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Day Out At Gurney Plaza with Alvin Ng, Chien Chern and Arron Lim

Written by Nicholas Chan on January 24, 2010 – 1:52 am -

Now is holiday to me, always go here and go there, I don’t feel boring because I still got a lot of thing to and want to do. Going out with friends is just part of it, I don’t want to waste so many money out also.

“Burn” money is fun as they said, but I don’t have that much money to burn, lots of gadget, camera lens, clothing are in my wishlist and shopping list, so I have a lot of saving to do. Do support my sponsors on the sidebar too. =) I didn’t look for part time job also, but then keep hoping that I can earn more from my blogging job. Anyway, still got to thank all of you for supporting my blog everyday.

One day, I forgotten when, I went out to Gurney Plaza with the usual friends, Arron Lim, Alvin Ng and Chien Chern. THey are my buddies, so don’t be surprise to always see them appear here in my blog. Most people have already go to college or are working, so I only left this few friends that keep “burning” money everyday, doing nothing, “sang” here and there.

Tell you a fun place to take photos in Gurney Plaza and that is Nichii boutique. Although the place sells all women’s clothing, but then you still can go in to take photos. The lighting is good and camera is allowed, not like other shop that don’t allow people to take photos. Very uncomfortable with that kind of shop.

Sexy mannequin’s leg. =.=

Pretty lame we were, we went to the fourth floor where there’s coin game machine for very very little children. We went to put in coin and play, the helicopter and merry go around. I am too small enough to fit in those game machine. =D Frankly, I didn’t try this when I was small.

Chien Chern acting cute.

We then have afternoon tea at a cafe named Downtown Cafe, a budget eating place in Gurney Plaza, hidden at the fourth floor in front of BEST electronic store. Most workers at Gurney Plaza go there to eat.

LOL.

Tags: Friends, gurney plaza, holiday, Lifelog, Penang
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Christmas Eve Night at Gurney Drive

Written by Nicholas Chan on January 6, 2010 – 11:30 am -

Don’t know why so many people like to gather on the street of Gurney Drive on Christmas Eve night. On 2009’s Christmas Eve, I was there a while before going to the cinema to catch the premiere of Jay Chou’s The Treasure Hunter which is not really a good to watch.

There’s fighting and spraying of police’s vehicles the year before and they ban the selling and using of artificial snow flakes spray. I did not see any people selling it but I still see people having it on hair, only started spraying it when the countdown hits 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 MERRY CHRISTMAS!

The news came back again, there’s some young gangster got up a fight with the police and RELA member. That’s really OMG, I missed the show because I was in cinema and I also don’t want to be involve. Not interested in sprays now.

Many friends tell me that this year’s Christmas Eve at Gurney Plaza and Gurney Drive was boring. Is it? I didn’t really know about it, I found my Christmas Eve quite interesting, even at Gurney Drive was fun because we were joking and talking all the way while waiting for the movie time.

Maybe they don’t get to spray people (a lot), so it’s boring. The stage at the alfresco area of Gurney Plaza was pretty rocking too, I saw many people were like partying at there.

Not bad what. Just I didn’t really like the Tresure Hunter, the movie was pretty lame and I don’t like the story. It’s just for Jay Chou and Lin Zhi Ling’s fans.

Tags: Christmas, Christmas Eve, gurney drive, gurney plaza, Lifelog, Penang
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Hari Raya’s holiday is now on

Written by Nicholas Chan on September 22, 2009 – 12:05 am -

I knew Raya was coming, I knew last Friday was a very last minute announced special public school holiday, I knew the Muslim friends were and are having fun, I knew this week is a school holiday for me, I knew it will be a traffic jam everywhere in Penang and highway, but I didn’t know about the exact date of the Hari Raya until I see everyone wishing “Happy Hari Raya” on Twitter and Plurk, I suck a bit, but now I know so I wish you all have a nice Hari Raya Aidilfitri. =)

So Raya was Sunday and Monday. The holiday started on Friday and I have been on holiday mood since then after a 9 days long trial exam. I need a break but I don’t know what am I doing, I don’t have a plan for this holiday and it’s so unorganized, it’s like there’s so many thing want to do but I don’t know where to start. That’s bad.

Arron.

The holiday mood started on last Thursday right after school. I didn’t go home right away to sleep or anything but instead went to the cinema to watch Gamer with Arron. The movie was pretty cool, you will like it and understand it if you do or did play game. I did play games last time but not now.

Simon, Arron, Edmond, Fangs.

Andy, Min Sheng.

I then went to karaoke at Red Box on Friday, it’s a usual routine for me and them since last year where we will (mostly) go to karaoke to sing our crazyness out after the exam, before the holiday week. It’s a standard thing for us. It’s kinda tiring singing there, I still hardly improve my singing.

Then I went for movie again and it’s the Singapore’s film, Where Got Ghost. I gave it a rating of 4.5/10 because I don’t think it’s good enough, felt like nothing’s new from Jack Neo.

Saturday was pretty quiet to me. Woke up in a dull, cloudy morning and the Sun was hiding somewhere, which made me felt so lazy to go places. I went to town for lunch with mom and I came home, staying indoor for whole afternoon.

I then spent time at home reorganized my stuff and clear all the papers and notes lying around since before trial exam. I don’t like the room to look like a mess, I like to have a clean and nice workstation. =) Took me few hours for this and hopefully this will be clean for at least a few weeks and then I will need to do it again. It’s true that I like cleaning out my workstation because I enjoy the clean look after that.

Sunday was the first day of Raya and I went to Queensbay Mall in the afternoon to wait for Alvin who lives nearby to come and fetch me to the Penang Hokkien’s mini gathering at Egate. It’s so crowded at Queensbay and interesting to see the Muslim in their nice Malay attire shopping around in the mall.

Nothing much for me to do there except walking around and looking at people. I saw the same spectacles shop name where I bought my specs, A-look and I took my specs for the specs washing service, it’s a free service and it’s a way to pass my time.

Alvin then came and fetch me to 3G Cafe at E-gate to meet up with the famous podcast, Penang Hokkien’s host and listeners. It had been 2 years since I last meet up with John Ong, the host and creator of the show. Will talk about it in another post.

A fun fair near Queensbay Mall.

After being at E-gate for 2 hours, I and Alvin went back to Queensbay Mall again for dinner and to shop for some stuff. Later in the evening, I went to the airport to fetch my brother and that concludes my Sunday.

Monday, today is a day that I spent my time with my brother. It’s still a public holiday for everyone and it’s Gurney Plaza that I went. It’s just window shopping and watched a movie, G-Force in the cinema just now, the movie was cute and that’s what I wanted to say about it.

That’s all for now, Happy Hari Raya Aidilfitri and school holiday, pals. =)

Tags: Friends, gurney plaza, holiday, Karaoke, Movie, public holiday, queensbay mall, raya, red box, school holiday, weekend, yikhung
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Me and Mr Cow of Tetra Pak

Written by Nicholas Chan on August 3, 2009 – 12:37 am -

I was in Gurney Plaza and there’s a Milk Day event. Mom saw the cow man first and asked me go stand with him for a photo. =D

Tags: Cow, gurney plaza
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Saturday Afternoon At Gurney Plaza

Written by Nicholas Chan on July 28, 2009 – 8:00 pm -

Last Saturday was quite filled but I was even more busy on the Saturday before last Saturday. I had been busy doing my studies lately so I have a lot belated post to write up and share with you guys, hope you guys don’t mind. I wish I could have more time to work out on my blog and site, I really like blogging and photography, the problem with it is the time.

Cut the crap and talk about the Saturday of two weeks ago. It’s a busy day for me and I started off the day at Queenbay Mall seafront to support my school’s dragon boat team at the Paddle For Hope charity event. Then me, Shi Jie and Peng Sheng went to town to watch Public Enemies in Prangin Mall’s cineplex.

I found that the day was still early at that time so I alighted at Gurney Plaza when I was going home by bus, hoping to see if I could bump up with any friends there because I knew a lot of people would be there but just I that I don’t know who.

I saw One FM radio crews were having some sort of gaming session behind Gurney Plaza. I didn’t really listen to the Chinese station, ONE FM, I am more to or in fact I just listen to 988. ONE FM is quite a new station, the tuning in Penang is still not clear yet, but somehow, I still prefer to stick with my favourite one, 988. What’s yours?

The Malaysia Nationwide Sales is back in conjunction with the coming Merdeka Day. Be prepare to shop till you drop but the problem is, money! I need more cash. XD

Went to the basement and saw an opening of a new bakery store. I like the bakery store, there’s a lot of cute cakes and cookies. Yet, I haven’t buy anything to try out yet.

I did meet friends at Gurney, they were Andy, Kerying and Phei Qin. Since I met them, so I just followed along, walked around the mall and talk and went into Nichii girls’ boutique store to take photos. I like that boutique because it’s bright, it’s well lit, the lighting is good and they allowed my camera inside. Haha. =D Some shops don’t allow you to take photos inside, that sucks.

Then I saw bunch of school friends at McDonald’s, they were waiting for time to passed to go to a concert at Penang Chinese Girls’ High School. There’s a lot of friends went there no one invited me, so I went to Bon Odori in the end, but it’s very late already.

While walking back home, I saw the milk box thing outside Gurney Plaza and was curious about people peeping into the box.

So, what in it were actually different labels of milk and I need to count the the labels, then fill in a form, answer some question and drop it into the box. Since everyone were doing it, I joined them too, hoping to test my luck to see if I can win the prize or not. One person can only submit one form, so I used the names of my parents and my brother too. Hehe.

Tags: Friends, fun, gurney, gurney plaza, Lifelog, Saturday, weekend
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Red Box Friday Before Mid Year Holiday

Written by Nicholas Chan on June 9, 2009 – 5:17 pm -

I think going to Red Box on the day before school holiday and on the last day of school exam has became one of our school culture. Just right after the mid year exam recently and also before the mid year school holiday, I and bunch of ex-4SA5 class of 2008 classmate went to Red Box karaoke. It’s again a school friends get-together and gathering.

Sharing with you guys is some photos taken in the Red Box karaoke room.

Me and Arron.

We sang from like 3pm till 6pm and there’s like 8 of us. The price for per person is RM9+, a student price for afternoon high-tea K. We got 2 glasses of beverage each.

Chien Chern he is.

Zez Chien with the mic.

Arron doing he sad face.

Chien Chern again, with a middle finger of honour. LOL

My blur look.

I feel taking photos in black and white in a dark room with flash is pretty cool. With coloured, it’s a little bit not nice, that’s what I feel.

And after singing, we just went around walking in the mall. Did nothing, just walk, and talk.

Tags: 4sa5, Friends, fun, Gathering, gurney plaza, Karaoke, red box, Singing
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