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  • Trip To Penang: Peranakan Mansion

    Trip To Penang: Peranakan Mansion

    Trip To Penang: Peranakan Mansion – Continue back on the Penang Trip with my classmate, now we came to the Peranakan Mansion, one of the attractions that I have never been before, it’s my first time going there during the trip. All the while, I never visited before is because one need to buy ticket to go in, RM10/person if I am not mistaken and that’s why. Hahaha. Since I’ve paid for this little trip, so the Peranakan Mansion is included.
    It’s a museum, it’s a truly beautiful Peranakan Nyonya house with eclectic Straits Chinese decoration throughout the place. If you are a person who loves to learn about the history of Straits Chinese, this might be a good place for you to indulge into the culture, and history of Peranakan, or also known as Straits Chinese. It’s a very well-preserved place and it gives you another perspective of Penang. It’s not a very big house, but then it basically explains what’s the life of Straits Chinese in the olden days.
    So what I did there was just walk around and take photos. I didn’t really listen to the guided tour. Hehe. So let the pictures speak now.
    Entrance!
    Lovely column with ornaments.
    Us again – Arvin, Jia Hui, me, Wesley and Steve.
    Acting like Straits Chinese. LOL. Looks nothing like them.
    Zetty!
    Acting cool with Wesley, Jia Hui, Arvin, Steve, me and Fadran.
    The Love Seats.
    Oh my camera?! I don’t want one.
  • Trip To Penang: Leong San Tong Khoo Kongsi

    Trip To Penang: Leong San Tong Khoo Kongsi

    Trip To Penang: Leong San Tong Khoo Kongsi – One of my favourite place in Penang is this Leong San Tong Khoo Kongsi or also known aas the Khoo Clan House. It’s a very small little neighbourhood where Khoo family used to live together with house surrounding the family temple. Of course, it’s one of the must-visit for my friends of DID (Diploma In Interior Design) from different countries and states.

    It’s getting hot that afternoon so there’s not much time spend outside and I spent more time inside the Khoo Templeb which is also a musuem. Well, you don’t really get to visit the temple during free open visit like at Chinese New Year time, I did pay for this tour so I’m gonna check out the inside thoroughly.

    It’s pretty interesting to check out the Khoo Kongsi as it’s one of the largest Chinese clan house in Penang and the architecture, carving and arts are just awesomely beautiful. Touch and feel the material, the history of this place and that’s what I did, and …. I didn’t really feel anything, except the texture. HAHA.

    Arvin at the back, Wesley, Steve at the back, me and Jia Hui.
    The Parentage Society Of Khoo Clan. Lovely!
    Serious face! Super serious!
    The kitchen setting of old time. Sweet.
    They drink Pepsi in the olden days. Chup! Pepsi.
    My favourite wall. So nice.
    Hello to Steve, Wesley, little cute monk statue, Jia Hui at the back and Mellysa in front. Smile!
    Ze group photo, I don’t think I have to list their name. Too many!
    Another group photo, hello my friends! How are you?
    Magician, me, Moh and Cher Huey, Jia Hui at the back. Haha.
    From back, Shahu, Ana, Mellysa, MJ, Nita and Mr CK. In front left, Arvin, Rasyid, Fana, Aida, Hanan and me!
    With the very yeng Zetty and Navena.
    Moh, Steve, me, Arvin and Wesley.
    Arvin, Wesley, Jia Hui, Steve and Me.
    Let’s JUMP high!!!! Can you do that?
  • Trip To Penang: Little India’s Sri Mahamariamman Temple

    Trip To Penang: Little India’s Sri Mahamariamman Temple

    Trip To Penang: Little India’s Sri Mahamariamman Temple – I actually skip one place and that is the Kuan Yin Temple, I’ve been there for so many time so I’ve decided not to follow them into the heaty Kuan Yin Temple. After the St George’s Church, the Kuan Yin Temple, now across the road and we reached the Little India of Penang, a street full of Indian retail shop and also the worship place of the Indian, an Indian temple of Sri Mahamariamman.
    Unfortunately, temple was closed that day, there’s not much of touring, as usual, the Mr Tour Guide gave a introduction of the place and we went off to somewhere else, next is to the Khoo Kongsi, one of my favourite place in Penang with awesome old Straits Chinese architecture. Anyway, before heading to Khoo Kongsi, let’s check out what happened around Little India.
    Mr Mahrad J something something, I don’t know how to spell his name, MJ is what I call him all the time.
    Backside of Jia Hui & CK. =D
    You can ignore the tour guide and read this.
    Beautiful Indian carving.
    Lovely lion. Roar back to you.
    With Gino the magician and Moh at the back.
    From the left, Aida, Hanan me and Rasyid. Yeah!
    Wesley, Jia Hui, Nita and me.
    It’s really a hot day!
    Why?! Why free promotion for the soft drinks? Why?! Please tell me!
    Oops, looks there’s a pool up there!!!!!!!!!! How?  Anyone, tell me how. An chua ho?
  • Cycling In George Town: Bicycle & Motorbike Mural, Wan Tan Mee, Back To Armenian Street

    Cycling In George Town: Bicycle & Motorbike Mural, Wan Tan Mee, Back To Armenian Street

     
    Cycling In George Town: Bicycle & Motorbike Mural, Wan Tan Mee, Back To Armenian Street – This is the last post for my Cycling In George Town post series. Last post, we stopped off at Jelutong’s Nautilus Bay, now we head back to George Town for a photo-session with the bicycle & motorbike mural boy, dinner and home!

    One good economy fried bee hoon on Lebuh Tye Seen, or local calls it the Fourth Road 四条路
    Right in front of Sum Min Primary School.
    Our last route was from Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Expressway, cut back into Beach Street and to Armenian Street for thesuper famous bicycle 3D mural by Ernest Zacharevic. We have our bicycle, photographing with the mural is a must! This was fun!
    Me, Merritt, Charles and Chien Chern.
    Funny Charles and Merritt.
    Cool cube with artwork on top.

    Telephone booth turned into street art piece.

    Old school Swatow Lodging House on Armenian Street.
    After this, the next one of course is the 3D mural of boy on motorbike, chased by a dinosaur on Lebuh Ah Quee, it’s just the next street beside the bicycle mural. It was closing sunset and we had our last refreshing break from the fruit juice stall nearby. Freshly squeeze orange juice is just for RM1!
    The RM1 fruit juice stall on Lebuh Ah Quee!
    Me and my ride.
    Charles with the motorbike boy.

    Last stop before returning the bicycle back to the shop was the famous Wan Tan Mee on Chulia Street! It’s our dinner and meal to recharge our drained energy. We were exhausted. A bowl of Wan Tan Mee (RM3.50) and another glass of fresh apple juice (RM1.50) did nice on regenerating the lost energy of the day.

    Awesome twilight with Penang famous hawker food.
    The Wan Tan Mee.
     Let’s call it an awesome, tiring, fun, heritage, hot, humid, exploration day for me and my friend. One last photograph session with another ‘boy standing on chair’ mural by Ernest right opposite of Khoo Kongsi before heading home. =)

    Interesting heart shape made from straws by unknown artist.
    Come cycle in Penang, it’s fun!
  • Cycling In George Town: Esplanade Padang, Chew Jetty, Jelutong Nautilus Bay

    Cycling In George Town: Esplanade Padang, Chew Jetty, Jelutong Nautilus Bay

    Cycling In George Town: Esplanade Padang, Chew Jetty, Jelutong Nautilus Bay – Our route were unplanned, we just rode to wherever we could think of at that time. We were on the way to Esplanade Padang on the previous post to check out the spicy yet delicious Mee Sotong at the Padang Kota Food Court. Not much stalls opened due to Ramadhan month but it was just nice that both the Mee Sotong and drinks stall were open.

    Alright, one plate of Mee Sotong and share among us! Not really hungry, just to try out the taste as introduced by Merritt the organizer. Tasted spicy! But then it’s good with lots of crunchy fried anchovies ikan bilis.

    The field, Padang Kota Lama / Esplanade.
    Swettemham Pier for cruise docking.
    Tanjung City Marina, docking for yatch. Too bad, no more yatch as most yatch now docks at Straits Quay.
    Name check: Merritt, Charles, Yan Chien Chern, Shi Jie,
    After a little bit of rest, started our ride again, out of Esplanade and to the famous Chew Jetty. Stopped by at some random carpark by the sea and at Tanjung City Marina before reaching Chew Jetty. The weather was windy scorching hot! Windy from the ride, yet scorching hot upon stopping.
    Charles, Merritt and Chien Chern!

    Awesome foreign expats park their little yatch in the middle of the sea. They came to George Town for shopping.
    Little yatch.
    Lim Chong Eu Expressway. Speed limit: 80km/h.

    Where to, now? Don’t really have an idea, and randomly someone suggested Jelutong’s Nautilus Bay. That’s a bit of craziness as it’s out of George Town, a short section of highway ride on the motorcycle lane. Didn’t bother much and we went there. It was exciting yet dangerous to ride on the same lane with the fast motorcycle as we couldn’t really follow the speed of the motorcycle. What it was just strong gush of wind and sound every moment the motorcycle passed by you. About 10 minutes on the little Lim Chong Eu Expressway and we arrived at the Nautilus Bay, Sungai Pinang, Jelutong.

    Penang’s landmark – Penang Bridge.

    Ugly side of Sungai Pinang, what an eye sore look of this place.
    Nice network of jogging path and landscape.
    Landmark of Nautilus Bay, the 4 tiang (columns).
    Hidden Taoist temple of don’t know what.

    A new area in Penang, with sea front residential and some shoplots. Some calls it the ‘new Gurney Drive’ Obviously, it has a cleaner sea than Gurney Drive and you can get a good view of Penang Bridge and Butterworth,  Explored a bit of this area, found that they have a good jogging path, we cycled along it and found a hidden temple deep on the other side of the area. Enjoy a bit of the sea breeze and we headed back to George Town, for some photograph with the bicycle mural, motorbike mural and dinner. =) Check out next post.

  • Cycling In George Town: Tan Kongsi, Sekeping Victoria, Beach Street

    Cycling In George Town: Tan Kongsi, Sekeping Victoria, Beach Street

    Cycling In George Town: Tan Kongsi, Sekeping Victoria, Beach Street – This is a long waited post that I’ve finally got some times to post it up. I’ve taken about 70 photos on this day and I wanted to post them all, so I’ll be dividing this post to 3 post. =D

    Cut the crap, a month ago, I was back at home in Penang and went on a cycling in George Town trip with my friends. Cycling is one famous activities in this little city of Penang and more and more people gets their own folding bike and mountain bike. We rented the bicycles at a second hand bicycle shop on Armenian Street for RM10/day, there’s plenty of bike for you to choose, folding, or the big one and I picked a little folding bike with suspension.

    Started of around Armenian Street – Carnavon Street without any idea on where should we go, ended up at Tan Kongsi at Beach Street, stopped by a while for photos session.

    Yan Chien Chern.
    Merritt Lau, the organizer of the day!

    This time we get a good look of this Seh Tan Kongsi. It’s a little clan house with super small neighbourhood of colonial shophouses around and that’s it. Nothing much, round the little place for a couple of round then we go to the other destination. We felt like we were unprofessional cycling kids. Haha.

    The next destination is the Jetty Asam Laksa under a tree at Gat Lebuh Acheh, too bad that it was not open, but we manage to catch a cup of Ai Yu Bing jelly refreshing desserts. Yums!
    Parking our bike at some random space.
    The desserts and drinks stall.
    Where to now? The Esplanade / Padang Kota Lama, but before reaching there we past by a very cool hotel/guesthouse located on Victoria Street – Sekeping Victoria designed by Landscape Architect Ng Sek San. The guesthouse has a unique rundown design featuring very raw material. You can check out more at the website.
    Loving the minimal and raw interior of Sekeping Victoria.

     

    Cutting through Victoria Street, we reaches Beach Street, the street with the most British colonial-style building housing bank and financial institution. This is the cool part of Penang where people come here for photo shoot and leisure on Sunday morning where this is a no-car zone during Sunday.

    Feels like the UK to you?

    Post Malaysia building.

    Next post coming very soon! Going to Esplanade, Chew Jetty, Jelutong Nautilus Bay, and back to George Town in the next coming posts.

  • Video: Shadowfax – Cycling Around George Town By Fauzi Yusoff

    Video: Shadowfax – Cycling Around George Town By Fauzi Yusoff

    Video: Shadowfax - Cycling Around George Town By Fauzi Yusoff

    Video: Shadowfax – Cycling Around George Town By Fauzi Yusoff – This is a cool short film of Fauzi Yusoff and his team cycling around George Town, Penang showcasing some few cool places. Penang has more and more bicycle riders nowadays!

    Check out the statement copied from the Vimeo site:

    I was approached by Canon to do a video for Shadowfax at Penang.

    I took this oppurtunity to go cycling, backpacking, and travelling with friends. This is the first part of our journey. Thank you to our sponsors, friends and everyone who gave a good support toward this project.

    Thank you to our sponsors:
    Canon, Adobe, Grafa, Ryokan Chics, Red Inn and Tofu Cafe, Bed & Bikes

    Directed by Fauzi Yusoff
    Assistant Camera: Shazmir, Fahmy Says

    Thanks Fauzi Yusoff and team for this awesome short video of Penang!

    [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/47002286 w=640&h=360]

    Shadowfax at Penang from Fauzi Yusoff on Vimeo.

  • Night Shots From 1st Avenue Mall, Penang

    Night Shots From 1st Avenue Mall, Penang

    Night Shots From 1st Avenue Mall, Penang

    Night Shots From 1st Avenue Mall, Penang – I was waiting my girlfriend who was buying Tang Yuan on Magazine Road, then I see it’s quite interesting to turn on long shutter and capture some night trail. Although I have did it before, I just couldn’t resist myself from pressing the shutter.

    Night Shots From 1st Avenue Mall, Penang

    Later then, I asked her to wait for me in the car and I went to the carpark of 1st Avenue Mall to take some shots from above. =D Put my camera on the flat handrail, set on a slow shutter mode and capture.

    Night Shots From 1st Avenue Mall, Penang

    It would be even better if I’ve got a tripod with me that time, but it was fun.

  • (Cloudy) Sunset: George Town City Centre

    (Cloudy) Sunset: George Town City Centre

    (Cloudy) Sunset: George Town City Centre

    Sunset: George Town City Centre – My latest sunset watching place is in the heart of George Town. Well, I’d call it the city centre of George Town. But the exact place is the carpark of 1st Avenue Shopping Mall. Haha. You can get a good view of sunset across the magnificent Penang Hill.

    I went to try my luck for sunset watching few days ago but sadly, not so good, it’s kinda cloudy. Nevertheless, it was nice that I’ve found a new place for sunset watching. Awkward location, but pretty cool.

    (Cloudy) Sunset: George Town City Centre

    (Cloudy) Sunset: George Town City Centre

    (Cloudy) Sunset: George Town City Centre

  • Ernest’s Mural At Chew Jetty – Boy On Boat

    Ernest’s Mural At Chew Jetty – Boy On Boat

    Ernest’s Mural At Chew Jetty – Boy On Boat – Went to Chew Jetty last week to check out the mural by Ernest Zacharevic which is about a boy with fishing rod on a sampan. I’m so outdated already because it had been there for like a month. Anyway, I still want to go check it out and capture photo because it’s cute.


    Weather wasn’t that nice that day, it was hazy, humid and hot! Argh. I couldn’t spend a long time under the hot sun, it’s very uncomfortable as I was unprepared. Just went there spontaneously and did not expect the weather to be so hot.

    Here’s Hueisean with the mural. It’s drawn on the wall of a homestay wooden house at Chew Jetty.

     

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