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Chinese New Year Lighting

Chinese New Year Lighting – Those who celebrate Christmas, they will get a Christmas tree and decorate it nicely with bells, candies, gift boxes as well as LED lighting. My family is not really a Christmas person when it comes to Christmas, our house doesn’t has a Christmas tree.

However, when it comes to Chinese New Year, we will hunt for Chinese lanterns as well as those LED lighting. Different types of lighting can be seen at almost every electrical and lighting shops in Penang. It sort of light up some part of the city too. Now you see that Chinese has their love on lighting too.

Do you decorate your home of garden with these kind of lighting?

January 18, 2012
Morning Twilight Sky In Penang

Morning Twilight Sky In Penang – Morning twilight is the time somewhere about Sunrise where night and day meet at the horizon. I was driving early from Penang Island to Seberang Perai yesterday’s morning at about 7am. The sky was so blue and the dawn sky was so pretty. I quickly took out my camera – Panasonic Lumix LX5, slowed down my vehicle on the road and start snapping away. I know it’s not right to do so but I just couldn’t help myself capturing the beauty of dawn in Penang.

Penang is beautiful, isn’t she?

January 18, 2012
Yellow Penang Chung Ling High School

Yellow Penang Chung Ling High School – Back to my high school last weekend and surprised to see that the make over of the front school facade has done. They have repainted the school yellow colour! It’s the bright yellow colour. Looking weird, very weird, but somehow, cool I guess.

It’d been very long time that I didn’t visit my high school. I miss it quite a lot actually. 2012, this is my third year after leaving high school already. I went there to visit my Leo Club friends where the school was having the annual CCA Open Day.

The school was beige in colour back then, I wonder who suggest yellow colour. A little information is that yellow colour is one of the colour in Chung Ling High School’s emblem.

Random #1: The police cadet so serious.

Random #2: LCD screens are everywhere in school!

Random #2.1: Oooo, so it’s Samsung.

Random #3: Look disgusting, but we like! Chung Ling-style fried egg.

Random #4: The stand of the motorcycle sunken into the tar road. WOW.

January 17, 2012
Little Red Elmo Mobile Accessory From Universal Studio Japan

Little Red Elmo Keychain From Universal Studio Japan – A souvenir from Stanley and Sammy for the little cute Elmo handphone accessory from Universal Studio, Japan.

Hello!

January 16, 2012
Chatime Bubble Tea & 102 Chinese Cuisine At Bellisa Row
Chatime Bubble Tea & 102 Chinese Cuisine At Bellisa Row – Chatime is now one of the famous Taiwanese bubble tea brand in Penang and drinking out at Chatime’s is now a trend. More and more people is hanging out at Chatime instead of Starbucks, Coffee Bean.

In Penang, there’s a new Chatime just open recently at Bellisa Row, Pulau Tikus which now Penang has a total of 4 Chatime outlets – Gurney Plaza, Queensbay Mall, 1st Avenue as well as Bellisa Row.

Located on Bellisa Row shoplots, the Chatime outlet was actually a Chinese restaurant – Dragon 9ine Restaurant which has closed down and change to offer Chatime bubble tea and 102 Taiwanese Cuisine.

It might be one of the coolest Chatime outlet in Penang as you can not only drink Chatime bubble tea beverage, but you can eat Taiwanese cuisine at the same time. The outlet is divided into two F&B outlet, but then they are link together in between, but different unit. One more thing, free wifi is available too!

The 102 Restaurant offers Chinese food as well as Taiwanese cuisine in their menu, snacks and finger food. It’s a good combination and add-on for Chatime bubble tea.

I didn’t really had my dinner meal there, instead I ordered the Taiwanese sausage as a snack to eat and at the same time enjoy Chatime bubble tea.

My favourite Chatime’s beverage are:
- Roasted Milk Tea + Pearl
- Lychee Yakult Jelly QQ + Pearl
- Jasmine Green Tea Mousse + Pearl
- Macha Tea Mousse + Pearl
How about yours?

Chatime & 102 Chinese Cuisine

368-1-5, Bellisa Row,
Jalan Burma,
10350, Penang, Malaysia.

Telephone: +6012-4314319

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January 13, 2012
BlackBall Taiwanese Desserts At Pulau Tikus, Penang

BlackBall Taiwanese Desserts At Pulau Tikus, Penang – Taiwanese desserts and bubble tea have became a trend in Malaysia with the rise of bubble tea shop like Chatime, Gongcha and desserts shop like Snowflakes in Kuala Lumpur. Another franchise brand of Taiwanese desserts is here and that’s Blackball Taiwanese Desserts which located on Jalan Burma of Pulau Tikus.

BlackBall origins from Taiwan and there’s a few outlets in the Klang Valley (SS15, Damansara Uptown, Sri Petaling, & Johor Bahru), this one is the first outlet in Penang and it began to introduce Taiwanese desserts to Penangite. A little bit information about Taiwanese desserts is that they are bowl of grass jelly with topping like taro ball, red bean, pearls, coconut jelly and more. Besides serving Taiwanese desserts at BlackBall, you can also find my favourite beverage – bubble tea at there too.

It’s opened about a month ago at Pulau Tikus. Parking is a little bit difficult as the car park area in front of the shop can only allow 4 cars to be parked at the same time. Hmm. Luckily there’s a place for us to park our vehicle. I went there after lunch with my brother and his girlfriend.

Looking at the menu, it offers Taiwanese desserts almost the same like Snowflakes in Klang Valley, however with additional of different bubble teas in their menu. Since it’s our first time visiting the cafe, we ordered two BlackBall Signatures, hot and cold.

They gave us the UFO thingy which will beep and vibrate once our order is ready. Then we went to collect our order at the counter.

A bowl of these cost RM6.50. What’s different with hot and cold is hot is more liquid/water-ish, where cold includes a layer of blended ice in it. The BlackBall signature includes healthy grass jelly, taro ball, taro Q, pearl and red bean. Both of this come with a small cup of milk which adds more flavour into it.

Well, the texture of the grass jelly and jelly are pretty good especially the grass jelly where it’s very soft and splash upon entering the mouth. The taro ball is chewy enough. However, the whole thing is not tasteful enough where the taste is pretty light, not enough taste of grass jelly, not sweet enough.

What do you think? I think it’s acceptable for Taiwanese desserts, but I want it to be sweeter. =D

BlackBall Original Taiwanese Tea & Desserts

232, Jalan Burma,
10350 Penang, Malaysia.

Telephone: +6016-4661886

Business Hours: 12pm-12am

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January 13, 2012
Singapore Trip: Holland Village & Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao

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Singapore Trip: Holland Village & Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao – One of the place I visited during my Singapore trip few months back was Holland Village, the small town that has many nice restaurants. Brother recommended the supper all-you-can-eat steamboat buffet with unlimited Xiao Long Bao at Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao restaurant which starts at 10pm. We actually made a reservation, it’s better to make a reservation as it gets crowded during this session.

#2: Part of the road is closed at night for pedestrian walking.

#3. Us!

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Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao is located in Holland Village, Singapore. We took a cab from NUS main campus and we arrived in just a few minutes. It’s pretty close. We wander around the place while waiting 10pm to arrive. We were there pretty early.

#5: Clean power box. Ours are full with advertisement on loanshark, viagra ads and more.

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When 10pm reached, we went into the restaurant, the restaurant actually made our book wrong and had our book written on the yesterday page, after some discussion, they manage to get us a seat on the upper floor. Steamboat is served with two version of soup that we’ve ordered – pork bone soup and vegetable soup with lots of parsley.

Besides eating steamboat, there’s unlimited order of nice Shanghai Xiao Long Bao and desserts like toufu hau which runs out pretty quickly.

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I ate more Xiao Long Bao than steamboat that night and came out with a full stomach. Yum yum.

January 9, 2012
Friends Get-Together At Chien Chern’s Place

#1: Johnny Teh Zheng Feng! Long time no see, football pro, good singing voice, always work on math question. =D

Friends Get-Together At Chien Chern’s Place – When everyone goes to college, it’s hard to meet up, crap, talk, do stupid together like we used to be during high school because we were always together in the same classroom for the whole year. I am now back to Penang for holiday which I am enjoying every bit moment of it. Trying to utilize the nice holiday properly.

Recently, a group of boys, went to Chien Chern’s place for a little steamboat gathering.

#2: Alvin, my best friend since form 1 who I influenced to start a blog – alvinyang.net. Ignore his lame pose.

#3: Boy chefs. LOL. Alvin, Raykee, Arron and Simon.

Everyone was kinda surprised, wonder why there’s no girls. Not even Chien Chern’s pet dog is a girl. So it’s all-boys night. HAHA. Although some said boys is a better cook, somehow the night’s steamboat was luan luan lai (made it simply), however turn out full and not that bad too.

Well, I let the picture speaks in this post. Enjoy and happy Monday!

#4: Zez Chien, my classmate when I was 16, 4 years ago. =D

#5: Chien Chern, the crazy one who I always mix with during high school.

#6: Now you see his face.

#7: Arron, also the crazy one and I give him a title of “Great Story Teller”. He just so nice to talk with.

#8: Working out on the steamboat, just ignore my face. =D

#9: One of the entertainment, arm wrestling. Just one round.

#10: What the … ?! I have no idea why we were posing for the 1Malaysia. Hmm. Seriously,election is coming soon, this year, think properly who to vote. =D Anwar just freed from Sodomy charge while I am writing this post.

#11: Group photo.

#12: Ignore Alvin. Alright, there’s still 1Malaysia on the right.

#13: Arron, Tee Jin, Raykee, Chien Chern and me.

That’s it, 9 batangs get-together at a batang’s house. HAHA

January 9, 2012
The Hidden Beach – Pasir Panjang Beach, Balik Pulau

#1: Balik Pulau from the mid-hill viewing platform.

The Hidden Beach – Pasir Panjang Beach, Balik Pulau – In Penang, when we discuss about beach, I am sure you will think about the famous Batu Feringhi beach, further on you will find Monkey Beach and Pantai Kerachut hidden in the Penang National Park at Teluk Bahang. Another well-known one is the Pantai Acheh, well-known because of the site being hit by tsunami in year 2006.

However, on the back of the Penang Island, located far south of Balik Pulau, there’s a hidden beach filled with some locals who go there for picnic – the Pasir Panjang Beach.

#2: Yeqing and Yikhung.

#3: The small island is Pulau Betong.

Lastweekend, brother, brother’s girlfriend, me and cousin went for a road trip to the back of the island – Balik Pulau, which reveals a quiet side of Penang. Initially, our plan was to find the Balik Pulau Visitor Centre, rent a bike and go for a bike trail, but we failed to locate the centre and randomly, we followed the sign of towards ‘Pulau Betong’, hoping that we could find a good spot to enjoy the sunset.

#4. Ugly bay.

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#6. Fisherman’s boat.

We did in fact came to a fishing village, the Pulau Betong Fishing Village which has a fish market at there. The fish market is often visited by the locals, in fact, I did came here before a few years back. A further deep into the fishing village, we found ourselves, nearer to the sea. There’s a dirty beach as well as a jetty. Since the beach was dirty and at that location, we couldn’t really see the sunset as it was block by cape. We then decided to drive further down the road, pass the cape to find another spot.

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#8: It says that ‘Beware! This beach is quite dangerous’.

We then came to a dead end, where a Kem Bina Negara Balik Pulau is located at. The camp is use for the government purpose as the name means ‘Building Nation’ Camp. Ignoring the camp, at the side of the camp, there lies the Pasir Panjang Beach.

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I am surprise to see there’s a stretch of sandy beach at this side of the island, fill with local Malay family at there, swimming and picnic-ing. The beach is pretty short, yet it’s a good spot, it’s a cleaner beach after all. The wave at here is also bigger than the wave at Batu Ferringhi, which makes it a little bit dangerous. However, the sand at the beach was not soft enough, it’s very rough.

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#13. Wai Leong.

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I see people swimming, picnic and fishing at there. There isn’t any safeguards at there as far as I know. The people who can call for help is the visitor at there or the people who live in the Kem Bina Negara. So, it’s swim at your own risk in the sea.

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#17. So relaxing.

Despite the sand on the beach is not soft enough, the beach is not very long and wide, yet it has an awesome view of the sunset sinking down the horizon. It’s a good visit that day. I’ve included a Google Map below for your reference. =)

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January 8, 2012
Met Olivia Ong And Celebrate Wai Leong’s Birthday At Overtime

#1: Overtime!

Met Olivia Ong And Celebrate Wai Leong’s Birthday At Overtime – Monday night was pretty quiet as everyone was preparing to go back to school and work. The 2nd day 2012, I went to Overtime with my cousin, brother and his girlfriend. Overtime was not in our plan but it’s randomly suggested when we were thinking where to go to celebrate my cousin, Wai Leong’s birthday.

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We went to Overtime at Gurney Drive, a very well-known pub in Penang, and all over Malaysia with live band music. Upon arrival, we were surprised to see many people at there despite school and work was on on the next day. We walk into it and saw Olivia Ong, a famous Chinese singer was autographing her album for her fans.

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#4: Olivia Ong, a Singaporean who then recorded song in Japan.

Unfortunately, we were too late because she’d done her singing at there and it’s autograph session which means nothing to us because we didn’t buy her album. Anyway, I’ve got to tell you she has good voice and nice song.

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We then spend our night with Starker beer, playing Beans card games, sing birthday song, listen to the live band and eat birthday cake. I’ve got to say that the live band at there was pretty entertaining. Happy birthday once again to Wai Leong. =)

One more thing, for those who always visit Overtime, do you know where Starker beer is from? Starker beer is from our lovely Malaysia! Haha. Starker means ‘stronger’ in German and it’s a German-style beer so it tasted a bit sweet.

January 8, 2012

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