Malaysian Post

Went to the Gerakan CNY Open House at Tesco Puchong this afternoon with my family.

There was a large crowd and we have to queue about 15 minutes for our food. Food was the usual fare consisting of white rice, fried rice, fried mee hoon, curry chick, popiah, satay, sweet and sour fish and stir fried cauliflower. Drink was orange cordial, cendol, and ABC (Ais Batu Campur).

We reached there after 1 p.m. and there were no cendol and ABC left. The lunch dishes were replenished from time to time. However, when we reached the serving table, the popiah, satay and fish were temporarily finished and were awaiting replenishment. Bad timing.

There was a short Children’s Lion Dance contest/demonstration before the VIPs gave their political speech.

Immediately after that there was an announcement over the PA system that the VIPs were distributing Ang Pows (red packets contain cash) to children. Immediately the crowd started moving towards the stage for the ang pow distribution. In the beginning the children were orderly. But after 10 or 15 minutes later the people at the queue started to get impatient and minor shoving and queue jumping starts.

It is Valentine Eve and while waiting for my bus, I chance upon a couple of young enterpreneurs selling red roses from a car in the car park.

I asked them for permission to snap a couple of shots for this blog but they were very coy. They agreed after a while but by then my bus has arrived. I managed to fire off a couple of quick shots before dashing off to catch my bus. The tail end of the bus can be seen at the left of the picture below.

Happy Valentine’s Day to all the lovers in the world.

Was browsing Wikimedia when I came across these very interesting images. The top 5 winners of are shown below. To see the full list of winners, please click the Wikimedia link.

Commons Picture of the Year 2007

#1 – 84 votes; Broadway Tower in Cotswolds, England.

Taken by Wikimedian Newton2.

#2 – 67 votes; New York City at night, USA.

Taken by Paulo Barcellos Jr…

#3 – 66 votes; Red Squirrel with pronounced winter ear tufts in the Hofgarten in Düsseldorf

Taken by Wikimedian Ray eye.

#4 – 62 votes; Terrace rice fields in Yunnan Province, China.

Taken by Wikimedian JialiangGao.

#5 – 59 votes; Green turtle, Hawai’i, USA.

Taken by Wikimedian Mila Zinkova.

Please click here to view the full list of winners.

Went to Batu Caves yesterday to shoot some photos of the events there on the eve of Thaipusam. Dreaded going to the place on the actual day (today) because of the huge crowd. It is very difficult to shoot under such condition although the kavadis would be bigger and more colourful. The atmosphere should also be more carnival.

Managed to shoot a couple hundred frames. Created an album and uploaded to my Gallery today.

Please click to view the Album here.

Click here to view full album

Was rather taken aback when I first saw this banana stalk. It kept on growing long after the fruits has been consumed by the birds.