Heavy Workload – Super heavy workload right now! Now is Week 12 of this semester, 2 more weeks to end of semester, then final exam and most due dates falls on next week or week 14! I am so crazy, tensed, nervous, gan cheong, excited, chi kek right now. So much to do, some last minutes, some not last minutes, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Don’t know how to express my feeling right now. Good luck, and all the best.
Small Sick – What’s up people? One week of MIA, I am here again. No I was not being kidnapped, nor being lazy. It’s just too much things to do and I went to the Singapore! The above picture describes a bit of my current situation, have an itchy throat, have been coughing for a few days and it’s damn annoying. These meds make me even weaker and sleepy all the time. Damn. Anyway, will be updating more on the blog, very soon! =D 4 more weeks until end of this semester. Yo, it’s not holiday is coming, it’s deadlines and due dates are coming!
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| The alumni, graduates of 1981. Hyper-active group of uncles. |
CLESIC & The Central Malaysia Chung Ling Alumni 50th Anniversary – It’s quite surprised that my old Chung Ling High School friend invited me to the Central Malaysia Chung Ling Alumni 50th Anniversary dinner because I haven’t been active with my old school for a long long time. How are you Chung Ling High School?
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| Cocktail session. |
Actually, it’s not eat, it’s helping out at the dinner, before, and after, in between we get to join in the dinner with all the uncle senior alumnis who are based in Central Malaysia. They are uncles and aunties already, and also member of Central Malaysia Chung Ling Alumni Club, and for us, we are part of CLESIC – Chung Ling Ex-Student Inter-varsity Council. Woahhhh. It’s just, alumni, for university student (at this moment). Only now I know there’s something like this, alumni might not be a place for us right now as we are too young, dominated by uncles, so CLESIC it is.
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| The guys: me, Khai Liang, Lit Chen, Win Shern, Jing Min, Chuan Hao. |
Normally CLESIC happens to be in public university like UM, UKM, USM and all the U-and-the-M. There’s no Taylor’s University, but glad that I was invited as part of it. Well, it’s fun, simple tasks, great dinner, OK-good performance, met new friends, good laughters throughout the night and =).
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| Ushering. |
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| Rise for the national anthem. Yoyoyo. |
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| Rise for the school anthem, the last time was, 3 years ago. |
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| A way to control noise in the hall. |
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| Some Chinese dance performance. |
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| Well, hmm, OK, when I look at this, I’ll think of Bo Hood. Hmm, hmm, hmm. Hello Mr Koh, ex-chief minister of Penang. |
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| CLESIC. Too many to name, I don’t even know some of your name. You know who you are. Lady in blue is Xiao Hui, host from NTV7, happens to be the host for the dinner too. |
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| This is it. |
It was a grand alumni dinner in the Kuala Lumpur. As I know, Chung Ling-kia (what we call Chung Ling student) always do big. No doubt that Chung Ling has the biggest alumni network around the world, UK, China, USA, Australia, they are just everywhere. Proud to be a Chung Ling student, yes I do.
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| Located in a little shophouse. |
Soul Kitchen Trattoria, Muntri Street – Have been wanting to go to this little trattoria on Muntri Street for a long time and finally, I’ve got a chance! It was last weekend that I went there for lunch with my girlfriend. I have been hearing a lot of good comment about this little Italian restaurant too.
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| Vintage style and simple interiors. |
It’s not restorante, it’s trattoria. To make it simple, in Italian, it means a very casual restaurant, more like a home-cooked style dining, with a few choices in the menu, very casual, very simple. =D
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| Here’s my girl. =D |
There’s not much choices, it’s either, pasta, or pizza. There’s also special dish of the day, like Italian salad. During the weekdays, you can even get set lunch with soup, drinks and main course, but on the weekend, it’s all a la carte.
I don’t really know much about Italian. Somehow, the owner of the trattoria gave us recommendations and we followed. It’s one thin crust Chorizo pizza with two sides of topping (peach slices and bacon) and one … ,,, ,,, I’ve forgotten about the name. Err, there’s a bit of bacon again, garlic, thyme which tasted good.
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| Ok, this is me. How can she has a photo here and not me? |
=) Well, suddenly I felt that I was so new to Italian. And all the while, those in the menu of Pizza Hut seems so oriental. Guess I need to learn more about the authentic Italian cuisine. The pasta tasted tasteless for the first feel bite, but after some dig into the bottom, it tasted deliciou. Pizza wise, I like the side with peace slices and cheese, bacon side was a bit sourish on my tastebuds.
Total damage of the day: RM54, with no service charge and government tax. Probably, I will come back again for some other food. The owner is friendly too.
Soul Kitchen Cafe / Trattoria102, Lebuh Muntri,
10200 George Town, Penang.
Telephone: +604-2613118
Business Hours:
Wed, Thurs 11.30am – 2.30pm & 6.30pm – 9.00pm
Fri, Sat, Sun 11.30am – 2.30pm & 6.30pm – 10.00pm
Mon & Tues Closed.
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| Awesome sea view from the balcony! Lovely Gurney Drive, taken from my Galaxy S2 by the way, nice right? |
Eat, Sleep, Awesome Seaview in Penang – Eat, sleep and checking out the sea views were some of my activities in the past 24 hours! Sleep, I don’t really get much sleep yet because I want to squeeze every bit of time to eat and enjoy the relaxing city of Penang – my home!
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| Best Lok-lok in Penang, you can eat with a variety of sauce! e.g. tomyam, satay, ginger, spicy chilli and more. So much better than Satay Celup in Malacca. |
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| Rainy day here. That’s why Lok-lok was so good. |
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| Yums! |
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| Any one Char Koay Teow here in Penang is so much better than KL’s. Lot’s of lard, duck egg and big big cockles! The one at Pulau Tikus Market is one of my favourite. Surprisingly the CKT guy didn’t lansi and say ‘need to wait 30 minutes’/ |
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| Delicious little dishes for Teochew porridge at the famous Taibuan Porridge @ Muntri St. |
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| Panorama view from The Light Linear! Went to a site visit today. =D Looking forward for the development here to complete. It will become a beautiful The Light Waterfront |
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| Penang super best landmark – Penang Bridge! |
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| George Town at far. |
Good night!
White Mask, Concept Presentation – Some random post on my recent happenings at college – Thursday, last. Had a presentation about concept for my latest interior project – office design To be honest, ‘concept’ is the most confusing thing for design student, agree?
I roughly get about 70% about what’s concept is, but generating a unique and meaningful one is still a problem. Hmm hmm. Anyway, don’t care already, will keep learning to improve myself. =D
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| The white mask people are back! I happened to see them during the last semester and now there’s the new batch of them around the commercial block in uni. |
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| If I am not wrong, this is part of their drama/theater module or something. An assignment I guess. |
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| Presentation, bull-shit session, show-off time is going on, with, one, two, three, four audience. =D Lady in white is my lecture. |
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| The chilling gang. |
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| The class. |
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| Here’s me. Thumbs up for me. |
Cycling In George Town: Bicycle & Motorbike Mural, Wan Tan Mee, Back To Armenian Street – This is the last post for my Cycling In George Town post series. Last post, we stopped off at Jelutong’s Nautilus Bay, now we head back to George Town for a photo-session with the bicycle & motorbike mural boy, dinner and home!
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| One good economy fried bee hoon on Lebuh Tye Seen, or local calls it the Fourth Road 四条路 |
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| Right in front of Sum Min Primary School. |
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| Me, Merritt, Charles and Chien Chern. |
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| Funny Charles and Merritt. |
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| Cool cube with artwork on top. |
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| Telephone booth turned into street art piece. |
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| Old school Swatow Lodging House on Armenian Street. |
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| The RM1 fruit juice stall on Lebuh Ah Quee! |
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| Me and my ride. |
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| Charles with the motorbike boy. |
Last stop before returning the bicycle back to the shop was the famous Wan Tan Mee on Chulia Street! It’s our dinner and meal to recharge our drained energy. We were exhausted. A bowl of Wan Tan Mee (RM3.50) and another glass of fresh apple juice (RM1.50) did nice on regenerating the lost energy of the day.
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| Awesome twilight with Penang famous hawker food. |
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| The Wan Tan Mee. |
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| Interesting heart shape made from straws by unknown artist. |
Cycling In George Town: Esplanade Padang, Chew Jetty, Jelutong Nautilus Bay – Our route were unplanned, we just rode to wherever we could think of at that time. We were on the way to Esplanade Padang on the previous post to check out the spicy yet delicious Mee Sotong at the Padang Kota Food Court. Not much stalls opened due to Ramadhan month but it was just nice that both the Mee Sotong and drinks stall were open.
Alright, one plate of Mee Sotong and share among us! Not really hungry, just to try out the taste as introduced by Merritt the organizer. Tasted spicy! But then it’s good with lots of crunchy fried anchovies ikan bilis.
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| The field, Padang Kota Lama / Esplanade. |
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| Swettemham Pier for cruise docking. |
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| Tanjung City Marina, docking for yatch. Too bad, no more yatch as most yatch now docks at Straits Quay. |
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| Name check: Merritt, Charles, Yan Chien Chern, Shi Jie, |
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| Charles, Merritt and Chien Chern! |
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| Awesome foreign expats park their little yatch in the middle of the sea. They came to George Town for shopping. |
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| Little yatch. |
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| Lim Chong Eu Expressway. Speed limit: 80km/h. |
Where to, now? Don’t really have an idea, and randomly someone suggested Jelutong’s Nautilus Bay. That’s a bit of craziness as it’s out of George Town, a short section of highway ride on the motorcycle lane. Didn’t bother much and we went there. It was exciting yet dangerous to ride on the same lane with the fast motorcycle as we couldn’t really follow the speed of the motorcycle. What it was just strong gush of wind and sound every moment the motorcycle passed by you. About 10 minutes on the little Lim Chong Eu Expressway and we arrived at the Nautilus Bay, Sungai Pinang, Jelutong.
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| Penang’s landmark – Penang Bridge. |
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| Ugly side of Sungai Pinang, what an eye sore look of this place. |
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| Nice network of jogging path and landscape. |
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| Landmark of Nautilus Bay, the 4 tiang (columns). |
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| Hidden Taoist temple of don’t know what. |
A new area in Penang, with sea front residential and some shoplots. Some calls it the ‘new Gurney Drive’ Obviously, it has a cleaner sea than Gurney Drive and you can get a good view of Penang Bridge and Butterworth, Explored a bit of this area, found that they have a good jogging path, we cycled along it and found a hidden temple deep on the other side of the area. Enjoy a bit of the sea breeze and we headed back to George Town, for some photograph with the bicycle mural, motorbike mural and dinner. =) Check out next post.
Cycling In George Town: Tan Kongsi, Sekeping Victoria, Beach Street – This is a long waited post that I’ve finally got some times to post it up. I’ve taken about 70 photos on this day and I wanted to post them all, so I’ll be dividing this post to 3 post. =D
Cut the crap, a month ago, I was back at home in Penang and went on a cycling in George Town trip with my friends. Cycling is one famous activities in this little city of Penang and more and more people gets their own folding bike and mountain bike. We rented the bicycles at a second hand bicycle shop on Armenian Street for RM10/day, there’s plenty of bike for you to choose, folding, or the big one and I picked a little folding bike with suspension.
Started of around Armenian Street – Carnavon Street without any idea on where should we go, ended up at Tan Kongsi at Beach Street, stopped by a while for photos session.
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| Yan Chien Chern. |
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| Merritt Lau, the organizer of the day! |
This time we get a good look of this Seh Tan Kongsi. It’s a little clan house with super small neighbourhood of colonial shophouses around and that’s it. Nothing much, round the little place for a couple of round then we go to the other destination. We felt like we were unprofessional cycling kids. Haha.
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| Parking our bike at some random space. |
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| The desserts and drinks stall. |
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| Loving the minimal and raw interior of Sekeping Victoria. |
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| Always crowded Pavilion Shopping Mall. |
Sunday, Hock Sheng, Crowded H&M, Sunset From LRT – Very random last Sunday with eating pork noodle, doing some gym, head to town with Hock Sheng – high school friend, and took the LRT back. I have been isolating myself for a couple of weeks and it’s time to release myself from my tiny full-of-entertainment relaxing rented room to head to town, breath some fresh air, window shop the shopping mall and eat.
I am weird, I like to stay in the room, and yet I like to go out. Can you explain what do I really like actually? At some point of time, I enjoy staying at home, enjoying the TV, blog, music and Internet, then I am also an outgoing one, check out new stuff, new place, and buy thing. @@
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| The queue! |
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| Very cool interiors. |
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| I want more, please! I shall go to the Europe, the Sweden as I heard it’s even cheaper there, true? |
Actually, the main reason I went to town was to check out the newly opened H&M at LOT 10, Bukit Bintang, took the LRT there and not-surprisingly, there’s a queue line outside and luckily it’s not hot and got in in about less than 10 minutes. 3 floors, ground and first floor are ladies’ and the 2nd floor is the man’s.
Amazed, happy, shocked with the low price and choices, I bought a couple of shirts. The price is good! Shirt starts from RM39.90, what do you think? Best of all there’s XS size for little body size like me, but then not much XS/S available. It’s very crowded and happenings, people queuing for fitting room and cashier. I suggest you to go on the weekday or wait for the new one at Setia City Mall @ Setia Alam, Shah Alam.
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| Standard eat @ Snowflakes – Snowflakes Bestseller Grass Jelly. |
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| Me with the little bag of shirts. |
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| Hock Sheng who used to sit next to me during high school. Just came to KL recently for study. |
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| BMW 650i Coupe – Just got to say, beautiful and I want. So sexy! |
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| Almost sunset from Pavilion bridge to KLCC. |
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| Sunset from Taman Bahagia LRT station. Good bye. |
