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  • Cecil Street Market And Hawker Stalls (Qit Tiao Lor Ban San / 七条路巴刹)

    Cecil Street Market And Hawker Stalls (Qit Tiao Lor Ban San / 七条路巴刹)
    #1: You will know the place by seeing the name Pusat Penjaja Lebuh Cecil which means Cecil Street’s Food Court.

    Cecil Street Market And Hawker Stalls (Qit Tiao Lor Ban San / 七条路巴刹) － Cecil Street, also known as Qit Tiao Lor in Hokkien or literally means 7th Road is famous for its market and hawker stalls. Many locals love to flock into the market and hawker stall to eat out and hunt for good food as there have a variety of local Penang hawker food to choose from.


    #2: A Hokkien Prawn Noodle stalls which haven’t open yet.

    Cecil Street Markat & Hawker Stalls is one of my favourite place to eat in Penang given that the place is more local-ish to me with 99.9% people eating out are locals and for its great variety of local food. I dislike hawker food stalls like at tourist centric Gurney Drive area and New Lane.


    #3: Aunty was thinking something.


    #4: A busy woman talking on the phone and wanting to buy kuih.


    #5: At the kuih stalls, the owner lady trying to tell the girl how much it is for the kuih.

    Yesterday, I went there with my mom to have lunch, and also to buy some stuff from the market to cook at home. It was about noon time and you can hear many people chattering around with coffee boy shouting here and there loudly to order a drinks for the customers.


    #6: Another hidden and good hokkien prawn noodle stalls. The name is Ah Lai’s Hokkien Prawn Noodle.


    #7: Disabled person trying to earn some living by selling his voices – singing karaoke, which turns out to has a good voice.


    #8: An old lady waiting for … someone, or food.


    #9: Picking dishes which to be eat with porridge.

    Aroma of local food can be inhaled at there. Hokkien dialect is the main language of the hawker food stalls area which can be heard almost everywhere. Everyone was busy chomping their food and talking. I was then busy taking photos around, capturing the image of the locals to share with you guys.


    #10: Fishmonger scrapping off the fish scales.


    #11: A man in helmet picking shrimps.


    #12: Eat more vegetables which is very good for your health.


    #13: Garlic, do you like it? Yes, I do.


    #14: A lady buying stuff at the market.

    I’ll show you in other post that what I have eaten yesterday. Porridge with a few dishes, and a bowl of Penang hokkien prawn noodle was my lunch yesterday, which is deliciously good.

  • Nine Emperors God Festival 2011 Is Coming

    Nine Emperors God Festival 2011 Is Coming
    Nine Emperors God Festival in 2009 at Carnavon Street, Penang.

    Nine Emperors God Festival 2011 Is Coming – The yearly Taoist’s festival, the Nine Emperors God Festival (九皇爺) is coming soon and the real parade of sending the god falls on this Wednesday till midnight which is also the ninth day of the ninth lunar month.


    Madras Lane, the vegetarian food stalls.


    You can find bubble tea too!

    Every year, at this time of the year, devotees will turn on their vegetarian mood, which most sincere one eating vegetarian for nine days, and some will eat on the ninth day itself. It is believed that the Nine Emperors God will bring good luck and blessing to them.


    End of Madras Lane where you meet the intersection of Burma Road. Opposite is a Kuan Yin Temple and the Nine Emperor Gods Temple.

    To simplify, it’s another religious and happenings festival in Malaysia for the believer of Nine Emperor Gods. I missed the festival last year but I think I will not be missing it again this year as I would like to see how’s the festival is at here in Kuala Lumpur. In Penang, it is a very happenings night on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month where thousands will gather to send the gods in the procession. I have been to the procession in Penang in 2008 and 2009.


    Devotees praying for blessing on the Nine Emperor Gods Festival.

     

    In Kuala Lumpur, the procession is located in Ampang and I am planning to visit the temple. In order to visit the procession, I have to eat vegetarian on the day itself.


    A plate of vegetarian bee hoon costs RM1.50.

    In Penang, you will see lots of yellow flags hanging around which is actually telling you that the festival is going on and don’t be surprise to see many temporary set up stalls by the roadside selling vegetarian food. It’s pretty interesting to eat the vegetarian food, they are cheap in price, and some are quite delicious.


    Vegetarian Pizza.


    Chinese tangyuan.


    Lobak in vegetarian version, which means they’re halal.

    Not to forget, they have lots of variety too. You can even find lots of local delicacies like laksa, hokkien prawn mee, curry mee in vegetarian version, as well as western food like pizza, burger and more in vegetarian.


    Fish burger ala vegetarian style.


    Even the not-halal bak kut teh has a vegetarian version.

    You should visit Madras Lane if you are in Penang because there are a row of food stalls selling vegetarian. If you are interested in checking out the event, you can visit Hong Kong Street / Carnavon Street in Penang Island on Wednesday night and Tou Bu Kong at Raja Uda. Do respect the god by eating vegetarian before you come.

  • Last Night In The Dorm Room

    Last Night In The Dorm Room

    Last Night In The Dorm Room – Life at night is pretty fun in my dorm room where the lights are dimmed, soft music is turned on and later lying on the bed to enjoy a couple of drama show. I have tried to create a relax environment in my dorm room for me because I think life must be fun, and money saving too. It’s not all about party all night long, clubbing everyday which make up an enjoyable life, life can be fun in the room too.

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    Another thing is that being an interior design student, I would like to decorate my room to a cool, fun and nice room. I don’t want it to be a typical dorm room, so don’t be surprise to see many Ikea stuff in my room. I just love Ikea so much. Haha.

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    You know, moreover Internet speed gets faster at night when there’s less people using it at home. Haha. You can do more thing on the Internet. If I have a bigger room, I would like to have a Xbox 360 + Kinect, sounds so awesome! Too bad, I live in a small room.

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    What’s your entertainment in your room?

  • Wet Week and Funny Head

     

    Wet Week and Funny Head – Last week was a wet week, wet as in rainy week because it rains almost everyday in Klang Valley. I wonder what happened to the weather nowadays. Rain is fun because is chilly and make the temperature cold, I like. Also, it makes me feel sleepy too!

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    Beautiful model making.

     

    School is getting busier and busier, getting more and more stressful in Taylor’s University. Lots of drawing which I don’t really like, I like realistic 3D rendering; lots of hands on work to do like making model, thinking lots of concept which I like. =D

    I foresee sleepless night is coming to me due to assignment. Sometimes I wonder, aren’t college life suppose to be fun? Haha. Fun in a sense of not sleeping, but at the same time, doing bad to our body. =X Anyway, I’ll try to enjoy life to the fullest everyday, look for fun in between the stress and tiredness.

    Kevin To.

    Recently, I have been blogging a lot, I am back into this blogging hobby and I am liking it much, so how do you find my new blog design? =)

  • XERUD – Innovative Condom Dispenser And Fortune Teller

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    XERUD – Innovative Condom Dispenser And Fortune Teller – Asian is conservative, we are the type of people who doesn’t discuss about sex openly. “Sex” makes people feel private and embarrass. Agree?

    Check out the video about how Durex gives out free condom to the people of Taiwan at the same time to spread the knowledge about safe sex. They found out giving out free condom on the street is not really a good way of marketing safe sex, so they make a fortune teller machine that dispense condom at the same time, the there’s fortune telling and safe sex message imprint on the packaging. Really innovative.

    One thing, the name Xerud sounds so weird, not nice. HAHA.

  • General Printing Centre – The Hidden Print Shop In Taylor’s University

    General Printing Centre – The Hidden Print Shop In Taylor’s University – I am not promoting the print shop in Taylor’s but just to share with you all Taylorian who might not know there’s a hidden print shop hidden behind the lorong (alley) of the Administration Office. I’ve met Taylorian who doesn’t knows the exist of this shop. Haha.

    This place is somewhat cheaper and not cheaper than the school’s Follow-You-Print machine, you will know what I mean by cheaper and not cheaper.

    In Taylor’s University, students get RM30 printing allowance per year which is used for printing notes and other document through the Follow-You-Print photocopy-scan-printing machines that are located in the library and computer lab. Price for Follow-You-Print is:

    • RM0.10 for Black&White A4
    • RM1.50 for Color A4
    • RM0.20 for Black&White A3
    • RM3.00 for Color A3

    Printing at Taylor’s machine usually takes time when there’s many student using it and you need to climb the stairs to the computer lab or library. But when you are in a rush, you can go to General Printing Centre with the price of:

    • RM0.10 for Black&White A4
    • RM1.00 for Color A4
    • RM1.00 for Black&White A3
    • RM2.00 for Color A3

    Can you see the difference there? RM1.00 for Black&White A3 which is freaking expensive and freaked me out once when I went to print. I thought it was RM0.20 just like the school’s.

    Both places have their pros and cons. For normal print, color prints, I will go to General Printing Centre but for black & white prints, I will go to the school’s machine.

     

  • Make Site Model For Design Studio’s Site Analysis

    Make Site Model For Design Studio Site Analysis – Ignore the title, I guess you don’t know what is it all about. Design Studio is one of my subject and recently we made a site model for site analysis. =D

    Making model is fun but sometimes I feel lazy on making it but the feeling of completing it is really nice and satisfying as you can see what you have just built, however it’s just a waste of space after submitting it also. HAHA. Afterall, making model is not my favourite part of design process, I prefer rendering a realistic design of it through the power of computer software and hardware.

    Back to the site model, we bought materials, and we make according to our own methods as there’s no class on how to make one.

    My team, Wesley, Jia Hui, Steve and me are not architectural student but are just students of interior design trying our best to make the model. Some times, I wonder why an interior design student needs to make the site model, isn’t it’s architect’s work? Maybe it’s just parts of the syllabus.

    There’s actually material call the model board, architectural model paper, which are used especially for making architectural model. Spent a whole day in the studio and we did have something out of the materials.

    Cute right? Let’s see the final one.

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    Cool right? It’s just like art class instead of interior design. LOL.

  • Undilah – Nice PSA For Malaysian By Pete Teo

    Undilah - Nice PSA For Malaysian By Pete Teo

    Undilah – Nice PSA For Malaysian By Pete Teo – There’s many rumors of the Malaysia General Election is coming, but no one knows when, it’s really around the corner, soon, this year end, next year. Somehow, I am still under 21 so I am not eligible to vote, however I would like to share a PSA (Public Service Announcement) for you guys, Malaysian, that is, UNDILAH.

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    Undilah is a PSA made by local famous producer Pete Teo and this music video features vocals by Afdlin Shauki, Namewee & Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah and many Malaysians including @Aisehman, Baki Zainal, Bront Palarae, Chelsia Ng, Daphne Iking, Jehan Miskin, Johan F. Khairuddin, Karamjit Singh, Lai Ming, Lee Chong Wei, Nurul Izzah Anwar, Rosnah Abd Rashid Shirlin, Rina Omar, Reshmonu, Sharifah Amani, Sazzy Falak, Reza Salleh, Tengku Azmil Zahruddin, Tony Fernandes, Wardina Safiyyah, Wee Ka Siong, Yasmin Yusuf, Albert Law, A. Kohilan Pillay, Jason Lo, Mohan, Khalid Samad, Aizat Amdan, Tee Hui Ling, Usha Nandhini, Chia Ting Ting, Nur Farina, Sassi Tharan Rajoo, Nik Nazmi, Tony Pua & David Lai.

    So many local celebrities, businessman and politicians are in the video! So cool, so go register yourself and vote for your right, vote for our government. Undilah, jangan diam diam.

  • Always Rain In Klang Valley

    Always Rain In Klang Valley

    Always Rain In Klang Valley – It’d been raining almost everyday and the rain has just stopped now long here in Petaling Jaya. Is it the rain season right now? I wonder where the rainfall is coming from. It’s really raining non-stop and heavily here and there. There’s hurricane in the US past few weeks, there’s typhoon in Taiwan, there’s hurricane in Japan, what’s happening to the earth? 2012 is coming? Haha.

    Rainy day is very nice to stay indoor, relax, chill and sleep at home, but it’s not nice to be out, it’s so troublesome that I have to carry an umbrella all around, pants and feet get wet, and of course the most hate of all, traffic jam.

    How about you? Do you like rainy day?

     

  • Hello New York

    Hello New York

    Hello New York

    Hello New York – I am now in New York right now, weather not bad. I see many yellow cab, I see Apple Store on 5th Avenue, Statue of Liberty is very pretty, Times Square is really very happenings, but food here are so expensive.

    =D I want to go NEW YORK CITY!

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