My Oyster 123

Hari Raya is just over and my youngest sister who works in an MNC, took advantage of the long holidays including over the weekend to travel by bus to Kuala Lumpur and fly back to Penang with her church friends. Today is a Saturday, and I am busy pounding the keyboard to update my many blogs. With pictures added, it has kept me busy editing the pictures, resizing them and cropping up unwanted images. My life certainly revolves around working with the computer, be it a holiday or a working day. And work is just a simple walk to the next room in my cozy condominium. I just came back from a 1 night stay at Vouk Hotel that was recently opened by MBI, the owner of M Mall in Penang Times Square. It was during my birthday on the 6th of July.

Dark Mansion is not what you would think it is. Far from vampires, ghouls, etc. In fact, it is the friendly 3D Glow in the Dark Museum where you can bring along your children. It is a world of magic and fantasy and touted to be one of the trendiest modern art museums as it integrates science and technology with arts.


Photo with troll dolls - those with colourful standing hair and beady eyes. Aren't they cute? They were very popular in the 1980s.

Having a hand at pulling 'Teh Tarik' which means pulled tea in Malay. Just don an apron and walk behind a room with the pictures pasted on glass and put your hands at the right places and you look like a maestro in making teh tarik.


Climbing a giant Rubik's cube. Well it is all a matter of perspective and magical illusion during the photo taking. Simply place your feet at the right places with your arms outstretched and voila! - looks like you are better than doing rock climbing.


When the light fades off, special living creatures might come alive. Let’s see if you could identify the hidden creatures.


The artwork “Water and Fire” is a work of the famous Edgar Müller, the master street painter, who has brought 3-D illusion street painting to another level by incorporating technology in art. Be ready for a big surprise when the light changes from a waterfall to molten lava in volcanoes.


See the hanging gardens of Pandora forest as in the award-winning movie, Avatar. It is the placements of mirrors around the room that gives the illusion of infinity and lots of suspended jellyfish. For more information, check the details below:

Dark Mansion - 3D Glow in the Dark Museum
Address: 145, Lebuh Kimberley, George Town, 10100 George Town, Penang
Phone: 604 - 251 9694
Hours: 10AM – 6:30PM

I have made some money in the past, especially from the years 2006 - 2014 for blogging and the bounty comes in handy. It is not easy to think on your feet while typing away at the keyboard, but then again no work, means no potential revenue. The only difference is that you can do this at the comfort of your home or anywhere with WiFi and internet connectivity. I shall be going to KL next Wednesday for business and to look into my apartment's new installation of water pipe to replace the leaked water pipe in the bathroom. No wonder, the water bill, which should at most be $15 per month, cost us a bomb at $144 per month for 2-3 days of stay in 1 month! The water meter dial was moving very fast and apparently the water was leaking inside the burst water pipe. The maintenance guy told us it is going to cost us $450 for this job and well, my spouse will foot the bill.

I was at Pavilion in Bukit Bintang 2 days ago and SKII was having a promotion on the ground floor with big booths set up and many counters to accept and advise clients for their products. In fact I was given a free key chain and was prepared to buy the whitening serum to remove freckles at $760 when I was told that it was out of stock. Being gracious, the salesgirl gave me a bouquet of flowers meant for clients and I was delighted. I gave the bouquet to mum who will be flying by Air Asia to Singapore for 6 days starting on Thursday and returning on Wednesday. It was the first time I visited Pavilion, having heard about it online with good reviews. Well, it is a bigger version of Gurney Plaza with the top floor and basement floor occupied by restaurants. I had dinner at Dragon-I beside the exit and ordered abalone set for $120. We went to Pavilion by GPS using Waze on my I-Phone 6. I have given my old I-phone 5 to my second sister in Southampton.

I have a total of 12 blogs where 2 of them are updated regularly since I get to earn USD 5 per month for each of them from a sponsor. It is paid to my paypal account on the 10th every month and they are prompt in their payments. Now, there are no more opportunities for sponsored posts from Blogsvertise since my registered blogs are not updated regularly. But I am not discouraged about this. I have several sources of income including rental income from Rhythm Avenue which I bought late last year. I also earn from my Fixed Deposits every month for a few hundred ringgit and also an allowance of $350 from OUK.

I get to renew my passport for free for 5 more years and enter Zoo Negara for free due to my OUK card. There are many benefits with the OUK card since I have a health condition that renders me unable to work outside in a normal environment. I am under medication for life and my parents make a visit to the specialist every 3 months to collect my medication.

I have 3 apartments, where 2 are in Times Square and a third one in Rhythm Avenue in KL. The one in KL is being rented out to my company since March 2015 even though it was bought in October 2014 according to the date of the sales and purchase agreement. The previous owner had upgraded to a new location, somewhere in Damansara and he is from Negeri Sembilan. He is in his early thirties and works in KL. However, during the time he sold his old apartment to me, I did not know that he was jobless at that time, otherwise, I would have bargain further down for the cost of the house. The services and lift maintenance are horrible, where we have to walk across the car park and take 2 lifts just to get down and up to our unit.

I am born in the year of the dog way back in 1970. So, you can guess my age. I find countries that eat dogs disgusting! You don't kill a family member and eat him. It is so grotesque and even here in Malaysia, some foreigners like Nepalese and Bangladeshis kill strays dogs for food as they are too poor to buy from the market. Every year, boatloads of Rohingyas, Bangladeshis, Myammars, and workers around that region come to a haven, Malaysia or Thailand to work illegally and to escape death and persecution in their own countries. Some might even starve to death during the long journey here as the condition is way too packed and crowded for space and lack of food and drinking water. The lucky ones stay alive while the not so lucky ones will be buried somewhere in north Kedah, South Thailand, etc. There are already 6 million illegal workers here in Malaysia and the government does not seem to care about its border controls, bringing in social ills and beggaring on the streets.