Wonton is a Chinese cuisine made by placing a desired amount of filling onto a square wrapper, which is a dough skin usually made from flour, salt, water and egg.  Well, for our case, we bought the eggless ones.

Wonton is very popular as a side dish of noodle.  And therefore, there is wonton mee or wonton noodles.  However, today we are not going to talk about the noodle.  The side dish is now going to be the main attraction!

We usually have wontons when we go to vegetarian restaurants but today we have decided to make some of our own!  I did some online research as well as vegetarian recipe books for the filling.  At the end, it was somewhat a mixture of the researches and the memory of the filling’s tasted when we eat out!

We used cabbage, carrots, mushrooms and XiangShuJi (a kind of fake chicken meat made of soy) to make the filling.  Everything has to be finely chopped and mixed.  Then, I fried everything together until fragrant.  I added a bit of salt, pepper and soy sauce to taste.

Meanwhile, Colin seperated the wonton wraps pieces by pieces.  When the filling has cooled down, he put the filling onto each piece and wrap it up.  He did a fantastic job!  Look at how they were all beautifully wrapped!  Beat the restaurants!  Haha…

We fried them instead of making wonton soup.  Both are as delicious though.  Why don’t you give it a try too?  Give us some feedback once you have tried.

Next time, we will try the soup base wonton.

We usually buy cabbage which has been cut into half because the whole cabbage is too big for us to finish within one week.

Sometimes we buy purple cabbage which makes our plates turn purple, when SiewPeng transforms them into one of our dishes for lunch or dinner.

Yes, it contains different nutrients and mineral which are important to our health.

:p Most importantly, when it is cut into half, it gives good colour contrast on its lines to show its beauty created naturally and randomly.

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List of related posts on fruits and vegetables:-

1.  Different Types of Apple.
2.  Buah Keranji.
3.  Buah Pulasan (a Fruit looks like Rambutan).
4.  Different Types of Brinjal and Eggplant.
5. Kumato.

We found kumato in a hypermarket some time ago, but we didn’t buy it until I read from Wikipedia that it contains more fructose which makes it sweeter than other tomatoes.  So we gave it a try.

The kumato that we bought has greenish brown colour.

It is smaller than the orange-coloured ‘normal’ tomato that we bought last week.

We bought a pack of six in a box.

When I have taken their photos inside my light box, and was halfway writting this post, I noticed that I have forgotten to take the photos of the inner look.  I quickly cut one of the kumatoes into pieces, arranged them on the cutting board, and tasted it.

SiewPeng and I found that it is not as sweet as we expected, but not as sour as normal orange-coloured tomato.

This is how the box looks like.

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List of related posts on fruits and vegetables:-

1.  Different Types of Apple.
2.  Buah Keranji.
3.  Buah Pulasan (a Fruit looks like Rambutan).
4.  Different Types of Brinjal and Eggplant.

When I go jogging, I usually take note of special plants or animals and beautiful views.  And if possible, I will try to take their pictures and share them here with everyone.

Well, during this particular jog that I had, I saw a mother and her son.  The child was probably around 2 to 3 years of age.  They were walking and suddenly he started to pull the edge of his mother’s blouse.  He was ignored.  So he did it again.  This time, she turned around and asked him what happened.

He did not say a word but pointed to the direction where he had left one of his shoes behind.  She looked towards that direction and reprimanded the child for not telling her earlier that his shoe had dropped.

I don’t think that I have to elaborate more on the situation.  He did try to tell her but she ignored him.  And this is just a small matter but let’s think about what if it was something much more serious?  Do you still think that ignorance is a bliss?

One morning when I was jogging at the park, I overheard a mother teaching her child to count as I was walking behind them.  The child was naive and very keen to learn.  She was holding her mother’s hand and they were walking slowly hand in hand while she was counting from number 191.  After she reached 199, she said 100-100 (one-hundred-one-hundred) instead of 200.

Although it was not a correct answer but her mother still reacted in a positive way and told her the right way to count.  She gave her praises and encouragement and her tone was full of joy and happiness.  The atmosphere was so calm and positive.

Parents play a very important role in a child’s development.  It determines how they handle and react to different matters when they grow up.  Do you agree?

In the last post, we showed you our encounter with the big butterfly as we were walking along the new walkway.  Today, we are showing you some of the views. :)  Let the journey begins!  First, we are welcomed by flags at the entrance.

The main characters are of course…Colin and SiewPeng!!!

We enjoyed walking on the walkway.  It is fully air-conditioned except the entrance but as you walk slightly further, you will start to feel the gentle breeze coming towards you as you make way through it.

We read from newspaper that this walkway is 562 meter long and 5 meter width, but we didn’t feel the distance at all.  The view from the walkway, and the new look of the environment distract us from feeling that it is half a kilometer.

It is a total different experience where we walk from KLCC to Bukit Bintang few weeks before it was launched.  Walking outside on footpath made us sweat under the hot sun, and we had to look left and right whenever we needed to cross a road.  Whereas now, we can enjoy walking in the cold air and enjoy the scenery on the walkway bridge.

Nuts and bolts!  Strong enough to withstand storms and protect the pedestrians so that we can do our shopping or sight seeing safe and sound.  Haha!

Pedestrians and the walkway.

Can you guess what building can be seen from this angle of the walkway?  Try the building that has some blue letters on it.

Other views along the walkway.

From here, we are able to see the other side of the walkway.

Sushi anyone??

A carpark, but not too sure about its exact location.

Both Malaysians and foreigners benefit from the convenience that the walkway brings.

It saves us a lot of time and gives us shade from the hot sun and rain.

Where would you like to go from here?

There is still a slight bit of renovation work not done during our visit.  However, the second we went there, it was completed.

It ‘was’ a new walkway about 2 months ago.  We went there 3 days after the walkway was launched.  SiewPeng and I were welcomed by a big butterfly stopping on the external face of the glass of the walkway.

The butterfly kept on flipping its wings but it did not move away, I quickly used my mobile phone to take these pictures.

Can you guess which walkway is it before I tell you the answer?

It links up 2 popular shopping areas in a big city with the length of almost 1km, and it is air-conditioned.

I will show you more photos on this walkway in the coming posts.

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It is more than a month since this blog was last updated.  SiewPeng and I have been experiencing a new episode of our life.  We have settled down, and from now on we believe that we can spend more time on updating this blog.

For the coming weeks, you will expect to see the photos which I have taken since a month ago.

Happy Yuan Xiao Jie (also known as Chap Goh Meh in Hokkien) to everybody who celebrates Chinese New Year!

“Chap Goh” means 15 in the Hokkien dialect and ‘Meh’ means night.  And Chinese New Year is usually celebrated for 15 days ”traditionally” so the night of the fifteenth day marks the end of the Chinese New Year celebration.  It is also the Chinese Valentine’s Day.

All the Chinese radio stations are going to stop broadcasting Chinese New Year related songs and contents.  Shopping malls are also going to remove all their Chinese New Year decorations.  In order to enjoy this festive celebration and its atmosphere again, we will have to wait for the year to come.

Well, here are some of the decorations that we have had the opportunity to get a glimpse of before they all disappear.

This is the year of dragon.  May the dragon brings good health, happiness and prosperity to everyone.

Happy Chinese New Year from Colin and SiewPeng! :D  May the year of dragon brings you great health, happiness and prosperity!

We have taken our picture with the golden dragon at Sunway Pyramid.   The decorations are fantastic.

Unlike previous years we have taken the pictures of the cat statue in Kuching, this year we are enjoying a quiet Chinese New Year in KL and we have just visited some of the largest shopping malls.

Lots of people were taking their pictures with the golden dragon too!

There are effects like smoke.  Take a look at the dragon’s tail closely.  At random times, the smoke comes out from the dragon’s nose.

This is the dragon’s head.  The art work is nice and meticulous.

Opposite the golden dragon is a Chinese pagoda.

This is how the pagoda looks like from the top.

This is a larger view opposite the golden dragon.

There are fire balls hanging down from the center of the roof.

Inside the mall, there is a place for ice skating.  The red lanterns are above the skaters.

Before we left, we took some pictures outside Sunway Pyramid.

The side view of Sphinx.

As we walked further, we found a small roundabout decorated with lanterns, beautiful lights and flowers.

Lots of peach blossoms.

We went to Pavillion at Bukit Bintang earlier this month, and we found a huge dragon there.

Colin, SiewPeng and the huge dragon at Pavillion, KL.

Once we entered the mall, there were children singing Chinese New Year songs on the stage.

Outside Pavillion, Bukit Bintang.

A few days before, we went to The Gardens Mall and found these cylinder lanterns.

Instead of setting up the dragon statue, Midvalley Megamall used paper cutting lanterns, which is really nice and big and I think it is not an easy job to set them up though it seems easier than the dragon statue.  If you look closely, the patterns on the lanterns were cut and pieces of patterns were then stapled together.

And by the way, lantern in Mandarin has the same sound as dragon, which is ‘Loong’.

SiewPeng with the Sphinx statue with red ribbon (decoration for Chinese New Year).

And here we are again.

Wishing everyone all the best in the year of Dragon!

Aha!  It is time to put a big smile on your face!  Why?

*Because we are alive
*Because we are in good health
*Because we are surrounded by our loved ones
*Because we don’t have to starve
*Because we have a job
*Because we can do what we like (legal activities :D)
*Because we can travel
*Because we learn a bit more every single day
*Because we are not perfect but we love who we are!

And etc…etc…etc…

Shouldn’t we be grateful and thankful?

So, remember!  Be positive and be inspired at all times!  You’ll do great things and achieve tremendous results!

Have a fabulous day every day!

We eat at home more often now.  There aren’t many choices at where we live when it comes to vegetarian food.  Perhaps we haven’t been looking hard enough.  We used to take away economy rice, which is white rice with dishes to choose from and pack into a lunch box but that seems to be difficult to find here.  Most are non-vegetarians.  For lunch or dinner, we have two dishes with white rice.

Sometimes, we have other things like vegetarian sushi.  They are made with vegetarian sausages or soy ‘chicken pieces’.  With some mashed potatoes added in, the sushi taste marvelous!  Lately, a new flavor has been invented, corn kernel salad, which is a good combination for sushi too!

We also use bread as pizza base to make vegetarian pizzas.  Nowadays, they sell readily mixed pizza cheese toppings and it is so easy to use.  Just cut some tomatoes and capsicums, lay them on the bread, spread the cheese on top and put them in the oven.  Within a matter of minutes, you will be served with hot and yummy pizzas!

Well, there you go!  Some of the food that we eat now.  We intend to try more new things and keep you updated soon!

This is the vegetarian mushroom noodle.  I tried it in a food court in a shopping mall.  Like it, except it is a bit salty.

Most of the time when I had lunch with my colleagues, we went to an Indian restaurant.  It is a new type of food to me, since I have never tried it when I was in Kuching.

The way of eating is special, there is no plate, but we use banana leaves.  We have an option to eat with our hand also, but I have never tried and I am not going to try as well.

After finish eating the banana leave rice, I was told by my colleague that we should fold it to tell that we have finished with it.  There is a way to tell if the food is delicious by the folding direction, but my colleagues are not sure about it, and most people just simply fold it.

Out of all the food I ate in different restaurants, Indian vegetarian food is the cheapest.

Every Friday night, I went to the night market to buy this “Peanut Pancake“.  I like to see the seller cut it into pieces from a big round pancake.  He usually cuts a few horizontal lines and then cut them diagonally again to make them into triangular shape.

There was one time when I was queuing to buy a few pieces for my dinner, I heard someone in front of me told the hawker that he wanted the pieces to be cut out from the border.  Yes, the border is crispier, but also harder to bite.

The smell of peanut makes me mouth watering when they are served hot.

Ice-cream is my dessert after I have my dinner.  I have finished 3 boxes in 2 months.  And this is my favorite flavour - Lava.

I always buy this fruit from the night market as well.  This is called “yacon“.  In Chinese it is called “XueLianGuo“, which means the fruit of icy lotus.  It tastes like pear.  It can be cooked, but I like to eat it raw.

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SiewPeng has come here and I am not living alone anymore.  I have brought SiewPeng to try the vegetarian restaurants I have been to, and bought the same things from the night market.  They are our favorite food now.

I started to cook “again” for myself while I was living alone for the last quarter of 2011.  It was about 8 years ago when I last touched the stove.

I try to make things easy, but it seems not really easy.  The easiest way is to go to a restaurant or a hawker stall to have my meals, but there is not much choice in my area (since I am a vegetarian), and it is neither economically efficient nor healthy.

Therefore, I cooked my own meals “sometimes”.

There was one time I cooked 60% of dried mushroom with 40% of green (it seems like an unusual ratio), because I didn’t buy enough vegetables.

This recipe is given by SiewPeng, and it is very easy to prepare.

I cut the carrots, potatoes and tomatoes into pieces, boil them in water and add some salt, done!  - My favorite soup.

Another meal I like to cook is the porridge.  I do not have to measure how much water I need to add to the rice, and just put all the ingredients into it.

To make life easier, I prefer to use an electronic stove, I am also worried about explosion if I use a gas cylinder.

I also ate some canned food.

I fried hash brown.  I have a few metal bowls, the reflection makes the food seems like duplicated.

These are the ingredients I added into my porridge.

These are the ingredients I used for frying spiral macaroni.

50% of spiral macaroni + 50% of add-on (mixed-vegi, greens and mushroom).

This is tomato version of fried spiral macaroni.

I fried rice twice only after I have got a rice cooker.

Sometimes I used shortcut when I was lazy to prepare food. - Instant Noodle.  However, I don’t like the taste.

This was even easier.

I bought an apron and used it not only when I was cooking, but also when I washed dishes to prevent water splashing onto my clothes.

The tough part of my life has gone because now SiewPeng has joined me for a new living environment.  She prepared the most delicious food for me, and I want to thank her.

Next I will show you the food I ate in restaurants, sometimes with my colleague, sometimes I ate alone, and sometimes I bought it and ate at home.

A new year has just arrived on our doorstep.  Are you ready to open the door and welcome the future?  There is a very good Chinese saying.  A day’s plan starts in the morning, a year’s plan starts in spring.  Have you listed out your 2012 resolutions?  If you haven’t, it is never too late to do it.

I am sure that everybody must have been through many different stages in life.  Sometimes, it takes a lot of courage to move out of our comfort zone and deal with the challenges which lie ahead of us.  Let’s be stronger this year and face all the hardship that we have been running away from!

Wishing everybody a happy, healthy and prosperous 2012!

I have very minimum knowledge in cooking, but I have been staying alone since weeks ago, therefore I picked up cooking again since I last touched the kitchen tools years back.

From what I have discovered within these few weeks, I have learned that first thing first is important in order to prepare a meal efficiently.

The first thing is to prepare ingredients, and the first ingredient to be prepared is the dried mushroom.

It is a very common material in Chinese style cooking, but the mushroom take a bit longer to turn soft, therefore the first thing is to dip it in water, and I can prepare other things while waiting for it to be ready.

SiewPeng told me that this process can be made faster by dipping the mushroom in hot water.

After the mushroom turn soft, I cut them into slices.

I will tell you more on the my kindergarten-style-cooking stories.

… …  To be continued … …

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We have not updated since more than a month ago, we were really busy.  

This moment is another turning point of our life.  SiewPeng and I will be experiencing different life style and pace of life.  We will be seeing different things. — Yes, I have moved to a “big” city, and SiewPeng will be joining me very soon.

Happy Deepavali to those who are celebrating the Festival of Lights, especially to the Indian community in Malaysia.  :)

This is the first time in my life I have a public holiday for Deepavali in Malaysia.  Previous years I was in East Malaysia where it is not a public holiday.

I have visited KL for quite a few times in the past, but have never come during this festive season.  I am surprised to find that there are Kolam(s) in all of the shopping malls I have just been to recently.

Instead of 3D decorations (which can usually be seen in shopping malls), this time I saw a 2D decoration.

Kolam is a type of painting painted with coloured rice powder.

I noticed that most of them have peacocks as their theme.

Some of these decorations are labeled as Rangoli.  I don’t really know about their differences.

There are 2 separate entries in wikipedia on Rangoli and Kolam.  From what I understand, Kolam is a type of Rangoli?  Correct me if it is wrong.

Other Deepavali decorations at a shopping mall.

I thought of going to Batu Caves (KL) today, and see how crowded it is but I have other plans.  I recalled someone told me that it will be more crowded during Thaipusam.

I will wait for SiewPeng to join me in KL and we are going to visit Batu Caves during the festive season, and I am sure that we will have a true life experience on how crowded it is.

I believe that there might still have a comfortable space between people so that visitors can still move around even it seems very crowded from the pictures (same thing as a picture of a crowded shopping mall), compared to the space on KTM train (city route) where the space on the train is sometimes zero or negative (terribly squeezed among human).

Once again, Happy Deepavali to everyone.

Our tortoise has not been very active for some time.  We were quite worried about him and we really don’t want to lose him, which is our only pet now.  We took him to the vet the other day and she said that he is lacking in vitamins and maybe we should consider changing his ‘house’.  And we did.

We bought him a round box instead of the usual rectangular ones.  I was quite attracted by the accessories that are mounted to the center of the box.  There is a bridge, a coconut tree and something like a ladder.  And I like the little slope too.  Initially, he was still not moving much in his new home.  Then, we put him nearer to the windows.  And one fine afternoon, I found him basking on that little slope!

And the next minute, he was ‘climbing up’ the ladder!  He pressed himself against the ladder with his front legs stretched out.  It was such an adorable sight!  I have not seen him gone up the bridge though.  I hope Mr Tortoise likes his new place!

I adjusted the hue of these photos to make them more attractive.  Purple is my favorite colour.

Pink is SiewPeng’s favorite colour.  The most eye-catching object in the photos above is the “Y” shaped wood.

Green means nature.  While the train was moving fast, the grass or wood in the photos above could not stay still.

Purple again.

Golden brown clouds with a communication tower.

Last, I did not forget to try one in gray-scale.

I have posted all the pictures I took from the train’s window.

Coming up next, I will show you a unique sunrise,  stay tuned!

The power cable is distracting, I can crop it, but I don’t want to miss out some parts of the cloud.

Some other trees with the sun ray.

This is a big tree on a piece of open land, I can see mountains, a communication tower and again trees far away in the background, can you?

Coconut trees in this area gave me a kampung (which means village) feel.

If I am not mistaken, these are palm trees.

Again, each of them are unique.

Coming up next, I will show you the mysterious clouds which created the beautiful sun ray.

What attracted me to take such a lot of photos of the view from the ETA train window was because of this ray of the sun coming out from the cloud in a downward fan-shaped.

The train was moving at top speed, and it passed through endless of power poles.

Huge power poles are my favorites.

The pole block the sun from my camera, and there was a bird flying over.

At this moment, the sun was almost fully covered, I found that reduce 2 stops on exposure gave me more detailed on the semi transparent cloud.

These might not be the most beautiful photos, but each of them are unique.

Next, I am going to show you the tree photos taken when we were on the ETS train.

There are 7 mountains in this area.

Let me analyze what direction I am facing.

We were on a train from north (Ipoh) to south (KL), and we were sitting on the left windows of the train.

A geography question, can you guess what is the direction from us to this mountain?

The answer is East.  (However, it might not exactly be on the East, if the train was not exactly on the North-South direction)

We don’t have a chance to see sun rises from these multi layer of mountain, but I believe the sunset must be beautiful.

We took a non-stop ETS train package on our way from Ipoh to KL just because we need to connect our flight.  The fare is more expensive, but it provides some refreshments.

I took photos along the way, because it repeated playing the same movie that I had watched on our last trip.

What I worried the most was if it breaks down, and we will miss our flight.

Look at the following photos, it stopped here for quite long, and it really worries my.  Luckily later I find out that it was giving way to other train.

For the next coming posts, I will show you all the pictures I took through the ETS train windows.

The boat was full of chattering sound.  Everyone, including us, were excited during the departure as well as on our way back.  Friends and family exchanging news and recent happenings around the world.

This is the jetty.  There were different boats.  You might have to be careful when getting on the boat on your way back because we noticed that the authorities (or no authorities) didn’t check our tickets at the jetty.  However, our tickets were briefly checked when we got back to the resort where we departed.

The staircase to…. heaven? Haha :D  If our thoughts are positive and at peace, everywhere is heaven, do you agree?

This part of the boat seems to be quite hot.  It could be the weather or the air-conditioner compressors.  On that day, I think it was both.

As the boat was moving, you could enjoy the warm sea breeze while looking at the sea view.  If you are lucky, you might even see some fish performing acrobatic actions in front of you! :)  We were fortunate enough to see a long-shaped fish jumping on the surface of the water.  It happened in a matter of seconds!

Ahem~~no entry!  Strictly for the captain only!

Time flies.  Happy time flies even faster.  It is time to go but we will be back again.

This is the final post for our Pangkor trip in August 2011.

It is a concrete jetty at Pangkor Island.  While waiting for the boat to depart, I took some photos of the jetty and the surroundings.

Waves coming.

Looking back to the Pangkor Island main land.

Can you see the word on the railing?  ”Selamat Datang Ke Pulau Pangkor”  which means “Welcome to Pangkor Island”.

How nice if I can turn this picture into a sunset or sunrise picture.  I can imagine how it looks like.

On the left, it is the Pangkor Island which connected to where I was standing.

On the right, it is the Mentagor Island.

There is a small area on the right, in front of Mentagor Island.  It is called Giam Island.

This is the Giam Island viewed from another angle.

Giam Island is really small, and from the map it is less than 400 meters from main Pangkor Island.  It is popular for snorkeling.

I have not experienced it, but from what I have read, it might be possible to walk to that island during low tide.

These were what the visitors doing at Giam Island.

At first I thought this is a river mouth, but it is not.  It is the “islands’ mouth“.

Teluk Nipah (Nipah Bay) is facing these 2 islands (Giam & Mentagor), therefore there are many water sports there such as banana boat and kayaking.

There was an empty boat with a Malaysia flag.  I wonder how the driver of the boat get onto it?  Swim or use another boat to reach this boat perhaps?

Not far from the Lin Je Kong Temple, there is a stone area next to the coral beach.

From what I observed on many beaches, stone areas usually appear at the headland/cape (antonym: bay).  This area usually gets stronger hit by waves (I still remember my secondary Geography lesson :p ).

According to one of the photography rules, objects should not be positioned in the middle; the person in the photo above is in the middle, but the “mouth” between the islands is not.   Compared to the first photo, which one do you think is better?

This is a typical photo of the waves hitting the stones.  I didn’t bring my tripod, else I will use an ND filter to take a long shutter shot to create smooth lines of waves.  Next visit, I will stay longer and bring my tripod.

Well, you may ask how to reach this place if you have never been to Pangkor Island.  It is not far from the Lin Je Kong Temple.  At another end of the temple, there is a bridge and staircase.  The stone area is right across the bridge.

The stone area is in front of SiewPeng, whereas the temple is behind.

This bridge has yellow spots highlighted with red outlines.

Standing on the stones, looking backwards to the temple and the beach.

We found a group of visitors looking at something, I don’t know what they were looking at.

As usual, stones which contact with sea usually have sea shells sticking onto them.

The entire process for us to explore this stones area was only about 5 minutes.  We had to be quick, someone was waiting for us.  I just snapped and go.

Travel with people who don’t like to travel (but only like to eat) is not an easy job.  My direction is sightseeing and taking photos, but theirs are looking for food.  SiewPeng and I are vegetarian, where can we find our food in an small island?

Personally, I like this garden’s design especially the garden and the footpath, except there are really too many statues and designs which are in cartoon style that do not look natural.  However, it is a great place for photo shooting.

This is the place for praying.

A round stone table and chair with plant in the middle.

Our background: The crane (long necked bird) and the dragon surrounding the incense burner.

Another background: the mermaid.

This stone crane looks huge.

Mermaid.

Mermaid and Crane.

Next post, I will still be showing you the photos of Pangkor but will leave the temple out a bit.  Stay tuned.

I found a small “GuanYin” statue in the temple’s garden.

The yellow flag with red borders.

And a incense burner which is roofed.

We walked up the hill and found this gourd-shaped big red pot.  It is used for planting bamboo.  As I know bamboo (especially purple bamboo) is related to “GuanYin”.

Another big pot.

Turtle from top view.

The red Chinese word on the stone is pronounced as “Nian” which means “Thought“.  This single word is formed by 2 sub-word.  The upper part is “Jin1” which means current moment, and lower part is “Xin1” which mean heart.  When 2 words combined become 1 word, it means what is currently in your heart = thought.

This is the beauty of Chinese word.

The word “Nian” actually cannot be exactly defined by the word “thought”.  The meaning is close but the concept might be different.

I believe that “thought” is as powerful as action, and it is actually an action in our mind which will lead to create another potential action.

I keep on telling myself that positive thought is important.

I like this word on the stone and I took photos of it from different distances and angles.

To be continued … … in Part 3.

We were told by the pink taxi driver that there is a temple at the far end of the road.  We walked quite a distance (at least few hundred meters along the road and through part of the beach) and finally we reached there.

There is a small bridge to access the temple.

At the footpath towards the temple, looking towards the beach and the sea.

There is an artistic hut near the entrance but outside the temple.

And there is a big turtle statue.

From here,  we started to take photos of ourselves “crazily”.

There is a stone labeled with “De2Yin1” which means the voice of moral.

We snapped ourselves quite fast because there were people waiting for us to pose at the decorated feature surrounding the temple.  We were also waiting for someone until our turn to take the photo there.  This happens when you travel on a public holiday.

Sometimes, we “accidentally” included other visitors and passers-by in our photo because we really can’t wait for too long.

The wall was painted in plain gray and the door and railing are in yellow.  They were highlighted with red lines.

This design looks like the great wall, but later I found a mini great wall there and we had missed it.

Mushroom.

The red Chinese words are “XiangFeng” which mean meet by chance.

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SiewPeng’s parents came with us to this island, but they were too tired to walk to this temple.  We didn’t let them wait for us too long, and I snapped the photos as fast as I can.  Although it was only about half an hour there, I have taken about hundred photos of ourselves.

Next, I will show you more of our photos taken in this Lin Je Kong Temple.

The memory of visiting Pangkor Island when I was a child is very vague.  I cannot recall much details except that my mum and I had to take a really long boat ride before we could reach the island.

When I stepped foot on the island again, I felt that it has evolved a lot.

This is a picture taken from far.  Take note of the colourful object at the far left.  It is one of those slides made of plastic, which is meant for water activities I think.

We did not go to the beach.  We went to the temple and took all the pictures from there.  However, we were still sunburned.

Pangkor Island, the frog / toad, Colin and SiewPeng.

There are many boats on the beach.  I am not sure whether they belong to anyone though.  And there was a colourful banana boat too.

Visitors having fun!

Waves at Pangkor Island.

View from another angle.

There are two cement blocks on the beach but I am not sure of their purposes.

A zoom-in to have a closer look.

Do you know what they are for?