Couch Surfing!

First time hosting couch surfers! Interesting idea where one can make more friends by hosting or surfing when you travels anywhere in the world. I've just joined the CS recently when i received a message from Liz about hosting her and friends in Penang.

It wasn't the best time for someone to stay at my place but i'm able to show them around Penang and try out local foods! We had some great time travelling around Penang island, and i've even tried the local transport, Rapid Penang for the first time! Hahaa.. The first day, we went to Botanical Garden, Penang National Park and Chew Jetty. Here's some photos from that day.

 

Barnacle 'city'


Ratana and Vicky
 

The next day, we decided to browse through Sunday morning market at Chowrasta. One of my favourite place to street shoot! 

This is how some vendor dried their chopsticks :P In an old basket on 2 motorbikes


Pity the 'model' huh... caged and locked inside. Lifeless..


We walked pass a local food store, where one guy sells this local breakfast called "Mang Chang Kueh". It's made of flour, sprinkled with sugar, peanuts, canned corns and cooked to perfection under hot plate on a charcoal. 

They love it!


We walked around Georgetown, exploring and visit the street art-drawings on the old buildings by the famous artist, Ernext Zacharevic. Here's some of them. 



Oh and look at this cute little girl.. and i'm disturbing her having breakfast.. sorry!


After Georgetown, we head over to Butterfly Farm for a short visit before rushing back to town to catch the bus to KL. They almost missed the bus due to bad public transport and traffic but thankfully, managed to catch the bus on time with the help of a taxi driver.

Hope you guys enjoyed the trip and tour in Penang, and i'm looking forward to visit you guys in Cambodia one day.

Street Shooting @ Georgetown, Penang

I'm back to Penang, and back to street photography on our very own Unesco World Heritage Site, Georgetown! There's always something to shoot here, peoples, old buildings, bicycles and trishaws, and recently, wall painting by Ernest Zacharevic which spice up Georgetown and bring heaps of tourist from all over the world here.

I'm glad i have such a site weekly to snap some street shooting and improve myself in both composition and guts to get closer. Hahaa..

Here's some of the photos i've shot in the weekends.


Most of the local residents here still resort to bicycles as their main mode of transportation


and of course, motorcycles!


This guy is famous for his rice paper


This guy is still making the traditional sign for houses


Here's the famous painting from Ernest, with 2 new 'models' posing :P


Little kid reaching for something.. of course, another famous painting from Ernest


Houses of Tok Aka Lanes. Note: The photos is not distorted. The ancient construction are not that precise and this is the result. Unique though :)