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  • Straits Quay, Penang #2

    My hands have been feeling itchy lately as they keep wanting to press the camera shutter button of my new camera. =D To ease my itchiness, I went to Straits Quay in the afternoon to press a feel shutters on my camera. I haven’t really been there during the afternoon and when the sun is hanging high above my head.

    It was a quiet Monday afternoon and Straits Quay was, quiet. Feeling bad for the restaurant and cafe owner as there’s so little people visiting their shops at that time. If it’s at Singapore or Hong Kong, there will be people almost at anytime. Guess Penangites are too lazy to come out to spend time at the cafe or perhaps selfish to buy themselves expensive beverage.

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    I went there with my girlfriend, Hueisean. It was windy and the warm sea breeze blows on my face which it’s not really a good time to spend outdoor.

    Took some shots of her of course as she had become my spontaneous model. It’s not all about building, landscape and random people anymore. After changing a new camera, my feel in photography is getting stronger again, it’s like boost up which makes me want to takes more photos! =D

    Straits Quay is a good hang out place and the concept is great, somehow it’s not really accessible to public as there’s no public transport going there. And the pubs only opens till 1am because there’s residence on top of it, so no live band and late closing, which is not that good.

    Anyway, it’s a good place for some better dining experience and a new spot to hang out in Penang.

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  • People’s Court At Sunset

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    People’s Court is one of the oldest flat in Penang, located somewhere near Cintra Street and Campbell Street. It was a place where all people lived happily and a majority of Chinese living there. Until today, the flats are still there with shop lots surrounding the place and now mostly elderly or old Penangite lives at there.

    My family always loves to dine at the Chinese restaraunt, Boey Chong Kee which situated right below the People’s Court flat. =)

  • Rainig On Beach Street, George Town

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    is just a random post about the rain during noon just now. It’s kinda nice to see the rain as the temperature have been warm and humid lately. The refreshing rain cool up the heat on the warm earth and brings a cooling effect to us.

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    It’s just like you having a bath after a long workout. Somehow, raining is always not a good thing as it makes people troublesome, wearing a rain coat, carrying an umbrella.

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    The motorcycle vendor has a big umbrella ever ready for his business. Thumbs up.

    Luckily, it was a short rain and it wasn’t that big! Hello! =) How are you guys doing?

  • A Short Walk In Heritage Site, Muntri Street

    Penang gained the UNESCO Heritage status few years back and the local tourism business is blooming. There’s many restoration work going around in the city and there’s still stubborn owner or heritage building doesn’t want to restore and beautify their property. OMG.

    Recently, I passed by Muntri Street and saw some cool cafes and some stylish hostel for tourist and backpackers. Curiousity made me stopped and went to check out the place for a while.

    I didn’t really know that there’s so many restoration and heritage stuff on Muntri Street last time. When talked about Muntri Street, I thought about the Teo Chew Porridge shop and the Chinese Thean Hou Temple, that’s all.

    But now, my perception towards the street change, it is a very old street, a very heritage streets fill with arts, culture and history, so do hostel, cafes and mini accommodation.

    Being a Penangite, I want to appreciate the Penang’s heritage site more and being an interior design student, I have strong feel on heritage architecture, they are really very pretty.

    Penang can be one of the top heritage city in the world like in Europe, fill with nice old building architecture, yet the people in Penang have to take up the responsibilities to preserve and restore the old building.

    Having an organized and clean city is awesome. Investment comes into the state, better facilities and better lifestyle too! I just love my own hometown so much. It’s so pretty and proud to be a Penangite.

    I have trust in the current state government led by Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng. Looking forward to see Penang in the future where it will transform into the best city in Malaysia. =D

  • Midnight See People Play Ice Hockey At Sunway Pyramid

    Midnight See People Play Ice Hockey At Sunway Pyramid

    On one fine midnight, after attending the Hennessy Artistry event at night, I saw people playing ice hockey at the ice skating ring in Sunway Pyramid. It’s pretty late at about 2am already, where all shops are already closed and extremely silent thoughout the mall, but the ring was noisy. Cheering and shouting from the team could be heard.

    Midnight is a good time to play ice hockey because they can book the whole ring. It’s pretty cool seeing people play in during the night as there’s no ice skating ring in my hometown, there’s actually one 12 years back (at Bukit Jambul Complex) but failed due to low reception.

    I salute them can run so fast on the ice because I can’t even skate. The pro part of all is that they never fell down. I couldn’t imagine myself playing this. Haha. If it’s a dry ground, without ice is OK, perhaps floorball or hockey. =D

    We didn’t know them and we just see. And our “see” already took us like half an hour. Hahaha. We really got nothing to do in the middle of the night. Cool eh, them. RANDOM.

  • Raining Cats And Dogs

    Raining Cats And Dogs

    3 days ago was very hot, it’s hot during the day and night. Luckily I have air-conditioned in the room. Some sort of hot and warm wind blowing around this area, Penang and Kuala Lumpur.

    2 days ago, finally, it rained. Rain brought water onto the earth, cooling all around, quenching thirst of the flowers and grass, greening the environment again.

    Yesterday was thundering, though it only happened in Penang, not Kuala Lumpur. I am waiting for the rain to come, then I can make myself a reason not to go anywhere, and sleep whole day long, enjoying the sound of the rain drops, tik tak tik tak.

    I think something is wrong with Mother Earth, tornado at USA, negative coldness at Melbourne, flood at Mississippi. What’s wrong? Doomsday? Yay, not.

  • SS2 Mall, A New Mall In Petaling Jaya

    SS2 Mall, A New Mall In Petaling Jaya

    SS2 Mall or SS Two Mall is a new hang out places located in the housing area of SS2 in Petaling Jaya. I accidentally found this place while on the way out from Tropicana City Mall. Because of curiousity, I stopped by and went to check it out with dearest, Hueisean. It seems empty on the first impression maybe because it’s new, but is’s pretty cool.

    It’s not really a shopping mall, it’s something like Straits Quay in Penang, or Sunway Giza in Kota Damansara to be simple. A place targeted to the community around there and housing lots of F&B outlets.

    There’s already quite some restaurants opened at there already. I didn’t try any there, guess I’ll go there when it’s more happening and more things to see.

    There’s a open space down below the mall. Pretty nice, if there’s live band and cafe, and lots fo people, then this will be a nice place.

    Hopefully the place get built up soon so I will have a new hang out place in PJ. Yeah.

     

  • Happy 2011 New Year

    Happy 2011 New Year

    How can a new year without a greeting be? Haha. I, Nick Chan a.k.a. Nicholas Chan want to wish you all out there have a real happy new year! Thank you for all of your support all these years. I will try to bring better and more interesting content to you.

    One thing, to those out there who are happy please keep on to be happy and to those who are not happy, I hope you can find happiness soon! Everyone must be happy. =)

  • Sushi Making and Donations

    Sushi Making and Donations

    I’m writing something very random. Two weekends ago, I went to kids sushi making class at Sushi King early in the morning. Not saying I learned nothing, I learned that vinegar must mix with sugar and salt before mixing into the Japanese rice. Haha. You can check out full writeup at my food blog.

    Then I found a very cool 20 dollars in Wallace wallet. I don’t know why a 20 dollars bill look so amazingly beautiful to me. It’s not the value, if you compare it with Euro or a British Pounds, I still like an american dollar bill. It rocks!

    HAHAHA, saw Caster and I was faking it. Flag day was really powerful, they even come rang my bell when I was at home.

  • Glee, My Latest Favourite Show

    I heard about Glee last time but I didn’t bother to check it out until my friend, Cheong Kin asked me to watch it. Since there’s not many TV series is on right now, I went to check out Glee on PPS.tv and guess what, it’s freaking awesome! Spent 3 days catching up all the episodes and I am now finished with season 1. Can’t wait for season 2, love the music a lot and makes me wanna sing more!

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    Who like Glee? =D

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