Category: Blogroll
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According to my very reliable source @malfletcher, 45% of the US population said it read at least one book last year. Mal’s most recent tweet is an advice to close your laptop and open a book, in order to turn your ‘deep’ and creative brain on. I do tire of spending time on the internet…
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Analogue cameras are in fashion again! Well… not really. A neighbour gave me a film camera because she was clearing out her flat, so I inherited this Barclay’s free gift. With a roll of Kodak 24 already in place, I went out to photograph the places I walk by almost daily, and see if I…
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As a child, I was told many superstitious lies to make sure I didn’t do anything stupid. Then I realised this was a common phenomenon among Asian parents. One of these lies is that the moon will cut your ear if you point at it. Well, did it cut yours? I was 8 years old…
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Besides the Temple of Fine Arts, we bring Sis’s coursemate from Melbourne, B, to these other tourist destinations in Penang. Wooden houses on stilts along Chew Jetty At the shore off Queensbay A traditional rickshaw at Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion Coloured planks along Chew Jetty
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Bikinis and white sandy beaches Aonang at sunset Phuket 15km
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Scenes from Georgetown, the capital of Penang, now a UNESCO Heritage Site along with Melaka. Georgetown is described on the UNESCO website as a “cultural townscape without parallel anywhere in East and Southeast Asia”. Photo credits to my sister. Pre-war houses from the 1920’s Floor tiles of a typical pre-war house Venetian blinds and grill…
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London circa 1967 Big sis in Butterworth circa 1980 Mum and Dad on honeymoon in Bangkok circa 1980 Penang circa 1970
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A Ferraniacolor photo slide of a relative’s wedding Clothes pegs along Chew Jetty Laminate rolls in old Georgetown A slow afternoon at the Gelugor house
Wan Phing Lim 