An Outing with My Grandson...

It was a beautiful day with the sun shinning bright. I could see white clouds scattered across the blue sky up above. I thought that it would be a good day to go out to the old part of the city and visit the old Railway Station that I had not visited for such a longtime. I told my spouse that I wanted to go out and she suggested that I ask our eldest grandson to go with me. It was a good suggestion so she calls him and asks whether he would like to go with grandpa. As usual he said that he had to ask his mom first. After awhile he calls back and that his mom says it is all right for him to go with grandpa. I then pick him up at his home not far from ours and then drove the Honda to the KLCC parking area. 

Parked the car there we walk to the LRT underground station nearby. I told him that I got a Touch and Go card for the ride and that we have first get a ticket for him but he told me that he too got a Touch and Go card. With that we need not buy a ticket and could go in to the underground by using the cards. We talk as we walk. Well this boy has indeed grown up. He is almost of the same height as me now. We have seen him grow from the day he was born in 1996 and now his is 15 years old. See how time passes by and the grand kids are all grownup now. It is the first time that I had taken him to go out with me. And I felt real good to have him as my company on this visit to the old part of the city. We took the escalator to the underground station and found the train has just left.

We waited for the next train and after awhile it arrived and we went in. I found a sit and sat there while he preferred to stand. The train soon whizzed away to our distinction, the Pasar Seni Station. In between it made a few stops, soon the train arrived at the Pasar Seni Station and we got out of the station and walk downward to the footpath below. My grandson is familiar with this part of the town since he often comes here for his tuition class at one of the shop-house here. We wall along which chatting and the since both of us have not taken our breakfast yet we decided to have it at one of the Mamak Restaurant opposite the Pasar Seni or the Central Market.  We went in and he ordered a Tosei while I did the usual Roti Canai. He had Milo Ice and I had Plain Hot Tea. We sat and enjoy that breakfast and then after finishing it we decided to go straight away to the old Railway Station nearby. 

There is a path on the roadside leading to the station. We walk and then went up the step that leads us to the station. There I ask a work woman as to where is the Museum and she pointed to the direction of the main lobby of the station. With that we move along and eventually got into the station. We decided not to go the Museum first but instead to go and have a look at the outside of these old buildings that was build by the British during the colonial era. There I took some images of the station and its surrounding. Image on the left is the main office of the KTM or the Malayan Railway as the rail service is known here. We then went back and browse along the Museum. There are many things of the past as well interesting to look. All those artifacts of the old railway are of the past now and I am glad that they have set up this Museum to store all those old artifacts that are related to the bygone era of the Railway. 

As I was looking around the museum a man in uniform ask me whether I enjoy the visit. I told him I did. We got into talking and eventually found that this man is the curator of this museum and he is on Facebook. We exchanges information and I told him that I like the place and would return to spend more time here. There is so much to see and my grandson seems to be enjoying it too. This is also his first visit to this museum and I believe he is learning many things of the past here of how the only way to get around in the country in the past was only by railway.

After taking some images of the museum we left and went to visit the Pasar Seni. This is also the first time my grandson got to see this amazing market where there are so many things to see and buy. It was once a wet market that sells Fish, Chicken, Meat and Vegetable and it use to be a wet and smelly place to be. But it is not so now. It has been renovated into a modern shopping mall where handicrafts and other things of interest to tourist are sold here. There are also eating place where one could have a healthy meals. I ask my grandson whether he was hungry but he said he is not as yet, so we just sat to have some cold drinks there. 

After that we again went to see more of the stall including those outside where many artists can been seen doing their works of arts. I saw a young woman painting a portrait and I thought that she would be a good subject to photograph. I seek her permission to do so and she say its alright and to go ahead. With that I took many images of that artist in action in her little studio there. On the left is an image of her doing her works diligently. 

We then continue to browse the many stalls and eventually decided to leave and take the LRT back to the KLCC where I had parked my car. We walk to the Pasar Seni station and boarded the LRT toward the KLCC station. The train arrived and we boarded it and it whizzed toward our distinction. In just a few minutes we arrived at the KLCC station. 

Got out of the station and then walk toward the concourse of the mall. As we walk I ask my grandson whether he would like to eat something and I suggest that we take the Hotdogs at the 1901 Stall. He agreed and we sat and enjoyed that freshly steamed hotdog with cold drink. After that we head straight to the parking lot in the basement and then I drove the Honda back home. Well, it was indeed an interesting outing with my grandson, one of those days in the life of a grandpa. 

Have a nice day. [Please click on image to enlarge]

The Senduduk buds....

Senduduk is a wild flowers that grows well on the roadsides and in between rubber trees in Rubber Plantations. As a child we would eat the berries and get our mouth all colored purple. Growing up in the forties and the fifties kids make their own toys and one of it is the bamboo gun. The buds of the Senduduk as seen above are use as bullets for the gun.  The above image was taken with a Micro Lens. Enjoy it folks.

Have a nice day.

Of Grass..

Well folks we see grass everywhere but do we really notice it and give some thoughts on its importance to our survival. Just take a second and think. Would we be able to live on this planet without oxygen? It is the greens on this planets that provides us with the oxygen that we so needed for our survival on this planet. And one of the many greens is the ordinary grass that we see on the roadsides and on the playing fields. Without oxygen we would all perished. It not only gives the look of freshness which is so pleasing to our eyes, it is also one of our important sources of Oxygen. 

So the next time you passed a patch of grass do give some respect to these humble plants. Above is the flower of a blade of grass that grows in front of my house. See how beautiful it is when look at close range. I took that flower of the blade of grass using the Macro Lens and it turn out to be such a beautiful image of that humble grass. Enjoy it folks. 

Of Pollination...

In everyday life one takes the flower as beautiful or just brushes it aside and move along, at time hardly noticing it. It is only when photographed that one get to see the wonder of a flower. One of it is the stigma as seen at close up. It is the sticky part of the pistil where birds and bees in search of nectar would left pollens on the flower, thus help in the pollination process of the plant.  Above is the closeup of the pistil of a white Hibiscus in my little garden, an amazing part of nature as seen using a Macro Lens. Enjoy it folks.  

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Have a nice day.

The Ant...

Above is an image of a little Ant enjoying it morning visit to the Hibiscus flower behind my house. 

The image was taken using a Macro Lens. 

The image above shows how small the ant is  relative to the flower.

Enjoy it folks.  Have a nice day.

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Of iPad and Photography...

I have been toying with the iPad since I start using it from August this year. It was a gift from my kid on my 72nd Birthday on August 17th. Indeed a great gift and I cherished it very much. I found it to be using an advance computing technology putting the Laptop to another era. Tonight I tried the camera using the special effect Apps provided and the result is as you see above. I am astonished as to the quality of the image, awesome indeed. And sharing it here for all to see and enjoy. Have a nice day.

November 11, 2011[11.11.11]...

Woke up to a beautiful Friday in November. Today it is special folks for today the date is written as 11.11.11. Not always we get this combination of date, month and year. I am posting this at 11.11AM Malaysian time today. so that we get all the one's that happens today. 

Have a nice day folks and take care.

This year Eid Adha...

This year Eid Adha falls on November 6, 2001. Woke up early and together with our son-in-law and the two grandsons went to attend the special Eid Adha prayer at the local mosque nearby. With the two granddaughter now studying overseas it left little Adibah to help grandma, her mom and Auntie Lin in the kitchen preparing the cakes and cookies for the Eid. 

She had insisted of making some cookies and with the help of her auntie Lin got it done. With her two elder sisters away she was left alone to do her things without been tease or disturb by the elders. And the result of her works is the image above; tasty and colorful indeed. She did well and we are happy with it. 

While she was happily in the kitchen her two siblings are busy at the computer as seen in the image on the left. 

Meanwhile Lin our youngest daughter who has taken over the kitchen from her mom did the Butter Cakes. It is one of my favorites cake and I love it. 

As for the lunch she prepared a Chicken Biayani which turns out to be good. Better then the one we often ate at the restaurant nearby. 

Well folks we did had an enjoyable Eid Adha. It was indeed a great family reunion. 

Have a nice day.

[All images was taken with the iPad camera - please click to enlarge]