Thursday, October 8, 2015

Highlights of September

September was a month of unfortunate for planning, at least for work related. Every plans that drafted for work are not worked out as it goes. Not only I have to overstay 3 extra days for work but also was late to submit monthly report due to laptop security problem and etc. Nevertheless, it was a great busy and productive month with alot of last minutes work hehe :)

Started out as spending time working on isolated location for half a month, the remaining two weeks was dedicated for family, friends and myself!


Let's the picture speak! -caption will be updated soon! Already updated!



Not exactly an September picture, but close enough, taken on 27th Aug. A view of platform taken from accomodation vessel.

Crew in tool container. Love the lightning.


How personnel are getting transfer from vessel to platform - not for fainted heart

And then I had my days off!!!

Location: Sitiawan. Attending my colleague/housemate wedding. Special guess: Napoleon Fernandez Henry. Haha, specially flew from Kuching to attend wedding.

First time attending Indian wedding. Very interesting! The temple is cool!

Sitiawan must-have-food. Seafood! Apparently it was overcharged us. There are plenty of restaurant option here but all were scattered around and hard to find even by GPS coordinate.

On the same day back from Sitiawan, had a look around my friend's event. Its a badminton competition that last for 2 days! Quite an event, superbly crowded. These are the decoration made by her and her family for photo contest purpose. Arent those amazing? Feel like stealing one and put in my room hahaha.

Its a kids-magnet!

Almost approaching final

Family trip to Penang! Penang is a common location for a family trip. Not sure why we are attracted to Penang.

Wefie before journey! Dad as usual are camera-shy or maybe even camera-hate.

First visit at the Temple which is famous for students during pre-examination. Prayed for my nieces.

Forgot the name foodcourt. Behind the Tune Hotel. The food aren't as nice as two years ago. Otherwise it was a great location due to the massive parking space and huge seating area. Judge a coffee not by its cup though, the cup is great in this case but the coffee is so-so.

Get to visit Logo's Hope. A charity funded ship that drop by Penang harbor for a month.

What can be seen inside? Basically it is a ship with bookstore/gallery that is visitor-friendly. Superb friendly volunteer staffs from all around the world.

The huge bookstore. Most of the book aren't updated as you may find in major bookstore (at least IMO) but there are plenty of good old quality books. I bought one with the title "Practical Woodworking"

At the end of the tour, there's a cafe and kids playground.

This place is dreadful to reach. Mainly because of the peak hour traffic jam on holiday-eve and road closure. We have to take a huge detour to reach this place in Teluk Kumbar. One hour plus were taken for a course of 20km drive. X_X

Huge seating area. It was crowded but still have plenty of seating

By far this is the best seaside restaurant ambience. Better than Khuntai next door at least.

In the next morning. taking breakfast nearby hotel area. The food was nice too although was randomly picked out this place.

Already lunch time! Have some yam rice but Bukit Mertajam's still the best.

Penang Hill! This is the first time of my visit, since my unrecallable memory of a childhood that I have been here before.

Chilling around under shade underneath the hot-clear weather while my other sis getting the ticket.

Potrait of dad. Shot with X-T1 with 56mm f/1.2 (putting geek glasses on). He did smile once at one frames that I bursted but I chose the cool expression.

Inside the trem.

The trem was crowded and slightly slanted and travel very fast and vigorously! Fast and Furious level maybe. I accidentally stepped on a girl's food foot and she was giving me an annoyed expression. Haha. Sorry!

Wefie with camera. This camera able to get action-cam alike wide angle kinda shot. The main reason I still doubting to get an action cam. The weather was clear despite in the haze season, thanks to the rain a night before!

Wefie! See how wide the angle, able to fit whole family + strangers too in the frame!

The otherside of Penang, Teluk Kumbar/Bayan Lepas area.

Its easy to get my parent into a couple shot despite of camera shy.

Last stop before heading back, Air Hitam famous laksa. Superb crowded and not a good place for a huge family to eat in. But I found out the take away service and speed is better than eat in. Perhap next time should just take away and eat in hotel. Parking and traffic congestion beyond boiling level

First thing on mind - when was their last time washing those pot.

BBQ with friends during Hari Raya Qurban!

A rabbit bike. Extremely loud and dangerous machine.

Get a chance to visit a clay workshop!

This Totoro was drawn by me at the first place, specifically wanted it to look happy when seeing a clean cool river grassland. And was put into reality with the guidance of talented workshop owner.

Take a look at her collection of handmade clay! All handmade creation by her! Imagine how long she have invested time in here! Its just mind blowing!

Well, that's all I can share for the month of September. Its only a quarter a year till new year. Never feeling we ever have enought time.

Sorry for the emotionless technical writing. haha I got involved too much with technical writing for a longgggg time therefore it is less emotion recorded :P