on the 28 dec to the 31 dec 08 i went on a cruise trip with my dad and others .its a cruise trip of 4 days 3 night to puket and penang , it was really fun on board there are not only lots of food for you to choose wat to eat for ur meals there are also lots of activites plan for us . but i did not go for the few art lesson that was conducted on monday and tuesday cause i went down to puket and penang to do sightseeing and shopping . on monday the cruise reached penang at around 1 plus than we have to assemble in the lido and the people there will give us instuctions on wat we are suppose to do .to penang we have to take a life boat out to the penang jetty and our tour buses will be there waiting for us and when all the passengers have board the bus we set off to our first destination which is the biggest shopping mall in penang in this shopping mall we only have 1 1/2 hours to shop and get watever u want to get and after that we got to assemble again . in that shopping mall i bought a pair of shoes for my sister and a pair for my aunt did not get anything for myself cause got not enough time OMG ! i dun care the next time i go again i will confim get some thing for myself . the 2nd place is the place where u can get all the local products like tou sa bing, hebal soup and many others . we bought 3 boxes of tou sa bing and 1 box of be tei sou than after making payment we head back to the back waiting to head to our next shopping mall which also the last place before we go back to the cruise . in the last shopping mall we are given also 1 1/2 hours also but this shopping mall things are all very cheap and there are too many things till i get ery blur so in the end i bought 2 shirts there but did not get and bottom to match my chinese new clothes but i think is have one but i got not much time to find so never mind than i will get it in Singapore .k its time to go back to the jetty and take the life boat back to super star virgo !