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Month: August 2012

  • Fun Time At Taylor’s University Photo Studio

    Fun Time At Taylor’s University Photo Studio

    Fun Time At Taylor's University Photo Studio

    Fun Time At Taylor’s University Photo Studio – I’ve taken an elective course in school for this semester – Digital Imaging. It’s more about learning some editing via Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. There’s a few elective that we can choose, other than Digital Imaging, there’s Creative Thinking and Visual Culture. Most useful of all, of course is Digital Imaging.

    Recent class, I get a chance to use the school’s photo studio, seems very well-equipped with various backdrop and studio lighting, tripod too. Despite having a good studio, my photography skill is not that good. Nevertheless it was a fun time pressing the shutter button in the studio. I have some problem focusing and getting the best lighting setting sometimes. My camera was on Shutter priority mode all the time, is it correct?

    Anyway, the photos taken are actually for us to learn how to mask on Photoshop. Quite fun. Took a lot of photos, and check out some shots below.

    Fun Time At Taylor's University Photo Studio

    Fun Time At Taylor's University Photo Studio

    Fun Time At Taylor's University Photo Studio

    Fun Time At Taylor's University Photo Studio

    Me…

    Fun Time At Taylor's University Photo Studio

    Wesley Low, Seremban boy.

    Fun Time At Taylor's University Photo Studio

    Dancer Arvin Tang, Medan boy who likes Malaysia so much.

    Fun Time At Taylor's University Photo Studio

    Steve of Pahang!

    Fun Time At Taylor's University Photo Studio

    Jia Hui, the Ipoh girl.

    Fun Time At Taylor's University Photo Studio

    Gino and Moh.

    Fun Time At Taylor's University Photo Studio

    Azhar as subject.

    Fun Time At Taylor's University Photo Studio

    A group photo.

  • My New Starbucks Bottle

    My New Starbucks Bottle

    My New Starbucks Bottle – Recently, I have started to drink tea, Green Tea is my favourite at the moment and I find it very healthy and taste good. To allow me to bring some tea around, I bought a Starbucks bottle as I know it can withstand high temperature. My tea is just tea bag, so it’s OK to put into it. Picked the tall size and it costs me RM38 for it.

    The design not bad right? Love my Starbucks bottle now and I just get to know that when you buy beverage from Starbucks with the bottle, you will get RM2 off, pretty cool.

  • Pan Mee At Hou Mei Yuen, Bukit Jambul

    Pan Mee At Hou Mei Yuen, Bukit Jambul

    Pan Mee At Hou Mei Yuen, Bukit Jambul

    Pan Mee At Hou Mei Yuen, Bukit Jambul – Pan Mee, although is not one of Penang’s famous food, but then it’s still loved by the Penangite. You can find Pan Mee at every state of Malaysia, every where have their own style. Recently, I went to one at Bukit Jambul to eat Pan Mee, it’s located at one of the shoplot below the low cost flat.

    Pan Mee At Hou Mei Yuen, Bukit Jambul

    I’ve been hearing about this Pan Mee for some times already and now finally I’ve a chance to try it out. I believe people around this area will know about this Pan Mee place.

    Pan Mee At Hou Mei Yuen, Bukit Jambul

    There are two choices of Pan Mee for you to choose, it’s either the thick flat pan mee or the small one, then you can choose either it’s dry-based or soup-based. I wanted to order the thick pan mee but it’s finished already. The dry one was good filled with soy sauce, minced meat, ikan bilis and a separate bowl of soup with fish ball and vegetable. I like the dry one.

    Pan Mee At Hou Mei Yuen, Bukit Jambul

    The soup one is basically the same thing, just with the soup and without the soy sauce. The taste is light and clear, add in some chili to make it taste better in my opinion. After all, I still prefer the dry one.

    Pan Mee At Hou Mei Yuen, Bukit Jambul

    Additionally, I ordered a bowl of fish ball soup. Yums!

    Pan Mee At Hou Mei Yuen, Bukit Jambul

    Besides that, they have a few dim sum for you to pick. There’s a guy holding a tray of dim sums going around for you to pick. I took a plate of siu mai as appetizer.

    Hou Mei Yuen 好味园

    Taman Bukit Jambul Flat,
    11900 Bayan Lepas,
    Penang.

    GPS: 5.335671, 100.288889

    Business Hours: 8am – 3pm, Closes on Sunday.

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  • Night Shots From 1st Avenue Mall, Penang

    Night Shots From 1st Avenue Mall, Penang

    Night Shots From 1st Avenue Mall, Penang

    Night Shots From 1st Avenue Mall, Penang – I was waiting my girlfriend who was buying Tang Yuan on Magazine Road, then I see it’s quite interesting to turn on long shutter and capture some night trail. Although I have did it before, I just couldn’t resist myself from pressing the shutter.

    Night Shots From 1st Avenue Mall, Penang

    Later then, I asked her to wait for me in the car and I went to the carpark of 1st Avenue Mall to take some shots from above. =D Put my camera on the flat handrail, set on a slow shutter mode and capture.

    Night Shots From 1st Avenue Mall, Penang

    It would be even better if I’ve got a tripod with me that time, but it was fun.

  • Heng Heng Tomyam Mee, Bukit Mertajam

    Heng Heng Tomyam Mee, Bukit Mertajam

    Heng Heng Tomyam Mee, Bukit Mertajam

    Heng Heng Tomyam Mee, Bukit Mertajam – Seberang Perai really has a lot of good food. Raja Uda, Butterworth has good tomyam mee, but at Bukit Mertajam, there too, has a good tomyam mee stall named Heng Heng.

    Heng Heng Tomyam Mee, Bukit Mertajam

    Heng Heng does not only sells tomyam noodle, but they do sell pork noodle, as well as seafood porridge. But the famous one is the pork noodle and tomyam noodle.

    Heng Heng Tomyam Mee, Bukit Mertajam

    There’s quite a number of ingredient for you to pick for your serving. The tomyam is very thick, sour and spicy a bit but it’s good. Try it with some minced meat, mantis prawn and perhaps some abalone slices, it will be nice as it’s me and my girlfriend’s favourite. One thing that it’s not so ‘awesome’ is the price. The bowl that I ate was RM10. Pretty expensive right? Anyway, it’s a good one. Do check it out.

    Heng Heng Tomyam Mee

    Lebuh Nangka 1,
    Taman Desa Damai,
    14000 Bukit Mertajam, Penang.

    GPS: E100 26.634, N5 21.872

  • (Cloudy) Sunset: George Town City Centre

    (Cloudy) Sunset: George Town City Centre

    (Cloudy) Sunset: George Town City Centre

    Sunset: George Town City Centre – My latest sunset watching place is in the heart of George Town. Well, I’d call it the city centre of George Town. But the exact place is the carpark of 1st Avenue Shopping Mall. Haha. You can get a good view of sunset across the magnificent Penang Hill.

    I went to try my luck for sunset watching few days ago but sadly, not so good, it’s kinda cloudy. Nevertheless, it was nice that I’ve found a new place for sunset watching. Awkward location, but pretty cool.

    (Cloudy) Sunset: George Town City Centre

    (Cloudy) Sunset: George Town City Centre

    (Cloudy) Sunset: George Town City Centre

  • Penang Port At Night

    Penang Port At Night

    Penang Port At Night

    Penang Port At Night – Penang Port is located at Butterworth. Read that it’s sold to Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary, the person who owns Johor Port. Kinda sad because to me, I feel the Penang Port should be own by the Penang people or the Penang State Government. I strongly disagree with the privatisation.

    Penang Port At Night

    Anyway, forget about sad stuff, I was bored last night, took my camera out and took photos of the Penang port from my balcony via the 55-250mm telephoto lens. The result is, pretty cool, try zoom it, you might see the name on the cargo ship. =D

    Penang Port At Night

    Some other part of Butterworth.

  • Biggest Tai Su Yeah (King Of Hades), Bukit Mertajam

    Biggest Tai Su Yeah (King Of Hades), Bukit Mertajam

    Biggest Tai Su Yeah (King Of Hades), Bukit Mertajam – It’s hungry ghost month (Phor Thor), or just simply the 7th month in the lunar calendar. It’s one culture festival for the Chinese. It used to be a very eerie month but with the busy city nightlife and the loud ‘kotai’ playing at almost every neighbourhood, the eerie feeling gets away.

    Biggest Tai Su Yeah (King Of Hades), Bukit Mertajam

    Taboos are strictly observed in this month to respect the dead spirit (we call them ‘buddies’). Parents always warn children not to play at night or go out till late night in this month. Yeah, I still don’t really dare to get pass midnight where the city gets quieter a bit. Haha.

    Biggest Tai Su Yeah (King Of Hades), Bukit Mertajam

    During hungry ghost month, many people worship the King Of Hades – Tai Su Yeah. Peter Tan has a good write up of Tai Su Yeah. I went to Jalan Pasar at Bukit Mertajam (玄天庙) to visit the biggest Tai Su Yeah in Malaysia and also do a little prayer.

    Biggest Tai Su Yeah (King Of Hades), Bukit Mertajam

    Biggest Tai Su Yeah (King Of Hades), Bukit Mertajam

    Biggest Tai Su Yeah (King Of Hades), Bukit Mertajam

    It was very crowded. Worshipper of all ages offering the Tai Su Yeah/King Of Hades with joss stick, ‘gold’ paper, and fruits. I prayed and I went away. There’s a few thing you cannot do at there, considered taboo, like you need to be careful of what you talk, no vulgar stuff, have to be kind, and do not place anything on their offering table even for just a while, it will be considered as coffering to the ‘buddies’ and the Tai Su Yeah.

    Well, Happy Hungry Ghost Month!

  • Good To See You Guys (5SA1 – Class Of 2009)

    Good To See You Guys (5SA1 – Class Of 2009)

    Wei Lee, Shi Jie, Tee Jin, Juan Shong, Jing Min, Hock Sheng, Jin Jie, Jin Sheng, Ee Teng, ME.

    Good To See You Guys (5SA1 – Class Of 2009) – What a night… Spent the rainy night chit chatting with bunch of old friends of Chung Ling High School that have not met for a long time at the hawker stall and Starbucks Coffee, Straits Quay. It’s a good night to gather around and talk crap, mostly listening to Juan Shong talking his awesome life in United Kingdom. Although not everyone turned up, but it’s good to meet up.

    Each of them have their own path of life, most of who I’ve met are and is going to the U.K., a few in Penang, a few going to Kuala Lumpur, a few to Johor, and me? Still gonna be in Kuala Lumpur for a year, but no idea where to after that. =) Still early to plan I guess?

  • Better Stay At Home On Public Holiday In Penang

    Better Stay At Home On Public Holiday In Penang

    Better Stay At Home On Public Holiday In Penang – Penang’s traffic was so bad today (Monday)! It’s Hari Raya Day 2, and it’s traffic jam everywhere, especially tourist-centric area like Kek Lok Si, Gurney Drive and more. Argh. It’s good to see people visiting Penang, but the traffic condition have to be improved.

    Wanted to eat Asam Laksa today at Kek Lok Si but it took me like half an hour to reach there. Upon reaching, there’s a long queue of people waiting for laksa, I assume, tourist. No place parking and long queue, might as well go somewhere else.

    Well, I think, it’s better to stay at home during public holiday, what do you think? What did you do today?

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