The Fray – nice tunes

Here I was, listening to the newly downloaded album (read pirate) of The Fray’s self-titled second album, and I got really interesting. So I thought, hey, I’m bored at home, lets go buy this at the mall..

So why did I buy this album 4 months after its release? As I was watching Revenge of the Fallen for the second time in cinemas yesterday, I started noticing this song playing in the background when Mikaela was in the workshop. As I found on the soundtrack listing the song is ‘Never Say Never’. Well you must admit, seeing Megan Fox and having the lyrics ‘..don’t let me go, don’t let me go..’ in the background really makes one.. well, have imaginary hopes ;)

ya and what business I have watching the movie again? Four words – Megan, Fox, and slo-mo running. (or was that 5?).

No jewel case for the CD, just cardbox cover like my Minutes to Midnight album. But surely this album deserves to be sync-ed into my iPod. And it sounded way better than downloaded copy after I imported it from the CD at 128VBR AAC.

I would say this album is cool, because I noticed this band since their first album, comparing both in my judgement this album is an improvement over the first. The songs help to set a nice evening atmosphere in my room. Noticable tracks are ‘Syndicate’, ‘Absolute’, ‘You Found Me’, ‘Never Say Never’, and ‘Where The Story Ends’. Love the instrument arrangements first, will study the lyrics booklet later. From what I’ve heard the lyrics should be good..

Oh, go download the free HD copy of ‘You Found Me’ MV at apple.com/quicktime, you can find it in the HD gallery. Nice one.

Energ!z!ng: Herbal Duck Drumstick Soup Noodles, Bidor

I fondly remember this place since I was a kid. Almost every year my parents would drop by whenever we are driving to Penang on our annual visit ‘balik kampung’. Been meaning to blog about this since then, but there are always some form of inconvenience; I'm either lazy, and oh ya, there was no blogging in 1985 =D.

So this time around I had to travel to Penang (again) for work. On the way home I was feeling sleepy, in fact I was feeling sleepy since passing Taiping. Then decided to drop by Bidor to rest a bit. And eat some noodles.

Name of place is Restoran Pun Chun, located on one of the busiest streets of Bidor. It is a corner shop, taking up two shop-lot space. It is not pretentious, still retaining the authentic feel of kopi-tiam from ages back. The restaurant serves a variety of dishes (which I could not explore yet) and tasty biscuits and bakeries. Note: This place serves non-halal food. Yum

The dish of concern? Here it is! Hot, tasty, ENERGIZING! For only RM6.60 per bowl, you get fragrant herbal soup with one whole drumstick. And my feeling of fatigue are completely gone after the tasty treat!

It’s only 1km away from the toll entry. Opens daily, 5am till 10pm. Ah, there are lots of petai being sold along the street too. The Chinese community speaks Cantonese in this town.

Here’s an artist’s sketch of its location.

 

A roadsign near the restaurant; the shop’s distance is only 1km from the toll entry.

Penang Free WiFi

Long Live Penang (which I am proud to say my state of manufacture) for free internet!

Here I am standed alone working outstation, and this time I did not bring the DiGi access. I am already logged into the StarBucks station in Queensbay when I suddenly remembered the state has pushed for island wide coverage, so I feel curious to try it out.

To note I could not get detect this on Penang Rd at the hotel I am staying at so I assume it is still on hotspot basis.

The free station can be easily found by the laptop:

Upon connection and opening the browser I am presented with a 20 second flash presentation

Afterwhich I am prompted to login or register

After a brief registration I am presented to a list of charity so they will contribute something to them on our behalf or so the screen said. And hey presto, I am able to post this entry! :D