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Mooncake Festival 2009

Mooncake Festival aka Mid Autumn Festival was special this year. Special cos I was home celebrating it. Also special cos mom is doing all the goodies. Missed those goodies for many years! This year besides taking some orders from friends and relatives, mom did quite a variety of mooncakes, or should I say moon-jellies? As time changes, traditional way in doing traditional dish changes too. Upon modernisation, mooncakes has transitioned from well, cakes to jellies stuffing them with variety...

Transformers Revenge of The Fallen Convention in Queensbay Mall

Revenge is coming, and Penang was the host for the biggest Transformers convention in Malaysia this year. In 2007, Cineleisure in Mutiara Damansara became the witness of the first ever Transformers expo, and the Trans-mania kick-started from there. For the period of two years after the first movie, Malaysians have been fascinated with Cybertronian factions known as the Autobots and Decepticons. The craze go on, and not admitting defeat, Queensbay Mall transformed itself this year to...

Pakatan Rakyat Dinner in Bidor

I attended the Pakatan Rakyat dinner today with my uncle and aunts who were staunch supporters of Pakatan Rakyat and big fans of YB Nizar, YB Nga Kor Ming and YB Gobind Singh Deo. This was my 3rd political ceramah in one month ever since touching down in Malaysia from the UK. This dinner is to celebrate the victory of Pakatan Rakyat in Bukit Gantang. The ticket was already 'booked' exclusively by my uncle 2 weeks before the event, and guess what, we are the early birds who booked the...

Encounter with Machines

Today was my first time attending Plymouth Mega Ride (PMR), a charity event that was joined by thousands of bikers from England. Well, I am coming not as a biker of course as I am taking this opportunity only to do shoots of the nice bikes that will be put on display along the Promenade after the parading. Just a short fact about Plymouth Mega Ride (PMR); PMR was 'probably' UK's largest charity motorcycle ride out with in few thousands of bikers (doesn't include pillions) participating each...

Artemis Transat Event

"The oldest solo race in history, The Artemis Transat is a 2,800 mile race across the North Atlantic alone... Held every four years since 1960, the 2008 edition of the race starts from Plymouth, UK on Sunday, 11th May." And that is what this post is all about. I was out today to Sutton Harbour armed with my wide-angle lens, a Tokina 17mm ONLY. Feeling lazy to get my bulky Tamrac 5X out, I filtered down the needs to shoot to only a single lens, while abandoning everything else at...

Let’s Toast: Happy New Year 2008

We had a toast for the year. I wish everyone Happy New Year...

Christmas 2007

Merry X'mas to all. Its a quite X'mas for the gang down in Plymouth as there were only 3 of us this year. Sounds pathetic that's the true fact that our gang is slowly dwindling in numbers due to shifting of jobs & career seeking and among other personal commitments as well. But that doesn't mean we cannot have some fun right? We gathered at Dave's for a simple meal, a movie and some lite gaming. Its only 3 so there's not much you can do about it. I let some of my simple pics be...

Guy Fawkes & A LAN Party

Went to Dave's place again for a LAN party playing Ghost Recon. We have been playing it for a month now and we are nearing the final level of the cooperative mode that in 'Fierce Resistance'. Joining us is JX, a newbie who is catching up well in the game. We started at 4pm and nearly 7pm, CJ and Purav joined after finishing some business of their own. Being a 'virgin' in th game, Purav played alongside us in one of the toughest levels instead of coaching him in beginner levels! Judging...

Countdown To Moonies

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to ya'll mooncake freaks. Let us all sing an ode to the babe in da moon, Miss Chang Er. Hope ya got a nice life in da moon always. Oh, yea. Neil Armstrong says hi to you and your crazy bunny. Any of you suckers munching mooncakes while reading my post? I am not, but I did few weeks back. But I already gobbled up around 6 moonies since last month, and the latest, 4 moonies in 2 days around 2 weeks ago. I personally like all moonies as long they don't come with...

…To Me

A year older today. Damn, I'm old...as gold? This year was the dullest as not many friends left here in this town. Until this post was written and updated there's no sign of any parties going on. Transformers was officially out in UK today. Though seen it during the preview weekend, I'm all up for the 2nd round soon this week. Woke up at 11am. Do the same boring work. Meet the same boring people, boring workplace, boring weather. Yea, is rainy, but thank god it wasn't flooding like...