Little Penang Street Market March 2008

This old man, he played five,
He played knick knack, jazz and jive,
With a
Knick, knack, paddy whack,
Give the dog a bone;
This old man came rolling home.
Here's a version of the whole rhyme

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Just lost my muse for taking these kinds of piccies. So enjoy the last ones for now.

Three viewers and the single flip

Parabolica's Jumping Martelo Rotado

Apache Cabeçada!

AsiaExplorers trip to Penang Tidal Islands

A visit in 2006 to the tidal islands off the bridge yielded these shots. It was an AsiaExplorers outing which included dinner at the Chew jetty.

Roda at Khoo Kongsi

At the invitation of Alliance Francais Penang. Part of music fete at Khoo Kongsi. Crappy lighting and no tripod and lots of movement, fuzzy pictures make. Sigh. And of course manual shooting too! A first.

Coconut Grater

For posterity, just in case cocunut graters at sundry shops go the way of the dodo.

How to use:
1. The objective is to crack open to halve the coconut with a parang/machete (big knife!).
2. Do it over the drain, in case of leftover coconut water in the old coconut, see the brown things sticking out from under the second picture.
3. When coconuts dry up, the water mostly thickens into the white milky flesh.
4. Then press each half against the rotating grater till all the flesh is removed.
5. This grated stuff is caught in a basin below.

This grated flesh is then 'milked' for coconut milk. This is the fresh stuff aka santan. Not the powdered instant stuff you find in supermarkets. Anyway, this is how my mum used to get santan once upon a time. Not this particular shop obviously. Now, most people get santan from the supermarket, including me. So we can get the healthier and more convenient low-fat stuff.

Two Penang Temples

One of Penang’s fancier temples

Indian Kuil near Komtar

Thaipusam in Penang 2006

I had these up on my Multiply website but now I decided here is the place to keep it now.