Showing posts with label leisure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label leisure. Show all posts

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Taman Negeri Bukit Panchor- Second Excursion

On 26th july, 6 brave souls exploring a jungle 8km away from their campus. The leader of the group is this red bull shirt crazy guy.

As usual we saw many many sky scrapping trees.

And some pathetic leech try to suck my blood.

We discovered something...something strange..do we?

Checkpoint. we reach a small "titi".

Indiana Jones discovered a new cave.

Some mushrooms...
MJ 45 degree classic move. We can do it too.


We lost in the middle. Which way to go?.....Nah..we are just fine. Taman Rekreasi Bkt Panchor is indeed a nice place to hang out for USM students. If you wanted a natural hideout, try that place. We cycle there for approximately 40 minutes. I totally like that place...i can just cycle there and back in a saturday morning. Its a cool place where you cant find in town universities.








Saturday, July 11, 2009

Bicycle Trip 2- Taman Negeri Bukit Panchor

After one year in USM, i found another beauty of this place here in Nibong Tebal-Bukit Panchor Forest Reserve. Hence, i organise another bicycle trip there along with Jun Lii and Siu Hou.



We started our journey from main gate and head Nibong Tebal. It is just beside the newly built mosque. Head straight till you get the sign board. Along the way, instead of Tn Negeri Bkt Panchor, we also saw the "Death Road".
Argh.......its not dangerous anyway, just near fell off....However the journey along is very refreshing, its been raining half an hour ago...Never been better than this condition for a bicycle trip.
Less than an hour, we arrived the destination. It is a quite well develop recreation park,

Our gorgeous bike...

This place is the best place for camping, jungle trekking and cave trekking nearby USM. We din do jugle trekking this time as we just wanna find out how this place looked like and we will come back with better equipment.

Later i have found a short vut back to my campus, via construction path. Its been a great morning, for a leisure saturday.

Friday, June 26, 2009

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen




I watched Transformers: The Revenge of the Fallen today.

Being a fan of Michael Bay and Shia Labeouf, i decided to do some advertisement for the hottest film at the moment.

Transformers is always a kids fantasy, it was mine when i am very young. When the cartoon brought to movie- real movie it is so astonishing.

Michael Bays film never disappoint you, recalling Armageddon, Pearl Harbour, The Rock...these were his work. Shia is a rising star actor and kinda lucky guy in many movies...


It is always beauty and the machine...
Megan is still hot and somehow she is being prettier than been described "hot" in previous movie. When she changed her leather jacket to a beautiful white blouse to meet Sam..that part is so cute...(Girls..pretty is above hot, beautiful is the above all)

Sam's mum and dad is still crazily amusing. The soldiers are more bold and strong. Agent Simmons comes to rescue and become a hero. More military stuffs are on the show. More robots, but not so cool but funny twins autobots added some entertainment elements in the movie. Prime is always that philosophical but this movie is focus mainly on him.

Overall this movie costs 200 million dollars is worth the ticket prices of 3 dollars in your hand. Go go go..indulge your eyes.

Monday, June 8, 2009

Pimp my bike part 2

My bike is officially done on mechanical part !
Today i spent like 6 hours modifying the tranmission and horn handles with brakes.


Also i have wheel protector ( izzit its name ?) to my rear wheel. I collect from junk.
Seems like there are treasure from junk yard if you know how to appreciate it.


Overview of my front part...Looks arrogant !


Here comes my HORN BULL!! Anyway this is my dream of having the grip rotate gear switching mechanism...its more easy to change and fast...Unlike the previous one...too hard to switch gear.
Plus the horn is for fast speed traveling uses....Reduce body resistance to speed....Woohooo......

Monday, June 1, 2009

Pimp my bike-part 1

Today, after work. Had dinner with Jun Lii, somehow we are complaining our "conventional" bike along the way cycle back.

"Hey, wait a minute, Lets pimp our bike", i said. We went to engine's lab for the tools facilities, "steal" the long abandoned bike around campus and we begin PIMPING!




Above is our bike before pimping, say hello for new style ! First for safety, we both put up reflectors. I had one at rear so the cars behind can see me in the dark after the headlight reflection.
Heres the two unwanted bikes. Donate your organs!!



We prepare the surgeon tools. Different sizes of spanar, screw drivers and grease.


Tadaaaa....Simple first part of pimping.
Heres what i did:
  1. Change the rusty bolts.
  2. Put the basket at my rear left. (new style in school!)
  3. Put up fancy handles.
  4. Install rear reflector.

Going to put a back leaning plate. Can find the plate yet. Soon..coming soon..

Oh rite! part one done. Will do more in coming time.


Saturday, May 23, 2009

Bicycle Trip to Taiping

Here's the map of my Le tour. Total journey 100km.
Destination: Taiping Lake Garden.
Origin: USm Engineering Campus.




Hooray..bicycle trip...was being crazy and naive...


I planned a bicycle trip to taiping. never thought of how far it could be.


I asked my friend, how long you take from taiping to campus. He said:" 45 minutes".





Then my instinct tell me...Not that far really....


Turns out.....





Really nice in the beginning..Along paddy field take picture...Enjoy the 'kampung' scene, despite got a lot of lorries...dangerous...not a peacefull journey along.



Then i reached the next town, bagan serai which i think its near but in fact took me more than an hour to reached. Looking at the sign board, oh gosh its 41 km away. Let me see, i calculate, one hour 10 km...40 km means... 4 hours!! Another buddy beside me, dillion was schocked too. We planned a day trip, started late today..due to bed lazying and dim sum breakfast. we start at eleven. 4 hours go, 2 hours play, 4 hours back. Back before night has come. So the speed must constant or more..no less...


After strong determination and self empowerment, we made it to Taiping. Only one choice to be made. One place to go...where? Maxwell hill, Lake garden, Zoo, Mc Donalds? At last i chose lake garden as people said its everlasting peaceful there..Lets go!!




Took a uphill down hill before reach there. In the end, it is very worthy.That place is utterly well preserved. The grass there never longer than 5cm. Nice Nice, you can find zen at there. This place is also a nice place to hang out with girls.(if they like nature, and not super shopaholics)












I just put some of these here because i put almost all into facebook. No reason to put back the same things. These few picture can let you imagine the beauty of Taiping Lake Garden. Another "why" i feel so happy because i travel hard to reach here, and in the end not disappointing.


Taiping was a place that rains alot..Hope its not raining today. Well it did, just a bit. Halfway back from the garden, God fool me with 5 minutes heavy rain. Big painful raindrop...We keep moving and back to campus after this little joke.


Along the journey, i saw a couple of cyclist from western country. Duh! They are fast. Well geared, strong stamina...We wave at each other giving ecouraging sign. I was motivated. I can head back to campus with expected time. Yes i can.


Back to my second home, Parit Buntar, i got this trip celebrated with Lamp chop with mustard butter, mixed garden salad and carrot milk in Hotel Damai.


great, next time will get a BMX and nice suit to somewhere further...

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Georgetown Gourmet

Okay, i was in my campus for a damn month of my holiday, damn damn damn...everytime lunch time, dinner time, this word will come out from my mouth. So this weekend, i am going to be a gourmet...At first, i want to go Ipoh..but...couldnt get a car...

Well, my will overcome every problem...Go Georgetown instead. So me and kenneth, the cabin fever duo are going to have georgetown foodseeker.

First food spotted is the Tan Jetty's prawn fritter.






We went there right after a 5 minutes walk from Jetty. That place looks like supplying prawn fritters,'lo bak' and 'dou gan' (toufu fried with some meat). We asked for eating there and the boss seems good with this. We order all types of what they have. Lobak and prawn fritters are very delicious as they just come out "JUST FRIED". The chilli sauce is very good and make a perfecr match for these fried food.



It was a satisfying kick start for kenneth and me.

Lets keep going, we continue walk to Cintra Lane where we planned to stay overnight. Sadly, the super cheap hostel was closed. What! but we dont worry much, there were alot of alternatives and at least there is a big standing TUNE HOTEL nearby, so no worries for shelter. Walking along Cintra Street, we saw a nice aunty selling Curry Chee Cheong Fun.




If you like this, you can find this Curry CCF in Cintra Lane (Lebuh Cintra) and look for Kim Maou Cafe. You can get a home made curry taste for the old lady. Behind where we sit also served red bean soup. You can have either boiling hot one or iced cold.

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Next, we walk to Komtar and take a bus to Gurney Plaza for the movie " Angels and Demons ".

i am not going to talk about the movie here, its only restricted for FOOD.

Night time falls, we get another hostel which is named Crytal Hostel where it is located at the end Cintra lane and intersect with Lebuh Chulia. From the intersection walk another 5 minutes on the right. That place is kinda clean and economical. RM 40 for two ppl room with air conditional. Good Deal.

For dinner, we have mamak food. I get the Maggie Goreng with Tom Yam taste. The mamak stall is situated along Penang Road beside the big polis station. Beware of bird shit there, as we saw extermely lot of bird shit under the two huge tree there! Got half full in the stomach, go further up to Upper peang Road where it is a very happening place in Georgetown. There are many pubs, clubs, disco there. That time when we were the was the EPL match between ManUtd and Arsenal. ManUtd just need to grab at least one point to become the season champion. Nah, no football, although its very happening but we went there for Burger.haha there is a burger stall outside SOHO club with very good burger. I had a beef + egg burger.




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We had a overnight stay in Crytal. The next day...




Once kenneth opened his eyes, " david, dim sum lo"...aiks...We get out ass up from the bed and head to Anton Road for the dim sum, recommended by the hostel manager. When we reach Kimberly Road and Carvarnaon Road intersection, we saw Sher Thor Kopitiam. hahaha we ate in advanced. I got myself a LOH MEE. Its kinda good with the sauce is not so saturated as what i dislike the one sold in my school cafe. Aiks...This one is very good and 80% of the tables got his Loh Mee.







Nice, we continue our seek of dim sum. we walk walk walk for a long distance and finally see Giant hypermarket as the Anton Road landmark. We got there finally after a....20 minutes walk?




Whoa, that place is full of people! The whole food court is theirs.




The siew mai is good, the egg tart is good, the ccf is good, the char siew pau is bad, the lotus leaf rice is so so...This is how i summarised this dim sum as i am 70% full with the previous Loh Mee.lol...Mistake made.haha...at the end we play scissor paper rock to finish the tables food.

Whoa,what a fullfilling breakfast. Actually there is more to eat. Along the Burma road where is half way to Anton road, there is a shop sell really nice fishballs named Hoai Ann. But we really cannot afford to fill in our stomach, so save it for next time.

We back to hostel and pack our belongings back campus. Its been a habit to tast Cendol whenever i am in Georgetown. This time i wanna try the underdog one. There is a very famous Cendol in Penang Road. It is a big contrast between them. One with big crowd, the opposite one with one, two people. Same price from both. So i curious, why the underdog stays there, it's like open a supermarket in front of Tesco. So out of curiosity i buy cendol from the less famous one.






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"Zep..Zepp...Zepp...Shurrrpppp....

Tasted almost the same. But i found the cendol of this stall is greener and shorter ( which is not as good as the famous one, greener means more coloring, shorter...who wants short short one) then the red beans is smaller, and this cendol is sweeter than the famous one comparitively. So it could be more syrup that the coconut sugar...Erm i think that distinguish two o them. But why there is people buyng from him...


One, people who cant wait....

Two, some motocyclist wanna drive thru buy cendol, they cant get cendol from the famous one by "ride" thru...

Three, curious people like us....~sweat~


Before that we wanna get some 'tam bun pia' and 'tao shar pia' back. For those, i recommend Him Heang and Ghee Hiang. Kenneth wanna have both for his mum and i just wanna have either. Unfortunately, Him Heang HQ closed on Sunday. So we only can get Ghee Heang, the oldest brand in Penang for the pias.









Thats basically my georgetown backpack experience. I got myself a RC car in Penang Street for RESEARCH PURPOSE. Its very cheap. Total all RM14 including batteries.LOL...Going to dissemble it in 3 hours.hehehe....