Category: Penang

• Anti-Smoking

  11.21.05 |Information, Penang, ProductReview| Permalink | 10 Comments

  
  
  

  Today I was in the Honda Service centre cum sales office. There is this nut head salesman smoking in the air condition premises. Smokes fly all over the contain space. There were children waiting in the service centre too. All of us become secondary smokers. I walk into the manager office to relay this problem. He gave me a blank face and didn’t give me a positive response.

  Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate smokers. I just hate smokers that make other people become secondary smokers, which are more dangerous. I have come across many cases where smokers secretly smoke in air condition premises like the shopping mall, the car park and in public transport.

  The government is promoting the “Tak Nak” campaign but not enforcing the public sector to follow strict rules about not smoking areas.

  If you know me, I will surely feedback this to Honda and the government bureau. Anyone can give me any more ideas where I can bring this complain to? Please leave the contact and email address.

• Giant Landed

  10.25.05 |Information, Penang| Permalink | 9 Comments

  
  

  
  

  Giant Hypermart finally landed in Penang. Not sure when will it open but the structure of the hypermart is complete. I will be looking forward to shop there. Hey it is only 5 mins drive away from my home. I heard that this will be the last hypermart approved in the Penang Island. Now we have Tesco, Carrefour (not on the island), Makro and Giant.

  Tell me what are the best buy items in Giant Hypermarts? Milk powder? Diapers?

• Spice Garden

  09.18.05 |Penang, Travel| Permalink | 8 Comments

  
  
  

  Finally we got to go to Spice Garden with my family. It was the haze, wedding dinner and rainy weather that keep us from going. The Spice Garden is located somewhere in between Batu Ferringhi and Teluk Bahang of Penang. It was not what I expected. No doubt the scenery was very beautiful with lot of greens and water falls. The place has alot of hiking trails that you need to climb. Lots of stair way up and of course no place for stroller. I had to carry Emily to hike up. My children had fun and so did I (exhausted), to enjoy God’s creation again and always remind me there is someone out there who created the world perfect.

  The above picture shows that Emily actually was holding a big giant spice called the Kayu Manis (Cinnamon).

  

  

  Navigation:

  

  Emily playing with the fresh water from the hill:

  

  

  Little Waterfalls:

  

  

  

  

  Purple Flower:

  

  Our Ride:

  

  Beautiful Scenary:

  

  

  Two Sneaky kids in the Gift Shop:

  

• Penang Bridge Traffic Camera

  09.06.05 |Information, IT, Penang, Technology| Permalink | 3 Comments

  This is a cool website to show you, the real time traffic in Penang Bridge via camera. Don’t do any hanky panky on the bridge…

  

  Source: http://www.penangbridge.blogspot.com/

  Camera Here: http://penangbridge.info/15.html

• Bon Odori Festival

  07.16.05 |Entertainment, Event, Penang| Permalink | 2 Comments

  Today I brought the kids to the Bon Odori festival in Esplanade in Penang. The place was filled, few hundreds people were there. Parking was nearly impossible. God provided us one, although it was a distance walk from Esplanade but it is sure better than none. We reached there about 8pm.

  Lots of food stalls around and hungry people too. There was a popular stall selling mega huge balloon and water balloon that they played like a yoyo. I got my son a big balloon. My son played for a while and passed it back to me. I can see $$ flying away, anyway, it was for charity.

  The place was dark, not enough lighting. Fortunately, they placed lots of tables and chairs.

  There were dances & performance. Many people joined in to dance. Lots of Japanese people around. Mostly there were in Kimono. Too bad, no kimono for sale else would have gotten one for my gal. I saw so many Japanese children in Kimono, they were very adorable.

  Fireworks were started sharp at 9pm. It was beautiful and real loud. My children enjoyed it. People started leaving once the fireworks was over, so did we.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  Venue: Esplanade
  Date: 16th July(Saturday)
  The program:

  17:20 Arrival of VVIP
  17:30 Speeches…bla bla
  17:45 Launching by some Japanese guy plus chingay show
  17:55 Inspection of stalls by VVIPs
  18:25 1st session Bon Odori dance
  18:50 1st Awa Dance session
  19:15 Drum demonstration
  19.35 2nd Drum demonstration
  19.55 Dance performance by Msian Jap Soc.
  20:15 2nd Bon Odori dance session
  20:40 2nd Awa Dance session
  21:00 FIREWORKS display
  21:10 3rd Bon Odori Session
  21:30 Lucky Draw
  21:45 Sayonara