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St Anne’s Church At Bukit Mertajam Is Cool

It’s a 20 minutes drive from Penang Bridge to reach St Anne’s Sanctuary or simply known as the St Anne’s Church. I have been hearing from people saying that this church is nice, this church is cool, this church is huge, this church is old and I only saw it from photos and finally I got a chance to visit it.

Actually I have nothing to do in Penang, no school, no work, and so went visiting church. Haha. But I have a thing for holy places one because they are beautiful!

The afternoon was quiet. Probably there’s no service on that day and church is always open for prayers. Apologize first if I write something wrong because I don’t really know about Christian and church. =)

At first glance, the place is huge! The little church standing above is not the main one, there’s even a bigger one at the other side and there’s like a place where we can up, like a little park on foot hill. I have no idea how to describe it. Haha.

When I saw the place, I was like “Wow, there’s actually something like this.” Pretty cool, I never see churches that big before, it’s not like those western one with very awesome design, it’s pretty but not very complicated, but the whole place is huge, with trees and super mini hiking trail which I called.

It gave me a feeling of peacefulness and nature. Rocks.

There’s the St. Anne’s Water. I want to ask what’s that? Is it holy water?

The church is huge! Next stop, we went to the Nine Emperor God Temple at Raja Uda, we almost lost while going there, so do come back and check it out soon. =) One more thing, they say it’s very happenings during St. Anne’s Annual Novena & Feast Day Celebration, from 23 July 2010 to 01 August 2010, it’s a day before I leave Penang, so maybe I could go check it out? =)

June 30, 2010
We Went to Bukit Mertajam

We went to Province Wellesley on Tuesday’s afternoon. Where’s Province Wellesley? It’s Seberang Perai, the mainland of Penang. =D It’s the English name, but to most Penang island people, I guess they would just call it Butterworth. My days in Penang still left not many days only and I am very free everyday, have nothing to do, it’s either spending time sleeping at home or going out to explore things that haven’t been explored.

Was on the phone with Sean last night and she talked about St. Anne’s Church which then gave me an idea where to go. =D I have wanted to go check it out a long time already as people told me it’s a very nice place and feel curious. I also have a thing for holy place, like temples, churches, they have nice architecture. =)

Chien Chern.

Tee Jin.

Yiphing. All was like so busy.

It was on a road trip, there’s me, Chien Chern who was the driver, Yiphing and Tee Jin. Four of us only, many friends were in school or already leaved Penang. So sad.

We didn’t really know the place and how to go. I only checked it and mark it on Google Maps and the Google Maps brought us there. Sometimes must say hate Google Maps a bit because it will bring us to a rural place just to get away from toll and shortcut. But this trip to St Anne’s Church was safe. I’ll talk about it in another post as we eventually went into same kampung and paddy field while going to Nine Emperor God temple.

Alright, Bukit Mertajam is where St Anne’s Church is and I always thought BM is near to Butterworth or Seberang Jaya or anywhere in Province Wellesley but actually they are not, they are far!

This building is like so creepy and fugly!

First time coming here, there’s no high rise building, it’s all shop houses, bungalows, or the highest is like 3-4 floors. It’s a suburb and not a big town like us in Penang, and the road are small too.

Reached St Anne’s Church safely. Stay tune for next post! =)

June 30, 2010
Back To Chung Ling For A Short While and Breakfast

Oh my god people, I just so miss my high school, Chung Ling High School, so so so much! 4 more week of me being in Penang, I must go back to my school I used to go always more! I miss the food, the friends, the classroom and the teachers! Undeniable that my school rocks.

I was worrying that I couldn’t get into school because they made an electronic barrel at the front gate, but luckily the barrel was open and my car can pass through without any hesitation.

First thing first was go to the canteen to meet up with my friends who are in Form 6 and eat my breakfast at there. Really miss the food a lot. But the feeling is different now when they are still wearing uniform and we were so casual. It’s like people of the different world. OMG.

I was early, friend that I called, Arron, Tee Jin and Chien Chern came late.

Then they missed the first session of recess, and next recess session came in. Our school have two sessions of recess, the first one is for Form 6 and Form 4, another one is for Form 3 and Form 5. It’s because there’s too many people and the canteen is not big enough, but bigger than average canteen of other school. =D

After food, everyone went back to classes also and we went to walkaround. It’s hot! I was sweating a lot at there.

Then…

We found a place to hang out in school and that’s the Counselling Room with air conditioned! We spent our time chit chat with the teacher there. A lot of graduated students go there because they want to know more about their future studies and pathway, this place will give a little guide to them.

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June 27, 2010
Crazy In The Lift 2

Last year.

Last year, December, there’s Crazy In The Lift. We were just making fun and a fool around, kidding kidding and yesterday, it’s Crazy In The Lift, Part 2. The same person, same place.

This year, yesterday.

Just playing people. Chien Chern is my good friend and he is a good person. ^.^

June 27, 2010
My Aunty’s Gallstone Specimen

Explicit content. =D Some may find the following image disgusting.

My aunty were admitted into the hospital lately and hope that she’s doing well right now. She thought of having stomach problem but actually it’s the gallstone that’s troubling her and bringing her pain. Now she has no gall bladder, which is no good for the body. Anyway, get well soon and stay healthy, Aunt Patsy!

Imagine something really hard grow inside your body. It’s so OMG. Size of almost a golf ball and hard like a rock. WTF? How can something so hard grow in the body. It’s scary a big.

Eat more fruits and exercise more to be healthy. Closer look after the break.

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June 27, 2010
KTV, Cards and Talk at Martini Cafe

Last Friday, there’s actually a gathering at Kayu Nasi Kandar at Bukit Jambul but it was late and raining, and Kayu Nasi Kandar is like 30 minutes away from home so I decided not to go there. And at almost late night, Yiphing asked me out to Martini Cafe near Gurney Drive, somewhere like 5 minutes away from my house only, so I went. =)

Never been there before, I thought the place is just like a normal cafe for drinks, alcohol and some football TV but there’s more. There’s KTV there, LCD screens, mic and we can sing like at RED KTV, except with food and more choice of drink, unlike RED has only alcohol.

Yiphing and Shan Shan, wt?

Jick!

And another thing is, there’s less TV and more table, singing took a long time only reach our table and the sound system was not pro enough, though I still like karaok-ing. Singing is my hobby although my singing sucks. Who can teach me how to sing properly? T.T

Shan Shan.

Well, people there were Shan Shan, Yee Ling, Eunice, Jick, Yiphing and me. They are TAR College gang except me and Yiphing. I has no gang because I am still not in college yet. Simply mix around now. Haha.

Chai Wei.

Yee Ling and Shan Shan.

The night was just talking, playing big2 cards and wait for our turn to sing. Whole night, I got to sing 3 songs, waited quite long but like it.

There’s singing pro in the house too, the baby face Yee Ling, don’t think that she’s a kid base on her look, when she sings, she’s professional. Really pro.

Mirror shoot! XD

Spent there till like 1.30am and I went home.

=========WORLD CUP FEVER AND PROMO=========

Which team are you supporting? I am supporting England and next match will be England vs Germany. Damn nervous and excited you know? One thing I want to ask you guys, where do you guys normally watch football? At home or coffee shop or football screen or at South Africa? LOL.

I just found two places in town that has big screen for football. One is KOMTAR Walk and another one is at New World Park.

There’s one even bigger screen at Gurney Plaza!

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June 25, 2010
Wesak Day Parade 2010 With Foyi In Penang

It had been 2 years that I last joined the Wesak Day parade in Penang. Every year, during Wesak Day there will be floats parade and procession. Devotees walked around the city, with floats of flower and also many people came by to see. I went there once when I was Form 3, it was 3 years ago, last two years was really busy with study and now I am out of school, I get to join them again.

Have to be grateful that I was out from National Service (PLKN). I was expecting to meet my NS friends at the parade because they actually would be out to join the walk too but Deputy Komanden last minute didn’t allow them to go. Sigh. No idea why, I just know it sucks.

I like the hair and camera.

I drove Kenny there. He came to my place to car pool with me because he was lazy to find parking. The place was Burma Road, somewhere near to Chinese Recreation Club. The whole road was closed on that day because of Wesak Day parade. When I was there, the parade was almost ready to start. I quickly went to the meeting place at CRC field to meet up with the Foyi friends.

Geared up my stuff and I am ready to walk and shoot. ^.^ I was really excited for that because it’s really fun walking a long way and walking together.

There were ang mo in the group too. Joining us to walk together. The group were separated into different Buddhist association, eg. Malaysia Buddhist Association, Tzu Chi, Foyi (that’s what I was in) and so on. There’s lots of group.

Kok Sheng.

Jocelyn.

Kenny.

Photographer!

Frank Ooi.

There’s us walking together with the float and a lot of people standing by the road side to see what’s going on. There’s also kind people giving out free water to those on the road.

At some point, I walked very fast to catch up with the front group to meet Frank, he was there too but with different group and was ahead of us. After saying hi, we stopped and waited for Foyi to pass by and joined in again. Tired but fun.

Camera phone!

They walked pretty slow because of traffic lights and turning and I could walk faster. I even stopped down to let other group passed by and then only catch up with my group. The line was really really long.

Flag girls.

Chin Lai.

Min Xiang.

Sammy.

Alice who was at National Service too, but took a leave out for the Wesak Day.

Going to finish soon. Enjoy photos because there’s nothing much to write as basically, we just walk walk, talk talk and shoot shoot for me. That’s all.

So many people, got police somemore.

Traffic light ahead.

Passed by Burma Rd’s Kuan Yin Temple.

Got orchestra somemore!

Finally the journey ended. It was, 3 hours walk, from 6 till 9pm, no idea how many kilometre walked. Feet were of course tired but enjoyed the journey all, I’ll take it as an exercise and sweat a lot too.

June 24, 2010
Short Tour of Penang National Park with NS Friends

2 weeks ago, on a Sunday, it’s also the third day of a Penang trip with friends from NS (PLKN), some went home and some were still in Penang and so I brought them to National Park to take a short walk and lookaround.

Do you know that Penang has a National Park and it’s the smallest in Malaysia? Many people still don’t now. =D It’s at Teluk Bahang following the trail in National Park will lead you to Pantai Kerachut, Muka Head and Monkey Beach, the 3 main attractions there.

We registered ourselves at the counter and started walking into the park. We just walked a little bit to the beach only because we were not prepared for hiking trail, it’s just show them there’s a national park in Penang. ^.^

Chuan.

Weng.

Khang.

Tzou Xiong.

There’s Sumay and me from Penang island, Khang, Chuan and Weng from Penang mainland, Tzou Xiong from Perak and Tracy and Will from Pangkor Island . =D

It’s low tide so we could go down the beach at there. The beach was not pretty because there’s no ivory soft golden sand. It’s hard.

It’s pretty warm at that time, close to sunset, but it’s still fun.

Sumay and Tracy.

Before I go to KL to study, I want to go Monkey Beach once. This place is fun!

June 24, 2010
604 Outing With The Girls

Wan Theng and Shan Shan.

4 of June, Wantheng asked me out for a movie, the movie was Nightmare On Elmstreet and it was pretty old movie by then because it’s already started screening in the cinema for like few weeks ago. Since it had been quite a long time didn’t meet her already and I was so free, so went out together to the cinema. There’s Wan Theng, Shan Shan, Jia Ying, Chai Wei, Priscilla and her friend Man Yin, 4 out of 6 were tuition friends, and the other two were friend’s friend.

Movie was at Prangin Mall’s Cathay Cineplex. Still remember last time during high school, I always go there to watch movie after school, or go there to watch above 18 movie because there’s no check. It was last time and now, Cathay Cineplex is like a last resort to me, because I still prefer GSC afterall.

Priscilla.

After that was meal at Shua Shua Le, also a restaurant that I would normally go after school last time. Now seldom go because I seldom or not take the public bus already. Because last time come back from school by public bus, the bus will stop at Prangin Mall, then I have to make an interchange to other bus to go home. So while making the change, will go to the mall to eat and movie first before going home. Pretty fun. High school rocks.

Wan Theng, Chai Wei, Shan Shan, Jia Ying.

Shan Shan said, “Happy 604!”.

June 23, 2010
Free Photo At Switch World, Gurney Plaza

Switch World is a yearly event held by Switch, an Apple Premium Reseller here in Penang. Last time I always go check it out but now I don’t already because it’s just taking the whole Apple store out into a big place to show people what Apple has. I am an Apple fanboy and I think I know quite a lot about Apple already.

I was at Gurney Plaza during Switch World few weeks ago so I dropped by to check it out anything special. End out, I found an external battery pack for my Google Nexus One, and I bought it up. =D Upon buying anything there, we got a free photoshoot and photo printout. Pretty cool.

Every year, there will be a Mini Cooper, no idea why. But it’s cool.

Many people don’t know Mac being brain washed at there too. There’s a way to tell people that Mac doesn’t lag, that is they will open a lot of folder and tell you, “see, no lag”, actually opening folder will not lag a computer. Haha.

I bought something and there’s 5 of us, me, Qonstance, Sumay, Hueisean and Tzou Xiong, and we went to free shoot at there. Free edit, free soft copy and a free print out. =D

So fun, but the person who edit our photo talked a lot, a little bit too much because I knew quite a lot about the software and he assumed we didn’t know. OMG. Nevermind, still we get free printout! =)

Qonstance keep saying “Aiyerrr, so sweeeeeetttttt.” =D Really sweet. Nice one, people.

June 23, 2010

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