Chinese Glass Sculpture

This Tittot sculpture has a hefty price tag of RM25,000. That's the price of beauty.

Pre-Islamic Hindu Statue Excavated From Bujang Valley

On The Way to Ipoh

Sometimes when I am on the road, there are scenery that scream out to be recorded. This was one that I captured on the way up to Ipoh at around 8 a.m. The sun was out, the mountain mist was about to drift away and I was sleepy. It took all of 5 seconds.

Imagine that shortly before this at about 7 a.m. it was like this :

September Rain

Today's trip to Muar was hazardous to say the least. I took a morning drive down to Muar to attend to some work matters. On the way back to KL it rained pigs and dogs. Saw 2 fender-benders and a flipped-over car. Oh well.

Gelugor

Tree of Light

Balik Pulau

Balik Pulau Town Center

Main Street

Church of the Holy Name of Jesus

A Sample of a pre-World War 2 shophouse

A Fruit Vendor

The famous Penang Assam Laksa

Assam Laksa Fresh Ingredients

Hardware store

Kaki 5

Over the Hari Raya break I managed to squeeze in a short break to Penang, the missus' hometown and 1 of the places of interest we stopped by was Balik Pulau ('the other side of the island'), which among other things is famous for its durian plantations. As the pictures will attest, it's a really small town with the Main Street running through it.

Here's also a short video of the preparation of the Penang Assam Laksa which incidently  was voted 7th out of 50 most delicious food in the world in a CNN global poll.