Kampar UTAR Library – Been bored, went to Kampar for a days, drove in the campus and found the library building still has lights on. A shot and I captured the beauty of modern minimalist architecture of the library. Interesting campus architecture in Malaysia.
Photo is taken with Canon EOS 60D + Sigma 8-16mm.
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| The small and peaceful village of Klian Intan. |
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| Sunset @ Pengkalan Hulu, Perak. |
CNY 2013: 年初二 Reunion Dinner @ Pengkalan Hulu – Morning was PSY Gangnam Style, evening was to somewhere ulu to Pengkalan Hulu @ Perak for another reunion dinner and bai nian to relatives. After a heaty morning, it’s time to getaway from the city to the countryside for some relaxing time with family.
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| The host! |
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| Table full of home-cooked dishes. |
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| Mangkuang-char. |
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| Vietnamese Spring Roll. |
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| Ginger duck. |
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| Vegetable Vietnamese roll. |
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| Mushroom! |
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| Siu yok roasted pork. |
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| Chicken. |
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| Ginger vinegar pork. |
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| Kou yok. |
Ipoh: 糖水街 Tong Sui Kai (Desserts Street) – Ipoh oh Ipoh, I spent the day eating at Burps & Giggles, and also some times in Ipoh Parade shopping centre, it’s also the day I went to watch Sinister, oh so scary, shocking and exciting. =D Night, I went to this Tong Sui Kai, which literally means desserts street near old town, somewhere just in front Sam Tet Primary School (SRJK Sam Tet).
So this street has a lot of desserts right? Not really, there’s few stalls only, selling the same Chinese desserts like lin chi kang, ABC and mix-fruit ice and stuff like that. Besides there’s local food stalls like wan tan mee, beef noodle and more! Sounds interesting right?
Once interesting thing in Ipoh is that they are proud about their food, unlike in Kuala Lumpur, hawker stalls tend to write food place name at the their stall like Penang Asam Laksa, Ipoh Hor Fun and blablabla. At there, it’s just Asam Laksa, Wan Tan Mee.
Well, I ordered a plate of wan tan mee (RM3.50) and a bowl of qing bu liang 清补凉 (RM2.50). Cheap and yummeh! Well, consider this as a place for dinner in Ipoh. =)
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| Lobby, I assumed, A common area too. |
Ipoh // Sekeping Kong Heng – NG SEKSAN, one famous landscape and building architect in Malaysia whose concept is based on raw materials. Sekeping Kong Heng is one of his masterpiece located in Ipoh, Old Town, on top of of a old school kopitiam called Kong Heng.
My classmate actually went there before on a class trip but I missed the chance last time. On my visit to Burps & Giggles, I accidentally came across it that this is connected with the cafe. They are just back to back.
Well, talk a little bit about Sekeping, it’s a modern type of hotel, or you might call it homestay, it’s totally different from the typical hotel with a luxurious lobby, nice hotel room with warm light and shiny marble floor bathroom. The Sekeping is a hotel series located throughout Malaysia and which most of them have their different identity or style, but most of them with design based on bare raw material. There’s one Sekeping Victoria in Penang too.
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| Well, side alley of the building. |
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| Kopitiam Kong Heng in front. It’s totally different thing from the back of the building, |
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| Corridor to the room. |
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| Green wall shading the area and the room. |
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| I was able to open up the louver window and snap a shot of interior of the room. Weird, cold, cool, open, raw feeling. |
Located on the first and second floor of the Kong Heng Kopitiam shophouse building is the Sekeping Kong Heng hotel, there’s like 10 rooms on first floor and and there’s a mini lobby at the ground floor. The second floor is more likely the roof area is a leisure/gathering spot. The whole building is open for visit except the hotel room.
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| The sexy stairs. |
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| Attic area where there’s two more bed up here. |
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| Gathering, hangout spot at the roof. |
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| A view of adjacent building. Truly old town of Ipoh. |
It’s more likely something new that you haven’t experience before. Living so close to the local, you can hear the laughter of uncles drinking kopi-peng in the morning, chattering in local Cantonese dialect, a connection with the raw material and the original building, it definitely will bring up a lot of feeling and inspiration in you. Well, Sekeping Kong Heng is sexy, I would say. Yums.