After leaving Penang Chinese Girls' School, we went for lunch. Then we headed for a visit to the Weld Quay Clan Jetty & the Khoo Kongsi Clan House. The Weld Quay Clan Jetty is a very interesting spot... we saw houses built along the shore line and into the shallow parts of the sea. They are built on raised platforms, and they are "classsified" according to their surnames! There were 6 of such jetties, but 1 has been demolished to give way to city development. Now 5 remain, and they are now popular tourist attractions. The tour guide said that these people settled down here years ago when their predecessors came from Southern China. Too poor to afford rent, they built their homes on the sea. (p/s: the tour guide also said that they are still not paying rent now!!) We then left to visit another spot - the Khoo Kongsi Clan House. The Khoos make up the richest Chinese Community in Penang. According to our tour guide, the Khoo Clan actually own 25% of the property in Georgetown! And if you happen to have the surname Khoo, you are entitled to a 5% discount when u want to buy property in Georgetown!! Any takers??We headed back for the hotel after that. It is a sweltering hot day. We rested for 45 min, rehydrated ourselves before we assembled again at 1530hrs for team building activities. I guess the most popular activity would be the tug of war. Nursing their bruised egos... the boys were very adamant about playing it over and over again.... Guess they will find it difficult to accept the fact that they lost to the girls team at the Penang Chinese Girls School in the morning.
Sigh. Egos...
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