Happy Chinese New Year 2009,
All Ox-ed Out!!

Time flies, things change;
People growing, people aging.

愿大家身体健康，平平安安。

I love Photography.
Photography consists of Lights, hence I love Lights.
Christmas Tree consists of Lights, hence I love Christmas Tree.
Therefore, I Photograph Christmas Tree.

It’s that time again, the bells will start to jingle and the snow (literally) will fall soon. It’s the greeting season, it’s the gadget-buying season, it’s the romantic getaway season!

What do you have on your list this year?
I have mine, a long list.

I live in Singapore and my brother in Penang Island, Malaysia.
We are both from Kota Bharu, Kelantan Malaysia.
We are both living on islands now.

Last week I had a chance to meet up my brother and parents at Penand Island, Malaysia. Our family is so small that we can actually arrange our meet up anywhere other than our hometown, at any given time.

I was exposed with Penang Island’s culture on my 5 days visit there. It is somewhat similar to Singapore since they’re both islands, except that Penang Island has more hills and mountains which obstruct much on infrastructure and accomodation development.

The contrast between the rich and the poor is obvious. Seen from this picture taken from 16th floor, you can see all the buildings you will likely be seeing in Penang Island. From the almost-million-dollar condominium (seen from the furthest), to over-million-dollar terrace houses and bungalows, to the apartments and flats, to the old wooden kampung-style houses.

Penang Island is known for their food. Penangies are so proud of their food, which in a way I have to agree with. Penang char-kuey-teow, Penang laksa are two signature food that you can find at everywhere else in the world. Good food makes happy tummies.

There are a few tourism spots too, like Kek-lok Temple, Bukit Bendera are among the two famous ones, not forgetting about Batu Feringgi.

I may not know much about Penang Island, but if you have more insights on Penang Island, please share with us!

While I’m in the process of consolidating adorr.net, I thought it would be a great idea to start a section called Pic-a-story. I own a SE w810i camera phone which I first had it 2 years ago, and it is still serving me very well today.

I do take photos occasionally, time to time, whenever I come across something interesting and thought of having a pic of it followed with a short story-telling.

Believe it or not, this camera phone of mine is the best camera phone I’ve ever seen in the market. I’m not talking about Megapixel competition here, I’m referring to overall greatness of the camera features. It comes with auto focus, 2Megapixel resolution, relatively smart white balance and metering, and best of all it has a decent macro mode! Simply check out the macro pic I took above, ain’t that amazing?

Alright, cut the crap and welcome to my Pic-a-story section!

Follow me and I shall bring you walking the world through my lens…