Penang Earth Day Carnival 2010 槟州地球日嘉年华会, 17-18 Apr 2010

Poster taken from Earth Day Carnival - Environmental & Health Exhibition. Also, event table in EnzymeSos 环保酵素 web page.

给自己的情书

An old cantonese song with meaningful lyric.



The lyrics, from inkui:

请不要灰心 你也会有人妒忌
你仰望到太高 贬低的只有自己
别荡失太早 旅游有太多胜地
你记住你发肤 会与你庆祝钻禧

la... 慰藉自己 开心的东西要专心记起
la... 爱护自己 是地上拾到的真理
写这高贵情书 用自言自语 作我的天书
自己都不爱 怎么相爱 怎么可给爱人好处
这千斤重情书 在夜阑尽处 如门前大树
没有他倚靠 归家也不必避雨

请不要哀伤 我会当你是偶像
你要别人怜爱 请安装一个药箱
做甚么也好 别为着得到赞赏
你要强壮到底 再去替对方设想

(Repeat *)

la... la...
la... la...
抛得开手里玩具 先懂得好好进睡
心窝都关过后 从泥泞重到这不甘心相信的金句　
写这高贵情书 欲自言自语 助我的天书
自己都不爱 怎么相爱 怎么可给爱人好处
这千斤重情书 在夜阑尽处 如门前大树
他不可倚靠 归家也不必避雨　
我要给我写这高贵情书 用自言自语 作我的天书
自己都不爱 怎么相爱 怎么可给爱人好处
凭着我这千斤重情书 在夜阑尽处 如门前大树
没有他倚靠 归家也不必避雨

Earth Hour Mar 27, 8.30pm -> Light off

If you can support to switch off your lights on Mar 27 (this Sat) 8.30pm for one hour.
If you can't, it is okay, more importantly is the awareness on global warming and practice energy saving in your daily life!

客家欢 Hakka Connexion

I don't know if there are a lot of Hakka people in Penang, but got to know from SN there is 客家擂茶 in town! After hiking, we went to Hakka Connexion for brunch.





As you can see, the shop is nicely oriental decorated.







Let's talk about some food now ;)

The dessert, yuba barley gingko nut 白果腐竹薏米 @ RM 2. Oh I've forgotten to ask KH/CM if it is nice :p AS and I ordered their home made nutmeg juice 豆蔻水 @ RM 1.50 per cup, I felt it is a bit sweet. HF, I missed your grandmom's homemade nutmeg juice still ;)



The Hakka noddle 客家面 @ RM 3 with homemade sauce. Hmm, I still like Ipoh Hakka's noodle :p But I felt this is smoother than that at Pantai Jerejak. Different chef will have different Hakka noodle preparation, with/without thick soy sauce. Remember to stir the noodle before eat as the sauce are all at the bottom.



The Hakka Lei Cha 客家擂茶 and its soup @ RM 6. I guess the ingredient are cabbage 包菜, bayam 芫菜, dried vegetable 菜圃, long bean 长豆, peanut 花生, and 树仔菜. The waiter recommends to pour the soup into the ingredients, stir and eat. But I have other preferences in eating Lei Cha. I like to get another small empty bowl, put in ingredient little by little, with sufficient soup. Then slowly adding the ingredient in any order I like :p Anyway, it is nicer than the other one I'd taken.



The Lei Cha soup base is a little bit different from those we'd eaten elsewhere. This soup is darker in colour. It has sesame inside also. I felt it is lack of mint taste.


Ang Chao Vermicelli 红糟面线 @ RM 6. This is the first time all of us tasted this noodle, don't know how to comment :p


Fried abacus 算盘子 @ RM 10. A dish made of yam. I still like WM's mom homemade abacus ;)


KH ordered Lei Cha and rice wine chicken for takeaway for SP :D


When we were almost done, the topic was about creativity. KH suggested a game (sort-of), each person took a picture from the same scenery, which is the decorative item rack from picture no. 4 above. Can you see where I took picture below? :p The plum flower is nicely drawn on the kettle. Oh yes, my chinese name contains the 梅 word ;) Will try to have this game in every upcoming gathering :D



To get there,
Address: No 3, Jalan Bawasah, 10050 Penang. (Behind Royal Hotel, formerly Sheraton Hotel, Dorsett Hotel)
Contact: Carene Lim @ 010-3863916, 016-4356463
Business hours: 8am - 3pm, 5.30pm - 9.30pm (Closed on Thu)

镜片

这个世界上，有放大镜，缩小镜，镜子，及透明镜。在乎于我们怎样利用这些镜子。

许多政治人物喜欢用放大镜夸大其辞，说成无他不行，把自己的功劳及能力无限量扩大；然而用缩小镜把其错过缩小，或者强硬把过错套上一把枪，不容别人口云；他们应该都有照镜子，但是只看到自己，看不到在他背后的千万人民。心有多大，世界便有多大，他的镜子只是一面全身镜，充其量也只是全家镜。当然，聪明的会利用别的政客做借镜，让自己的仕途一片明亮，但是很多都只是借用别人怎样上位的方法，而不是别人做了什么好的事情，他也做一做。透明镜，在我国政治有吗？很多政府合约都因为一句，为了人民好，所以不公布，就把很多事情盖上重重重帘。希望槟州政府的透明度可以真的实行惠民。然而，好像很多政客的功绩也被不透明化。。。

每个人也有这些镜子。我们要放大自己的好处，还是坏处？我们要放大别人的好处，还是坏处？我们要缩小自己的好处，还是坏处？我们要缩小别人的好处，还是坏处？我们照镜子的时候，看到的是我们的外表，还是直透内心？看镜子的时候，要给自己一个微笑，还是一张酸的脸？我们“有口话人，有没有口话自己”？

每个人都有这些镜片，要怎么利用，全凭个人造化。也希望媒体正确的利用他们，别沦为政客的工具。（媒体啊媒体，你的良心还在吗？希望没有被狗叨了）

祝大家用镜得宜，万事顺意 :D

Busy?

How do you spend your free time? Whenever I heard people say "I have nothing to do and don't know what to do. So bored." I will say, there is so many things we can do, spend time with family, clean up, sports, reading, surfing, working, improve ourself bla bla bla. Although my life has been getting more and more busy, but I am feeling good. I guess probably this is the reason :)

摩多背上的故事

多少张日历撕去了，陪伴你的，又是什么？有些人会回答屋子，家人，朋友，金钱，事业及等等。
陪伴我的，是记忆。是的，记忆。

我的记忆林林总总。开心的，伤心的，怀念的，想忘掉的；和其他人一样——一箩萝。类的脑袋可以记得很多东西，把它们都收在大脑里面大大小小的抽屉里。当遇到相关的钥匙，就会打开那一个抽屉，然后那个记忆抽屉就会重播以前许多画面。



一天驾车回家时，在红绿灯看到了以上的画面。这么巧二辆摩多车并排停在一起。同样的斜度、同样的接孩子放学回家，同样的停在一起。钢盔的颜色也恰巧一样，只不过前后掉转了。

看到小女生，我想起了爸爸。是的，我的爸爸。我的摩多英雄。

出生在甘榜的我们，那个年代，家里有汽车，是很了不起的事情；家里有黑白电视机，也是很了不起的事情。我家没有汽车，只有摩多车，也是维生工具之一。就靠那辆摩多车，养大了我们几兄弟姐妹。父母是农民，也割胶。他们早出晚归，靠那辆摩多车和一双手，努力工作，为的是整家人三餐温饱，孩子的教育。一辆摩多车，最少都坐三个人。前面车篮坐一个小的，一个大人骑摩多，载一个大人，二个大人之间还三明治夹着一个小的，所以最少三个。那时候车很少，虽然载最少三个，交通意外也不多。

从小，我就是做三明治中间那块蛋，被夹在中间。跟随父母去芭场，去街场。我们那时都是这么称呼地名，总加一个场字在后面。那种感觉，怎么说呢。你有做过那块蛋吗？虽然被夹得有些紧，而且脚也是‘吊儿郎当’的，（因为不够脚踏板，而且脚也不够长踏在脚踏板上。）但是，那种前后被人保护着的感觉，我想，和在妈妈子宫里被羊水包围着的安全感差不多一样吧。

偶尔，或许一个月有二三次吧。如果爸爸早做完工回家，吃过晚饭，我都会撒娇要他载我在新村兜风。通常，我都会如愿以偿。所以有时候，幺女是有特别优待的。上面的兄长已经长大，不会明目张胆撒娇，而父母那时候也比较有时间宠小的。那时候长得比较大了，不可以在做三明治的蛋，所以背后都会感觉到徐徐的风，好凉爽。天凉好个秋，不如饭后好个摩多兜风。眼帘里进入新村傍晚时分风景，炊烟在晚霞前阮阮升起，是让我喜爱大自然的前因吧。

升上中学以后，和小时候比起来，比较少撒娇，比较少晚餐后要去兜风了。但是，那时候由于每天都要搭巴士上学，早上五时半就要起床。有时候很懒惰起床，遇到爸爸没去割胶，都会撒娇要爸爸早上载我到街场上课。哈哈，这样我就可以睡到六时半才起床了。再一次，可能是幺女，所以大部分时候爸爸都会答应我的。哦，别以为我持宠生骄，一个月也只不过一二次而已。早上天气很冷，骑摩多根本是会哆嗦的。别以为一件寒衣没什么了不起，那时候可以穿姐姐的寒衣，已经很温暖，很满足了。更不用说要求nike还是adidas的，应该是无牌的，但是裹住了我的赤子之心。有些物质，有就好，可以用就好，适合用就好，别那么在意是不是名牌。纵然名牌，包不住哆嗦的心，又有什么用呢?纵然早上的风多么冷，很多还是让爸爸这个骑士档了。我不会骑摩多，这个道理，我是后来在大学才领悟的。一次一个同学载我上早课，他忘了穿风衣，看着他颤抖的衣角，我才发觉，爸爸从来都没有给我看过他颤抖的背影。

现在。长大了，很久都没有做过爸爸的摩多车了。回到家，如果要出门，我们都会用汽车载着父母。或许，我应该要爸爸载我兜兜风了。

你呢？有什么记忆让你怀念你的双亲吗？我有很多。这些记忆陪伴着我这个游子渡过这么些年。无论多么忙，我都要写这篇文章。

如果你的双亲还在，要把握机会，好吗？只要心中有孝，每天都是双亲节。别以为父母亲节请他们吃一顿好的就可以交成绩单了。如果父母在儿童节才买糖果给你吃，恐怕小时候你就已经哭闹翻天了。

加油。

How do you like Windows 7

Not to promote Microsoft Windows 7 :p Just some initial sharing on using it. Every time I see this 7, it will reminded me of Stephen Chow's movie CJ 7 长江7号 :p

From a user standpoint, the graphic is nice, and it is much faster compared to Vista. The user access security is less annoying compared to Vista also. I actually have not explore Vista much, just once or twice. One thing I found a bit frustrated is during user log in, I have to type the domain name by myself. Maybe this is done for security purpose, but if your PC name is not meaningful e.g. PSY12MB04 (could be assigned by your company IT :p ).

I saw some improvement on MS Paint, and the Snip Tool seems useful for me, I don't have to worry to run PrintKey in Windows 7 now. But I still prefer PrintKey, easier to use.

If running 32 bit application on 64 bit system, if your program failed to be installed, right click on the installer package and set the compatibility setting, let it run in older OS version e.g. XP.

From a programmer or software engineer perspective, it is just too troublesome to programming in 64 bit in terms of file system and registry view. The code posted by Microsoft doesn't seems to work at all :( Microsoft...

More to come, after I explore more.

Happy Family Seafood House, Air Itam 亚依淡合家欢海鲜煮炒屋

Have you ever eat stir fried Kuih Chap 炒粿汁? Yes, stir fried. SH brought us to Air Itam Happy Family Seafood House to try out the fried Kuih Chap, it is nearby Penang Hill foot hill.

Parking could be a bit harder, park at the roadside or in front of the restaurant. We need to cross a bridge to reach the half open space restaurant. There is life band on weekend eve and weekend. I went on monday night, thus missed the band performance.


Look at the longan drink, tasted very good and contains so many longan, RM 1.20 per cup.


The barley drink also has a lot of big barley, RM 1.2o per cup.


Tomyam seafood. RM 32. Half of our table doesn't like it, it is too sour they felt.


Fried kai lan vege @ RM 10, quite nice, although it is just a normal dish, but can feel that the chef is good :)


Nice Guinness Stout Chicken @ RM 15. Must try. I seldom eat meat but I can't stop for this :D


Huge pork leg @ RM 30. Highly recommended by the waiter. Must try for pork leg lover.


Fried Kuih Chap @ RM 13. Oh it doesn't looks nice in picture, my poor camera phone. But trust me, you will like this ;)


Stir fried Kam Heong Clam 甘香 kappa @ RM 10. I think taste more like Curry Kappa.


Tempted to try the fried Kuih Chap? Here is the direction:
Add: 32C, Jalan Taman Cantik, 11500 Penang.
Tel: 013-4306988

It is nearby 妙香林 temple.

Comparing blogspot old and new editor

If you are blogspot blogger, and if you are not aware of the new editor, maybe you will be interested to check this out. To enable to use new editor, go to Dashboard | Settings.



The new editor has the Jump here feature as highlighted below, once you click this in your blog post, when your blog post is loaded, the page will stop at that place, there will be a Read More hyperlink which then show the full post. If you are using old editor, just manually insert

自製的密封夾 Self made seal clip

Get this from a forwarded email, have not tried, but it sounds logical. Here is the step by step guide.









Sounds good? ;)

"Car accident"

Recently have been getting few forwarded email that a New Black Toyota Vios PDX 2584 will tailgate a car then find chance to talk to the car owner saying his car was hit by the car in front. Sometimes this car appear at E-Gate or Bayan Lepas FIZ area car park place, saying car nearby him hit his car. In either case, he tried to request for compensation. If you see this guy, just requested him to go police station to file a report together. He will then probably scold you and run away. Not sure if this is true, but watch out, my friend.

Queensbay mall new car park rate

If you are not aware of new Queensbay Mall car park rates:

	Weekday (Mon - Fri)	Weekend (Sat, Sun & Public Holiday)
Basement (LM & LG)	First 2 hours at RM 1. Subsequent hour at RM 1.	First 2 hours at RM 2. Subsequent hour at RM 1.
Multi Level (L3- L8)	First 3 hours at RM 1. Subsequent hour at RM 1.	First 3 hours at RM 2. Subsequent hour at RM 1.

Exit within 15 min after pay.

Penang Orchid Festival 2010

If you love orchid, or love to capture orchid macro shot, or.. just simply any reason, Penang Orchid Festival 2010 details is as extracted below:

Venue: Penang Botanic Gardens - George Town
Date: 13.03 - 21.03.2010
Time: 9am - 7pm

Hike Penang Hill

It has been almost a year I've not hike Penang hill. So this time AS chosen an easier trail due to the request of few of us :p We use the jungle path of Youth Park -> No 3 -> No 5 -> No 84.

The city is in haze or polluted? I hope my readers can contribute to save our mother earth also, less air cond, more car pool, and 3R.


The weather has been too hot, some of the tree were burnt.


Toilet and resting hut can be found at both No 3 and No 5. At these hut, there are a lot of monkeys, watch out for your food and belonging. After No 5, I took a piece of banana quickly, and few monkeys came just right after I finish it. Luckily I throw the banana skin before they reached *whew* There was once KH pointed a monkey mommy with the monkey baby on his way down using tar road, the monkey daddy then chased KH and gang till they have to run down and hurt the knee *whew*.




First time seeing this kind of fungus.


KH pointed out the colorful pakis (fern) leave. This fern is in blue/green shining color, depending on the light source angle. It doesn't turn out nice in picture, hike Penang Hill to see it with your eyes :D




No 84 hut.


First time seeing MPPP worker to clear the road. They use a blower to blow the leave to the roadside, to clean the road.


Just realized the hawker center in front of Botanical Garden has moved and new project is going on. We shall see what is the new building then.


Things changed, so I wish to capture while possible,before it fade in memory :)

My Penang Chinese New Year Reunion Celebration Food Bazaar

Some food at food bazaar of My Penang Chinese New Year Reunion Celebration 2010



Hakka Lei Cha 客家擂茶 RM 6. I always missed Fui Ee's mom homemade Lei Cha ;) SN, I believe you also :D


Mua Ci 麻子 RM 3.


2 mini Murtabak, RM 2 each.


Fried Kuih Kak 炒粿角 RM 4.


Shang Hai Ramen上海拉面 RM 4.


To purchase food, one must use coupon, which can be purchased at RM 20 per book. Some food bazaar I've been previously tasted bad and higher price. Food above tasted okay, although a bit pricey. All container used are recyclable, at least the state government is really putting some effort in saving our mother earth ;)

After the 'light dinner' we walked to the nearby hawker center for 'dinner' :p



Pasembur, looks nice, a bit spicy for me :)


Oyster pancake 蚝煎.


Fried clam 炒啦啦.


My first time see some hawker sell items using car trunk.