A Walk for Sight Charity Walk was organized by Region 1 Lions Clubs & Leo Clubs & St. Nicholas’ Home at Padang Polo on 28 Jun ‘09 (Last Sunday). The main objective for this event was to raise funds for the home: To help the visually impaired and refurbish their low vision equipment.

CC Chan was our the one who told us about this event and helped us to submit our forms. Each of us paid RM15 for the registration to participate in this Charity Walk.

Pei Ling and I reached there around 7.45am. We registered ourselves and got some food and drinks. Shinn Shinn already almost finished her Cinnamon Bar.

This was my lucky draw number which got me nothing!

Participants walked in pairs with one being blindfolded and was guided by his/her partner. The journey of the walk was around 2.3km. By participating in this Charity Walk, we had the opportunity to experience the world of  blindness. At the same time, we can aware of how many difficulties and challenged will be faced by the visually impared. In this walk, teamworks were very important as particpants with blindfolded need to trust their partners; participants that guided their partners need to provide a clear instruction.

Pei Ling and I were in one pair.

Shinn Shinn and ILing were another pair.

CC Chan and his families walked together.

Warm up before we started for the walk. Total 3 songs were played and we followed the instructor on the stage who showed us the procedures.

Two random shots were taken when we were in the middle of the walk.

Pei Ling took this shot as they walked behind us.

She still maneged to pose although see nothing. This photo was taken when I led her.

Our happy faces as we already finished the walk successfully. Nobody hurts …

Certification of participation was given to every single participant.

Pei Ling helped us took a photo together with our certificates.

Pei Ling and her certificate.

ILing was the only one among us received the lucky draw gift.

We can see how happy she was by her lovely smiling face.  She got a RM60 food voucher.

We went for breafast once the event finished.

Soemtime we are having trouble to find a pen when we need it especially when we at outside. Latest technology advancement and human creativity or innovative will able to solve any of our problem. An Industrial Designer, Rake Gemma from Indonesia had combined the concept of a digital wristwatch and functionlity as a pen, called Helix. I got across this information from the Tuxie Website and Design Blog.

By looking at this picture, it just gives you an image of a simple and nice wristwatch.

Which colours would your prefer? I like the colors combination.

Zoom in to have a closer look.

It can be used as a pen at the same.

Maybe it would not be as good as a traditional pen, but I find that it is so special and unique.

Modern, trendy and simple. This can be treated as a bracelet besides wrist watch and pen.  I have no idea of how much this will cost, maybe expensive or maybe not. Anyway, customers need to pay for the great idea and hard work of the designer.

Tags : Helix, pen watch bracelet, Raka Gemma

The lighthouse is located at Muka Head and is accessible through the far end of Teluk Duyung. Built in 1884 at a cost of £37,929 by the British, it is located 242 metres (794 ft) above sea level.

- Wikepedia -

Station : Muka Head Lighthouse Location : Pulau Pinang Position : Lat. 05° 28.4′ N Long. 100° 10.9′ E Light Character : FI.W.10s Range : 25 n.m Elevation : 242 m Structure Height : 14 m Date Of Building : 1883 Description Of Building : White granite tower

The journey from Monkey Beach to Muka Head was not easy for someone does not have good stamina like me.  Before trekking up to the lighthouse, we still managed to take a few photos with a smile on our face.  However, when we was climbed till middle of the trail, we cannot talked and smiled anymore. As we just want to save our energy to continue hiked up till we can see the lighthouse. The stairs are steep and it made us so tiring. It used most of my energy and luckily I did take some food earlier. If not, I scared I might get fainted.

I have taken a few random shots while we were on the way hiked up:

This was just the beginning ….

The hike became tougher as we climb higher.

A rest house was situtaed in the middle of the journey.

I started to feel tired and became the last one among them. Did think of give up! Did start to grumble! Did keep thinking when can I reached the top!

Finally, we reached the destination – LIGHTHOUSE. I was extremely exhausted; Totally cannot talk and immediately find a place to rest. Hahaha… Am I exaggerated? Don’t get scared to listen

A few posters of the lighthouse.

These were the spiral stairways that led us to the top of the lighthouse. I took this shot when I was on the way down.

I helped Pei Ling to take a photo since I was climbed down behind her.

This was one part of the stairs.

View of the scenery from the top of the lighthouse.

My tiring face …

Seem that I was not the only one that felt very tired.

A lovely smile…

The sun ray was too glaring until I cannot open my eyes.

I took this shot when I was lying down on the floor.

On the way down … Going back down was quite touch too as the stairs are too steep and I can feel the pain on my knee.

Lazy to trek back to National Park, so we chose to take a speedboat. It was extremely exciting as it took less than 3 minutes to send us back from Monkey Beach.

Although I kept complaining this was a tiring trip, I really enjoyed myself very much. I strongly recommed this place to all the hikers.

Tags : Muka Head, Muka Head Lighthouse

Aiyo… I was so frustrated. When I was half way writting a post, the photos suddenly cannot load to the blog. What happen? I have tried different browser such as Mozilla, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer but still failed to load. Was it due to the Streamyx connection, my laptop which was just formatted or setting for my blog? I had no idea; I just knew that I was so frustrated as I kept trying but unable to load. At the end, with no other choice I gave up for today.

I do believe most of the people nowadays will put the alarm clock for snooze at least a few times before crawl down from the bed. Do you feel irritated with the annoying alarm clock keeps ringing non-stop? I assume your answer would be “YES”, especially with the olden style of alarm clock, with the loud and increasing ringing tone if you do not press the button. Sigh….how a bad day begins with a spoiling mode! This will be even worse if two people (couple, sisters or brothers, family members, friends etc) are sharing one bedroom; one of them will set the alarm clock and disturb the other one when both plan to wake up at different time. I am facing this situation on most of the weekend. My apologies to Ee Ee that I woke you up on Sunday morning if I ever go hiking early morning.

“RING” is a special alarm clock designed for couples and deaf-mutes. Different from the common products, this “RING” wakes up people via the vibration other than noise. It consists of a base and two ring-type devices which can be worn onto the finger pad which is the most sensitive part of the finger. The base can be used to set the timer and charge the “RING”. This innovative alarm clock is composed by a micro vibration device and a micro-chip.

Meng Fendi is the designer for this product. You may look for his website here for more information.

If I have this “RING” then each of us can wears a ring on our finger and program when we want to wake up. “RING” will start vibrating when the programmed time goes off. How to stop it? It is simple, just put the “RING” back on the cradle. However, I have no idea where to get this “RING”. If whoever happen to read this post and know where to get the “RING”, kindly drop me an email.

This “RING” is totally an opposite idea compare to my previous post “Run Away Clock-Clocky”. You may read about the Clocky here.

Tags : alarm clock, Ring

Monkey Beach, also can be called Teluk Duyung. I think we took around 2 hours ++ to reach there. You may experience a privacy and quiet moment away from hustle of Penang city. It is a perfect place for couples to enjoy their private moment. Enjoy the sun, sea and sit on the white sandy beach to take your BBQ lunch. This is indeed a good spot for your to refresh yourself if you are a beach lover.

If you find that you cannot trek from Teluk Bahang to Monkey Beach, there is another alternative which you can take a 30 minute boat ride. If I was not mistaken, you may also rent some equipments to enjoy your fishing there.

It was so hard to capture a shot when everyone was jumping.

This was our breakfast …

I helped them take a photo before we began to “attack” the fried bee hoon. We finished our breakfast within 10 minutes time as all of us already very hungry. It was a good spot as we can feel the cooling wind was blowing over us while we had the meal.

We took a photo somewhere nearby the place where we had breakfast before continue our journey to Muka Head. At the end of the beach, the jungle trek started again. There was a long way that we hiked up and down.

I will continue another post about the journey and some photos when we at Muka Head.

Tags : Monkey Beach

Wow…such a nice view … This was the beach where we reached after a 30 minutes walk. Aiyoh, I did not know exactly what was the name of this beautiful beach. I noticed that here is much more cleaner compare to Pantai Kerachut. We cannot decide whether we would like to take our breakfast here or continue walking as some of us already felt hungry. However, we couldn’t find any comfortable place for us to enjoy our meal, so with no choice we continued our trekking jouney.

I took this photo when four of them were enjoying the sea view.

Nowadays, we liked to take photos with our shadows. After a few years if I ever look again at this photo, I just wonder would I still remember which one is mine?

A few random shots were taken when we passed by the beach.

After passing by the seaside, we continued walking to this jungle.

By looking at her drinking water style really made me felt thristy. At that time, Pei Ling felt that 100 plus was the nicest drink that she had ever drank.

Walking and wondering at the same time, why the track was not exciting at all? Sigh…so regret to pay a visit here.

This was the first part where we found it was a bit exciting. To across over to the other side, we had to climb over the rock with the help of the rope. I did not capture a good shot showing the numerous that we have to cross.

This was the second adventurous part where we have to track through the tree trunk. Actually it was not that hard as we still can turn our face back to look at the camera.

How come both of the above shots also without Soon? As he was the one holding the camera and helped us take these shots.

Tags : Muka Head

Three months ago, the same gang of people (5 of us) went to Muka Head one week after our Pantai Kerachut Trail.

We started the journey from Penang National Park, Teluk Bahang. We did buy some frid bee hoon as our breakfast before driving up to Teluk Bahang. We reached there between 8.15 – 8.3o in the morning. The first part of the journey was the same to Pantai Kerachut which took us around 5-10 minutes walk. There was a lot of on weekend. We meet one group of people who would be hiking to the Pantai Kerachut for their team building.

This was the sign that I have mentioned above. This shot was taken when we were hiking to Pantai Kerachut. We turned to the right which was an opposite track compared to Pantai Kerachut.

This was just the beginning of our track.

This is how the trail looked like, Judge yourself whether its easy or tough.

Stairs cannot be avoided if you choose to trek to Muka Head. You will know what I mean later if you continue read it.

Wow, Janet enjoying the vew while taking a break before continuing on a long journey.

I helped them to take a photo in between the journey.

Either it was hard or just that we did not know how to take a good shot here. Hardly can see the face clearly.

I will continue blogging about the Muka Head Trail tomorrow and post some of the photos of us on the beach.

Tags : Muka Head