Sunday, March 31, 2013

penang trip

penang. why are you so peaceful.

i love it. i will go back one day. to this day, i still could not believe me and my friend MJ walked the whole trip. WALKED. just 2 feet walking on whatever pavement/tarmac/dirt we can find.

and the self exploring just the trip much more worthwhile.

Amelie Cafe, just before Khoo Kongsi

Blue Mansion



blue mansion tour (its really worth the tour, but there is only a few tours a day. but if you are interested, you could stay in the mansion too)

chew jetty - one of the many Hokkien Jetties around

penang coffee shop



artwork by artist Ernest Zacharevic, lovely. be sure to ask your hotel's reception desk for a copy of the map of all his artwork. you can't find those maps at the airports. another thing about (free) maps in penang, is they are NOT to be trusted. i suggest you go to their local bookstore (i got mine at POPULAR) to get a proper map, with small lanes and roads. IT HELPS. 



these welded iron artworks are not by Ernest Zacharevic but you could easily find them near Ernest's works. as usual, you can't find them on the free maps. you need to go to your hotel or to a travel agency over there to get it. my friend and i took to these maps to "treasure hunt" these artworks and its very exciting!

khoo kongsi - a tired rickshaw driver taking a needed rest


eastern & oriental hotel - we didn't stay here, we stayed opposite it (Bayview Hotel Georgetown). we did make a promise that if we ever had the budget, we would come back to stay here


lovelane hotel is really a hotel. quite pricy but its worth to stay




peranakan museum - go for their tours

snake temples - lack of snakes though - i remember when i was a kid, i came to snake temple and the ground were filled with snakes.. literally a temple of snakes. but now they just kept them in dirty boxes, and cashing on a few bucks for photo-taking. its quite a sad environment for the snakes

sun yat sun building



Saturday, March 30, 2013

its already what.. 2013?

just one movie and it got me blogging. julie and julia.

i just wish i could be like julie, its just so easy for her to type so freely to her readers. i wish i have that kind of skills and ability. anyway, first things first:

how are you, my beloved blog? 

i think its because i have relied on a "visual blog" to blog about my life, nowadays. instagram. addictive and so "important". you can't live without it, you just turned cold turkey. for real. endless scrolling, following, unfollowing, tapping hearts, blocking spammers, scrolling again, tapping again.. as much as i loath this routine, i can't live without it.

and its just so intriguing/entertaining/nosy/curious to see what people from the other side of the globe are "visual blogging" too. i've just became a nosy, irritating gossipy neighbour, meddling in people's lives, through the square windows of instagram.

is this healthy? to be completely, utterly addicted to instagram? i could never see myself pass through a busy day at work, without involuntarily signing into instagram and involuntarily tapping hearts onto photos of people i wish were my real friends. in this life.

sigh.


good night ~