Some of the food I have back in Penang around May, yummy ~~

ps: for the list of food to eat in pg see my other entry 09' Food to eat in Penang

Below are some pictures of the real Penang food (not some dodgy Penang Char Koay Teow in Malaya Corner or Little Singapore...)

I spent 2 nights in Taipei on my trip back to Malaysia. The trip over is quite short and so I haven't been to much of the places.

I stayed in XiMenDing (西门町). My short trip consist of visit to the Shilin Night Market (士林夜市), Taipei 101 Tower, the surrondings of Taipei 101 (东区） and 光華商場.

Loved the food over and it's a place worth to go again. Below are some of the photos:

Went to Byron Bay with friends to catch the sunrise and some beach activity during Easter long holiday. The view in the lookout point is very nice, too bad we didn't spot any whales or dophins.

The city centre of Byron Bay is not too small, but we're having trouble to find a McDonald/KFC/Hungry Jacks... We have 3 GPS, all TomTom (different series) and saying nearest McDonald is 26km

Overnight in Gold Coast later that night, a lot of driving and but it's fun. Below are the photos taken from my mobile:



Additional info for the pictures above:

Subject	Byron Bay Trip - sunrise view
Location	Byron Bay (NSW)
Date	2009.04.11
Equipment	Nokia 5800
Picture Size	Scaled from 2048 x 1536

(below is the restored entry lost after the server crashed last year...)

Drove down to Toowoomba yesterday with a bunch of friends to join the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers 2007. Not seeing that much of flowers in Queens Park and the parade, that was really quite disappointing but maybe we didn't go to the right place. We decided to head off for food in the middle of parada because it's quite boring. After that we visited Japanese Garden and Picnic Point.

Anyway, below are some of the shots I took with my phone:



Additional info for the pictures above:

Subject	Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers 2007
Location	Toowoomba (QLD)
Date	2007.09.22
Equipment	Sony Ericsson K800
Picture Size	Scaled from 2048 x 1536
Extra note	It was a cloudy day so don't expect much from a camera phone

ps: I think the Roma Street Parkland in Brisbane City got more flowers to see... just my opinion...

The photos of Penang's hawker food that I promised earlier is now added to my photo gallery (61 pics). By just looking at the picture makes me drool... "Tauke, one more please !"

Related blog entry: What Penang lang eat ?


-Out of topic -
I've now re-opened my photo gallery (it has been closed down since 2005.11.29). Originally, the photo gallery is powered by MG2 and heavily tweaked to suit my site. Later I found out that MG2 has some serious security issues and the worst part is the author is no longer active in the project. So that makes the old photo gallery goes bye-bye.

Now the new photo gallery is powered by Gallery. I'm pretty impressed by the features it provides. Just that it's quite confusing for the first timer when it comes to their rich and complex features with poor explaination /hint /help /documentation /faq. Honestly their wiki-based online help/documentation isn't really helpful when I need more information on tweaking and customizing. But I can't ask for more since it's FREE... doh !

麦兜的玉照在千呼万唤下，终于暴光了~~
看着麦兜无辜、放空、苦苦的样子是不是把你给逗乐了呢？呵呵~~

麦兜flash相册

主角：	麦兜
内容：	在家里的日常照片
文件来源：	麦兜专辑 http://www.56.com/p59/v_MTY2MjU5NzY.html
注：	用 Internet Explorer 观看效果会好些

在此希望今天 23天 岁的麦兜能够健康长大，别这么苦哦 ！

It's Christmas time (again)! Below are some pictures shot lately with my Sony Ericsson K800. My phone is now equipped with a 1GB M2 memory card !

Christmas trees. Oh well, I still think these trees need more blink blink decoration... it's not enough !



Below is one of houses in my vicinity which is fully geared up for Christmas. Very nice lighting !


Two special star shape scones baked by Karen and Winny. Oh well, I'm just messing around more than helping :p


Additional info for the pictures above:

Subject	Christmas
Location	Everywhere
Date	Before 2006 Christmas
Equipment	Sony Ericsson K800
Picture Size	Scaled from 2048 x 1536 / 1536 x 2048
Extra note	Scaling and watermark effect done via FastStone Photo Resizer. Photo saved in 85% quality. Watermark image is created with Gimp.

Also, I've recorded the christmas fireworks last night in Southbank with my K800, you can click here (~9.3Mb) to download or watch it.

有一阵子没有更新我的blog了，好颓废啊……让我把我最近生活里所发生的事情概括一下吧：

不知道怎么搞的，最近我的手提电脑霉运连连，上个星期它被我连跟bed tray一脚从床上给踹了下去，差点落个魂飞魄散、万劫不复的下场……之后我的PCMCIA USB 2.0 CARD也坏了……靠！才用了两年就坏了！还以为Made in Taiwan的总比Made in China强些……郁闷~~ 这下可惨了，我的那些外接硬盘只能走USB 1.1，只能用乌龟的速度来听歌，其余活动如BT下载就免谈了。嗯……宝贝乖哦，要撑到明年 WinVista 出来之噢，那时我就可以买一台桌上型的电脑……然后……嗯……就上E-Bay给你找新主人吧

比较有趣的是我跟朋友、同事5人租了辆车直接开车下悉尼去看 Jolin蔡依林公主 的 《唯舞独尊》 演唱会! 没错！Jolin 在14号晚在悉尼的Entertainment Center开了场演唱会！开了近14个小时的路程，也见证了月亮和太阳交替，我可是第一次在澳洲看到这么多华人聚集在一块。当晚座位都坐满，虽然我觉得有几段Jolin跳的不是很好，不过看公主这么专心及卖力表演，我还是佩服她的。毕竟从头到尾，每一首歌都有跳舞表演，那可不是轻松的事啊！那天的嘉宾是言承旭，出来唱了两首歌就消失不见了，感觉有点莫名其妙的说…有点遗憾的就是公主那晚并没有唱 Love Love Love 这首歌，那是我们都想听的歌呀……

好啦，看照片的时间到了！我用相机拍的照片就不用拿出来献丑了，朋友拍的照片还没要来，以下的照片都是一些Jolin超级粉丝的无私贡献：




虽然，我们都不是Jolin的fans，不过估计跟我们这么疯狂(省钱)的开车下悉尼只为了看Jolin 也只有我们吧…第二天匆匆忙忙逛了China Town，买了想买的东西，就往回程赶…途中13个小时又见证了太阳和月亮的交替…呵呵

ps: 回某人，经过本人亲眼目测……她那不是original的……我确定、一定以及肯定！

Some random shots when I'm in Southbank on Friday night. Those pros and gurus out there, please don't criticize the photo quality I don't have a tripod for my phone and I only have 5 secs to grab each photo...

Subject	Southbank Night View
Location	Southank
Date	2006.09.22
Time	Around 8pm
Equipment	Sony Ericsson K800
Picture Size	Scaled from 2048 x 1536

And btw, if you're looking for the Conrad Treasury Casino, it's the building that's light up with nice purple colour