Welcome to bigfoothill.

Greetings to you. May you feel at home and enjoy what I am sharing on this little corner. I am learning as much as I can from you and fellow blogger community. It is my first attempt at blogging. Who knows, it could be another source of information for the community and at the same time it could well be another source of income for me as I am as much interested in making money online. Let's go from here...

Friday, December 9, 2011

Princess and The Frog meet Bigfoothill at AIA Northern region 2012 Kick Off

Hello AIA,   This is Princess and The Frog kicking and rocking with you. Here is the party time for AIA agents from the Northern region comprising Penang, Northern Perak, Kedah and Perlis at the Annual Kick-Off event which was held on Monday 5 December, 2011 at Hotel Equatorial, Penang Matahari Grand Ballroom.  It is the First AIA Kick-Off held outside Kuala Lumpur as this is in honor of all Northern AIA agents and business associates for emerging as the Best in Overall performances for Financial Year 2011 outperforming the rest of the regions in AIA Malaysia.  Thank you to all the loyal and faithful clients for your business, confidence and trust in us. One AIA...Premier is the Way.

Need a financial plan to achieve your financial goals? We are here to help you. Wealth and Investments, Savings, Retirements, Estate Planning, Health and Personal Accident, Travel and Golfer's insurance? Commercial Fire, Retail and Services business package, Personal Lines such as House-owner and Householder Insurance, Auto Insurance and Home Loan are all available here in One AIA. AIA is your Premier choice.  For our Muslim friends and clients, we have AIA-AFG Family Takaful products and services to meet your family goals too.  Want financial freedoms and to become Premier Agency? AIA welcomes you to join the party.  Ask Bigfoothill.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

New Year 2012 Go to New Chinese Primary School at Kota Permai, Bukit Mertajam -Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Cina Beng Teik (Pusat)

Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Cina Beng Teik (Pusat)
Main Entrance to the building
corridors between the two blocks

This is the new Chinese Primary School, Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Cina Beng Teik (Pusat) which is opening for new registration and intake of new students from Primary Year One to Year Six for the new Year 2012 session.  This Chinse primary school was originally located in Penang Island but it was relocated here due to the small and dwindling enrollment at its original location.  With the growing population in and around Bukit Mertajam, especially in Kota Permai, Saujana Permai, Permai Indah and the nearby residential housing estates, the arrival of this school is timely to cater to the children living in this place.  You can contact the telephone number and contact persons and headmaster stated on the notice board for more information.

As you can see, the Chinese primary school is built mainly from getting the funding from the Chinese community and donations and from sponsors such as the Tiger Beer charity concerts with donations from the public well wishers.  The Malaysian Government is only chipping in its token share of developing the Chinese and Tamil streams of education.  In fact,most of Malaysian Chinese schools are also having many students from the non-Chinese community as their parents belief that the education system is good for their future generations than the national schools where the language of teaching is in the national Malay language except for the subject of English.  Let us not go into the flip-flop policy making by our Education and Cabinet Ministers on the subject of teaching Mathematics and Science in English.  One thing I will always be proud of our fellow Malaysians of non-Chinese origins who have sent their children to Chinese Schools and their children are able to speak Mandarin or local dialects like Hokkien and Cantonese with their Chinese friends.  I salute you. You are worth two men' minds in this world. I myself have not studied in Chinese vernacular schools and is a "Buta Huruf"(Chinese Letters Blind). 

Although the Malaysian Chinese and Indian community have been contributing to the commerce and welfare of our beloved Negaraku (My Country), Malaysia, long before the British granted the Independence to Malaya and Sabah and Sarawak, the community cannot depend on the Malaysian Government to build the Chinese and Tamil schools.  The irony is that the Chinese community is contributing a very high percentage of taxes collected by the government but it only get chicken feed in return from the government to set up the Chinese schools. The Tamil schools were mostly built by the plantation owners who employed the estate workers to tend to the plantations in the past decades.

Even to get the approval to build a school have to go through so much bureaucracies and politicking.  The Chinese school is usually equipped with a cement basketball court which also double up as the assembly ground but seldom have football field.  Mind you, the Chinese school students and youths have contributed to the National Basketball team at the SEA Games and other international tournaments as the training ground for our national basketball players.  It is hard to find a good footballer from a Chinese or Tamil school in the likeness of our former national heroes "Towkay" YB Datuk Soh Chin Aun from Malacca or Striker James Wong from Sabah. or famous Spiderman Goalkeeper Arumugam .Most of today's Chinese and Tamil schools do not have enough land space for football field. The National schools which the Government fully financed will have a big football field and all other sports facilities.  In my old primary and secondary national schools back in Perlis, I am blessed to have the green-green cow-grass fields as large as two football fields to run and roam about during the physical exercise lessons. This was where we had former National players from Perlis, Bakri Ibni and Saidin Osman in the good old days when our "Harimau Malaya"(Malayan Tigers) was now the "Harimau Lagenda" (Legends).

Do the students from the Chinese or Tamil schools performed academically and excel in sports better than the national schools? Are the quality of the education systems in the various type of schools in Malaysia measured by the money poured into by the Government and staffing plus facilities? What is our Education Minister and the Ministry going to do to improve the overall education in Malaysia for the benefits of all Malaysians?  On one level, we are trying to promote ourselves as the the regional education hubs but we neglected and failed to promote a meritocracy and equal opportunities for all Malaysians.  We cannot blame the British for leaving a legacy for neglecting the poor as the nation has been ruled by our Malaysian forefathers and current government over 50 years. Even our Universities' ranking have dropped.  What is happening?

Must the Chinese and Indian communities have to beg for allocations of funding and licenses for the Chinese and Tamil Schools from the Malaysian governments each time there is a General Election coming?  Are we not One Malaysia for Malaysians? Is there a caste system in our Malaysian family. Or we are only one and united in spirit in sports only when we can shine under the glitter of glory being world champions? When will we see the day when the Government treats all Malaysians and Made-In-Malaysia products (including students and graduates from these schools) like its slogan One Malaysia. Or are we only interested to promote the cow farmings(NFC) to incur losses of millions of Ringgit and thereby wastage of Malaysian People's funds as highlighted by the Auditor-General reports. The latest no brain-er project to sell and export frozen Durian to the People of Republic of China. I leave it to you. 

There are primary and secondary Chinese schools in most major towns in Malaysia. Is there a Minister from the Chinese or Indian community or better still a visionary Malay Education Minister who dare to ask the PM and his cabinet to set up a Chinese or Indian University in Malaysia so that we can have the Chinese from the mainland China and Indians from India to study in Malaysia so that we can have a more balance trade with them and earn their currency exchange from the education industry and prevent our outflow of funds since many Malaysians have been going to their countries to study medicines and other courses in the past.  We can import their expertise of highly qualified academicians to teach our people and reduce the brain drain.  Who knows, we can learn to build rockets,space shuttle and stations from the Chinese to send our Angkasawan (Malaysian Astronaut) to the Moon and orbit the Earth and Mars instead of riding on a Russian rocket while we can learn from the Indians on computer programming and cow farming (see the you tube here contributed by PeteMcCormack2)?

Is this just my One Malaysia ideal dream and will remain a dream till the cow come home?
What is your say, PM  Y.A.B. DATO' SRI HJ. MOHD. NAJIB BIN TUN HAJI ABDUL RAZAK
PRIME MINISTER, MINISTER OF FINANCE and his deputy,  Y.A.B. TAN SRI DATO' HAJI MUHYIDDIN BIN MOHD. YASSIN
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER, MINISTER OF EDUCATION?

You may be interested to learn a little information from the link here to Matrade's statistics on our Malaysia's Trade Performance from January  to September 2011.

Here is a resource link to Center for International Development at Harvard University for your reading.

Another resources from Centre for Malaysia Chinese Studies
Notice for the public



Canteen

show classroom


E-learning facility at classroom

Lion Dance at Ground breaking ceremony

VVIPs including Dato Sri Dr Ng Yen Yen & Datuk Ir Dr Wee Ka Siong at the ground breaking ceremony




From Jln Kota Permai going  to Jln Song Ban Kheng

Side view from Kota Permai where the work in progress

The assembly hall on the 1st floor of the administration block

Wooden parquet floor for the stage

The assembly hall


Library area

Boys washroom

Girls washroom

A view from the school towards Kota Permai

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Wasabi R.I.P. A Tribute to A Mega Star (“哇沙米”好像回来了)

My favorite live concert singer Wasabi or known to me as Wasabe has recently gone home.  I just found out the sad news while having lunch at a new Red Kitchen Cafe, Alma, Bukit Mertajam as we came across the Mun Sang Poh Newspaper subscribed by the cafe owner as we waited for our food to be served. According to the brief reports, she and her boyfriend died in the road mishap. You can also read the Chinese news online media at Guang Ming Daily at the link here.

The last time I watched her live concert at the Kota Permai on Saturday 15 October, 2011.  I asked her whether she would be performing the next day here but she said she had another performance at another nearby venue around Bukit Mertajam, Penang.  I told her I have uploaded her videos to You Tube.  You can watch it from the link to my earlier posting. My heartfelt condolence to her family.

I also found out that she had other videos uploaded by rockmantam on You Tube.  You can watch her singing the cover song Nobody by the Wonder Girls. Thank you to rockmantam for sharing with us the videos.

We missed you Wasabi. We will always remember you for your lovely and lively performances, and your sweet voice. Thank you for your songs and the happiness and joys you have given us.  May your soul and your boyfriend's soul rest in peace.

Saturday, October 29, 2011

8TV Fun Party Time at Auto-City, Juru, Penang

8TV is having Fun Party Time at Auto-City with its team of Stars and Emcees.  The time is 8.00pm on Sunday 30 October, 2011.  See you there.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Hua Yang Quaterly results

Remember my tea break for shares? This is my maiden post on share investment where I pick this company as one of the stocks in my portfolio.

A check on the Bursa Malaysia announcements, Hua Yang has announced their Q2 FY2012 results that are very impressive with Profit before tax(PBT) of RM18.89m for the current year Q2 ending 30th September, 2011 increased by more than 320% over the previous year corresponding Q2 figure of RM5.90m.  The cumulative  PBT year to date for current year  increased by more than 269% over the previous year cumulative period of corresponding period. The net asset per share attributable to equity holders of the parent company stood at RM2.23 as at end of current quarter period as compared to preceding financial year end of RM2.05.
Hua Yang Q2FY2012 results announcement here from Bursa Malaysia website
They had earlier on 22 August 2011 announced a 7.5 % first and final dividend and duly paid on 28 September, 2011. On 13 October, 2011, the company announced a bonus issue of 1:3 and the entitlement date is on 28 October, 2011 and the ex-date is on 25 October, 2011.

I was impressed with their performance when I was looking for a good dividend paying shares to invest and bought and hold on until now hoping that it would reach my personal target price of RM2.00.  However, due to the European zone crisis and the global downtrend, it has gone down below my entry point and now it is just closing at RM1.60 as at 19 October, 2011. Hopefully it will be there regardless of the bad news from Europe zone. It could have been easily achieved if not for the negative sentiments over the last two months. After the bonus issue, if the price goes up to probably RM2.00, to me, it will then be trading at its fair value.  The volume of transactions in recent weeks are not like that of those of more established names in the properties such as the YTLLand, Malton, UEMLand, Dutaland and UOADev. The interest in the counter is picking up slowly after the announcement of the bonus issue.

According to its press release recently, the company is confident of reaching its sales target of RM350millions for FY2012. They have ongoing projects in Klang Valley, Ipoh and Johor to sustain them through to the FY2012.  Hopefully it will boost investors confidence to stay invested in the company. It is covered by a number of research houses.  Here is a link to RHB Research's report that is available on Hua Yang's website at Investor Relations.

Notice : The blogger takes no responsibility for the contents of this blog, makes no representation as to its accuracy or completeness and expressly disclaims any liability whatsoever for any loss however arising from or in reliance upon the whole or any part of the contents of this blog. The above opinion is not an invitation to buy or sell.  It is just solely my opinion serving my blogging interest and an expression of thoughts and ideas of the author and shall not be construed and taken as and investment advice.  This is not an advisory service and I do not charge any subscription fee. The blogger disclosed it is deemed an interested investor by virtue of its investment in the stock until its disposal of holding it in its portfolio. Any action that you take as a result of information, analysis and/or commentary on this site is ultimately your responsibility. Kindly consult your investment advisor before making any investment decision.

Birth. Of Heirs or of Hairs?

On a recent trip down South in July 2011, while spending some time walking around Johor Baru City, a friend introduced us to BIRTH.  The signage on the front door is unique and eye-catching.  Step into the place and you will be greeted by the house hairstylists and directors who can help you to look good in your new image with some hair cuts, perms, styling, curls, blows and treatments.  You can have your hair shampooed and washed clean while you relax with some cool music in the background or chat with the hairstylist as they give you some light massage to relax your tired mind and body muscles especially around your scalp, neck and shoulders.

The price for the service is reasonable and according to your preferences as to who to attend to you.  It so happened the two hairstylists attending to us were from Ipoh and Penang. From their feed-backs, it seemed that business here is good and the earnings and rewards are higher as compared to the same work done up in the North.  Many of their customers are regulars and some came from Singapore just across the causeway.  The currency exchange is certainly a plus point for the Singaporeans to pamper themselves with excellence hair care and services beside shopping and eating good sumptuous foods at Johor Baru especially during the weekends and public holidays since it is comparatively cheaper in Malaysia for the same kind of services than in Singapore.

The design of the signage was by the proprietor of the shop who is also a fashion and interior designer.There are many interesting items on display and decorations inside the shop.  Unfortunately, taking pictures inside the shop is not allowed.  So you can drop by for a hair treatment of hair cut to check it out when you are in Johor Baru.  The shop is along Jalan Tan Hiok Nee and is on the opposite side of row of shop-houses near the oldest Chinese bakery shop famous for their traditional charcoal oven baked banana cake.

You can pick up and purchase some branded and designers' lady dresses and accessories which are used but as good as new quality, and are imported from Japan and elsewhere.  Bargain a bit and the lady will be generous to give you a good deal. 

Surely in lesser than nine months...or approximately 30 to 90 minutes as you step into and out of the saloon "hospital" , you are a new birth with a new identity looking fantastic in your new hairdo and looking smart putting on your new dress and accessories.  Simply transformed your crown of glory from gray to black, blonde or colored unless you have no hairs! No worry, you still can have the dressing transformation. You will never be the same.
Go experience your Birth at this place for you do not need the Caesarean section from the Gynaecologist or a cut from the Surgeon to be looking young, sensational, premature and babe look.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Who want to be the afc's next celebrity Chef?


While taking a stroll at the Strait Quay, Tanjong Tokong, Penang, Malaysia, there was this signboard at the wall of the shopping mall announcing the search for the Asian Food Channel (AFC)'s next celebrity Chef.  If you are regularly watching television on Astro AFC channel, you will have come across this challenge. 

The search will be held at the E & O Hotel, Georgetown, Penang soon.  Penang is famous for hawker foods and gourmets.  It is the cooking pot for the Asians and Westerns cultures and foods. 
 

So it is just the right place to spend your holidays and fancy to be the next celebrity chef while you travel to enjoy the Pearl of Orient, island in the sun, with sightseeing tour of the Penang Unesco's World Heritage sites which are walking distance from the remarkable grand elegant E & O Hotel at the heart of Georgetown, Penang,Malaysia. Must eat the tropical fruit king, the Durian at Balik Pulau, or wine and dine by the beach at Hard Rock Cafe & Hotel at Batu Ferringhi or go shopping at the Strait Quay or at Gurney Plaza at Gurney Drive or at Queensbay Mall at Bayan Lepas.
 
Be sure to go for the local hawker foods such as the famous Penang Laksa, Penang Char Koay Teow, Penang Hokkien Mee(Spicy Prawn Soup Noodle) Curry Mee (Curry Noodle), Fish Head Noodle Soup and the Penang Rojak (a kind of mixed fruits dessert served with shrimp paste and chilly sauce). Also, please go to Penang Road for the famous celebrity hawker Teo Chew Cendol (a type of green rice noodle served with coconut milk and boiled red bean) and Ice Kacang (Grated ice dessert with various ingredients such as read bean, peanuts, palm seed and colorful sweetener like milk, coconut milk, liquid brown sugar and red colored liquid sugar) stalls.

You may want to pick up some famous Penang nutmegs, pickled or sweetened or especially the dried strands to sprinkle it onto your Penang Ice Kacang  or bottled nutmeg juice, Tambun biscuits at Him Heang at Jalan Burma or buy the famous sesame oils from Ghee Hiang at their shop at Macalister Road junction to spice up your cooking and make a name for yourself as the next celebrity Chef.
An old advertisement of Ghee Hiang's bottled sesame oil
There are so many reviews and comments from so many blogs and tourist guides on Penang and its foods that I am sure you will also have your own says.  You be the judge. Bigfoothill wants to hear from you.

Here, see you as the next Celebrity Chef and do invite me to have a taste of your winning dishes.


Monday, October 17, 2011

Tea Break for Shares

I have not been sharing lately as I was doing some of my personal projects on D-I-Y or sabbatical from my usual work during the past weeks.  You do visit my blog as I do hope to write and share on my D-I-Y once I get around things. It will be my first attempt on a D-I-Y write up and sharing.

Sun, sky and clouds seen over Bukit Mertajam in the afternoon
 It has been quite a while that I do not know what to share but I like to invest in shares.  Invest in shares can help us to make more money and make your money work hard for you while you sleep and rest.  It could also be the opposite it you invested in shares and lost some money.  There will be excitements when you see your portfolio increases in values.  However, you can have sleepless nights and worries when your portfolio of share prices drop suddenly due to some events like announcement of coming General Election and Polling Date and negative news happening locally or globally beyond your control like the Financial Crisis in 2008, the Earthquake and Tsunami in March 2011 at Japan and the recent European zone Sovereign Debts Crisis.  It is certainly not for everyone.

You either love it or hate it.  Your heartbeats and blood pressure readings determine your health condition as it follow the ups and downs of the stock exchanges indexes like the Japanese Nikkei, Hongkong Hang Seng, Singapore Stock Exhange, Bursa Malaysia KLCI or the US Dow Jones indexes.

There are many mistakes in share investments being made by many new traders or investors due to lack of knowledge and of make poor decisions based on tips from friends or relatives and rumors heard in the coffee shops rather than based on some fundamental analysis, technical analysis and own research or fact findings on the counters or companies listed on the stock exchanges (KLSE) or (NYSE) to invest in.  It were hard and bitter lessons learned along the way. 

I have become more careful and better informed as I read and study some books on financial planning, unit-trusts, insurance and  investment links and share investments to educate and to equip myself, make searches for information from business bulletins, internet, television reports, Bursa Malaysia (KLSE) and news or get connected with my remisiers for advice and consultations.  I also subscribed to the stockbroking houses reports.

Well, it certainly helped me to make better informed investment decisions and to be in better mental state of mind in turbulent markets. There is no guarantee that I can make the right picks and make gains each time.  It improved my portfolio selection skill and get better opportunity of making return on investments. At least, I am prepared if I make losses and know how to minimize the portfolio risks.

I came across some of these blogs dedicated to financial investments in stocks and shares that are very interesting and informative which I like and you may like to visit too.  

They are :-
Malaysia-Finance Blogspot (here). The Bonuses are you get to introduced to beautiful ladies, splendid pictures and get good tips on foods and musics too.

Nexttrade (here) Good professional advice, insights on the market outlook, stocks with charts and the technical analysis reports.

Politemarket Blogspot (here) Lively and Interesting but is Taking A Break.  Look forward to the next post and meantime enjoying the older posts.

I am sure you will return to their blogs for more and share it with your friends too.
A narrow, winding and sloping road in BM with the ongoing Ipoh - Padang Besar Electric Double tracking project carried out by Gamuda

Note: I was introduced to share trading and being offered ESOS (Employee Share Option Scheme) when I was in my first banking job in the early 1980s and when my employer was embarking on a one-stop financial center concept for the ease of doing business in a little town up North where there was no stockbroking firm present there then.. The trading was very much different from today as we used manual records, registers and making telephone calls to the appointed dealer to place our orders. The daily newspapers pages on stocks summary which I used to skipped reading suddenly became the all important MUST READ pages from Mondays to Saturdays. Now, with the advancement of technology and electronics gadgets, we can go online and trade online live from anywhere (even when you are in the business of doing private business in toilet just  like the advertisement of MYEG with its appealing beauties in red skirts, of getting your road tax delivered to you at your toilet doorstep) as long as you have access to the internet and your trading account.

By the way, here is a little diversion about MYEG. Its service is really useful to me when my clients are from outstations and when they did not have the car registration card with them if they did not bother to collect it from the bank for safe-keeping under the hire-purchase loan.  I can issue the automobile/motorcar insurance policy online at my Insurance principal's Agency Portal and renew the road tax for my client by logging into MYEG's portal and pay the road tax fee and delivery charges via credit card or online bank fund transfer.  The road tax is then delivered by MYEG directly to my client at their preferred address (Home or Office) within 48 hours.  MYEG is also listed on the Bursa Malaysia.

Notice : The blogger takes no responsibility for the contents of this blog, makes no representation as to its accuracy or completeness and expressly disclaims any liability whatsoever for any loss however arising from or in reliance upon the whole or any part of the contents of this blog.

Links - Credits and appreciations to :
Bursa Malaysia
Malaysia Finance Blogspot - Mr Salvatore_Dali
Nexttrade - Mr Alex Lu
Politemarket Blogspot
Blood Pressure Association UK

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

24 HoursTaxi Service to Hatyai, Thailand from Butterworth, Penang,Malaysia

When you are visiting Penang and have a desire to go up North to cross the border, you can take a 24 hours taxi service to Hatyai, in Southern Thailand by calling this hot-line number 604 3316 911.  604 is the country and area code for Northern region of Malaysia.

It has been many years since the last trip to Thailand.  You can take a KTM train to Hatyai and Bangkok from Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia.  However, the train trip frequency is limited. So you may want to opt for the 24 hours taxi service if you are on the rush and have the budget, and  have 2 to 3 travel buddies to share the taxi fare.  You can also arrange for a return trip with the taxi.  There are other chartered van and mini-bus or coach services to bring you to your destinations in Thailand from Penang and Butterworth if you care to check with the local tour and travel agencies. 


The estimated traveling time or journey by taxi from Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia to Hatyai, Southern Thailand or vice versa including clearance and Customs and Immigrations should be within 3 to 4 hours on normal weekdays and weekends.  Remember to dial 604 3316 and the last three digit of the phone number is 911. 604 3316 911

Go Penang Go by Ferry from Butterworth or Just relax by watching it come and go


The ferry "Pulau Payar" coming to dock at Penang Port Butterworth Terminal
The ferry "Pulau Angsa"
Georgetown, Penang seen from across the Butterworth Channel
Butterworth Penang Port Ferry Terminal next to KTM Railway station




Thursday, September 1, 2011

Sunset at Penang, Malaysia Today

Having a great time relaxing during these festive holidays?  Why not head to the park with your loved ones near Taman Wira at Telok Air Tawar at Seberang Perai Utara between 7.00pm to 7.45pm for a stroll along the seafront facing the sea and Penang Island.  You can catch a beautiful sunset like the one captured on the pictures below.
 You can see the northernmost tip of Georgetown on the left of the sun while it goes down on the horizon beyond the Strait of Malacca.
 The beach front on this part of the mainland is polluted due to the soil erosion as can been seen from the mud that covered the sandy beach and the drains that flowed into the sea.  The pollution was brought about especially by reclaims of lands and deepening of the channel for the construction and expansion of the North Butterworth Containers Terminal project by the Penang Port.

 You can access to this place through Taman Robina too.  There is a children playground for the kids.  There are a few hawkers stalls selling drinks and snacks.  It is rather sad when you see the leftovers of the packaging materials such as plastic bags, straws and empty plastic bottles and drink cans being left strewn all over the places by the irresponsible visitors instead of dumping it at the rubbish bins.

 The sun is blocked by the clouds.  So you cannot see it touching the horizon for the day. Have to come again and hope for a clear sky on the next visit.


 Here are some beautiful Pine trees lining the beach front at Telok Air Tawar, Butterworth next to the Royal Malasian Air Force (RMAF) and formerly Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) staff quarters which is towards the right of the above picture.
 The Butterworth channel is where you can cross over to Georgetown by Ferry at the Butterworth Sultan Abdul Halim Ferry Terminal on the mainland to the Raja Tun Sir Uda Ferry Terminal at Penang Island.  By the way, the ferry terminal at Weld Quay, Georgetown is named after our Malaysian statesman Raja Tun Sir Uda who is the grandfather of renowned Malaysian political blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin (RPK).  His blog is Malaysia Today.
 The Penang Island as seen from the picture here looks like a body of a turtle with its head lying on the north which is on the right.
 The sun just disappeared behind the clouds and beyond the horizon with the colors in the sky change hue
The North Butterworth Container Terminal of Penang Port is seen here brightly lit up and jutting into the Butterworth Channel as it loads and unloads containers to and from ships calling at the port.  It is one of the money making machines for the Penang State coffer.  
View Sunset at Telok Air Tawar in a larger map