Mae Salong and Yeng Keng Hotel

We went to Mae Salong for lunch and Yeng Keng Hotel for dinner last week. Mae Salong’s food was not as good as Khun Tai. However both are worth a visit if you’re up north Malaysia.

Yeng Keng Hotel was pretty neat. The hotel restaurant was fully booked when we were there but we didn’t mind sitting out side. Food was decent but if you keep your expectations low, you’ll be fine. Be sure to slow down as you approach the hotel in Chulia Street, there are plenty of parking space inside.

Stumbled upon Jakie Evancho during a mall stroll. She’s very talented prodigy I must say.

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Practice and more pratice...

More practice shots with my Lensbaby with manual focus and fully manual setting….will be keeping it that way until it’s my second nature to do all those at once for a spontaneous shot.

I wish I can do the KL Walkabout and some heritage buildings around KL once more with this lens….before they are gone.

Some years ago, we shot the Wembly Park at Penang and it’s now gone!

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Brussels Beer Cafe

I had a fantastic dinner at Brussels today. More importantly, they put on a great selection of 80s songs. If you’re anywhere near Gurney Plaza, drop by this place at the Gurney Paragon. The food and ambiance is above average and they have a great selection of beers too. Nice place to chill out.

Here’s something inspiring from TED. The main point of this clip is COLLABORATION. When you put the best people together, they make the best things.

Have a great week ahead!

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State of Trance


I’m rediscovering photography with Lensbaby + Sweet 35 optics. It’s perfect for creating dreamy photos that’s sharp where it matters or totally not sharp where nothing matters :P With a matching aperture, a lil twist and turn you can even create a very nice water color effect. I just wish my view finder was a lil bigger.

Here’s some interesting tracks from Armin’s State of Trance 2012. Enjoy!

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Maximum Effort, Minimum Occurance

While thinking through how to solve problems on a daily basis, sometimes my mind wonder off to far flung places. It dawned on me that usually we spend so much time trying to solve problems that almost never occur. For example, your car air bags will probably never deploy in its lifetime; your sophisticated home alarm system will probably never trigger….and yet these are exquisite engineering. Designed to protect you. Very few people appreciate the effort behind all these engineering marvels to make sure you are safe. In machine automation, error recovery is a huge effort to protect the machine, your process, your products. Sadly, as things get more sophisticated, products being pressed for time to market, these things sometimes get lost in translation engineering.

On a less depressing note, check out these lens baby creations… photos taken at Ice Ice Baby, Gurney Plaza.

Ice Ice Baby Dessert


Ice Ice Baby Dessert


Ice Ice Baby Dessert


Ice Ice Baby Dessert

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