Penang Georgetown Night Views

Night views of Penang Georgetown can be seen in City Bayview Hotel from its revolving restaurant located on level R, rooftop, of the hotel. The restaurant offers 360° degree view of Georgetown. I have not tried the buffet dinner in the revolving restaurant but the themes and courses of the buffet dinner offered by this restaurant can be found here. That night my family and I went there for the 360° night view of Georgetown after celebrating my 19th birthday, below are the shots with only my compact camera instead.

The Penang High Court, Convent Lebuh Light School, and St. George's Church on the very right of the photo.

 
The St. George's Church. An Anglican Church with 193 years of history.

 

Komtar, Prangin Mall, Penang Time Square and 1st Avenue shopping mall.

It would be great to have dinner in City Bayview's revolving restaurant and also enjoying the night sceneries of Georgetown either with your family, with your friends or even with your partners. It is worthwhile for celebrations and building up relationships among family, friends, and couples. I guess should have a try on its buffet dinner one day, anyone's up with me? 

Penang Food Paradise #6 : Thai Sweet Pork Rice

Have you ever heard of Thai Food Hawker instead of Thai restaurants and cuisines? Here, this Thai Food Hawker is serving different kinds of dishes including tom yam in a food court located in Mangrove Food Court in Prima Tanjung which Prima Tanjung is located directly opposite Island Plaza. The Sweet Pork Rice served by this Thai hawker is delicious and satisfying! The Sweet Pork Rice dish contains pork with dark soy sauce and garlics, rice, and some vegetables, just like what you have in an ordinary meals like chicken rice dishes or fried rice dishes. Obviously, this is non-halal!

A hot yet satisfying plate of Sweet Pork Rice was served on the table.

My friends in Tunku Abdul Rahman College, do drop by to this Thai Food Hawker as you guys have your lunch breaks in the afternoon. I bet this plate of rice with dark soy sauce and garlics pork will surely satisfy your stomach before you return to your college for classes! 

Detailed Information:
Thai Food Hawker

Mangrove Food Court, Prima Tanjung ( Opposite Island Plaza )

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What's New In iPod, iPad, and iPhone iOS 5 & Direct Downloads

Apple has just released its final version of iOS 5 on the 12th of October that is 13th of October in Malaysia. iOS devices' users had been very excited towards the release of the final version of iOS 5 which came with a major upgrade in a form of incentive from the Apple. I was excited yet also delighted because I managed to download the firmware early in the morning with the unusual speed, what a grateful morning I had! So what are the major upgrades that made iPod, iPhone, and iPad users crave for updating their iOS devices as soon as possible? The iMessage, Notification Center, and Wi-fi Sync are the main feature that made me craved for the update personally as multitouch gestures I had them months before the final version release without jailbreaking. Unfortunately, the multitouch gestures are only available for both iPad and iPad 2 users.

First, right after you updated your iOS devices to iOS 5, the feature you will be first experienced with is PC Free.


From left to right until bottom, screenshots showing new settings available in iOS 5.

Let us go in brief, finally numerous new sounds were added for selections in ringtone, text tone, new & sent mail, tweet, and so on. iCloud, a wireless storage for users' musics, photos, documents, reminders, bookmarks, and more will be pushed to the iOS devices wirelessly. Next, Notification Center settings. We are able to sort our notifications manually or by time, customize the alert styles, and so on. The notifications work like a charm! The integration of Twitter in iOS 5 allows us to tweet our photos, Safari, YouTube, and more right from the apps themselves. The keyboard shortcut is another great feature for users to type only "hhh" as "hahaha" on the keyboard as an example, it is also customizable by users for any shortcuts on the words they want.

The Notification Center allows you to simply swipe to view them from the lockscreen and also swipe them down from status bar. 

The user interface of Mail has improved especially on the ability of styling your words while composing your emails and quote leveling.

The iMessage where you can message your friends with iOS devices. The cool user interface of integrated Twitter in iOS 5.

The revamped UI of iPod.app that is changed to Music.app

Besides having the ability to edit your photos, you are also able to create photo albums too!

Split keyboard is nice but I need some time for getting used to it. Calendar is now allowing users to view calendars by year.

Despite the other new features of Newsstand, Safari Reader, Game Center, and Air Mirroring, these are all the feature that I personally find them interesting. The performance of my iPad 2 in iOS 5 is not affected as expected as it is still considered as the youngest product of iPad family. The battery? I find it drains a little bit more faster but this must be due to the settings of fetching mails and notifications.

So, what are your opinions on the new iOS 5? Or are you still looking for the iOS 5 firmware downloads? 

iPhone 4

iPhone 4 (GSM)

iPhone 4 (CDMA)

iPhone 3GS

iPad 2 Wifi

iPad 2 GSM

iPad 2 CDMA

iPad

iPod Touch 3G

iPod Touch 4G

Logos Hope Floating Book Fair 2011 Penang

Running by non-profit organization GBA ships, Logos Hope, has opened its doors to public started from 26 August to 25 September 2011 in Penang's Swettenham Pier, Pengkalan Weld. It, the blue and white painted ship, allowed more than thousands and thousands of book titles to be browsed by its visitors in an air conditioned book fair. By just a pay of RM1 each for the entrance fee, my friend and I had our great time browsing for book titles but we bought souvenirs at the end. The ship has making her way towards Port Klang, Kuching, Kota Kinabalu, and Singapore after making her stop in Penang.
 

The rear view of Logos Hope.

 
The side rear view of Logos Hope where its entrances were opened for public at the Swettenham Pier.

 
The air conditioned floating book fair offered book titles with the prices ranging from RM8 to RM16.

 
The entrance and the exit of the floating book fair 2011 of Logos Hope.

 
Chawin and I took a photo with one of the Logos Hope crew upon leaving.

Logos Hope is the sister ship for Doulos ship. Doulos, visited Penang about 10 years ago which it offered the first floating book fair to the public here. The second floating book fair? Of course, it was offered by Doulos' sister ship, Logos Hope for about a month in Penang, Malaysia.