Snake Temple

I think everyone knows about the Kek Lok Si temple. This year snake temple also has similar beautiful night view. I have taken some nice picture and share with all of you. Hope you guys like it.

TOP TEN Crosswind and Scary Aircraft Landings

To all my lovely friends, I know that some of you always travel by airplane, so am I. Not sure did anyone of you know that airplane take off actually is safer than landing? I do play Microsoft Flight Simulation game and understand that landing a plane is not so easy. Especially X wind landing. I'm not trying to scare you but after you watch below video, at least you know how hard and worst when landing and do make sure you buckle up your safety belt.



After finish watching the video, any comment? Hehe

Lombard Street

Lombard Street in San Francisco is the America’s crookedest street. It is one of the tourist attraction spot. From the above pix, you can see the steep, hills and sharp curves of one-way road pass by grand Victorian mansions and the street is paved with bricks. You will see a lot of tourist taking pictures at the street; me and my wife did the same too, hah!

After taking pictures, we both experience ourselves and drive through this crookedest street. Well, the fun of going down Lombard Street will definitely give us a few moments of fear and fun.

Camping at US

Me and my friend swim in this lake.



You can find this beautiful waterfall in Yosemite.


On July 17 2005, Amy, my colleague Geeva and I plan to go to Yosemite National Park at CA. We were so excited because we never been to this famous national park before. The weather is just nice because the snow started to melt during that time frame.

The first day we reached there, we stayed at a hotel. It is so lucky that we met the Yosemite County. We all chat a lot during that night and he was so nice to give us the Yosemite entry park cards. Yeah! By having that entry card, we can save the entry ticket fees.

The 2nd day, we started our journey to drive to Yosemite National Park; again we have another surprise that was we met one of the colleague with his family. Later, we decided to join as a big group to have fun around the national park. We even camp at the lake site and my colleague and I swim in the lake that is about sea level 1500 ft. The water is so cold but we really enjoy it.

Next year, my colleague Geeva will go again to USA for business trip. If I will have my business trip too, then we both will plan to go to Pennsylvania’s scenic Pocono Mountains. I’ve looking into the Poconos Summer Camp because it has a very good facilities and this camp has 1100 acre and located at south of Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania’s scenic Pocono Mountains.

Team Building Lunch At G-Hotel

Last few weeks, my company arranged a team building for our department. At first, we went to do foot massage than to G Hotel to take our lunch. Well, because of I just back from US and I already get fed up with all those western food, so I only focus on those cute “Ice Kacang”, strawberry biscuit and cake. Looks yummy leh?

NASCAR

When I was in Oregon, my friend brings me to his nephew’s house and he is a NASCAR driver. He wins many championship races before. I was so excited about the car. Just imagine that I like a “monkey” that jumped in here and there to take a look at the car. First, I look at the truck. It is so huge. The truck is to carry the NASCAR to the racing spot. Later, I take a look at the NASCAR, the engine, the interior and etc. I took a few shoots of the car and truck. Enjoy!

My company Entrance at Santa Clara

Every times when I go to Santa Clara headquarters, always is winter or summer. This round is autumn and when I walk to the entrance I found that the wall full of natural color. Red, Yellow and green color just like our traffic light and so beautiful. I sure will take the picture and keep inside my memory. Hope that I can go again next year and continue shopping with my wife. ^^

My transportation at US

Above are my rented cars when I was in US. This round, I've manage to try on 3 types of cars. They are Toyota Corolla (the blue one), Camry (the red one) and Malibu (sorry, forget to snap photo). Petrol consumption for these 3 types of cars was not bad and all the cars came with GPS system. If I did not have car in US, I think I will gone crazy because it is not convenient at all rite, cannot go anywhere without car. And this round, I actually doing a lot of shopping than visiting tourist attraction places.

Folsom Old Town

Sometimes I drove to Folsom old town for shopping. Nearby there have a lot of beautiful houses especially right now falls into autumn, the view even more prettier. Too bad, I didn't bring my camera along with me so I only snap a few shoots with my cell phone. Folsom old town actually have a lot of restaurants and usually a lot of visitors and factory workers will come overhere for lunch or dinner. Traffic is not so bad but is hard to find parking lot. I usually will go there during non-peak hours because easily for me to find parking. I like to shop here because I will always go back with “full" of stuffs...hah!

My Colleague Car

Before I back to Malaysia, usually I will treat my colleagues a lunch or a dinner. So, today we decided to have our lunch in a restaurant and one of my colleague volunteers to fetch us to our destination. When we reached the car park, oh my god! His car is so huge and tall. You know, when I make my move to enter the car, I need to rise up my foot at least 1 feet high...hah! Really “Lau Chi Cham”, but I do enjoy the ride because the car is so high up and makes me see things clear on the road. Wow, what a good experience to ride on his car!

Breakfast in Residence Inn, US

Here is Residence Inn Hotel's breakfast corner. Usually they served a lot of good breakfast but these few days I stop having it at hotel. Why? Feel “geli” already. Every day take the same food even there are variety to choose. May be TSP can help to give some suggestion to them since TSP is in hotel line...he he he.

Is autumn time

Many times that I travel to US, I will never have chance to see trees changing to this color. Last 2 days when I drove to "factory outlet" for shopping, I saw these trees were so nice. The scenery is not as nice as Japan “Jepunlauee” or “Kacang” hometown but I really enjoy it. The weather here still very hot about 85F – 90F ( 30C – 35C). Below is the picture that I taken from factory outlet in Folsom.

Hong Kong Airport

I have to transit my flight from Hong Kong to San Francisco. During this time frame I like nothing to do and walk around. After the airport said delay for additional 4 hours I really like crazy. What I do is take picture from north to south and east to west. Below are few pictures that I taken:

This is the 747 plane that I going to take. Is a good plane and I won’t few shake when the way to SFO. Compare to Singapore airline 777 really different a lot. No wonder people say that 747 is a good plane. First time take this plane.

Here is Cathay Pacify VIP launch. This is the place where I rest couples of hours.

Malaysia Tradisional Batik

It would be impossible to visit or live in Malaysia and not to be exposed to one of the country's most highly developed art forms, “batik”. On your first visit to a batik store or factory you will undoubtedly experience an overwhelming stimulation of the senses - due to the many colors, patterns and the actual smell of batik.

Natural materials such as cotton or silk are used for the cloth, so that it can absorb the wax that is applied in the dye resisting process. The fabrics must be of a high thread count (densely woven). It is important that cloth of high quality have this high thread count so that the intricate design qualities of batik can be maintained.

The cloth that is used for batik is washed and boiled in water many times prior to the application of wax so that all traces of starches, lime, chalk and other sizing materials are removed. Prior to the implementation of modern day techniques, the cloth would have been pounded with a wooden mallet or ironed to make it smooth and supple so it could best receive the wax design. With the finer machine-made cotton available today, the pounding or ironing processes can be omitted. Normally men did this step in the batik process.

I have experienced the hands on of making batik during my high school time and I really enjoyed the whole process. Hope that our Malaysia Education Department will still include batik as one of the arts subject in school.

Hooters Restaurant At Makati/Manila

During my visit to Philippines last 2 weeks, my colleagues bring me to Hooters restaurant which located near Asian Mall. This restaurant served western food. And they hire a lot of pretty ladies as waitress. All of the waitress are “hot” and they dance every hour. If you visit Manila one day, you must try to dine there. Hooters restaurant also can be found in USA.

Kek Lok Si Temple’s Night View

This is the night view of Pagoda Temple or Kek Lok Si Temple, Penang. In fact, this photo has been snapped 2 years ago and I’d like to share it with you all.

Reputedly, it is the largest Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia. The temple’s enclave is including a pagoda and a huge statue of the Goddess Kuan Yin.

Besides the monastery, a seven-storey pagoda of 10,000 Buddha images displays the essence of an eclectic mix of Chinese, Thai and Burmese architecture. The main hall has colorful souvenir shops. A shrine filled with statues and a courtyard where a large pond full of carp and tortoises are main attractions.

Butterfly Farm At Penang

The Penang Butterfly Farm, reputedly the world's first tropical live butterfly sanctuary where is located just 15 minutes away from the Batu Ferringhi tourist belt.

Butterfly Farm is established in 1986 with about 4,000 live butterflies of 150 different species, a nature park with small reptiles in their natural habitats as well as the Museum of Asian Artifacts.

Expansion plans are underway to include a night zoo, which will feature nocturnal creatures and tropical insects. The farm is a not-to-be-missed for many and it attracts about 250 to 300 visitors daily. Entrance fees to Butterfly Farm will vary between Malaysian and non-Malaysian.

I suggest the best time of visiting the farm is at the morning session because you may see more butterfly then. The farm also has scorpion and some other small animals. Don’t forget to visit this place when you’re visiting Penang, Malaysia.