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  • Mini Flashmob In Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus

    Mini Flashmob In Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus – I was chilling under the tree in my campus last week and suddenly I saw a group of people in black t-shirt, wearing a white mask walking around the lakeside area. Suddenly, a sharp whistle sound was heard in the air.

    In light speed, the group of mysterious people stopped their action, as if the time was frozen and a living statue was form. It’s a flashmob thingy. I believe it’s one of their class activity in school as their lecturer was around taking photos.

    It wasn’t really very sunny, I took my camera, and went to take photos with them.

    A little while, whistle sound can be heard again, they started moving to another area and preparing for another act, and whistle blew again, they stopped again, and we took photos with them again. It was pretty fun, but sooner it’s get sunny and I went back to my comfy zone under the shade.

    I wonder what’s their reaction and thinking when saw me and Wesley fooling around them.

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  • Walk Walk At Bukit Bintang With Hueisean

    Walk Walk At Bukit Bintang With Hueisean – Sorry if I have been posting many photos/posts about Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur downtown or the city because recently (more to come) I have been to downtown KL quite some times and I have taken many photos which I want to share with all of you. =)


    The glass wall outside the RapidKL KLCC Station ticketing counter.


    Hueisean’s first time at Uniqlo, which is also my favourite Japanese brand.

    It was a Saturday, and I went to town with my dearly Hueisean to walk, to shop, to see, to shoot and to eat. As usual, Kelana Jaya Line Rapid KL LRT was our transportation to town, and of course the wonderful pairs of leg that we all have got.

    She told me that Garrett’s popcorn is good! And have been eating many in Singapore and now it’s here in Malaysia, in KLCC. Gonna check it out when it’s open.

    I’ll take it as an exercise walk in town because I find it quite effective as I believe there’s more than 5KM I have walked on that day, perhaps more.


    Taking photos of Garrett’s Popcorn … store.


    Went to check out Tokyo Street in Pavilion, the new shopping zone in the mall.

    Everytime I go downtown to window shop, it’s always KLCC > Pavilion > Fahrenheit 88 > Sungei Wang > Lowyat Plaza only then go back home. Imagine how far and long I walk to and at this places. It’s tiring yet fun. Though that day only covers a little bit of KLCC, many bit of Pavilion, a little bit of Fahrenheitt 88 and more a bit of Sungei Wang.

     

    Hueisean seldom come to KL, so she doesn’t really familiar the way around and so I was her guide for her shopping day. =D It’s not saying that Penang doesn’t have good mall, it’s that the mall here has more choice and I hope that one day my hometown, Penang’s shopping mall can be on par with the one in Kuala Lumpur. =D Haha. I think Gurney Paragon shopping centre will be awesome.

    Went to check out the new shopping zone in Pavilion which is the Tokyo Street – featuring many Japanese oriented and based shops and restaurants. It’s a very cool and good idea, however there’s no Muji! How can Muji not in Malaysia yet, I am still waiting for Muji for their cool minimalist lifestyle products. Overall, this place is nice, you can get many Japanese snacks and food here.

    Walk walk walk, snap snap snap, see see see, I’ll let the photos of speaks.

    The Click Shop is a very nice camera shop that sells Lomography camera. I really amaze that a blogshop can make it into an outlet at the prestige shopping mall – Pavilion, Kuala Lumpur. The interiors and decorations make it look premium too. Somehow, I am more into vintage camera than lomo camera now.


    Sunset at Bukit Bintang. You are not allow to step or stand or walk on the grass platform. Really lousy.


    Here comes the famous Bukit Bintang cross road.


    The giant LED cube by YES 4G. I prefer having the screen showing like news instead of re-run of YES 4G commercial on it. Though, it’s really very awesome.


    Only now I know that Sungei Wang’s toilet is free. Woohoo. I hate finding RM0.20/RM0.30 coins for toilet. Really ridiculous.

    After touring Sungei Wang Plaza, while walking home, we found something interesting at the Bukit Bintang cross road, in front of the giant LED screen above Maybank. Crowds were standing there, taking photos, smile, and having fun. We were curious and went to check it out.

    I see us on the big big screen. No wonder everyone was standing there to take a look, at themselves. We, too, looked at the screen. It’s actually a promo for the upcoming F&N Big Fun Fest on 24th September 2011 where the area will be turn into a dance party. People will be dancing, and will be shown live on the big big screen. It’s sort of like a flash mob and you can learn the dance on Facebook too and join the fun!

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    Then, we went back home. Yeah! What a fun Saturday.

  • Changkat Bukit Bintang And KL Tower At Night

    Changkat Bukit Bintang And KL Tower At Night

    Changkat Bukit Bintang And KL Tower At Night – Kuala Lumpur is an awesome place to explore, it’s a very happening place during the weekend, especially at night. When night falls, all the night animal comes out from their zoo to the city, to eat, to explore, to hunt and to party.

    One fine Saturday night, I went to town – Kuala Lumpur with my Penang friend, for fun, and to find chicken wings to eat on Jalan Alor.

    It’s not an quiet Saturday night, but rather noisy, happenings, with traffic jam on the road, people all around the food stalls area and city lights shining up the night skyline.

    We went to Jalan Alor first to look for the famous roasted chicken wings that I have always heard which I never get to try, however I am proud to say, I have tried it and will show you the photo of the roasted chicken wing in the next post. =D

    On a Saturday night, it’s not really easy to find a parking around town. Illegal parking fee collector collect as much as RM10 or more for parking. We went to a few parking which is at RM7 rate, but we insisted not to park and wanted to find something cheaper, and lastly, we found RM5, that’s right beside the road, still dangerous and will be fined if there’s traffic police. I wonder do traffic police works at night or not?

    Jalan Alor is really happening, it’s like Hong Kong’s Temple Street, but what’s making me not pleasant is that many foreign worker from Myammar, Nepal, China and others working here, touting customer to their restaurant.

    Later then, we went to check out Changkat Bukit Bintang, the famous street full of pubs and restaurants. I didn’t know about this place at first, only until I read about it on Lonely Planet travel guide. It was my first time visiting the street. Do you know that there’s gay pub here? HAHAHA, I am not gay by the way, just sharing out with you guys.

    It’s really happenings that every pubs and restaurant were full of people in the middle of the night, I wonder where they came from. It’s just like Clarke Quay in Singapore or Lan Kwai Fong in Hong Kong.

    Changkat Bukit Bintang And KL Tower At Night

    We ended our trip with a visit to the bottom of KL Tower. =D

     

  • Walk Walk At Bangsar

    Sunday night was lame because I didn’t know where to eat. I was driving pointlessly at Bukit Damansara area and there’s no cheap and good food around HELP University College. That’s bored and I and my friends went to Bangsar, for fun, and to find food.

    Found no parking by the roadside and was forced to park in Bangsar Village Mall that cost me RM4.50 for about 2 hours of parking. That’s really expensive.

    Bangsar Village Mall is pretty cool, the retail outlet and the F&B outlet, however they are all out of our budget. Walking pointlessly along the road to look for food on a Sunday night, we’ve finally decided to pick one randomly outside the mall and we picked Chawan. Bangsar was pretty quite on a Sunday night by the way.


    Chien Chern.


    Tee Jin.


    Hsieh Zhen.

    Penang people in Klang Valley ROCKS! Despite having a variety of restaurants in the capital of Malaysia, I still prefer my hometown. Blah. What a random post. Come and follow me on Twitter, do you play Twitter? =)

     

     

     

  • A Visit To HELP University And HELP Residence

    Klang Valley I am back! Luckily I did not stuck in the Raya jam last weekend when everyone was just going back to their work town or home town from other place. I came back last Saturday, early in the morning to get rid from the super long jam. My first destination upon arrival was HELP University College at Pusat Bandar Damasara because that my friend, Chien Chern who fetched me and Tee Jin back wanted to check in to the hostel of his new school.

    This was my first time visiting the campus and I never really knew the exact location. Friends keep telling me it’s near to Mid Valley, near to Bangsar, it’s at Damansara. But I have no idea where it was, when I heard about Damansara, I only know about Damasara Utama, where the shopping mall 1 Utama is. Haha.

    But now, I know where it is located, and it’s located undergroumd. Haha. Not exactly underground, the building itself is on a hill slope which the upper part is office building and lower part to the slope is the campus itself.

    It was already close when we visited the place. It’s quiet, it’s so much different from Taylor’s University that I am studying in, it look, different. HAHA.

    Next was to visit the HELP Residence, the hostel for the school. It’s just accompanying my friend to check-in and check out the hostel.

    RM550 without utilities fee on a twin-sharing room with bathroom, without kitchen. What do you think? Looking at the photo, they look a bit dirty on the wall, but the HELP University has responded with a comment below, quite good:

    Nick, Thank you for sharing your photos with us. I wished we had the chance to show you around HELP Damansara campus and the Residence. For your information, we have identified the room and immediately went in to repair and repainted the place. This is certainly an isolated case. The previous student had just moved out in the previous week and due to the long Raya holidays, the maintenance staff had not cleaned up the room in time for your friend’s check in. By the way, here is a link to show you the rest of the facilities in HELP. http://www.help.edu.my/sites/h…

    Nervertheless, HELP Residence do have a good view out of the window.

  • Thumbs Up At Weld Quay Xiang Xia Tomyam Mee

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    It’d been quite some times I didn’t meet up with this guys. 1 years and 9 months that I have been away from high school and them. High school was a good time, especially the friends and people that I stick together all the time.

    Though, time tick tocks and everyone has their own life and way to go. It’s fated that we met and we walk our own life.

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    Yong Chieh, Tee Jin, Khai Liang, Zez Chien, Jin Jie and me.

    Friends are always friends, no matter how far the time goes, we will meet again. This is for sure, because we’ve got something call Chung Ling High School Alumni. LOL. I haven’t join by the way. Nice meeting you guys at the Weld Quay famous Tomyam Mee by the way. =)

  • A Short While At Thursday SS2 Chow Yang Pasar Malam

    I am always in search of pasar malam or simply known as night market in Klang Valley. I have found one on Monday at SS2 around bank area, one on Wednesday which the most famous one at Taman Connaught and recently found another one at SS2, but at Chow Yang restaurant there which is on Thursday night.

    Very easy to find, just search for Jalan SS2/6 on GPS or Google Maps and you can find it.

    I didn’t really plan for this trip as I incidentally found it while driving back home after a movie and I was craving for bubble tea so I went to search for it. I didn’t want to go far for bubble tea as I know the nearest bubble tea to me at that wee hour was the pasar malam.

    The SS2 Chow Yang pasar malam has a variety of stuff for you to shop like street food, fashion clothing, wet market vegetable and meat, and the very bad pirated DVDs and CDs.

    As you know I am a pasar malam fan because I found it quite interesting and happenings. It’s not luxurious stuff which I couldn’t afford, I need not to pick a good attire for it, I can just wear my pajamas to there too. Simple, nice and fun.

    Besides that, pasar malam is always a nice place as I can see people from all walks of life, happy friends and family walking around the happenings night market.

     

    After getting my bubble tea, I went to walk around the pasar malam before heading back. Any nice pasar malam to intro in Klang Valley? =)

     

  • Last Thursday In Taylor’s University

    Last Thursday In Taylor’s University

    Thursday is both nice and not-so-nice day because Thursday is near to weekend, so it’s nice, but on the other hand, it’s a tiring day as my class started early in the morning till late evening. And all the classes are in a continuous manner with just a little break in between for lunch.

    I am getting myself to suit with the parking system at Taylor’s University. Ever since Taylor’s University started collect RM3 for the parking at the basement and the one nearer to the campus, I have to park my car at the so-called “Taylor’s Rocky Parking Area” which you can see in photo above. Every time I reached school, the whole parking area is almost full and I have to park until the end of the parking area, which is about 500-700m walking distance? It’s good to walk in the morning, but imagine rain and Sunny afternoon. Why don’t they just built a sheltered walkway for students. What a noob management of the school that is being inconsiderate.

     

    First class of the day is the CAD (Computer Aided Design) class which I am learning about AutoCAD. I love functioning and playing with the computer, but so far, nothing much powerful have been learned. The lecturer is being slow at the moment. Hmm. I need some speed up to learn something more powerful. Catching up news and Facebook are something I would do during the CAD class, I believe everyone too. =D

     

    Later then is the boring Moral Education class, which is a compulsory subject for the Malaysian students. What’s wrong with the Ministry Of Education? We have done 11 years of moral education, and now we are doing it again in college/university. One of our project for this Moral Education is to do a total 16 hours of community service. Sounds cool. Though, I have no idea where to service in Petaling Jaya / Klang Valley, any recommendation?

     

    Sad that this class has not many people, that’s not so fun as I couldn’t meet some new friends from other courses. I wish I have module that mix with other courses, but too bad, there’s none for me. It’s not to the point of real university style yet. My course is just like high school, where my class is still the same, my class until graduate.

     

    Lunch was really suck as I had no appetite that noon and nothing at the Recezz food court amaze me. Everything is just so-so, even the Curry Chicken Noodle that I once like went lousy already. Sigh. Things get bored when there’s no pork, seriously. It’s so halal. However, I have a recent like that are the I Love Yoo porridge and the Yong Tau Fu with rice in my campus. =D

     

     

    Drop by the library for a while to print some stuff. The school still haven’t credit me the printing money for this semester! &%$#%*(## Damn, it’d been half a month since new semester started. I need my money to print!

     

    Had my Design Studio class at a room called the Print Room. No idea what that means by it’s my first time attending class at such nice room with an awesome view of the lake. I believe the room belongs to the Graphic Design student. No idea why were we there.


    Anna, Nita and Arowa. All foreigner, one from Belarus, one from Indonesia, one from Saudi Arabia.

    The class was rather OK for that day as nothing much I have done for the hotel room design. First project of the semester is designing a Royal Thai Style VIP Suite. It’s pretty challenging for me as Thai style is very complicated and I am a minimalist, modernistic person. Haha.


    Instax Mini 25! Brought it to school to shoot shoot. Though, nothing much to shoot. Haha.

    Class ended a little bit earlier and so, me, Wesley and Jia Hui went to the lakeside for a seat to pass time and enjoy the breeze and view. Suddenly feel that the school was so relaxing and good, too bad this is Malaysia, and it is warm and humid. Lakeside relaxing is only fun when it’s near to evening and after a rain, or perhaps a cloudy day.

     

    The weather was nice that day and it rain later when I attended another class called the Building Construction class. Later that night, I went to watch movie and tour the night market. What a tiring Thursday. Haha.

     

     

  • A Saturday Out With Penang Friends

    Last Saturday was a fun and happenings day for me in Klang Valley. It felt really good to meet up a few friends who was from hometown Penang too and also from the same high school. We went for dinner, bubble tea and chit chat a lot that night, and too went to play LAN game together. =D

    Saturday was 2 days after Arron’s birthday and he wanted to treat us Chinese food as a celebration for his recent birthday. Happy belated birthday my friend. We went to fetch Chen Yuen (a.k.a. Nicholas David Raykee Aw) from the LRT station as he stayed pretty far from us, and the to fetch Tee Jin and Hsieh Zhen. It was only 5 of us that night, but it was awesome.

    While waiting for Chen Yuen who came all the way from Setapak, Arron and I saw some silly stuff happened at the car park of the LRT station. The Toyota Innova tried to reverse parking, but in the end drove over the divider and stuck there. LOL.

    After fetching everyone, we had dinner at a famous Chinese restaurant called Loong Fong at Paramount Garden there. GPS was our guide to the restaurant as we are a group of alien in this city. Though, it was not really hard to find afterall.

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    The dinnerwas a wonderful dinner and later we went to look for Gong Cha bubble tea at SS15. Although it’s same price as Chatime, I like Gong Cha more. We chit-chat all along and take photos. It was a nice day out and is looking forward for more outing. =D Lots of place to explore in Klang Valley, any recommendation? I want to go to KL Bird Park, National Zoo, KLCC skybridge, Broga Hill, Ampang LookOut Point, where else I can go? =)

    A little jokes on us is that we call this gang, the animal gang as we always do all those jiao jiao (bird bird) stuff, which is just means lame stuff. Hahaha.

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    =)

  • 7aste Queenstown At Mansion 32, Penang

    Few weeks back, I was invited to a premium event party at the Mansion 32 which get me indulged into the feel of traveling to Queenstown, New Zealand. The event was 7aste Queenstown which offers great finger food, great beer and great music, lastly great people too!

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    7aste is an event that sets up a top premium travel destination as theme, then let you indulge in the sensation of the place for you to enjoy and chill after a long day of work. It’s premium as the party is only available for invited people only, I am lucky to be invited. =)

    The party happened at Mansion 32 few weeks back and I met so friends at there too. Chilling once in a while is fun.

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    Anyway, it was a good night, yet I want to complain that it’s hot. HAHA, because the VIP zone was stationed outside by the sea but then that night was a pretty warm night. Aduhainya.

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    If you want to know more about 7aste, check out the website now.

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