A short trip to Taiping - Taiping Lake Garden

As we are attending wedding dinner of my wife's best friend at Taiping, we got to stay one night near the famous Lake Garden thanks to the friend, arigato gozaimasu!

So, since we are there, no harm to have a walk around the lake. The lake is really huge and it takes you a while to go one round. Well, we didn't go one around, we just walk along some stretch only.


One side of the lake view, too bad no blue sky and white cloud......which means give me an excuse to revisit. :P


Portrait time, wife and daughter...


The happy pose, love this photo a lot.


The jetty where you can rent the boat and go round the lake in another way.


Nice tree!!!!



TIf you like to fish, this is a good place.


Oops, dead fish.......

Taiping is really a good place for retirement. :)

Taiping Lake Garden:
GPS Coordinate:  4°51'18"N   100°44'56"E

My new toy - Canon EF 100mm f2.8 USM Macro

Ok, I had own the lens for sometimes, since I had collected quite some photos since then, it is time to give a short review after hands on the lens.

So, firstly, the lens I owned is the Canon EF 100mm USM f2.8 Macro lens. So, note here, there is no "L" as I really have budget concern. Also, when your boss has an equivalent "L" lens, it is better for me to get the lower range. :P

Firstly, lets look at how it looks like:

                  Non L version (my lens)                                       L version  (my boss's lens)

The lens cost me RM2.2k (inclusive of a Kenko Pro-1D UV filter).

Now lets look at the results:
Still objects:














Portrait:

Ear portrait. :P I really love the details from the lens, juicy......





Below is the link to another entry where all the photos are taken with this lens:
Penang Butterfly Farm Macro shots

In short, I'm very satisfied with the lens, really likes the details given from the lens!

Penang Georgetown - Wat Chayamangkalaram

A short visit to the temple with parents...

The Siamese temple is located at Lorong Burmah between Burma Road and Kelawei Road, it has sentimental value for us to revisit the temple as we had visit the temple once when I'm still very young and it is a family trip. This visit is after around 30 years since the first visit. :P

The temple has been maintained properly as it is still look the same as we visit 30 years ago.


The main entrance of the temple.


The sleeping Buddha inside the temple.


One of the statue outside the temple.

There is very little of parking space around, so you may need sometime to find a car park around the area.

Information:
Opening hours: 6.00am - 5:30pm Everyday
Location: Lorong Burmah, 10250 Penang
Contact: 016-4105115
GPS coordinate: 5°25'54"N 100°18'47"E

Penang Georgetown - Peranakan Mansion (2nd visit)

It is always one of my objective to revisit Peranakan Mansion in Georgetown, Penang with my Canon 350D. Since my parents is visiting my house, it is good timing for me to revisit the place.

This time, I try to take a closer look at the house design and decoration and searching for something that I had miss out during the previous trip.


This is the card game that famous among the Nyonya.

Some of the traditional stained glass window:














The peranakan house's wooden door:


牌匾:






Kitchenware:

This is the traditional "Ais Kacang" ice blending machine, really hard to see one nowadays.


British style tea cup.


Another British style tea cup. As the new generation of Baba are mostly English educated, their living style are lean towards British style, that's why there are lots of Europe style decoration, furniture and clothes around the house.







Traditional medicine shop setup:



This is the storage used to store all kinds of traditional medicine. This shot is a closeup shot, the wooden storage is actually around 2m in height and around 4m wide.

Statue and carving:

Traditional Chinese lion statue.


Balinese statue.


Wood carving on the door.


Bronze lion statue.


Wood carving on the main wooden beam which support the house. The bird carving can be seen usually on the high horizontal beam across the living room.


Stone lion standing on top of the ancestor hall.

Lighting:
















Kapitan's seat:


Side seating in the living hall upstair:


The opium bed:


Side seating at the other hall:



The painting on the wall is the owner of the house.


This is the walkway of the first floor, the center area is the opening to let the sunlight pass through to light up the house.

For those that who wish to visit the place:
The mansion is open to public everyday from 9.30am to 5.00pm (including public holiday). The admission fees are RM10.00 for adults. Children below 6 years old is free to enter the venue.
Contacts:
Address: 29, Church Street, 10200 Penang, Malaysia.
telephone: 604-2642929,
fax: 604-2641929
e-mail: rmhbaba@streamyx.com.
e-mail 2: rmhbaba@gmail.com

Website: http://www.pinangperanakanmansion.com.my

GPS coordinate: 5°25'3"N 100°20'28"E