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  • Super Crowded At KLCC Park During Hari Raya

    Super Crowded At KLCC Park During Hari Raya

    Super Crowded At KLCC Park During Hari Raya – I know Raya has passed for a few weeks already, but then I am very free right now, enjoying my lovely holiday and so there’s plenty of time for me to throwback some interesting moment and stuff.
    Sharing back about Hari Raya, I believe many people balik kampung to either celebrate the holy festival with their family, and the people who were not celebrating, too went back to hometown for a holiday. Somehow, I’ve decided to stay in Kuala Lumpur during that time as I know hometown Penang would be packed with tourists and people, traffic congestion would be everywhere too.
    Very interestingly, Kuala Lumpur was deserted, with so little car on all the major roads. No surprise because many who resides in Kuala Lumpur are actually came from other part of Malaysia. However, if you take a trip down to KLCC, you would be shocked by the number of people at there! It’s the most crowded time of the year, with foreign labour all packed at the KLCC Park, making some uncomfortable moment for me. Moreover, there’s the Popular Book Fair happened at the convention centre, no doubt, everyone cramped in this iconic place of Kuala Lumpur.
    Well, I actually recommend people to head to Kuala Lumpur during Hari Raya because during that time, you can be king of the road with no ‘pek-chek’ moment in the traffic jam and enjoy your shopping, but just beware of the crowds at KLCC.
  • Last Night In Kuala Lumpur

    Last Night In Kuala Lumpur

     
    Last Night In Kuala Lumpur – I can’t believe it, tomorrow is the day, the day I’m leaving this beautiful, vibrant, mess, sinful, crimeful metropolitan city of Kuala Lumpur. I did not fancy about this place when I arrived 3 years ago, but as time goes on, the good feeling of fast-moving of city lifestyle pours into me. I am a city-person.
    Coming from a small city of George Town, the big city looks fascinating. I was ignorance at first, telling people that Kuala Lumpur is just a mess, places being so far from each other, traffic jams, crimes (yes, fuck that still), expensive food (I hate that at first when comparing food price with Penang’s) and I think just that’s all.
    As the time ticks, this metropolitan turns beautiful in my eyes. The traffic congestion actually trained my patience (Penang traffic get worst nowadays and I did not complain much when I drive at home), driving from here to there in Klang Valley makes me realised that Tanjung Tokong to Queensbay Mall is actually very near. Well, food is not expensive in Kuala Lumpur, it’s just that the food is lower priced in Penang and I became generous. HAHA.
    There’s so much yet to explore, so many restaurant yet to eat, so much opportunities yet to grab, but the time being here is up. I’ve graduated from my study here. Time’s up for me to leave and check out some new places.  Perhaps in the future, I’ll come back maybe, or not, the crime issues here is just shooing me away! But then I am still young, and energetic, I shall experience more cities. My final destination is still Penang, but in between, let’s say, everywhere big and fast with beautiful skyline.
    I just don’t really know what am I crapping; but whatever it is, let’s enjoy the last night with the World’s Tallest Twin Stainless Steel Towers (beat that Burj Khalifa, LOL) – Petronas Twin Towers and good night! I will miss this city and I enjoyed my time.
  • A Walk At Chow Kit Area

    A Walk At Chow Kit Area

    A Walk At Chow Kit Area – Under the scorching Sunny heat, with dusty breeze from the road blew occasionally, the sound of motor engine can be heard passing by, I was walking at Chow Kit area. Took the LRT from Kelana Jaya to KL Sentral, interchanged to monorail to Chow Kit then I alighted. I should have taken the LRT and interchanged to PWTC instead. The monorail is slow and expensive!
    Clean and green sidewalk. I like.
    I was in town in the morning yesterday, to check out a place that I found in Chow Kit which to be designed for my final design project. Site analysis is a part of every of my project and so, a visit to the place is a must to study, to see, and to photograph.
    This indirectly gave me an opportunity to explore another side of Kuala Lumpur – Chow Kit, a place that known much as the red light district, black and dirty zone. Indeed, but Jalan Ipoh on the other hand is clean and green, surprisingly. Some places is clean, some places is dirty. That’s the problem of KL, not every corner are well maintain which is kinda sad.
    Food stall in the alley.
    KL Tower from one of the rooftop.
    The place have potential to be revitalized into a new district because the architecture at there is very retro and have feeling. If it’s not the assignment, I would not have come here already. You know right, you have to be careful when walking around KL city.
  • MOVIDA Birthday Bash

    MOVIDA Birthday Bash

    MOVIDA Birthday Bash – Free food, free (good) music and free flow were what to describe my Friday’s night. ‘There’s no free lunch in the world?’ Yeah, but there’s free dinner, at MOVIDA, Sunway Giza. A bunch of happy friends of interior designers, a couple pints of free beer, a little good food, and a night of club hits, brought the weekend to life.
    Not really a club person, but I like club hits, and of course, free or cheap drinks (Carlsberg at RM10/pint that night)! Happy weekend!
  • Undilah Perdana Menteri! Najib’s On The Tree!

    Undilah Perdana Menteri! Najib’s On The Tree!

    Undilah Perdana Menteri! Najib’s On The Tree!– My area suddenly has a lot of this uncle Najib’s face, the ex-prime minister of Malaysia. He’s everywhere, on the trees specifically, looking at you, watch you. As if. “Muahahaha, my eyes are on you”.

    I LOVE PM.

  • 4th MY Astro Music Awards (MY Astro至尊流行榜颁奖典礼) @ Bukit Jalil Putra Indoor Stadium

    4th MY Astro Music Awards (MY Astro至尊流行榜颁奖典礼) @ Bukit Jalil Putra Indoor Stadium

    4th MY Astro Music Awards (MY Astro至尊流行榜颁奖典礼) @ Bukit Jalil Putra Indoor Stadium – The tickets were free, who doesn’t wanna go to a free concert anyway? It’s a local produced music awards for Chinese songs by Astro and it featured a lot of Taiwanese and local Chinese singer, somehow it’s more like a concert to me.
    Happened on last Sunday at Bukit Jalil Putra Indoor Stadium where most of the concert are held and it’s my first time checking out the place! I really got to thanks the gang of friends helping me to get the ticket from Seremban. Anyway, the whole thing started at 7.30pm and we were there about 6pm. Lots of fans were there earlier than us. Initially our tickets were Rock Zone’s but later we switch to Free Seating’s because we were just not excited to stand all night, afterall those singers are not my favourites.
    What’s interesting was the stage set up, very professionally done for a local event, but what’s dissapointed was the turn up of the crowds despite the entrance tickets were free. It’s good that our country produce such event, somehow it’s the problem of the producer that the music award not excited at all, perhaps no presence of Hong Kong’s singer. Haha.
    It was a long 3.5 hours show, a bit of fun, a bit of enjoyment and a bit of tired. Well, since it’s free, I couldn’t expect more. Anyway, I can see that Malaysia will has a good Chinese entertainment industry in the future. Yeah.
    Wah! So many people was earlier than us.
    Very awesome stage design.
    Wow! The blogger Nick Chan!
    A group shot before going home after a long 3.5 hours of concert. Yeah!
  • SHOW LUO 罗志祥 at Paradigm Mall

    SHOW LUO 罗志祥 at Paradigm Mall

    SHOW LUO 罗志祥 at Paradigm Mall – Show, show, show, show off, show hand, show me, show bird, show you; NO, it’s SHOW LUO! Luo Zhi Xiang went to Paradigm Mall to promote his upcoming concert in Genting Highland in May and I happened to be there to see him! Not really a fan of him, but salute and respect him as a good singer, dancer and funny host for the former 100% Entertainment 娱乐百分百. Yay. That’s it.
    Didn’t really spend a long SHOW time, after a while, stomach went drumming, and it’s SUSHI time, dinner at my favourite Zanmai with the designers again. And that’s mark an end for my Friday night. Blah!
    Not interested in SHOW ah?
    Nick, Jason, Dai Lou.
    Henry, Connie, Inn, Quenna.
  • Cycling At Taman Botani Negara / Bukit Cahaya, Shah Alam

    Cycling At Taman Botani Negara / Bukit Cahaya, Shah Alam

    Cycling At Taman Botani Negara / Bukit Cahaya, Shah Alam – There’s actually quite a few names for this place – Taman Botani Negara, Taman Pertanian Bukit Cahaya or Bukit Cerakah, call it whatever you like. That many names really makes people confusing, but I believe it’s more likely to known as Bukit Cahaya.
    I’d been searching for nature hangout place for hiking, or cycling around Klang Valley and this is one of the place that I found where you can cycle around this small national park. 20 minutes of drive from Bandar Sunway and you will reach this place. 10 people, 2 cars and we reached about 8am! And you know what? The place haven’t open yet. It has opening hour 8.30am.
    Going to the place is not free! Parking – RM3, entrance to the place – RM3, rent a bicycle – RM10/hour! Many pro brought their own bike, but we are not pro, so we have to pay and it’s probably a place that I would go once as our 3 hour ride totalled up RM30 already. Remember to check the bike brake when picking up your bike.
    Name check! Henry, Mei Jia, Wei Shi, Ling Jia, Siyi, Quenna, Wei Kean, Hooi Pheng, Jason & Nick Chan. =D
    Anyway, talk back about the place. It’s pretty cool, a little bit like Penang’s Botanical Garden, the road is not flat, it’s up and down of hill slopes, so it’s pretty tough to ride, but going down hill slopes is damn fun! We queued for like 20 minutes to get a bike and once we got our hands on it, we started riding!
    Actually there’s nothing much to see, the place was not very well-maintained despite collecting fee from people. There’s an adventure activity called Skytrex where you can experience tree climbing, flying fox and more like the Escape Park in Penang. We did not go to that because we did not book in advance.
    I see no monkey by the way!
    Nice blue sky day!
    Found coconut tree and Mei Jia got excited and wanted to get one.
    Well… I was skeptical about the coconut at first whether it’s safe to drink or not, but she convinced that it’s alright because she came from a kampung with lots of coconut trees. HAHA.
    Not that sweet afterall, but refreshing!
    Yeah, lovely Saturday.
    Although the place was not that person, yet it’s pretty fun pun, for a while I was in the city and for a while, we seemed to be spend like 3 hours in the nature that is so close to the city. The perspiration, laughter, wind and the stress on leg muscle makes it fun! Nice Saturday out with interior design friends again! =D
  • Friday Night Karaoke @ Loudspeaker

    Friday Night Karaoke @ Loudspeaker

    Friday Night Karaoke @ Loudspeaker – It’s seems like getting back to the days like in high school where I will go to the karaoke Red Box once a month. Though, it’s with different gang of people right now, it was a one group of batang guys, and now interior designers mostly. Ahh, I just love singing and hope that I can sing well but too bad I am bad in singing.
    Weekend was very awesome, tiring yet fun KTV until midnight because it was after a long day of work, hiking in the early morning then out to the city for whole day. So it’s pretty much filled up for the last weekend. For the past two years in college, I found no one to sing with, and now, I am happy that I have a group of friends who go to KTV often.
    Fresh Milk Grass Jelly from COCO. Not bad. Thanks Quenna & Hwa Jie for the treat!
    Wei Kean, Connie, Quenna and Hwa Jie was the company of the night.
    Not to say my favourite KTV spot in Kuala Lumpur, but it’s cheapest and nearest. I still prefer Red Box for the choice of song and a better sound system.
    Well, KTV, yeah, do you like to sing?
  • Lou Sang @ Kechara Oasis

    Lou Sang @ Kechara Oasis

     
    Lou Sang @ Kechara Oasis – Finally, the first Lou Sang of the year of snake! Two more weeks till Chinese New Year 2013 and the atmosphere and celebration is starting already. Lou Sang is one of my favourite thing to do during Chinese New Year because it’s funny, fun and shiok. But then I don’t really like to eat the Yee Sang, I just like to Lou. Haha.
    Anyway, we did the Lou Sang last Monday at Kechara Oasis, a high-end vegetarian restaurant and I still prefer a Yee Sang with raw fish. Oh oh oh, let’s lou sang!
    Group photo! Alamak, so formal!
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