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Sin Wah Penang Char Koay Teow, Pulau Tikus

Penang is so famous for Char Koay Teow and it’s a must eat when you come visit in Penang or if you are a Penangite, you must like it. Haha. There’s too many nice char koay teow in Penang and one of which I know and like is in Pulau Tikus market, at the hawker stall area which sells only at night.

The stall name is called the Sin Wah Char Koay Teow and I got to tell you that the owner got a little bit cocky. He will always tell you, ” You need to wait 30 minutes, want to wait or not?” Haha. But I don’t mind waiting because it usually served in about 15 minutes.

There’s 3 big prawns in the koay teow, nicely fried with salted duck egg and lard. The fragrance, the taste and the texture are real good. It may not be the best, I don’t know how to say it’s the best, yet it’s nice. The best part, it’s only RM4.50 which is cheaper than the RM8 at Lorong Selamat.

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June 5, 2011
Tomyam Mee At Xiang Xia Fish Head Beehoon, Weld Quay

The sun was going down on a Saturday evening and my parents brought me to Weld Quay for a dinner. Cruising along the seaside at Weld Quay was nice as it brings us to a friendlier part of Penang with all walks of life. The golden sun was setting and it’s an quiet and yet to be noisy Saturday evening.

We came to this 乡下鱼头米粉 which translated is Xiang Xia Fish Head Bee Hoon (rice noodle). As stated in their name, the famous dish is the fish head bee hoon, but there’s another famous dish and that is the tomyam noodle which I was craving for and I like.

I have never been to this place before but I heard many good comment about it and how spicy the tomyam noodle is. I ordered a bowl which is less spicy and no doubt, it’s really delicious, especially eating with fried fish fillet and maggi noodle. Just one thing, the maggi noodle was too little. Anyway, it’s still yummy.

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June 3, 2011
Hong Kong: North Point and Central 香港北角与中环

Let’s go to Hong Kong now shall we? =D Almost forgotten that I have many photos to share with you during my Hong Kong trip few months back. Hong Kong is indeed a lovely place that I wouldn’t feel bored after visiting for so many times. In this post, I will bring you to Central from North Point.

Central 中环 in Hong Kong is the CBD (Central Business District) and have various high rise office building and shopping malls too! And North Point 北角 was the place I stayed during my trip in Hong Kong. Hehe.

Because of cheap fare (HK$2 to everywhere) and want to sightseeing early in the morning, we took the tram connected straight to Central. It’s pretty nice to take the tram with cool weather out there and you can see the city slowly. It was around 10am and we wanted to go Central to “Yum Cha” which literally means drinking tea, but actually is to look for dim sum breakfast. I found out that there’s a very old and famous Hong Kong dim sum tea house.

After alighting the tram, we tried to look for the place to the dim sum tea house. No one of us actually been there before, we walked there with the guide of Google Maps. Luckily I’ve got a Hong Kong SIM card on my iPhone. =)

Central area is really pretty because of the huge office towers and old Hong Kong – British architecture. People in suits and OL walking everywhere, it’s really a busy place and I like it. =D

The morning Hong Kong is so pretty. I just couldn’t resist myself from pressing the camera shutter. I wanted to capture every bit of the place to keep in my photo album and share with you guys. The Hong Kong city is just so beautiful.

Hong Kong is too densely populated already. CBD is not really CBD, there’s still people living around that area, rich and poor; wet market and groceries store. You can see all walk of life at there too. The Hong Kong culture is really strong. People are walking everywhere, every alley, it’s people all the time and walking.

I wonder why construction site in Hong Kong are so pretty. They are so colourful that I want to take photos of them. Unlike the one at here are so dull and boring.

After 20 minutes of walking, we found the dim sum tea house, Lin Heung Lao 莲香楼. It’s just so crowded and there’s not even a spot to sit. We waited for 10 minutes and there’s no people moving out of their seat. The waiter told us that whenever some one get up, we must go to sit down, but then it’s just hardly get 4 people seats together. And in the end, we decided not to eat at there and eat at the opposite.

It’s so much better. =D

June 2, 2011
Long Time No See Yiphing, Chien Chern and Raykee Aw

I met 3 of my crazy buddies, Yiphing, Chien Chern and Raykee Aw (Chen Yuen) last week! It’s really long time no see. The last time I saw Yiphing was, I’ve forgotten, last year I guess, the last time I met Chien Chern was 4 weeks ago and the last time I met Raykee Aw was last year too! It’s really had been a long time.

Yan Chien Chern.

Moving on and getting apart is just some part of our life right? Still remember we hang out almost all the time during the time after high school and before college. But after that, everyone have their own life and busy with their own thing. It’s not easy to get back to what it was when everyone was busy with different things.

Raykee Aw Chen Yuen.

I guess, that’s life? Meeting friends once in a while is happy. The time we spend most with friends are during high school, so cherish your moment.

Yiphing.

Not saying friends are the most important people in your life, there’s still your family. When you get apart from your friends, family are they one that you should get close to, no matter what, family is still the closest and friends comes next. With the equilibrium of friends, family, work, and enjoy, that’s a perfect life.

Hello friends, are you still reading my blog? =D I miss you all.

June 2, 2011
First Day With Sigma 8-16mm At Hard Rock Hotel Penang

This is what I did after getting my new Sigma 8-16mm super ultra wide angle lens for Canon mount last week. =D I asked my girlfriend, Hueisean together to go to the Hard Rock Hotel to try some shots with the latest lens.

I think I can be the ambassador for Hard Rock Hotel Penang because I always go there to take photos and walk for fun, then post onto my blog. =D I guess that’s the best relaxing place to take photos and because they have parking spaces too!

You see the lens, it’s so wide that it can capture almost everything with little and unnoticeable distortion. It was a quiet afternoon with no live band at the lobby as live band is only available during the night. Though, the laughter and shouting of kids and adults playing at the pool can be heard. What a lovely evening.

It was close to sunset but sunset was no where to be seen. It’s not super hot yet, sun shines on our faces and the warm sunlight touched our skin. We spent a little time at the beach, taking photos and chit-chat with each other, at the same time see people playing water sports.

The ivory golden sandy beach outside Hard Rock Hotel is no doubt the cleanest beach in Penang. The other beaches are dirty.

She jumped.

Perspiration started coming out from the pores and it’s also the time for us to leave the hotel for some cooling in the vehicles. It’s nice to try out the lens at this place but what I wanted to shoot most is some nice interiors.

Interiors like something below:

The lobby and a male toilet. =D I’ve no regret of getting this lens because it’s serve me well as a interior design student and a photography enthusiast. Welcome to Hard Rock Hotel.

June 2, 2011
Credit Repair Now For Better Future

Time is moving very fast days by days, in the not-very-far future, soon you will have kids, you will have a family, you don’t want your love and closest one to suffer. You want a better life for sure, you might want to get a house for them, get a car to bring your family around. I am sure that you want them to be happy and bring them all the happiness you have.

Think, think again that with credit problems, will they have a better future? Will you have a better future? Think again. Credit problems are already a very common thing among U.S. citizens but it’s not a good thing. Living with bad credit in America is possible however VERY TOUGH. It makes many thing difficult and impossible. You might not get a loan when buying a house or for your child education. Everything become difficult, insurance companies charge you a higher interest when you have bad credit scores. So, what can be done to repair bad credit?

For your future, for a better life, for you and your family, it’s time to look for a credit repair now. Get to know about your credit scores and then do a credit repair as credit repair can help to make applying loan easier, you can then buy a house for your future, you pay less for your insurance, more and more. So stop your credit problems now and go for a credit repairs for a better future. Cheers!

June 2, 2011
Beautiful View Of Penang And Seberang Perai

Recently, I took the ferry from Penang island to the mainland to accompany my grandma to the bus station at the Penang Sentral. And I bought a new lens lately, the Sigma, I brought on-board to take photos. =D

Penang is super famous for the ferry service, it’s free when going to the mainland, but I strongly suggest they should clean the thing because it’s pretty dirty. But I am pretty proud that we have such ferry service ferrying people to a cross the straits. Ferry is not the important past of this post, cut the crap and let’s getting into some nice landscape view of Penang. =D

The left is Penang island and the right is the mainland Seberang Perai near the Penang Port area. You see, they are so near and if there’s a bridge or tunnel connected both area, then it will be damn cool. =D

The lens is so wideeeeeee. OMG. I love my Penang.

June 2, 2011
Penang Canon EOS User Gathering At Coob Cafe

Last Sunday night, I went to Coob Cafe at KOMTAR Walk to meet up with the Penang Canon EOS DSLR users for a little chit-chat and sharing session (some known as TT / Teh Tarik session). Well, since I am in a holiday and so lucky to be back in my hometown while his event happens, so I went to join the EOS DSLR user for a little gathering to make friends and try some power gear. =D

These lens total up can buy a car. I am serious.

I actually got the invites from Facebook and I knew one of them. It’s a good sharing session because I get to played with some powerful lenses and learn about some photography stuff, as you know I am still very noob in photography even though I have been playing for quite a long time, yet my interest in photography has not faded yet.

As you know, I just bought a new lens lately, the Sigma, so I shared it out too. One thing, my camera was the oldest at there, using the Canon EOS 400D, what a classic. Even though it’s old, I am still loving it, it’s still powering my blog with all the awesome photos.

Somehow, I am thinking of upgrade, just that I don’t have enough money for it yet. So in the mean time of saving it, I am still sticking with my lovely 400D. =D

Played 2 L lenses at there, one was the 70-200 F2.8L and another one was the 100mm F2L. L lens is the top of the lines and the most high quality Canon photographic lens, people like to say L stands for luxurious. For your information, an L lens, the cheapest one is about RM2.8k. Expensive right? Photography is really an expensive hobby. However, the photo quality is superb!

Please support my sponsors (advertisement on blog) more so I can save more money to upgrade my photography gear. =D

Do you like photography?

June 1, 2011
ADV: Play The Cadbury Malaysia Choclairs Choco Boom Pop It or Drop It

Yoyoyo people, friends, and everyone, still remember last time I talked about the Cadbury Choclairs Pop It or Drop It game?

I wonder if you guys played the game or not? My top score kept getting higher and higher, was so close to winning the PSP Go! =D

It’d been some times that I have been playing the Pop It or Drop It game on Facebook and the scores already filled my wall posts.

By the way, what do you think about playing the real “Pop It or Drop It” game, what I mean real is REAL, R-E-A-L with real chocolate explosion and real person on a real ground. You say good or not? =D Not playing with the keyboard already. Yay!

I want to let you know that “Pop It or Drop It” is REALLY coming closer to you. There will be a real competition but details will be announced at their FB page. The finalists will battle out for the grand prize trip to Gold Coast, Australia on-ground!

Play it or not play it, you must come to witness and FEEL the explosion of chocolate. Hmm. Sounds interesting. =D

I wonder what these little grumpees will look like in real life??

Imagine chocolate explosion, flying around, boom boom boom, open your mouth and chocolate falls into it, yum yum. I’m quite excited about it! CHOCLAIRS MAKES PEOPLE HAPPY! Are you ready?!

Stay tuned to Facebook.com/ChoclairsMalaysia to find out more!

May 30, 2011
Sigma 8-16mm F4.5-5.6 DC Canon Mount

Deng deng deng. I want to welcome a new family member into my camera gear family and that is the super duper ultra wide angle Sigma 8-16mm F4.5-5.6 DC for the Canon mount. Some might thing that 8-16mm is an fish eye lens and no, it’s really a super duper wide angle lens with little little bit distortion when wide open at 8mm, but still awesome.

Bought these lens at my favourite camera shop, Click N’ Snap on Penang Road and I used it mostly for interiors shots. As currently I am studying interior design and I need to shoot more interiors for reference and also to add the photo into my Ethnic Interior Design portfolio. =D

With this awesome wide lens, I can shoot almost everything into the frame. Previously my 17-50 is so not wide that I have to stitch a few photo for a wide angle shot. Now I’ve got no worry! The next thing in my wishlist is a camera body (Canon EOS 7D), then I will feel good and satisfy already. =D

Show you one or tw0 or three sample image first and the coming post will show you more to poison you guys. =D

Awesome or not? =D

May 30, 2011

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