Betau Valley

Betau Valley

Monday, 16 December 2013

At the Beaubourg (2)

Here's the second part of the pictorial visit of Beaubourg (with many more to come)...

Eduardo Arroyo, El Caballero Espanol (1970)

Peter Saul, Bewtiful & Stwong (1971)

Erro, Watercolour in San Marco/ Watercolour in Moscow (1971)

Helmut Batzner, Chaises BA 1171 (1966)

Robert Ryman, Untitled (1974)


Cy Twombly, Achilles Mourning the Death of Patroclus (1962)

Saturday, 14 December 2013

Breakfast at Bukit Beruang

Melaka may not be the best place to eat Dim Sum but if you do have the desire to have dim sum for breakfast, the most unlikely place to eat in Melaka would be at Bukit Beruang. It used to be a two-shoplot space but now, they have extended to three. It is relatively the cleanest dim sum restaurant in Melaka to date, service is prompt with a fair variety of offering. taste wise, well, it is mostly run-of-the-mill type of dim sum but the price is really attractive copmared to those in KL...





 The lotus leaf-wrapped glutinous rice was good with a cup of pu-err tea...

 Stuffed chilli and brinjal...

The large pork bun was however, a let down because the skin was a tad too thick for me. However, the filling was fresh and well seasoned...

The fried radish cake, a staple favourite in dim sum shops. We were four and had our fill for just a little over RM30, something unheard of in KL...

Monday, 9 December 2013

Break in the weather

Today'a a special day because morning was blue sky and so, I hurried to my usual spot for some outdoor activities - photographing. The recent heavy downpours had cleaned the river bed of its year-long sediments and the water was extremely fresh and pristine...












 Wonderful to see blue sky during the monsoon period...

 Some denizens of the forest took advantage of the sun to warm up...