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Christmas is just around the corner. Many shoppers spend great amount of money to buy Christmas presents and prepare for the Chinese New Year.

Only in the recent years that Penang shopping malls had noticed the importance and business opportunity of the Christmas. Thus they're putting their best Christmas decorations in the concourse areas to attract shoppers.

In this article, we'll see various themes of Christmas decorations from Penang shopping malls and happening places.

This is another brainless design that took no effort of quality improvement and efficiency.

As you can see from this picture, both the toilet bowls are facing the same grid around 1 square feet. The standing space is very limited. It's almost impossible that 2 guys standing at the same grid competing each other while taking a leak, especially in the eastern culture.

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With the value of land increasing everyday, it has become a luxury to own your own garden in Penang Island.

But don't give up just yet. If you're stuck, try to think out of a box. This house owner designed a lawn in the middle of his/her car park.

 It's all started by Kwongwah newspaper advertisement showing appreciation to the 1Malaysia Bicycle Ride on 25 September 2011 which was held in Straits Quay Penang. The original picture was posted on the headline on the same day.

But the advertisement picture inside the same newspaper was showing Koh Tsu Koon riding next to the Najib, which is the Prime Minister of Malaysia. But the fact is: Koh Tsu Koon was never in the picture. The detriment picture was enhanced by an image editing tool such as Photoshop, showing Kok Tsu Koon there like a miracle.

The food hunting session has began!!!
All the Penang famous local foods are on your finger tips.
This application provides the users with all the featured local food locations on a map. It even tells the users how to get there.
Penang Food Hunter intergrades with Facebook API too. Once you have logged in with your Facebook account, you may share your dining locations with all your friends by publishing it on your Facebook wall.
The food locations are based on user recommendations so that you will find some hidden food locations which are not too commercial.

There was a protest led by Mogn Ghani against Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng had caused severe traffic chaos in Penang Island on the 1st of July 2011.

This group of people rallied at Komtar at first. Then they marched from Komtar to Jalan Masjid Kapitan Keling. During the march, they occupied both lanes causing the traffic halted until the march had passed.

Latter in the afternoon around 4pm, they even blocked 2 lanes on Penang bridge toward the direction to Prai. Since it was friday and office take-off hours, many vehicles had been trapped in the traffic for hours.

ONLY ONE JPJ Police was sent to the Penang Bridge for the crowd control.

Having western food served to you with hotel quality but mere the price of hawker stalls.

The Satay Chicken Chop is something very special which you can't get from any other western food stalls. It's marinated with turmeric(黄姜) and served with grill. At first I thought it was served with traditional satay sauce, but it was not. By eating the plain turmeric chicken thigh emphasizes the taste of turmeric and chicken.

Pork-Chic Lasagne is another dish that worths mentioning. Too bad we finished it so fast without having time to take pics.

This western food stall locates in a sea of shops that it's quite hard to clearly been from outside. It's at the exact T-junction of Lebuhraya Codrington and Burma Road in Pulau Tikus.

This might be the worst car show I attended in my whole life. I really can't believe an event organizer could make such n00b mistakes in many fields.
- Organizer with serious communication breakdown
- Almost empty content.
- Messed up activity conflict.
- Pointless parade.

Other than the Octoberfest, it's an another yearly open day in the Malaysia German Society.

Since I'm not a person who has great knowledge recognizing German culture and handicraft, I really can't tell if they are belong to German or local Malaysian. So just let the pictures talk.