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Chinese Opera At Kuan Yim Teng

Chinese Opera At Kuan Yim Teng (Goddess Of Mercy Temple) – Came back to Penang feels so good, it’s so much colourful and culture-ful when compare to the fast moving city of Kuala Lumpur. Just a few days ago, I was driving around the little city of George Town, passed by the Goddess Of Mercy Temple at Pitt Street and found that there’s a Chinese opera was going on.

Chinese opera often plays during some religious month of the Goddess. I am not sure about what was it about but I just find it interesting. I parked my car, went to do some prayers and snap a few photos of the Chinese opera set up right in front of the temple.

I wasn’t very sure about the dialogue, just understand like half-half. If there’s subtitle, it would be great. =D The opera team came all the way from Muar, Johor.

July 17, 2012
Searching For Sunset At Permatang Damar Laut

Searching For Sunset At Permatang Damar Laut – I went looking for a nice sunset at Permatang Damar Laut, Batu Maung there because I’ve seen before some nice sunset photos taken at there and some photographer friends told me that it’s a good location. Unfortunately, the sky was not blue enough and the worst was the sun was not setting at the location it supposed to be. Maybe because it’s Summer time that the sun slanted a bit? No idea. Anyway, it seems to be a good place and I will come back some other day when the sky is really clear.

July 15, 2012
Penang Bridge 2 In Progress

Penang Bridge 2 In Progress – Hello people, sorry for being away for so long, life is just so busy with school and my blog actually got hacked but some stupid people recently and now what you are seeing is a new theme for my blog. Well, guess where am I, I am back to my lovely hometown – Penang!

Gonna enjoy this short 3 weeks holiday to the max in this city, find all my friends, spend time with girlfriend, family and explore more new stuff in Penang!

Today, I was cruising along Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Highway to Batu Maung and spotted the Penang Second Bridge in progress, parked the car by the roadside and went to check it out. It looks very magnificent and is looking forward towards its completion.

It’s gonna be the longest bridge in South East Asia but sad that there’s one have to pay toll to cross that bridge. Since it’s long, you are gonna burn more fuel too. HAHA. How I wish there’s a undersea tunnel on the other end of the Penang island. One more thing, it’s expected to complete in November 2013, long way to go!

July 14, 2012
Wan Tan Mee, Steam Bread & Egg @ Imbi Market (Pasar Bukit Bintang)

Wan Tan Mee, Steam Bread & Egg Breakfast @ Imbi Market – Known to Imbi Market to locals, but officially known as the Pasar Bukit Bintang which is a wet market located stone throw away from Bukit Bintang shopping district. I never know there’s such a nice wet market located in the centre of Kuala Lumpur providing good food and culture. This place gives me a feeling of eating at places like Presgrave Market (5th Road Market) in Penang.

Original Sisters Crispy Popiah where you can find it almost at any mall in Kuala Lumpur. Previously Taylor’s University has a stall but no idea why it’s closed down now.

I was searching for kaya bread and half-boiled egg for breakfast and found this place on Google. I set up my Waze app GPS from my phone and headed to this place. Upon arriving, I felt good, seeing locals shopping for groceries and many people eating at the food stalls area. This place is fun, this place is so local.

I was too excited and saw many good food around, having no idea which is the best, I randomly ordered a set of kaya steam bread + half boiled egg, and also a plate of wan tan noodle. I’ve got to say all of them were good too me except the wan tan mee was expensive @ RM5/plate! OMG. Although the noodle is springy and the char siew is sweet and BBQ enough but then it’s kinda expensive. In Penang, you can find similar wan tan mee for RM2.50 at Chowrasta Market!

As for the steam kaya bread, it’s good, but Toh Soon’s Cafe has a better one. Haha. I heard that there’s another stall has good kaya toast (instead of steam) at this market too, I am going to check out next time.

I have a scrumptious breakfast that morning and I will come back again, for other food.

Pasar Bukit Bintang

Jalan Kampung,
Pudu, 50400 Kuala Lumpur,
Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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June 13, 2012
Penang Bridge View From Jelutong Nautilus Bay

Penang Bridge View From Jelutong Nautilus Bay – Passed by Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Expressway (formally Jelutong Expressway) last weeken when I was still in Penang, and went into Nautilus Bay to take photos of Penang Bridge, very random act but I want to share with you the beautiful of the straits.

Penang Bridge. Looking forward to the 2nd bridge next year. =)

Penang Port at Butterworth.

June 1, 2012
First Time To Paradigm Mall

First Time To Paradigm Mall – I believe many people in the Klang Valley knows about this new mall – Paradigm Mall at Kelana Jaya, PJ. It’s opened last week and there’s Kelly Chen, Justin, singers from Hong Kong to come and do the opening. One thing I’m very surprise is that upon it’s completion, 80% of the stores inside are open! The construction work is really fast. I passed by the place in last month and still doubting whether they will complete in a month or not.

I am a very kaypo person, I like to see new stuff, new place, so I went to check out with my friend from Penang – Arron and Carmen after class.

Heard that it’s very crowded during the weekends and a massive traffic jam around that area, but it’s weekday’s afternoon and it’s still good. I like the mall because it’s near to my place. Although Sunway Pyramid is nearer to me, I like Paradigm Mall more, because Golden Screen Cinema (GSC) will be opening soon! Hehehe, cheap movie tickets.

There’s quite a number of brands at there too. I found Fish & Co which has almost extinct in Malaysia at there. Cheap grocery shopping Tesco supermarket is opening soon too! The construction is not fully completed yet. The mall is kinda cool, it’s not super big like Mid Valley Megamall, but it’s has 7 floors and the interior is pretty clean and nice.

I kinda like the interior, the escalator placement is not consistent, sort of like zig zag, at least it’s not too formal or standard. Haha. One more thing, there’s many desserts shop! Ochado, Meet Fresh, Snowflakes, Chatime, Tong Pak Fu and more! It’s all under one place.

What do you think?

By the way, do you know about the viral screenshot going on around Facebook about Paradigm Mall? It’s about a the Facebook replies by Paradigm Mall and a troller on Facebook. The most epic reply by Paradim Mall was ‘You know MAGIC wor!’. See the screenshot for more info and get some laugh.

There’s no who’s right, one is noob customer service, another is trouble maker. Paradigm, the MAGIC mall.

June 1, 2012
Sunday Morning @ Muntri Street

Sunday Morning @ Muntri Street – Last, last Sunday, I went to Muntri Street in Penang with my classmate and a group of pro sketchers to sketch the place, for leaning and sharing and fun. Muntri Street is really a nice place in Penang full of beautiful eclectic colonial style shophouses. It has history, it has story and arts. There’s many guesthouses at there too!

Interior design students from Taylor’s University was having a trip to Penang, the most beautiful city in Malaysia and one of the activity was ‘Sketch Muntri Street’, also an activity conducted by pro sketcher Ch’ng Kiah Kiean. I feel sad that my hand is not as pro as them, I don’t really sketch stuff, in fact, I kinda suck at it. I did some sketch, a bit, but then I went photo shooting around the place instead.

Teuku =)

It’s a nice sunny Sunday morning and the weather was pretty clear, but then it’s hot too! I sweat quite a lot. Back to sketch, looking at other’s people sketches, I told myself I really have to sketch more. It doesn’t have to be uber pretty or detailed, as long as it has feeling, has visual, has proportion than it’s good, according to one of the pro sketches. Sketching is for fun and to express one’s feel to a visual.

Guess what I have found on Muntri Street? It’s another super big mural done by Ernest Zacharevic who did the Armenian Street’s mural. This one is really huge on a big piece of wall. It looks a bit scary but what the story is that it’s about a little girl learning kung-fu.

Look brilliant isn’t it?

Aida. =)

Met Hua Kian, my high school mate at there. Penang is so small!

Penang is awesome isn’t it? Spot my sketch, it’s the smallest piece. HAHA. Happy weekend ahead. =)

June 1, 2012
Goose Lays Egg At Taylor’s University & Tortoise By The Lake

Goose Lays Egg At Taylor’s University & Tortoise By The Lake – Found some cool animal at the school’s lake today, I see many big size tortoise, swimming by the shore. This reminds me about rearing a tortoise when I was small. I wonder who put in the tortoise into the lake of Taylor’s. I bet they swim and eat LIKE A BOSS at there since people often throw food into the lake.

It’s gonna grow even bigger soon!

Another super cool and funny thing I found today is that the goose at the lake laid an egg! I wonder who it mate with. HAHA. OK, that’s not the point. We saw the goose sitting on her egg, waiting it to be hatched. So cool right? But the thing is…. the goose was not sitting on her egg, she’s sitting on a tennis ball!

Instead, we found the real egg at the other bushes. I was thinking, was the goose forgotten about her egg’s location, or someone was trying to trick the goose. Really special and funny. She had been sitting there for a few days, according to my friend. Hmmm.

May 29, 2012
Daiso RM5 Special Floor Wipe Tissue For Dust & Hair

Daiso RM5 Special Floor Wipe Tissue For Dust & Hair – This is not an advertisment, but a random post about my recent purchase. Hahaha. I went to the Japanese RM5 shop – Daiso lately and bought myself a sweeper which you can stick a piece of dust sticking tissue paper on it, and too the pack of ’tissue paper’ itself. Each item for RM5.

The ’tissue paper’ wiper sheet can stick hair and dust very well and this is a sweeper for lazy people like me who lives in a rented room. I am quite lazy to sweep the floor you know, you have to sweep and pour the dirty stuff away. With this, you just sweep, it stick on the sheet and you remove and throw. Easy! Do you use this?

May 16, 2012
Blue Sky Morning @ Taylor’s University

Blue Sky Morning @ Taylor’s University – The sky was pretty blue today in the morning, I took out my little camera (Panasonic Lumix LX5) and snap a few shots. Ahh, I love blue sky day so much, but I hate the heat and sun during noon. School life has been a bit boring because I am doing the same thing over and over again. So wish that the presentation for current project can be get over as soon as possible so I can proceed with the next design project.

The road that I walk everyday.

How’s life to you lately? =)

May 15, 2012

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