Buildings in Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur is the capital city of Malaysia. As a developing country, the city has many contrast view where you can still see old and new buildings together. These old buildings in Kuala Lumpur is the heritage and it carries the historical value. During my photowalk around KL, I like to capture those old buildings or landscapes that attracted to me.

If you love these photos, Kuala Lumpur is a place for your visit ... you will enjoy our warm hospitality of Malaysian.

KL Shooting Again

It has been a long time not having street shooting in Kuala Lumpur. Because I'm working on Saturday, I can only be jealous of my friends who can go out almost every Saturday. Finally, Yeah .... And now I started working 5 days week ... that mean I can go out on Saturday to do my favorite Photo Shooting .....

Yeh ... Time to celebrate ....

...yeah .....yeah !!!!

But ......

Ah ...... yah .....

My home minister said " A-Em .. Mr Yap, don't think you can go every Saturday woh ... you suppose to take care your son woh... Now You off on Saturday, you better responsible to take care of them .... now I can rest ....."

........

........ sob sob ;-(

Anyway, last Saturday, I got my visa to go after becoming good husband and good father .... hahahah

The morning weather was very hazy due to the heavy burning at the neighboring country Indonesia and the smoke were carried over to Malaysia and polluted our air. Light smoking smell were in the air. Nevertheless, the unpleasant smell couldn't deterrence me from the limited opportunity I had. 

I were using my dad's old film camera, Nikon FM with 50MM F1.4. Now, I'm getting like the color and effect of film photography.

 

Photowalk at Kampung Baru Kuala Lumpur

In my last blog post, I mentioned about the Photowalk at Kuala Lumpur with a few of my photo enthusiast buddies, it was truly an enjoyable trip. We meet as early as 7.30am in Sentral KL and started the journey to Dang Wangi Station by MRT and having breakfast at the famous coffee shop, Kedai Makanan Yut Kee, Dang Wangi.

I have been hearing so much about this place. You can find many write-ups about this place by many bloggers. The restaurant started since 1928 which is my grandfather time. I think now is running by the 3rd or 4th generations of their family. It is a typical Chinese Hainanese Kopitiam (coffee shop) with wooden chairs and marble tables, you can find some antique decoration around the shop. This place is quite crowded with the locals as it’s located in a strategic location in downtown.

As this is my first time having breakfast there, I ordered the recommended Hainanese Chicken Chop and Roti Babi. As for Roti Babi, if you translate literately, it means Pig Bread …. hahahaha… unfortunately I couldn’t find any pig in the bread except some mince pork, lap chong and vegies … To be more appropriate, it should call pork bread ..

Chicken Chop

Roti Babi

I really enjoy the breakfast, it food is tasty (although I don’t called it the BEST), I like the moist texture of the chicken chop. The only weakness is the portion is small for a big eater like me ….. hahaha…

After breakfast, we walked around the place. I found quite a number of graffiti on some old buildings. Some people may critique this vandalism acts, but I rather amaze with the beauty and artistic drawing on the old building walls. I guess if the authority set aside some locations for them to perform their talents; they can turn Kuala Lumpur into a beautiful ART city …..

We walked toward the direction of Kampung Baru where mainly Malay community staying there. Old Malay architectural buildings or kampong houses can be still found there. Those houses / buildings have historical value and they have witnessed how a small Malay Kampung turned into a Metropolitan City, now the capital city of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.

The high rise buildings surrounding by the Kampung Baru creates unique modern and traditional contrasts view. I guess you need to walk around to experience this impact.

KLCC - Cityscapte View

Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur

People there at Kampung Baru are simply amazing as they are friendly and approachable. Majority don’t mind we take photo of them, we can take the opportunity to make friend with them, and we do some small chatting with the locals to understand their living and cultures. I think photo-walk is not just taking photographs but rather the opportunity to interact with the local people there.

 

We found a number of stray cats and all these meow-meow becoming our photo shooting target. Look how close we are with these meow-meow … hahahaha

Even our PEN LOVERS (FB Group) founder also doing the same ... hahaha

This is my favorite shot of a meow meow …..

I ended my photo-walk earlier because I have other appointment. As for the rest, a few of them continue their journey to explore the Petaling Street ….

It was a fruitful day and I am looking forward for another photowalk in KL again … I am wonder which part of Kuala Lumpur would be good ?

Do you have any suggestion?

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P.S. By the way, we did some planking shot in Daya Bumi .. that would be another story. I hope I have the courage to write and show you some of these crazy planking shots that we did …… hahahaha …

What is planking … click here ….

 

Malaysia is Ninth Friendliest in the World

Today's News at the STAR (16 April 2011) : MALAYSIA IS NINTH FRIENDLIEST

Wow, impressive yeah !? We ranked number 9 on the top ten of the friendliest countries in the world … Yes, I mean the World! Neither region nor continent. The result was based on the survey done by HSBC over 4,000 people from more than 100 countries between April and June 2010.

We are so proud leh after all the nine countries that in the list are non-Asia countries. We are just behind countries of Canada, Bermuda, South Africa, United States, Australia, Spain, France and Britain …. The 10th is Germany.

For me, I do agreed Malaysian generally are friendly people except some small group people (especially those "ada duit" one) would show their nose pointing to the sky, eyes ball stuck at the forehead and with two big holes facing your face that you are so disgusted with the amount of hairs that make you feel like vomiting all food that you ate yesterday … LOL .. hehehe, a bit overly exaggerated.

After I picked up the hobby of street photography, meaning walking around the streets in Kuala Lumpur to capture photos of people and the surrounding, I meet many people from all walks of life. As a street photographer, our skin need to be "ticked" as elephant skin because you are taking photo at people that you don't know. You would never know after the "click" sound, will you get scolded by the person …. #$%^&#@@!!?

hahah… I bet all street photographers would experience this. If you haven't experience this before but you said you have done street photography, I doubt your "qualification" or you are just a liar, self denier or maybe dumb-dumb enough of not noticing people scolding you … hehehehe

Anyway, that category of people belongs to a small group only. I meet many people who are very friendly while I take their photo. When I smile at them and they will smile back to you.

I used to went out with my friends for photowalk, we love walking on the street especially places like Chow Kit, Petaling Street, Batu Road, Pudu and such. Many people won't mind us taking their photos, some even friendly enough to chat with us or even pose for us with a big smile.

Let check out some street photos that I took during my photowalk, they're showing us what is friendly is all about. It was a wonderful time to associate with them. Chat with them and make friends with them.

Yes, thank to those people, they are part of the contribution factor that made Malaysia a better place to live and also made Malaysia the ninth friendliest in the World.

Brovo, Malaysian …

My first outing to snap photographs

Finally, I made up my mind to go Lake Garden this Morning. Later I found out the place is called Taman Tasik Perdana.  The purpose of the trip is to explore my new toy - Olympus E-PL1 and I also need to submit a photo to David, trainer for professional photography, for review. This is home work after I attended his training session.

TTP is a beautiful place, you can find a butterfly park, bird park, orchid garden and many more places there. Due to time constrain, I managed to cover two places only - Butterfly park and orchid garden.

I was con at the entrance to the butterfly park, the signboard stated adult entrance fee is RM18.00, I asked the lady whether Malaysian entitle for cheaper rate, but she did not answer me. So I bought entrance ticket of RM18.00. However, upon exit to the place, I over heard the tax driver telling other passengers that RM8.00 for mykad holders .....

Nevertheless, it does not spoil my mood ... I am busy learning photographing, although the park is not fantastic and the orchid garden has a few orchids, I think the number of butterfly is much lesser than the Penang one. But the fun of using my new camera and the fun of testing every shots, are enough to make me enjoy myself.

I have taken almost 500 pictures, until my batteries went flat. Anyway, as a first timer, it is satisfy by looking at the photos. I have shortlisted 80 photos to share with you.... I hope you like it.

I meet this little girl, butterfly flew to her shirt ... so cute.

Click at the picture and it links to my flicker photo album.