Target: Penang's public libraries

Status: Attack launched!

Had to pay RM2 for langganan tahunan (annual fee). But besides that, they registered my IC number and I'm good to go! It's free for senior citizens (above 55 years old)...I wonder, could I just bring a photocopy of my father's IC? :P

I went to the (small) library in Bayan Baru...Mayang Mall to be more precise. I'm really kinda dumb...I was at the post office there once (just opposite the library) and we even stepped into the library for a while. But I had totally forgotten about it. Then I asked my colleagues where I could find the public library (I'm used to Kuantan...where there is only one :P (or was it just that I went to the main one? lol) ), and they said Green Lane. They weren't more precise than that though...

And then I asked my landlord, because I saw that he has a few library books in the house. And he told me about the Bayan Baru one. Ooh...haha. It actually took me a few minutes before remembering that I had seen it before.

Last night I asked my relatives about the library on Green Lane (even though I already knew about the Bayan Baru one, why not find out about the other?) and they knew about it... But, for some reason they didn't want to tell me how to go there. My cousin said that he could take me there one day...but I'm thinking, hey, that doesn't mean you can't tell me how to get there, you know.

While we're on the subject of getting directions, it is pretty strange that people don't seem to want to tell me how to get somewhere. Even when I wanted to go to a primary school to play badminton, and I said I knew the place, just not which way I should get in. For some reason they didn't want to tell me how to get in. Instead someone offered to show me the way. Er...do you think I can't follow directions or something? (Actually I think I follow directions better than I follow cars. :P )

So this morning I went to the library...and registered. There aren't that many books there...I'll probably go through all that I want to read in less than a year. (sooner, if I do nothing other than read...but I don't think I will) Which is probably why I didn't "bookmark" the library in my brain when I went there the first time. It just doesn't seem...like a real library. lol

But I guess it'll do for now. :)

Oh, and at the library they told me about Cawangan Georgetown (Georgetown branch), which is on Scotland Road. (Penang's public library has lots of branches...seems that this is the main one) I wonder...could it be the one they were referring to as being on Green Lane? After all, Green Lane is Jalan Masjid Negeri, and Jalan Scotland is just an extension of it... (this I found out from Google Maps...I love you, GM! Except how you need an internet connection :P )