Penang - Kek Lok Si temple on Chinese New Year 2009 - Trip 1

Hey hey, I heard that the entire Kek Lok Si temple in Penang would light up during the Chinese New Year celebration but have never really been there before during these time. Armed with my camera and the gang went there for our photoshoot..

The first place we went to was not to the temple itself but rather to a nearby 'site'. It's in between the 7-eleven store and a chinese temple. Hike the path along up till you pass 1 resting place and move forward a little bit more just before the 2nd resting place, move to a tight opening at the left. We reached there just slightly after 7pm. Setup our tripods.. and prepare for the shots. The hike alone was enuff to exhausts alot of us as we overshot the place and walked further up before making our way down... :S
*words of warning, for those who wish to do this here... bring along torch light for those night shots after dark and mosquitoes repellent!* Here's the famous Penang Kek Lok Si temple shot was made I believe. Take a look at my sample. :)

Almost the same location isn't it? : )

Next up, we headed for the temple for our main shooting. hiked along the road at the side leading up to the entrance. the traffic was packed with cars going up forming bumper to bumper queue. Luckily we parked our car at a space further down.

Anyway, it was really jammed pack with people as well.. lol. I can also see a lot of lanterns being hanged up on the ceiling. Very very pretty sight indeed. We shot around the temple area and around it before making our way to the pagoda where we had our 2nd stage of shooting. This was also the first time that I've actually been here... hahaha. what an experience.

We didn't finish shooting the entire thing though, too many to cover. We'll plan for a further shooting this weekend hopefully for part two. The Kuan Yin statue! stay tuned...

Mini CNY gathering @ OldTown cafe Queensbay Mall

Had a very small gathering of 9 ex-college mates at OldTown cafe. Brief chat, food and beverages only.


Not bad to catch up with old frens...


P/S: Sharon didn't forget to advertise the chewing gum... nice!

Sundown

Caught this nice sunset sky during the appreciation dinner a while ago.

One more with a tall plant sticking over the fence. Which one is nicer? :)

Wonderful find - Sri Sithi Vinayagar Devasthanam @ nibong tebal

Well, a very Happy Chinese New Year to all of the readers :) (wait, b4 u guys say anything.. i know this post has nothing to do with CNY... it just happened so I snapped this up during CNY. hahaha.. i'll post something related to CNY soon... : ) )

I went back to my mum's hometown as usual to visit relatives for a yearly gathering :)

There's this temple which I know it existed but never really paid any attention to it till this year. Well, its safe to say after I bought my dslr last year.. things haven't been the same since then. Started paying attention to places, landscapes, peoples for opportunity to snap.

Here's the nice temple at nibong tebal. Hope you'll like it as much as I do... the skies were clear and sunny... good day for a nice photoshoot + sunburn. :p

Appreciation dinner - Audees

The team director and managers were very kind to throw us this team appreciation dinner right b4 Chinese New Year last week. :) very very happy to get free meals hehehee.. thanks a lot!

Arrived at Audees with the gang and shoot around the area while waiting for the rest to get there. The atmosphere was okay with a few decos.


The food was served in a series of a few courses, I wouldn't say nice but it was better than average. It was French style and when we look at the menu we had no idea what those meant. :p

Anyway, enjoy the pics and those of you who wanted to go there can check out the restaurant.


P/S: dress code for the day was Red! and i think the best dressed should be sookteng.. wahahaha (to show that check out the photo below... she even wore red shoe...)