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Went To Medical Check Up For NS

Everybody! I will be going to National Service, to serve the my lovely country for two months plus! Please don’t forget me and remember to miss me. Haha. I will be going away this Sunday, 28th March 2010 and I will only be back on 12nd June 2010.

So between this time, the ways to contact me are drop me a message on Facebook, email me or text me.But then, I can’t reply and read your message straight away, I may get to use the computer, but not many time.

It’s a once in a life time process, it’s that I am lucky to be chosen for the program and I am ready to go for it right now.

The PLKN (Program Latihan Khidmat Negara) department is really slow. I only received my letter about it on Tuesday. It’s a registered post, I wasn’t at home that time and I needed to go the post office to retrieve it. Work for me, but nevermind, I was free.

There’s nothing much inside the letter. It’s about me being chosen, where is the meet-up point, forms, approval letter for parents to use M-16 rifle, little guide and medical check up notice.

I was required to go for medical check up at the nearest government clinic or the general hospital. This is to ensure my physical and mental are fit for the program. I am a healthy person, so I am so fit for it, I guess. I actually wanted to go to check up at general hospital, but then mom said it’s far and need to go through a lot of procedure so asked me to go to the government clinic.

At the clinic, it’s so simple only. No urine test or blood test. Doctor just asked orally about my healthy and physical thing. LOL, real easy job for the doctor. I also didn’t want to go through all the hassel, so fast come, fast go.

Spent half an hour in the clinic, done. Go home. I am fit for the program. LOL

March 26, 2010
Tiger Chinese New Year Celebration in Penang, Miao Hui 2010

This year is Tiger year for the Chinese, very cute because many Chinese will use Tiger as their mascot or buy Tiger bear for fun, or even drink more Tiger beer. So every year in Penang, my hometown, there’s Chinese New Year Celebration and Open House for everyone to visit, play, eat and drink in town area, which is known as Miao Hui 庙会.

Every year also has that many people come to this place, somewhere around Armenian Street and Pitt Street. They set up stages, lots of booth and everywhere at there are well-decorated with Chinese New Year feel.

This year would be my third visit already. I was there in 2008 and also in 2009. Actually every year go there also is take photos only, and go for fun to join the crowds, since there’s so many people. This year was different a bit because I shoot with a different lens, the Tamron f/2.8 17-50mm. Hehe. No idea whether I will be there or not next year. If I got a new lens or a new body, maybe I’ll go again.

Actually nothing much one, it’s the same every year. Cultural booths, game booths, food stalls, lion dance, fashion show and many Chinese-related thing. There’s youth doing treasure hunt and found me because I had a “Tiger” tooth that they were looking for. I guess joining the hunt is funner than photo shooting.

Cultural dancer.

Something not very comfortable was that this year’s weather went crazy. It’s very hot. Alvin, Andy and me were there at around 5pm, it’s almost sunset already, but still very hot. Luckily I had just t-shirt and shorts.

Andy Ooi.

Starbucks Coffee had a booth there too! Java Chips Frapuccino!

Compare to last year, I feel last year has got more people, there’s people like sardine cramming on the street, but this year didn’t have.

Met Cai Qian.

Met Chin Keong, Kelvin, Kok Sheng and more.

Met friends but not many. The Magnificent SIX was not there, they went to a movie and there’s only me from the SIX was there. But I saw a lot of Leo Club friends. ROAR.

What was Kok Sheng doing there?

I like happenings place. If there’s place in Penang that’s always so happenings then it will be nice and cool. I don’t like to see a dead city or dead town, it’s not fun. I know some people like to be alone, but do go out some times to take a look what’s happening and go back again. Me, myself is a weird person, I like quiet but I also like happenings, weird right. Haha.

Found Spongebob hanging somewhere. ^^

Happy faces for CNY!

There’s cultural dances on the stage but every year, I didn’t bother what happen on the stage. Feel bad for all the performance, I know their tiredness and effort in performing and I am talking cock. Haha, but anyway, if got chance, I will check the stage performance again.

Governor of Penang, Abdul Rahman bin Haji Abbas was there too! For like less than 15 minutes. He came here to “hi and bye”. So high post and high class people, at least must come and “hi and bye” for a while to give face.

Cool CM.

My favourite Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng stayed a little while longer than the Govenor for media interview. Hehe.

Boss! a.k.a. Lion Alan Thoo, my Leo Club’s District Chairperson. Rocks!

I like to call him Doctor Yew. I.T. support man for Digi.

My employer did actually ask me whether want to work on that day or not because Digi was a major sponsor for the event, but somehow, I decided to go for photoshooting rather than promoting. =)

Pinky.

Met colleagues a.k.a. friends that I’ve work before with.

Met Amanda the blogger.

Sometime I feel headache when I’ve taken so many photos, I don’t know want to put it up, obviously I have a bad mind in presenting it to you all. So I am splitting the post up. Stay tune for more about this Chinese New Year celebration evening, Miao Hui.

March 25, 2010
Went to Visit a Themed House Which Is Still Under Renovation
The house will be like a themed house. I was free yesterday so I went to check out a very cool house which is still under renovation, will be done when I come back from NS. Woo!
- There’s many flat screen panel, for entertainment and for display purpose.
- There’s high tech toilet bowl with heater although here is a tropical country.
- There’s a aeroplane head in the house.
- There’s a 4 wall-mirrored toilet.
- There’s a dining table with grilling service.
- There’s pool table, game area and driving games.
- There’s movie zone.
- There’s nice indoor jacuzzi.
- And more!
All-mirrored toilet.

Hanging aladdin seat to watch TV.

Lots of flat screen panel.

Jacuzzi in bedroom.

Now I most interested is the aeroplane head in the house, wonder how will it look like. Seems cool. Whose house? Come back in June when I get back from NS! =D
March 25, 2010
1st Avenue, The Name Is Up

Today passed by 1st Avenue, new shopping mall in town, and I saw the name is up. Seems like it’s getting ready very soon. It’s expected to open in August 2010, but a bit too late already! I will be going to Kuala Lumpur in end of July. OMG. Hopefully after I come out from NS and before I go to KL, it’s done and let me go in walk walk.

March 25, 2010
7 minus 1 Temples Re-visit After Getting SPM Result

We are believers and such, we went to pray before SPM examination, and so we need to pay back another visit as thanksgiving to god. Last week, we went back to the temples we had visited before SPM examination last year, there’s 7 temples and there’s 11 of us from 5SA1 class of 2009.

Sadly, there’s seven people turned up only, Shi Jie is in UK, Hock Sheng was busy with his driving lesson, Yan Duan was busy with his driving lesson, Jun Ge was busy with don’t know what and Young Hean was busy with work. This is what happened after high school where people are always busy with their own stuff, and can’t stick together like in a classroom.

So I always, high school is the best, appreciate and enjoy it to the fullest! Anyway, I miss you guys a lot.

We missed a temple and also Juan Shong was in a hurry so we went to six temples only, Guleng Hood, Penang Buddhist Association, Wat Buppharam, Siamese temple (Wat Chaiyamangkalaram), Dhammikarama Burmese temple and lastly, Guan Yin Temple.

It was a hot hot day, we gathered in school in the morning, in the mean time, I went to certified my certificates copy at the school office while waiting for them. Then we started our temples journey in two cars.

Going back to the same place and taking photos again at the same spot was fun and sad too because there’s only 7 of us, include extra of Jin Sheng’s girlfriend, Doreen. Hope one day where everyone come home and can go out again.

Went back to the same pond with the spinning bowl where people throw coins into it for good luck. They brought a lot of coins because not satisfied with last performance before SPM examination, this time they wanted to throw in as much as they can. Haha.

I got two coins and I missed. Oops.

Chee Pherng.

Lastly, bought flowers and went to pray Confucius, Wen Chang Gong and Goddess of Mercy.

Why so many beggars outside the temple?

Life move on.

March 23, 2010
Part-Time Promoter For DiGi At Gurney Plaza

This was my second job under Eventplus Marketing and I worked as part-time promoter for the Digi roadshow again, at Gurney Plaza. ^^ It’s on the last 3 days of Chinese New Year and I spent the last 3 days in the mall! To be honest, it’s pretty fun also working at there. Except, I missed the Chinese New Year Chap Goh Meh’s celebration and concert at Esplanade on that weekend.

Ah Bing.

I met new friends again, like Ah Bing, Wai Wai, Kelvin, Wen Bing, Ken, Ah Suan and more. All dealers and promoters were very friendly and helpful, so do my Event Organizer/BOSS Denny.

Khatid.

Nothing much happened this 3 days. Sales was OK only and there’s a lot of outstation user asking about the broadband. There’s also a wedding fair at the central atrium which had most people visited to their booth. Chinese New Year songs were playing and repeating everyday, listened until boring sia.

Sheue Yen was there too! Ex-employee for Charlie Cellular, a Digi dealer.

Saw many friends at Gurney Plaza and came by to say hi to me. An visit an hour, keeps the boring away. ^^ I like working at Queensbay Mall than Gurney Plaza because Queensbay Mall is bigger, more spacious and more choice of food to eat.

Him Keat came on the last night to dismantle the booth.

Eventplus and Digi rocks. Yeah.

March 23, 2010
The Day Before SPM Result Day

11th March was SPM Result Day, it was a very gan cheong (nervous), fun-filled, scary day, but the day before was even more gan cheong. This day, I woke up very early in the morning, it was like 5am and I was so blur and sleepy that time. I needed to send daddy and mommy to the airport so I had to wake up so early.

Pumped up the music in the car to make me awake, I went to shoot the sunrise at Queensbay there for fun, it was really for fun because I was alone and no plan for that day.

Then I went to meet Arron at his house. We then go for breakfast at Jalan Tengah, Bayan Lepas for the nice roti canai.

The day was quiet, no idea where to go and keep thinking the day after it. It’s SPM you know. I didn’t dare to expect what I would get in SPM because I am not very good, and I am not very bad, I am always stuck in the middle. Lousy sia.

It was only me, Arron and Liang Sun at first. Yiphing and Chien Chern came to meet us later on.

After breakfast, we spontaneously went to cybercafe for game. It had been many years I didn’t go play LAN game already, really many years. It’s just so spontaneous as we didn’t know where to go already and it’s early. Was wanting to play Left 4 Dead but we were noob and have no idea how to start a game, end up playing Counter Strike for two hours. Haha.

Then everyone went back to their home respective.

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Had a afternoon rest and evening, we went to watch From Paris With Love. Nice action packed movie and I like it. Then it’s supper time at mamak stall. Chien Chern came over to my place for beer and movie. I actually planned to sleep early, but because of my afternoon nap, I hardly sleep at night, really shit.

By the way, got LOMO feel or not?

March 22, 2010
S.O.X. All-Star Drum and Dance Is Here!

Last year, the S.O.X. March and Cheer event had been a very successful one. This year, it’s something sparkling new, different and fill with a lot of excitement and fun and it’s the S.O.X. All-Stars Drum & Dance 2010. Oh yeah, it’s drum and dance competition.

So basically, this is something for the youth in Malaysia, all the youngster like me, who like drumming and dancing. If you do drumming or dancing, then this is for you. Recruit your crew member and join the S.O.X. All-Stars Drum & Dance and win up to RM30,000 in cash and prizes! It’s correct, is freekin thirtyyyyy thousandssssss!

PWTC.

If you still blur blur, don’t know what I am talking about, head to PWTC on 20 March 2010 to check out the launching of this event. There’s S.O.X. roadshow (10am-9pm) too at PWTC, you can get a chance to spin the wheel and walk away with fantastic prizes and there’s prizes like Sony PSP, Xbox, handphones, camera and lots of exclusive merchandise.

Another cool thing that will be happening at this roadshow and launching event is the winners of S.O.X. All-Stars March & Cheer 2009 will be performing at there too. ^^

Be sure to check out S.O.X.’s website or join S.O.X.’s Facebook fanpage f0r more! School Of X rocks!

March 20, 2010
Kek Lok Si During Chinese New Year #2

During the 15 days period of Chinese New Year, Penang most famous pagoda temple lighted up with lots of bulb and LED. It’s a good place to visit during Chinese New Year and a good spot of photography for amateur and pro. Well, I went there twice during CNY because the first time was not really in the mood, it’s just walkaround and simply shoot.

Then I decided to go again with Alvin for a serious shoot. I don’t want so many people to shoot together because shooting need to be relax, I feel stress when people is around, unless, they don’t mind waiting for me to wait for the shutter. Hehe.

It’s a nice place and super nice when the lights are on at night, but sadly, it’s only on during some Chinese occasion. Not on normal days though, this suck a bit. It was like day 13 of CNY, people has already got back to work but there’s still many people coming up there.

Luckily I was early, no traffic jam and found a nice parking spot. If we were to go up like at 8pm, then it’s bad already, it will be a long line on the winding road.

My purpose of going there was to shoot, sorry for didn’t really pray. =)

Since it’s early, we wait and wait and wait till 7.30pm like that, it’s lights on. Everything became different. Pagoda and surrounding changed from beautiful to more beautiful.

So there’s me and Alvin, two amateur, shooting here and there. He shoot his and I shoot mine. Met some nice pro photographer too who gave us some nice advice. Looking around, there’s like so many people have a DSLR nowadays. Last time, I was like the first who own a DSLR among my friends and now it’s not something special anymore, everyone can afford one, and everyone loves photography.

So many lights, so pretty!

We paid for the return trip of the lift this time. It’s RM4 for return and last time was RM2 for one way. Last time it was late, we only get to go up and not down. This time we were early, so it’s up and down. It’s even much nicer up there with the very huge giant Kuan Yin statue.

There’s like a little garden there too, this place is more crowded than below. It’s people everywhere! And with the nice windy surrounding, it doesn’t feel so warm up there. Temperature nowadays are so high in Penang! Mother Earth is dying?

Happy that I get to go as close as the Kuan Yin statue this time. Last tie was because that we were late and lights off, so nothing to see up there.

There’s like bowl surrounding the Kuan Yin statue and devotees and exchange RM11 into coins and put the coins into each bowl to wish for a good luck in everything. Interesting, all the money donated goes to the building fund of the Kuan Yin statue. This Kuan Yin statue has been in renovation and building for don’t know how many years already and till now, it’s still not done yet. No idea why. But something I know is that it’s almost done.

Super happening at there.

Sorry, it’s not for 56K. 512kbps broadband also is a problem for now I think. Hehe. Please wait slowly. Too many photos already.

Found a nice big wall at the back of the statue. Very cool, no idea what’s that wall means. It sure symbolize or have some kind of art message, but I don’t know. I just think it’s cool

Last photo before going home, it’s 1030pm that time. Yeah!

March 19, 2010
Sunrise at Queensbay

That day, a few days ago, I woke up very the early to fetch mom and dad to the airport. Then I was alone that time, no idea where to go, it’s so early and remembered that the tripod for my camera was in the car, so I went to Queensbay to take some photos and let the wind blow.

Maybe it rained a bit during midnight, it’s so chilly and windy that morning. Cold… and I like!

It’s very quiet early in the morning. The sun hasn’t got up yet and it’s only a little brightness from far. Forgotten that I was only in a short pants and t-shirt, waiting the sun come up to warm me up.

No people at Queensbay, only like 6-7 people, one people sweep the floor and some were like me letting the wind blow and got people go morning walk too!

Some more got boat pass by! By the way, the sea at Queensbay is so much nicer than Gurney Plaza, there’s no ugly muddy seaside. Gurney Drive is so geli (ugly) during low tide.

Got aeroplane also! Flights are always early. Check out my dust spot on my camera sensor, so cool.

Waited for like 45 minutes, the sun has got up in the end, it’s time to pack up and go home.

March 15, 2010

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