 mins drive from PAH. Even within 5 mins walk, we can find restaurants, hawker stalls, kopitiam and mini-market, very convenience.

From KL, we stopped by Tapah Tol for a rest and had a breakfast there. The breakfast actually was bought from KL and we had it there and bought drinks from Dunkin Donuts.
We arrived Sg. Petani around 12pm. We stayed in this hotel.
The room cost RM100 nett with king size bed but w/o breakfast. We added a bed cost RM60 nett with one breakfast voucher. So the next morning we just paid RM16 nett plus the breakfast voucher, the whole family had breakfast at the coffee house... so "dai" :)
The new renovated swimming pool.
We had a dinner at the Japs restaurant - Hatsuhana 初花. The menus & price are similar to Kiku-Sakura and NipponTeh. We order one teriyaki chicken set, one teppanyaki salmon set and one agedashi-dofu. The foods were very tasty. The dinner cost RM60.00 and the appetisers, green teas & towels are FOC.
Inside the restaurant, there is a reading corner with varieties of mangas, magazines & newspapers.
On Saturday morning after breakfast, we sent KV to the competition hall. The competition was held at SJKC Sin Kwang. Her tag number was A606. A6 means Category A, age 6.The organiser did prepared a T-Shirt for each category A participant. They have to wear the T-Shirt for the competition, without the T-shirt is no allow to enter the competition hall. Other categories are allow to wear their own clothes.
KV won 4th prize in the competition, she got a tropy too. We left Sg.Petani around 12pm after the prize presentation ceremony.

4 comments:

sarah said...

great job, KV! and congratulations! :-)

The hotel room looks nice and cosy though!

Meng PAUL said...

If u got time, can plan a short trip there.

sarah said...

a fren of mine lives in SP with her hubby and baby. sigh, but i feel it's still too far. how many hours' drive?

Meng PAUL said...

With normal speed 110kph, it's took me 4.5 hrs to reach there.