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Month: January 2010

  • Went to AEON Jusco Seberang Prai City

    Went to AEON Jusco Seberang Prai City

    AEON Jusco Seberang Prai City  is actually a shopping mall on the mainland of Penang. I think it’s pretty new, like opened few years back only and it’s big. Always wanted to go check it out but didn’t really get a chance, dad always forgotten to bring us go so this time I went with Alvin, Arron, Chien Chern and Tee Jin while we were at Butterworth during the holidays.

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    I actually accompanied them to check out a job interview. Then after the job thing, we got no where to go, so we hop on one of the Rapid Penang bus which took us to the AEON Jusco Seberang Prai City mall.

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    I’ve forgotten to note the bus number but it’s pretty easy to get on. At the Penang Sentral, also the bus terminal on the mainland, just check out bus that has place list with Jusco and that’s it. Get on for almost a 45 minutes trip to reach there.

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    Nice building. What’s that?

    Not near, it’s pretty far, but I believe you can reach faster if you drive there. Consult Google Maps on how-to. That’s what I always do. While on the bus, we passed a lot of kampungs, small padi fields, a lot of trees and many unknown sub-urban place.

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    We saw the AEON mall in sight and press for bell to alight. The mall is almost the same like the one that I’ve visited in Johor Bahru, the AEON Jusco Tebrau City.

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    It’s long inside, shop lots are big, they keep on saying it’s like Queensbay Mall and there’s only 3 floors with quite many standard shops too.

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    LOLs.

    The place is not bad, quite standard but something very scary is that it’s so quiet when we were there. It’s like one of the weekday in December and there’s only little little people. This place is built in a very ulu (suburban) place and nobody comes on weekday. Deserted a bit already.

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    After having afternoon tea slash lunch at there, we went out to find bus and go back to the ferry terminal. There’s food outlet there, but all expensive expensive and we were budget eater, so forced to eat at their food court, just same like the other Jusco food court like at Queensbay Mall.

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    Took the ferry back to Penang island. Island sweet island. ^^

  • Some Group Photos with Japanese YE

    Some Group Photos with Japanese YE

    The Lions Club always got Youth Exchange program for the young, which is one of the benefit of joining Leo Club. Recently, just the last Christmas, 3 Japanese came over to Penang for a youth exchange program and hosted by other Leo Club, not related to my club but I was there at the cafe to say “Konichiwa” to them.

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    I don’t really know Japanese, even I have watch BOSS (my favourite Japanese TV series) and a few anime before. I only know simple words like Konichiwa, Ohaiyo Gozaimasu, Watashiwa Nicholas Desu, Konbanwa, Sayonara, Sumimasen, Kawaii-neh, Tokyo, Honda, Toyota, Sony, Nintendo and so on.

    So it’s not easy to communicate with them but I like this language. Very cute.

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    We then take photos together.

    “Camera-ni, Ichi, Ni, San!”

    “Kawaii-ne”

    “Arigato, hajime mashite.”

    “Sushi Sashimi”

    “Sony PSP”

    “Yamateh”

    “Gambateh”

    Said a lot of lame words there.

     

  • Found Beng Tian at a Computer Store

    Found Beng Tian at a Computer Store

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    Still remember Beng Tian? If you do read my blog from long ago, like since when I was Form 4, you will always see this person appear in my blog post. He is Beng Tian. Few days ago, I found him working at a computer store at Midland Park.

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    Don’t you think the uniform is very LOL?

     

  • Ferry Ride to Butterworth with Friends

    Ferry Ride to Butterworth with Friends

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    During the holiday, I went to Butterworth with a few friends via the ferry instead of using the Penang’s Bridge. I don’t really always go to the mainland of Penang, it’s mostly factories at there, so nothing much for me to go over there. I tend to stick to the island more. However, that day was different, my friend went there to interview for a job and I followed along just for fun.

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    New place in town, Bar 36 The Social Club.

    We parked our car at the parking lot near the ferry terminal and then went to the ferry. The parking was RM3 for half day and the ferry ride was free for going to the mainland. Ferry ride coming to the island need to pay though.

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    The weather on that day was pretty nice, not very sunny, a little bit cloudy.

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    Quiet ferry.

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    Saw a Star Cruise Virgo cruise ship near Swettenham Pier. Wish I can get on a cruise some days.

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    It’s very windy on the ferry. No idea how fast it’s moving on the sea, but I know it’s fast.

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    Many giraffe at the back.

    We went there, looked for the job interview then took the bus to inner mainland to the AEON Jusco Seberang Jaya shopping mall to take a look. Then we went back to the ferry terminal before sunset. It’s so convenient.

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    No Touch N’ Go. It’s very manual, only accept coin and it’s RM1.60 for the trip back.

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    Alvin.

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    It’s us.

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    KOMTAR and George Town city!

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    Car deck.

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    Remember this photo?

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    Quite fun, pun. ^.^

  • Christmas Day 09 to Gertak Sanggul, Teluk Kumbar

    Christmas Day 09 to Gertak Sanggul, Teluk Kumbar

    Continued from previous post where I talk about going to the Jelutong seafront promenade, after that I thought of going to Queensbay Mall but I didn’t know what to do at there. I believe there sure will be many people too because it’s a public holiday, so we went somewhere else where we haven’t been to before.

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    It’s around 4pm, afternoon tea time, we went to the food stall at the market near to Sunshine Square at Bayan Lepas to eat our afternoon tea. I had a bowl of laksa there and they ordered themselves a bowl of tomyam noodle.

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    After tea time, there’s 2 lame ideas for next destination, one is Auto City and another is Gertak Sanggul, Teluk Kumbar. I didn’t feel like going to Auto City because I was there 3 days before Christmas so we went driving up to Gertak Sanggul for fun, pointless, it’s just driving.

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    Was thinking to check out the beach or something near to the sea but found out that there’s a bridge which connected out to the sea, and the bridge is broken and not usable. Too bad.

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    We were at the seaside in Jelutong and we were at the seaside again at Teluk Kumbar. I don’t know this place is Gertak Sanggul or Teluk Kumbar. I like to call it Teluk Kumbar more, so any idea, precisely, this place is Gertak Sanggul or Teluk Kumbar? I think is somewhere between Gertak Sanggul and Teluk Kumbar.

    There’s sea, a good spot for sunset but we were early and we were so far away from sunset yet, like 1 hour more till sunset, moreover it was drizzling a little bit.

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    Broken bridge.

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    We then take photos again, the 3 of us. Hahaha.

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    It started to rain a little bit and we ran away from there. Since there’s no bridge, there’s no beach, nothing much to see, we went to other place again. Christmas Day 09 haven’t end yet!

  • Christmas Day 09 at Jelutong Seafront Promenade, Nautilus Bay

    Christmas Day 09 at Jelutong Seafront Promenade, Nautilus Bay

    Last year’s Christmas Day was special and very spontaneous. I woke up in mid morning and I have nothing to do, just surf the net and watch the TV. Initially, I thought of going to Penang Times Square at around 2pm after lunch to check out the Leo Club’s activity.

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    I went to find Chen Yuen and Chai Wei to go along, and when we were at Penang Times Square, there’s a long queue for carpark, which made me change my mind not to go there. I hate waiting for car park, it’s very very long.

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    We then spontaneously think of a place to go. The first stop was the Jelutong Seafront Promenade at Nautilus Bay, very unfamiliar name. I found this name on Google. =) It’s the seafront promenade at Bandar Sri Pinang, the four pillars standing high are the place’s sign.

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    We actually went there just for fun. No idea where to go and it’s not planned. Just got down, walked and took photos for a while then we hopped back on to the car and go to somewhere else.

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    The afternoon was pretty hot but the place was very windy because it’s seaside, though we didn’t stay long at there.

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    Chai Wei.

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    Chen Yuen.

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    There’s people fishing.

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    Nice view of the Penang’s Bridge.

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    I have got Christmas hat and I wore it the whole day! I realized most people here wear the Christmas hat on Christmas eve only, why so little people wear on Christmas Day?

  • Lost Season 6 Soon!

    Do you watch Lost? Are you a fan of Lost? Yes I very am. I like Lost and miss it so much right now. After a long wait, finally it’s back with the latest and last season very soon on 2nd February 2010. Woohoo! Excited, excited.

    If you didn’t watch Lost before, check out some fanmade video and the official sneak peak below.

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  • Christmas Eve Night at Gurney Drive

    Christmas Eve Night at Gurney Drive

    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

  • Farewell for Liang Sun Who Goes To National Service

    Farewell for Liang Sun Who Goes To National Service

    Liang Sun, a friend, a classmate of mine has went to the National Service for 3 months, he departed today to the camp at Sungai Bakap in Bukit Mertajam. He will be gone for 3 months and they had farewell dinner for him at Queensbay the night before.

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    To tell you guys a secret, I have been chosen for National Service too, but then I am not allocated in the first batch and I don’t know is there will be any circumstances preventing me to go for the National Service or not. I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know.

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    I had my dinner before I went to Queensbay Mall because I know all the restaurant in Queensbay Malll are not budget restaurant and I am on tight budget recently because of jobless and less allowance and no schooling.

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    So basically it’s just everyone come out together, they eat, we talk and I take photos. =) Nothing much, just to say bye bye. I can’t imagine if I leave my friends and family, it will be very very very the sad I guess.

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    National Service need to have a bald head, so Liang Sun was prepared for it. Some people prefer to have their hair cut at the camp.

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    See you Liang Sun in 3 months time, perhaps during homecoming when Chinese New Year!

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    Ok, good night for now.

  • Red Box Karaoke Right After Last Paper of SPM 2009

    Red Box Karaoke Right After Last Paper of SPM 2009

    Yes yes, it’s again, we went to Red Box karaoke after the last paper of SPM examination of 2009. That’s what I usually do after finishing a school examination. This is a very standard stuff and why Red Box? Because in Penang, there’s only Red Box karaoke and I just get to know that Neway Karaoke will be opening soon at Queensbay Mall soon.

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    Jing Min playing with the Red Box people.

    Our Chinese paper finished at 12.45pm that day, I went home to bath and got ready, then to Red Box with everyone. We were not the first SPM finisher, because fifth former who didn’t take Chinese paper had finished their SPM earlier.

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    Yiphing Dot Net.

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    Chai Wei, Vivian, Shan and Sheue Yen.

    We have got the biggest room in Red Box which can have up to 20-25 people in the room and we have only got like 13 people.

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    Lek Jian, Me, Theresa, Hui Mei, Liang Sun.

    It’s not only us that went to Red Box, many people went there too on that day and I believe most of them are same like me, just finished their SPM, taking a break.

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    Priscilla.

    It’s not too many people in the room, it’s too many people came to Red Box on that day, people came in and our, “hi and bye”, very hard to communicate and interact with everyone.

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    Lek Jian, Valen, Jia Wei, Yi Jun and me.

    Most important are still did I sing or not? Yes I did and enjoyed the singing, a lot. The Penang’s Plurkers had a room there too, I went there to say hi, sang a few songs and went back to my place. Hard to be at multiplace. I wish I can divide my body. Haha.

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    Zi Wei.

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    Simon, Arron with the his crazy pose and Edmund.

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    Zez and Vivian.

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    Shan Shan.

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    Chai Wei and Ammerlynn.

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    Janice.

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    Wei Chung and Sheue Yen.

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    Karaoke finished, I went home. Marked the end of SPM, the end of Form 5 life. That’s fast.

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