through my lenses...: May 2008

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Lonely Planet - Cinque Terre, ITALY

A picturesque Cinque Terre (pronounced CHEEN-kweh TEHR-reh) is a coastal area in between Genoa and La Spezia, famously known of postcard scenery...The Cinque Terre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site with five villages - Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola and Riomaggiore. What a perfect for summer holiday...

Sunday, May 25, 2008

Glorious Food: Bak Chang

Photo: http://sarikei-time-capsule.blogspot.com/2007/06/festival-sarikei-rice-dumpling-festival.html

Now i can't hold myself from drooling reading the dumpling making at Josh's blog...at first i feel lazy to make myself but i can't wait this coming Saturday to make some...hehehehe...i did it last year and the time to the celebration will come soon early June...i did write about it last year here...so tomorrow is a Bank holiday, will get some ingredients for my dumpling...chicken meat, chestnut and lotus (i think i still have some from last year, hehehehe...no expiry date...), i still have some bamboo leaves from china, yeah, the plastic string...porcini mushroom (arrrggghhh...too luxury for my dumpling and i guess Joshua will jealous because i am going to use some expensive and exotic wild mushrooms from Italy - i bought some when i visited Italy, actually i bought in Venice...yummy...hehehehe...), some five spices, black soy sauce, light soy sauce, some sesame oil, oyster sauce, sugar, salt (lucky that the salt here is less salty...) and glutinous rice...oooppssss...some salted yolks...yeah!

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Lonely Planet - Prague 05

Time to say goodbye after three days in Prague...and i brought home some wooden doll keychains and one pink wooden lady doll with another two inside it...

Friday, May 23, 2008

Lonely Planet - Prague 04

Met these two lovely and friendly Turkish girls, Orge in yellow and Sultan. They both study English in Copenhagen...

...and another two French girls...Julie and her specky friend (forgot her name)...

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Lonely Planet - Prague 03

One of the guards, standing at the entrance of the castle...just like the one in Buckingham Palace, London...only good looking officers will be guarding the entrance of the castle...

Just inside the castle compound...

The main cathedral in the castle...St. Vitus Cathedral...

A view from the castle overlooking the city...

A daring photographer took this in the middle of the bridge...lucky there's no tram or cars...

Vitava River separated the Prague Castle section with the old Prague...

The famous Astronomical Clock...

National Museum from Wenceslas Square...the main shopping street...

Old Town Tower, which is close to my hotel...

Milunić and Gehry's Dancing House...just a few modern architecture buildings around Old City of Prague...

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Lonely Planet - How can you resist!

I don't like these...how can i resist not to travel around? hehehehehe...but i have to self-grounded until July...oh GOD help me, please!

Ryanair offers for this month...and easyjet and jet2 have the cheap flights too...well, life is great!

Lonely Planet - Prague 02

Ahaaaa...sate...an indonesian sate restaurant near the Prague Castle...hhhmmm i don't think the sate tastes better than Kajang Sate...and the price must be a few hundreds kroner...

Another tourist train for city tour...

This building is quite unique with the three dimensional effect wall...

It is me? Nop! just a guy taking a photo of that wall window...

Just another classic car for city tour...

Actually, i missed the castle guard change at 12.00...so just managed to snap this soldiers marched out the castle area...

The front of Prague Castle...

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Lonely Planet - Prague 01

Yeah! Samsung welcomes me to Prague or in Czech is Praha, capital city of Czech Republic...Its official name is Hlavní město Praha, meaning Prague - the Capital City. Prague is considered to be one of the most beautiful cities in Europe and is among the most visited cities on the continent Europe...