Simon & Jun life journey

Jun’s Birthday

So fast it’s been another year and its my lovely wife birthdays, this year i bought 2 present for my wife. The first present is Roxy handbag that i need to fight for it, I saw the handbag a week ago as i finding for a present at that time not sure what to buy then only choose that Roxy bag. So i went to Mid-Valley Roxy and the conversation begin

me : excuse me, can i have a look at that handbag?
promoter : yes, here you are
me : (i check through the bag) then i said ok i’m taking this one, do you have new one?
promoter : wait, i need to check…(the promoter went to the counter and ask)
promoter : sorry sir, this is the last one.
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Happy Wesak Day for all the buddishts followers

Today is Wesak day where all the buddishts and followers alike are expected and requested to assemble in their various temples before dawn for the ceremonial, and honorable, hoisting of the Buddhist flag and the singing of hymns in praise of the holy triple gem: The Buddha, The Dharma (his teachings), and The Sangha (his disciples).

Me and my family will only take vegetarian foods for the day in this wesak day.

Second night in Penang

Come to second night in penang, we try out this place in Tanjung Bungah and its quite easy to find if you coming from Batu Ferringhi you will saw the Swimming Pool on your left hand side. Futher up a bit you can see a low cost flat on your right and there is a traffic light there, turn left on that traffic light as you can see a red signboard “Tai Pak Kong Temple” (note that the wording is in mandarin). Go straight in till you see the temple as the restaurant is next to the temple facing the sea.

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Toy Musuem - Penang

We went to this Toy Musuem as is was located infront of the hotel we stay. I thought inside will have a lot of big toy scalpture but it really have a lot of toy in small size.

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Night at penang

On the first night in penang, we went to Gurney drive where you can find quite a number of food stalls and its quite popular. Its a bit different compare with the last time we visit as the food there not really as tasty as last time so we just have 1 bowl of asam laksa and prawn mee.

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Penang trip…continues

The first stop when reach Penang by ferry service is the Fort Cornwallis and the Light house as is it near to the ferry port. Driving distance within 5 minutes where you can saw the cannon and light house. Surprisingly from the man who incharge of the light house said it only open to public recently and not much people aware this light house even the localities dunno about it.

It not really high but both of us not keen to go upstair, but if you got chances should walk up and have a beautiful view to the sea. Fort Cornwallis is an old star-shaped fort and was built by Captain Sir Francis Light in 1786.

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Penang trip

We depart from KL around 6:30 and we are using the Guthrie Highway, out from Guthrie toll toward Ipoh around 7:00 am. Traffic on that day is very smooth and reaching Ipoh at 9:00 am for our Dim Sum breakfast at Foh San restaurant, although is weekdays the crowd is still there and is almost full house but no need to wait for queue.

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Penang…here we come

I’m going to Penang next Thursday (17-04-08) with my wife for holidays and food finding. Anyone have any nice food to recommend, please feel free to drop some and i will try it out.

This will be our second time stepping into Penang as first visit was on year 2003.I miss some of the food there especially Asam laksa, fried Oyster (ho chian) and etc. How does the Penang name come from? this is what i found in wikipedia

 The island was referred to as 檳榔嶼 (Bīnláng Yù) in the navigational drawings used by Admiral Zheng He of Ming-dynasty China in his expeditions to the South Seas in the 15th century. Early Malays called it Pulau Ka-Satu or “First Island”.

The name “Penang” comes from the modern Malay name Pulau Pinang, which means island of the betel nut tree (Areca catechu), family Palmae. In Chinese, Penang is known as 檳城 (pinyin: Bīnchéng / Bīngchéng; Hokkien: Peng Sheah). All three names can refer either to the island of Penang, the state of Penang or sometimes the state capital, George Town.

More specifically, George Town is known as Tanjung in Malay and 喬治市 (Qiáozhì Shì) in Chinese. Penang Island is simply Pulau Pinang (/’pulaʊ ‘pinaŋ/) in Malay and 檳榔嶼 (Bīnláng Xù) in Chinese, and Penang state is Negeri Pulau Pinang in Malay and 檳州 (Bīn Zhōu) in Chinese.

I will post all the photos and all the food we taste when we back…stay tuned.

Source : Wikipedia

Gong Xi Fa Cai

Wish all Chinese reader a Happy Chinese New Year 2008 with a fortune mouse year and others a happy holidays.

For those who driving back to home town, drive carefully and have a great time together with families member. For e those who celebrate in K, enjoy the time where you don’t have to stuck in jams .

Mythology

According to legend, in ancient China, the Nián (年) was a man-eating beast from the mountains (in other versions from under the sea), which came out every 12 months somewhere close to winter to prey on humans. The people later believed that the Nian was sensitive to loud noises and the colour red, so they scared it away with explosions, fireworks and the liberal use of the colour red. These customs led to the first New Year celebrations. Guò nián (simplified Chinese: 过年; traditional Chinese: 過年), which means to celebrate the new year, literally means the passover of the Nian.

Source : Wikipedia

Melaka - A`Famosa Resort

Been busy lately and have stop updates on my blog, now I’m back. I post my last trip to melaka, that is about 2 week back during the Depavalli holidays. Me and my wife went to Melaka A`Famosa Resort for 2 days 1 night package that include 2 entry to Safari World and Cowboy Town for RM 280. Not bad for that price we pay for but… be frank, not much thing to see nor play. The Safari World is quite interesting where you have 4 show to catch that is Multi Animal show, Elephant show, Bird show and Wild Wild West show. Among all 4 i likes the Bird show where you can see a lot of different birds flying across your head, that is awesome and it remind me the time we went to Australia.

Other then that, most of the time you see those animal just lying there sleeping as the weather is too hot for all the animal to move around. What do you called a Cowboy Town without a cowboy? strange right and I really can’t see any cowboy, worst part is they put all the fun fair games inside a cowboy town. Don’t ever try the food in the Cowboy Town as the food like left over food and sky high price.

Only 2 thing is worth to see in the Cowboy town the is Carnival Parade and Red Indian show, that takes about 2 hrs and end the show with fireworks. The following is the Red Indian Show

Source : A`Famosa