Pictures from Lang Tengah

Went on holiday last week! Lang Tengah Island (very near Redang). Excellent beaches, excellent marine life, all at the hotel beach itself! Here are a few pictures made by me and my family. . .


Road to No-where.

(Took this picture on the Trip Home)






The Beach




Clouds and Palm Tree -Inverted

Azure Sea

Green, Gray, Blue

Pier

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Delayed Kuantan photos

Aha! I've finally found the deep secret of pasting photos! I'm such a technological dinosaur. Anyways, here are a few of the beach pictures we took in Kuantan during Chinese new Year.

Pyramid and Shovel

Tropical Paradise

My Brother

Running Water

Sunset Beachgoers

Empty Beach

Seaside Stroll

CNY and Family Tree

Happy Chinese New Year, readers! Sorry I haven't blogged for so long. My family had an extended trip in Kuantan (Dad's hometown). My grandaunts' good food, clean beaches, starry nights. . .ahh.

For some unexplainable reason, I felt urged to start recording my family tree this year. Since most of my elderly relatives (the ones who knew all my ancestors' names) were back in Kuantan, I thought it most strategically savvy to start my research while the family was balik kampung-ing this year.

Names were confusing. There were stories and insights attached to either this Great-grandfather or that great-grandfather. Apparently my great-great granfather (on my paternal grandpa's side) had ten children. I guess that was the norm in those days. Question upon question, relative upon relative, and I've just begun my search! (Sigh!)

In any case, it was an eye-opening experience, an insight into the lives and hardships and stories of the men and women who came before me in my family. To think of that great cloud of people whom I never knew, yet inseparably linked to, takes me aback. I see the pictures of my great-grandparents in a new light. How many were saved? How many years of hard work did it take for my old relatives to build up the blessings that I now enjoy? I wonder.

Chinese New Year Spirit?

The streets of Malaysia are being decked gayly with red posters and yellow Chinese calligraphy.
Rows of crimson lanterns, attached to wire, link lampost to lampost, street to street.

The air is full of the merry music that accompanies every Chinese New Year. The tv ads have been replaced with CNY greetings. TV2 is boasting of its "oriental special shows".

It's supposed to be a bad, bad, bad economical year, but the Year of the Ox in the Zodiac seems to have ushered in, along with it, a bursting festive bull market. The grocery stores are filled with banners of "Unbelievable Chinese New Year prices!" Pictures of oxen and water buffalo cover the newspapers and stampede on the barbeequed meat shops (the ones selling long yoke). Cookies are on sale agian (yaaaa!).

I think Chinese New Year's in the air.