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  • MoonTree 47 – Nice Heritage Place And Cafe To Chill

    Penang’s George Town has gained the UNESCO World Heritage title 3 years back and restoration work of old colonial houses and shop lots can be seen all over the town. Some of these old colonial houses turn into accommodation, cafe, shops, and of course an 3D art gallery. In fact, the whole architecture is a piece of art.

    There are already some nice cafe and accommodation hotel which are restored from the old colonial houses and will soon increases more and more. I have been in search of this kind of place all over George Town to chill and enjoy the restored architecture. Muntri Street (Lebuh Muntri) is a nice street with many old colonial shophouses and it’s getting more and more famous to tourist as the increasing of the backpacker guesthouse.

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    MoonTree 47 is a cafe, art gallery cum homestay which is located on Muntri Street. It blue exterior attracted me to check out the place. I went there for lunch few days back and it was a fruitful meal.

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    Upon entering the place, I come across many antique art pieces like old door and furniture which spice up the place.

    I was trilled and excited to see the antique-ish interior. The decoration of the heritage interiors give a sense of relaxing and throw my mind away. It made me want to sit down and surf the Internet all day long in MoonTree 47 and sip their homemade coffee.


    Look at the chair and table used, it’s so classic and sweet.

    It gives me a feel of not belonging to Penang, it’s like out of the busy city, slow, steady and chilling.

    MoonTree 47 houses a variety of vintage antique collection. Vintage classic furniture, photos, camera, radio, photos and more. It’s a nice little museum that have other functions e.g. cafe, homestay. =)

    A little bit of green sparks up the place too as you know it’s the “Go Green” era. How can a place full of art pieces be complete without green arts? It truely blended a fresh and sense of nature into a vintage space.

    How I wish I could spend time online and forget about all the misery and the coming stressful days.

    Look at how they decorate the washing area. They are just old items reused and decorated with some colours, mirror and green. It’s just so perfect in match.

    If got a chance, I’m gonna visit it again and relax myself at there with some nice coffee and MacBook. =D Forgot to mention, free wifi is available. Hehe.

  • Tuesday Tanjung Bungah Market Pasar Malam (Night Market)

    Tuesday Tanjung Bungah Market Pasar Malam (Night Market) – Pasar malam, also known as night market is my favourite as there have a variety of delicious street snacks to eat and cheap stuff to shop for like clothing, mini electric appliances, accessories and more but the most important, is the food. Unlike in China, night market doesn’t station at a place every night. Every night is at different places around Penang.

    On Tuesday night, there’s a wet market and food court which turns into a crowded and happenings night market when sun set. Cars started parking by the road side and people of all walk of life flows into the night market to bring a happening atmosphere.

    I do go there occasionally for some light snacks, like crepe cake, hot dog, bubble tea, and local delicious hawker food.

    Frankly, it’s not the best night market in Penang yet as Jelutong Taman Kheng Thean Night Market (Friday) and Farlim Night Market (Wednesday) have even more street food for you to choose. Nevertheless, a night market in the middle of the high end condominium residential area of this Tanjung Bungah bring a sense of local-ness to the high class living. You can see foreign residents enjoying night market too.

    After a day of tiring work, a little walk at the night market with some icy drinks on hand is very relaxing. It get you out of the busy-ness of the city and traffic jam and slow your mind down.

    What do you think about night market/pasar malam? =)

  • Bersih 2.0 – Favourite Photos, Video and My Thoughts


    Look like a warzone, but it’s them who fired it to the people. Trying to disperse, what for? Let them walk peacefully to the stadium. Then people happy, but not.

    No, I wasn’t there at the Bersih 2.0 rally yesterday in Kuala Lumpur, but I have to tell you that I wanted to be there so badly but physically I am in my hometown. Even though I wasn’t there, my spirit was and is there always, to support a clean election and process of making a real democratic country.


    It’s just people, walking on the street, with no weapon. But the police force fired tear gas and water canon to them.

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    709, 9 July 2011, was a historical to the Malaysian citizen, it’s a day to be remembered in my opinion as people of all walks of life came together, unite and walk for electoral reform. It’s the government who stupidity condemned the peace rally. The keyword is peace, it’s not like the Vancouver riot, it’s not a riot, it’s a peace rally. There’s no dangerous weapon, it’s just a peace walk to voice out the voice of Malaysian.

    The government was being stubborn and keep saying that this Bersih 2.0 is illegal. What the hell is being illegal when people just want to walk on the street to voice out? It’s a planned peace rally, just walking to voice out to the King. If it’s illegal, then what’s legal?

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    If the Election Commission, say OK with the 8 demands, then there will not be any rally and riot. It’s not demand for changing the rights of the Malays also, but you all crazy people just scared of the 8 demands and uses all ways to stop the rally from going on, but you failed. Not many turned up, but still it’s more than 20,000 people. 20,000 is a small number of the total population, but it represents a big part of it.

    If the government friend friend with the Bersih, shake hand, give Bersih a stadium, then there wouldn’t be any injury and running around the city. The traffic will be smooth and business as usual. But no, the government didn’t want to give the stadium and block all the road to KL, of course this will cause massive jam outside KL and business stops! Stupid road block is the cause of the disturbance of KL folks.

    And somemore, why catch people wear yellow shirt? What the hell is this? Why wearing yellow shirt is delivering a negative message? This is the super ridiculous and very gay and very pointless!


    No way, DS Anwar’s bodyguard will be hurt so easily by just walking. Hit by canister?

    We, part of Malaysia, not whole, just want to show what we think on the street only and you shoot us like crazy with tear gas and water canon. It’s you, the PDRM who was being rude, aggressive and dangerous. Malaysia is a civilized country, you think the Malaysian will fight? It’s not 1963 anymore, come on it’s 2011 and there’s no Malay, Indian or Chinese, it’s all Malaysian who took part in the rally TOGETHER!

    Bersih, might have political message, SO WHAT? If the government is clean and good, then what for you are scared of the rally and preventing it to happen and stop all the top leaders from entering the city? I don’t care of what the opposition is doing, but I only care about a real electoral reform for a fair and clean election. If you win it cleanly, I will keep my mouth shut for sure.


    Sad for the old aunty who came to support.

    Seriously, think about why people are joining the rally? People not joining the rally doesn’t mean they don’t care or disagree with it, why don’t you think about they concern, but just afraid of being caught? OK, they might be chicken, but I am sure they have the heart for it. Look at Twitter, the updates of Bersih, just look at the attendees, and the photos, it’s a true spirit of being unite together, all races, that’s the most lovely part of Bersih, it’s not PAS, it’s not DAP, it’s not BN, it’s not MCA, but it’s Malay + Chinese + Indian = Malaysians.

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    One thing I very TULAN is when A Samad Said wanted to submit the memorandum to His-Majesty King, the police stopped him. He is a very old man already, and he has no melee weapon or gun or anything, why the hell the authority, the upper level of police don’t allow him to get through? OLD MAN + a few papers of memorandum, that’s all, they also don’t let them go through and talked so rudely. Come on, he is just an old man.

    Well, I write this hopefully won’t get caught (HAHAHA), I love my country, I am not fully disagree with the government, just some wrong doings of them, yet I am proud of being a Malaysian. Exercise your rights, register yourself for election at the nearest post office and voice out during the next elections. Malaysia Boleh! – 1 Malaysia!

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmauVB5BpYA]

    Credits: Al-Jazeera, @eugeneteoh

  • Bloggers Without Borders With Hotlink Prepaid

    Hey guys. Do you know that Hotlink prepaid can now do data roaming when you are overseas? Yes, you can! With the new Hotlink Prepaid Data Roaming, you can surf the net, check the mail and blog wherever you want. No need to pre-activate like post paid.

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    So I need a favor from you guys here. In order to let me do live blogging at Philippines with Hotlink’s Prepaid Data Roaming. I need you guys to vote for me in the Bloggers Without Borders contest. =) Vote, vote, vote then I’ll be sharing every cool stuff at there with you through blog, Twitter, Facebook and almost everything.

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    Just help to vote for me here and I’ll bring you some surprise too! Cheers!

  • 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.

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    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

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    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
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    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?

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Hennessy Artistry Is Coming To Sixty9ine Mansion and Mist Club

    The premium and ultimate event of Hennessy Artistry ‘The Global Art of Mixing’ is back to town in this coming July which is also next week. This is one of the top and coolest party in town and had brought over 2,500 clubbers back in the April H-Artistry event. Now, it returns once again to Penang at the glamorous Sixty9ine Mansion, Batu Ferrringhi on July 6 and Kuala Lumpur at the awesome Mist Club, Bangsar on July 9.

    I went to the previous Hennessy Artistry event before and it was real awesome as there’s free flow of Hennessy and you can mix up your own VSOP with different types of mixer. The Hennessy Apple and Hennessy Citrus are my favourites.

    There will be great music too, which this time featuring Trimix, Reshmonu, and Beautiful Beat Girls. It will be a awesome night with nice music, awesome VSOP, nice people and not forget to mention, Hennessy Mixing Bar, Hennessy Music Mix Synth, Hennessy iMix Challenge and the Hennessy Interactive Photowall for your in-house entertainment.

    Well, see you there! This time I will be in Penang for it. =D

    One thing, the Hennessy Artistry ‘The Global Art of Mixing” is by-invitation only. To stand a chance to be invited, visit the H-Artistry’s Facebook fan page www.h-artistry.com.my/facebook to register.

  • Looking For Interns Insurance Company

    Hello readers and friends who is based in Penang. I have a friend who is really very high post at Hong Leong Insurance who is looking for INTERNS who want to work in INSURANCE field. He will train you and give you all the guidance, which result in skillful and high salary job.

    If you are:
    -Hardworking
    -Willing to learn
    -Want to earn big money
    -Want to be successful

    Drop me an email about your contact details at yikyeou@gmail.com and I’ll direct you to the HR department.

    Cheers!

    – Posted from my iPad.

  • Cadbury Pop It Or Drop It Ground Event At Pavilion

    [ADV] Hello people. Last week, I went to Pavilion at Bukit Bintang to check out the Cadbury Choclairs Pop It Or Drop It Ground Event! Yes, you are right, it’s the ground event, not the Internet Facebook game that I introduced few weeks back.

    It’s the real thing where people play the real game instead of playing on the keyboard. Damn cool you know. The event started at about 12pm and ended at around 4.30pm. I was around there to join the fun, see what were the contestants doing and having fun. The whole event was pretty interesting.

    It was not really a sunny day, drizzled a little bit in the afternoon but luckily the drizzle did not stop the game from going on. However, the cloudy day made it a nice day to spend some times outdoor. I see people were having fun at the Cadbury Choclairs Pop It Or Drop It game. They were just playing hard to win the grand prize which is a ticket for 4 to Gold Coast, Australia!

    The game goes like this actually which two participants have to race to the end, the fastest duo wins away the prizes. There’s different part of the game. The first part is the Bungee Dash is like tug of war. The player has to ran against the pulling to get hold of the big Cadbury Choclairs.

    Then he need to bounce up the to the top at the next station, then slide down. It’s bounce, or jump, not climb. =D Then he has to slide down and find 10 mini balls.

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    After that, he will need to pop the balloons with only using the ass which sounds funny and fun.

    After successfully popping the balloon, he will then need to climb up a spiderweb where chocolate milk is pouring from top as a chocolate rain. He will bath in chocolate, and he then reaches the final check point and TIME! Sounds interesting right? I actually like the chocolate rain part where people really can taste the chocolate with just an open of the mouth! I wanted to play so badly, just however that I did not bring any extra clothing to change. Aduh.

    Besides the big game, there’s also small games like popping Choclairs on a big screen and treasure hunt on Choclairs which leaded to a handphone prize! It’s like a mini games and prizes carnival set up by Cadbury. Very fun.

    Besides that, I was not so lucky to win the lucky draw which the prizes were handphone and cash!

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    And lastly, there’s the prize giving ceremony and want to congrats the winner for winning the ticket to Australia! OMG. I want it so badly. Haha.

    ONE MORE THING, remember to check out Choclairs Malaysia’s Facebook Page for more and more about the event and some upcoming cool stuff by them. It’s really very awesome, go LIKE the page, enjoy and HAVE FUN! Choco BOOM!

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