Old Calendar Girls

If you notice the old picture of a lady posing which is hanging on the right side of the wall; it is actually an original "Old Calendar Girls" poster. The originals are hard to come by these days. It has become a well sought after collectors item. Found these at the Elderweiss cafe in Armenian Street.

Fete de la Music

This is the Music Festival organised by the Alliance Francais in Penang.

They had the opportunity to stage it on this heritage "Khoo Kongsi" theatre stage;

which is no doubt very unique!

Penang Turf Club

Well, I guess all turf clubs look almost the same.... I really have no idea, anyways here it shows the people gathering around to see the horses and putting their bet on it! Phew... maybe I'll win some too..... :)

Roast Pork

Roast pork is one of the local food over here where you can simply buy it from the morning market or direct from the hawker stalls who sell plain rice and pork or chicken rice.

Something about fridge magnets

Well I do not know about other people's refrigerator.... mine's like a wall full of take-aways restaurants, for emergency only... hah! Show me how's your's looks like..... :)

The Palazzo

Well this is a new condominium which is quite costly; but what I am interested is the facade of this building. It is one of its kind in Penang and it strongly suggest the influences from Taiwan. I have seen some apartment / condominium which looks similar somewhere in Taipei. i wonder who the architect is though.

Hey pal!

Hey pal! I just wanna say hi. :)

Flower in a glass

Well, I simply highlighted these flowers as I want to note down that; we seldom see this kind of flowers bloom in Malaysia... It's so damn hot here and these flowers only grow in colder countries. I dine is this restaurant and they had cut flowers like these all over the restaurant, no wonder the food there are bit more expensive too. Hmmm.... but I still love those flowers, but I do not know their name...

Wall of clocks

Tick Tock, Tick Tock, a wall full of clocks!

Spiral Moment

Love this spiral staircase, although it does has this unique tiny steps that goes round and round up vertically. I did not walk up though, as my stilettos may stuck in between the stairs!

The counting machine

Seen this one before? Like I say, it's a counting machine. It's a calculator! Bet you have not guess it right. Well, I spot it inside the Museum Cafe named "The Sire". Dine there today with my family for my third wedding aniversary. Awesome!

The Traditional Kitchen

I bet you don't really get to see this anymore in the new renovated houses. This type of older version of kitchen is not as popular as before as it needs lots of time and manpower to handle it. For example the usage of charcoal is not widely use these days.

Sign on wall

Interesting sign on the wal, looks like embossing?

Tropical jungle...

As you can see here, there's indeed a mini tropical jungle created by nature at this building. It is high in the air like one of the babylonian's "Hanging garden". Birds love this new found paradise within the city. ;)

Around town

Been heading to town to do some chores, I find these windows interesting so I took a picture of it. :) The sign post above the gate post is interesting too. The roof top of this particular building has two mini little roosters, I don't know why they are up there though.

Side Lanes

This side lane has lots of backpackers around and this yellow coffee shop around the corner just serve the right purpose for backpackers to have meals. Here you can see the Penang's Trishaw parking in front of the coffee shop. PIN SENG hotel is name after Penang which is the Cantonese Chinese pronunciation.

Durian!

Wish you could smell it....... so yummy! My favourite local fruit, Durian!

Pretty Details

This is the side view of a roof. This building is not a temple but it is a clan temple though. The Chinese honour and remembers their ancestors and fore-fathers here. Found the details near side wall of the roof, and I like the colours and motifs too. It's a pity that I can't show you the details of it though... no zoom lens :(

The Sign

I find this sign above the door interesting as it says," Phoenix Dancing". I wonder what it means?

Basket for sale?

All these old bamboo/rattan carrier baskets are not for sale, in fact it is a display of a variaties of baskets where people use when they shop for things in the wet market. As in the old days plastics bags has not even been introduced. The silver carrier are of common use during those days too.

Hot Day!

The weather is getting hotter these days due to global warming. As you can see here, there are lots of food courts and cafes and outdoor mini bars has these kind of huge fans with sprinkling water to cool down the area. Well, so far it's better than air conditioner which only makes the world become hotter!

The Pigeon Sanctuary

She has been living here for a long while now, I have observed that she has a partner living together with her and has become their sanctuary.

Oh! My Little Fairy.

The little fairy is residing in her cage... day dreaming. I created this miniature assemble to reminds me of the day dreaming moments in my life. Those moments are precious to me as we seldom have much time to day dreams these days.

The Abandon Castle

Found this old mansion along "Sultan Azlan Shah Road".

It was really magnificent, curently it is being renovated to the original state.

Bubbling effect...

Took this illusion of bubbles which showed the 3-D effect on the photo itself :)

Overhead bridge

This overhead bridge enables the boys school children

link to the other side to the girls school, cool eh?