Lim Kit Siang's 70th Birthday

I attended Lim Kit Siang's 70th birthday party.  

JAG

Happy New Year 2011......

Hi all, just jumped in to wish everyone a Happy New Year.....i tell ya i've been neglecting this blog so regularly i now miss it.....but i've been moving around so much...i have gained a new perspective about life around me....just by mixing and mingling and capturing scenes and situations in the surrounding states on my digi.... I started my 2011 New Year in Penang at this joint below.....new and old...western and eastern...standing at the kerb i literally watched the world go by.... 

..i am beginning to like Penang...

but then...i also like Langkawi's Cenang beach.but Langkawi's got some major "shabby issues" it 

....needs to look into seriously...then there is Pangkor......great for bicycle fitness excercises...... 

and of course my home town ....like these thundering drummers during the last Lantern Fest in front of the Town Hall....

  life's been a blast.... cheers! kk

Heritage Archietecture....of Perak

..interesting photography exhibition...just the heritage buildings around Perak..

...churches...interesting...as these look like a scene from an English countryside....

....most are well maintained...but...

...these motifs (is this the right description) found on top of Chinese temples....detailed and fascinating ...if only i could view them from below...

...mosques....the contrast in designs is so interesting.....

..and these mansions....


...commercial houses......(below was this design started by Eu Tong Sen?)

...town houses.............

.... a local mansion of the time....

...workers quarters?

...ahhh...the royal touch......

..then we have these grand looking structures.....chinese school....

...and in the 60's....but now are these are an eyesore ?...

....so unlike these beautiful structures.....almost a century on they have become landmarks depicting a time when building an opulent structure was a proud statement to say "I have arrived"


....almost a century on even painters find it charming...........

...and if you want to experience charm check out Garden Villa itself....the exhibition hall ...

..the place was designed with windows all around....seems that Eu Tong Sen (the son of Eu Kong the founder of Eu Yan Sang) used it to view his horses racing.....seems the area which is chauteau park was the area where the rich miners (could be wrong but i do recall hearing the name Chung Thye Pin as one of those horse owners) used to race their horses.


...anyways when you compare the beauty of Garden Villa against the backdrop of the flats next to it, it is a wide contrast.....beauty vs funtionality perhaps?

But arranging all these photographs together does reflect one message...there was alot of outside influence...its all around us...but isn't that what history and heritage is about......guess we won't be able to run away from our past...even if we changed all the road names around town!!!

cheers!

kk

Kinta Nature Park......Batu Gajah

This is the Kinta Nature Park...located at Batu Gajah. A disused mining pond with an island...where thousands of egret and heron have nested but which might become extinct if the state government takes its time to gazette the place as a nature park.

...the island...the island...where the birds nest...should be several generations by now.....

...a scene around 630pm in the evening....birds coming home...alot of cackling going on at this time ... because someone else has taken my sleeping spot.....

check out this place.....its possible the birds might up and leave....wouldn't it be super if this place were gazetted (like yesterday) so our kids and grand kids can enjoy this in our back yard????

kk

My Kampung

I didn't take this photo. It was sent to me. Undoubtedly the best sunset photo i have seen.

cheers!

kk