April 21, 2005: I met up with Laura and that evening we took a trip northwest to the island of Penang, where I currently reside.

One of my favorite restaurants in Penang is Kapitan's Restaurant, located in Chulia Street (also known as "Little India") in Georgetown. So I took Laura there for a taste of good North Indian food. Tandoori Chicken is absolutely divine.

Upnorth of Penang Island is a stretch called Batu Feringghi. It's where all the tourists love to go for shopping at the night markets, or swim, parasail, jetski etc. There arelots of hotels and guest houses, restaurants, cafes etc.

We visited the Penang Butterfly Farm which is the largest butterfly farm in the world. They had a mini insect exhibition and put some of their creepy crawlies on us.