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Lelong.my E-Commerce Fair 2011 – Largest E-Commerce Fair In Malaysia
Last time it was Lelong.Com.My and now it’s Lelong.my! I am sure everyone of you heard about that site and if you have not, it’s like the E-bay for our own Malaysian, it’s a website for auction and online shopping in Malaysia only.

Lelong.my will be holding the first and the largest E-Commerce Fair in Malaysia which will be happening at Mid Valley Exhibtion Centre (Hall 1 & 2) for a better shopping experience, which brings your favourite online shop to an offline location!

Lelong.my E-Commerce Fair 2011

Date: 12, 13, 14 August (Friday – Sunday) 2011

Time: 11.00am – 9.00pm

Location: Mid Valley Exhibition Centre (Hall 1 & 2)

It will be a very awesome event at Mid Valley as it will be featuring 240 participating booths which actually have online stores at Lelong,my, live bid your favourite item from as low as RM1 (like gadget and camera starts from RM1), charity auction, free gifts and talks on how to start your own e-commerce and more!

Blogging Competition

Lelong.my also organized a blogging competition in conjunction with this big event and the prizes are Samsung Galaxy S2, Viewsonic ViewPad 10, shopping voucher and more! It’s really very tempting and the best part of all is that it’s very easy to join the competition and win!

All you need to do is just follow this 3 simple steps and you are on your way to win your prizes.
1. “Like” Lelong.my’s Facebook fan page (www.facebook.com/lelong.com.my)
2. Write a blog post on: Your Most Memorable Experience Buying Online
  1. The post can be both positive or negative, describing the experience
  2. Include the Lelong.my E-Commerce Fair masthead
    (http://ecfair.lelong.com.my/2011/wp-content/uploads/eventdetails.png) or promotional flyer (http://ecfair.lelong.com.my/2011/wp-content/uploads/Lelong-Ad-Final.jpg)
3. Submit your blog post to Lelong.my via the Facebook page “contest” tab (closing date: 31st July 2011)
And you are done! You are on the right path to win your awesome prize. Check out the website for more information!

What do you think? Fun right?
July 3, 2011
Tang Yuan And Desserts At All About Sugar & Gift

Who doesn’t love desserts and sweets? Dessert is the nicest food to eat at all time as some is interesting, some is healthy and the best is most of them are yummy. Chinese’ dessert is not about cakes and pastry, but more about tang yuan (glutinous rice ball), fruits, paste and soup.

When I was in Hong Kong and Singapore, I always eat desserts at there after and before meal because there’s too many desserts cafe already but then in Penang, there’s not much. Just recently, the number of this desserts cafe and restaurants are increasing.

I went to one dessert house lately on Lorong Susu (near to Macalister Road, behind Town Steamboat House) as they are quite famous for tangyuan. The name is All About Sugar & Gift 团团圆圆团圆汤圆甜品屋. They have a variety of tangyuan with different fillings like sesame, peanuts, lianyong, and some special one like chocolate, cheese, tiramisu and more.

My girlfriend ordered a bowl of tangyuan which called the Quan Jia Fu (Whole Family) RM6.90 which allows you to pick 5 big tang yuan with different filling. She picked Tiramisu, White Coffee, Chocolate and Cheese tangyuan. Well, according to her, she said it’s nice because of the special filling rather than normal filling, but the soup wasn’t good as it’s milk with ginger and it tasted a little bit spicy because of the ginger.

I tried and I like the original one like sesame and nuts filling more though. If were to compare to the one in Hong Kong that I had before, Hong Kong’s better. Haha.

I ordered myself something different, it’s a Mixed Fruit Sago (RM6.90) and it’s one of the chef recommended. It comes with different fruits cutlet, sago and also some colourful little plain tangyuan. I like this as it’s chilling, sweet and nice.

For your little information, they do serve food too like rice and noodle instead just tang yuan and desserts. It may not be the best dessert house in town but it’s still a good place to hang out with your friends and eat some dessert, chill and relax.

All About Sugar And Gift

No.11 Lorong Susu,
10400 Pulau Pinang

Tel: 012-5320353

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July 3, 2011
Hong Kong: Sai Yeung Choi Street #3 And Mongkok

Sai Yeung Choi Street really is love because I just love that street so much, all the neon signs, peoples, shops, LED display and huge TV, and also the night market on the next street parallel to it, it’s really a super duper happening place in Mongkok.

I went to Sai Yeung Choi Street twice during my last visit to Hong Kong and spent a little while at Fa Yuen Street which features street market.

The street market selling mostly ladies clothing is not really my type of place to go, we were just accompanying my lovely mommy to go shopping and what’s interest me more is the Sai Yeung Choi Street South. However, nothing much for us to buy already, it’s just that that day was Saturday and it’s a crowded day, we wanted to go there to take photos of crowded people on the street. Haha.

I am a very weird person. I love Penang for being peaceful and relax and I also love Hong Kong for being fast, happenings and people-ful. Somehow, I don’t like Singapore. *finger cross*

It was only me and brother Yikhung at Sai Yeung Choi Street as dad and mom went back to hotel early for a rest. You know, you need to have a good stamina if you want to travel to Hong Kong because it’s all about walking, walking, walking and walking, and walking.

Tired, yet fun. Look at the people, it’s just everywhere on the street. Perhaps their house is small and there’s nothing much to do at home, so they come down for a walk and window shopping, whereas in Penang, home is beautifully designed and packed with entertainment, people felt lazy to go outside the hot weather and don’t want to be stuck in the traffic jam.

Let’s get the photo shooting started.

Slow shutter. =D

One cool thing that will only appear in Hong Kong is that there’s so many mini booth on promoting their local cable and Internet service. It’s just everywhere on the street. They put up a bunting, a mini booth and there you go, a promotional booth for their Internet and cable service.

Don’t you think the place is so nice?

July 3, 2011
Hong Kong’s Central-Mid Levels Escalators

Don’t you feel awesome where you can take the escalator from the bottom to the middle of the hill. What a nice invention of technology and machinery. In Hong Kong, the Central-Mid Levels Escalators 中环至半山自动扶梯 is a very famous escalator in the world and Hong Kong which commute people up and down the hill.

In Hong Kong, the hill is not green, it’s all concrete buildings and Central area where the CBD is, is on a slope of a hill. A visit to Hong Kong must check out the escalator, even though it’s just an escalator, it’s long and bring you up very far like 500m or more.

We thought of going up Mid-Levels 半山 from Central, then will reach the tram station which goes up to The Peak, but we failed. We couldn’t find any tram station on top. Though, it’s a nice walk through the escalator up Mid-Levels and we saw many thing.

Mom was busy shopping so it was me, brother and daddy.

Here we go. The escalator was only available for going up and people have to walk down the stairs if you want to go downwards. There’s so many people, working people, residents and tourists taking the escalator. At the lower level, it’s quite crowded but as you go further up, it become less and less people as there’s less commercial building and it’s all residential area up there.

It’s a nice walk up the older side of Hong Kong and so cool that we were on a slope of the hill. All the buildings were built very nicely too! With old Hong Kong architecture blends with British architecture, real cool.

At some point of the escalator way, there’s this mini station which encourages people to tap their Octopus card where you can get 10HK$ rebate. It’s a good way to stop people down and also encourages you to walk and use their service. Octopus Card is actually equivalent to our local’s Touch N’ Go card. You can see in the photo above where people queue up just go for a tap. I tapped my card too. =D

It seems nice to live at there but then imaging commuting up and down everyday like this also will tired.

Don’t be surprise to see flats, apartments up there as far as I know, this place is rather super expensive in Hong Kong as it’s so near to Central.

We reached the highest point of the escalator which is Mid-Levels or just known as middle height of the hill, we thought we could take a tram up to the Peak but then we couldn’t find the station anywhere near us. We walked around, asked and no one seems to know where’s the tram station is. Guess the riches up there don’t know what’s tram and only know about cars and chauffeur.

At the highest point of the Central-Mid-Levels Escalator is high end residential area. We were tired and thought of taking a cab down there but it seems ridiculous so, we just walked back down slowly.

And we were back to the lowest point in about 10 minutes. =D

July 3, 2011
Chinese New Year Thematic Lantern Exhibtion At Victoria Harbour

Haha, this is so freaking old post where Chinese New Year was but I still find it interesting to share it up with you guys, hope you guys like it. I actually went to travel to my favourite Asian city, Hong Kong during the last few days of the Chinese New Year.

We thought of it would be very happenings in Hong Kong during Chinese New Year but unfortunately not during the last few days of Chinese New Year. Luckily, there’s still some mini Lantern Exhibition at Victoria Harbour for people to check it out and take photos.

On our visit to Victoria Harbour, we spend a little time to check out the lanterns and also the famous light show.

I got to tell you seriously that their lantern exhibition was real cool and neat. All were high quality and exhibited nicely and neatly which I think it’s not possible to happen in Malaysia. Hmm hmm.

There’s also some Chinese opera going on at the performing stage and I think they were pretty cool. Enjoying opera and lantern show in a very cool 13 degree celcius weather were fun.

Yikhung!

Foggy Hong Kong.

What a nice place and night at Victoria Harbour.

There’s cute rabbit too!

Photos taken with Canon 400D and Canon 50mm f1.8.

July 2, 2011
Hong Kong Night Scene From Victoria Harbour

Hohoho. Very random right, suddenly I pop up a post about Hong Kong. Yes! I want to bring you to Hong Kong again because I still have plenty of photos that I have taken in Hong Kong few months back to share with you guys.

One of the must visit place in Hong Kong is the Victoria Harbour, also where Avenue Of Stars is. It’s the best place for you to do some nice photo shoot on Hong Kong night scene and cityscape as it’s overlook the whole Hong Kong island with nice skyscrapers from Kowloon side.

Brother brought a big tripod, we brought two DSLR, a Canon 400D and a Canon 500D. We was actually planned to spend about half an hour at there only but turn on to be a 1 hour photo shooting of the city, and ourselves. Haha.

It got fun as we bought a wireless trigger for the camera from Sham Shui Po market that day and directly went to Victoria Harbour for some photo shoot.

Something’s wrong with the White Balance, but I don’t bother to post process it already as they are already so nice. =D

Ghost effect! =D Welcome to Hong Kong, I love Hong Kong, I love Victoria Harbour, I love the skyscrapers. Yummy. By the way, I actually went to the same place 3 years back. =D

Photos taken with Canon 500D and Canon 17-40mm F4L by Yikhung.

July 2, 2011
Random Shots At Heong Giam Si Temple

Haha, it’s another post about temple and I did not purposely go to this temple to take photos. It’s actually I brought my camera with me during this visit to the temple with mom to pay a memorial visit to the late grandma of my dad.

Heong Giam Si Temple, located near to the state mosque (Masjid Negeri) at Air Itam there is actually a memorial hall which houses people’s ancestor’s tablets.

It rained during our visit and it was quite a heavy rain. I took out my camera and go for some shots.

And after the rain, blue sky came. =D

What a random post.

Photos taken by Canon EOS 60D and Tamron 17-50mm f2.8.

July 2, 2011
Nice Kaya Spread/Coconut Jam At Tanjung Tokong

In Malaysia, the coconut jam normally known as kaya for the local, it’s a common term for Malaysian. Kaya is a food spread used for bread and toast and it’s mainly made from coconut and sugar. People like to eat it on toast for breakfast, afternoon tea, all even just eat for fun, it’s just like the normal strawberry jam.

You can actually get this in supermarket or mini-market, but those are factory processed. What’s good is a true homemade kaya spread like this that I’ve got in Tanjung Tokong.

It’s available in big (RM4.50) and small size (RM3.50) and sell in a small coffee shop at the UDA flats in Tanjung Tokong, same place as the nasi Melayu too.

Do you like Kaya?

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July 2, 2011
Kuan Yin Teng – Temple Of The Goddess Of Mercy, Penang

On a find Tuesday afternoon, I was feeling bored and I went to Pitt Street alone to the famous Kuan Yin Teng (Kuan Yin Temple/Temple Of The Goddess Of Mercy) to walkaround, take some photos and pray a little bit. It was a hot day, yet it’s nice to go there to take photos.

As you know, this temple is one of the oldest temple in Penang and have been serving the Taoist devotees well over the century. It’s one of the building in the listing of the UNESCO World Heritage Site and people still going there to pray everyday and it’s get crowded during the first and the 15th day of the Lunar calendar.

The temple houses several God and Goddess of the Toaism. It was constructed in the early 1800s by the Chinese immigrant. My grandma is a frequent visitor of the temple too.

Outside the temple, there’s many stalls selling praying material like joss sticks and candle and they will be touting you to buy their stuff when you passes by. Actually, it’s all the same, what’s matter is the heart and sincerity of praying.

There’s actually Chinese opera outside the temple, serving the God and Goddess for a spiritual entertainment show, however the opera show was off during that time.

As you know, I have some nice feel towards holy places like temple and church because these place give me a sense of peace and quiet. They all features nice artwork and architecture too especially old Chinese temple and old churches in the European countries.

I heard that there’s plan of revamping the praying experience at the temple which is that no joss stick will be allow to go bring in into the inner hall. Praying will be done outside the temple, just like the Wong Tai Sin temple in Hong Kong. This is to preserve and maintain a clean and holy environment in the temple. Somehow, I don’t know whether it will be implemented or not.

This is a must visit place in Penang. =)

Photos taken with Canon EOS 60D and Sigma 8-16mm + Tamron 17-50mm f2.8.

July 2, 2011
Dinner at Clinic Cafe, Seberang Jaya

I want to tell people that I went to clinic, to eat dinner. LOL. It’s the Clinic Cafe at Seberang Jaya, near to Sunway Carnival Mall. It’s more likely a themed restaurant with a hospital/clinic feel. I read about it in the newspaper and pretty curious about the place so I and some friends went to check it out. I believe there’s already one similar in Singapore’s Clarke Quay, but that’s more on drinking instead of meal.

It felt a little bit creepy to me when dining in there because, the waiter and waitress dress like a medical officer and it’s like dining in a clinic. Well, this is a simple one, the one in Clarke Quay, Singapore is more beautiful than this. We went there during dinner time but there’s like only 2 tables dining, include us. Pretty quiet. I think old chinese people wouldn’t want to eat here because of pantang.

After looking at the menu, the food is cheaper than I expected, but not very low price yet. It starts from RM7 and above, serving local oriental and some local western food.

I ordered the cheapest Tom Yam Fried Rice at RM7.80. They have put in a lot of spices and there’s tom yam taste but I dislike the spices, maybe some like it but not me. Don’t you feel creepy when eating rice in kidney bowl which use during surgery? Eww, haha.

My friend ordered the Yang Zhou Fried Rice, looks not bad, and tasted pretty good too. There’s lots of vegetable and forgot to mention that all our fried rice came with 4 crispy fried shrimp.

Oh shit, I’ve forgotten what my friend ordered for this beverage. It’s chocolate milk shake with vanilla ice cream if I am not mistaken, taste good, but RM5.80.

Have you been here before? I not sure whether will I return to this place or not, it’s far! Come open up one in Penang island then that’s good. =D

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June 30, 2011

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