Last night’s brainstorming with me hung up on food names and tethering off on an architectural tangent was a dot dot dot. Bella and Paul offered up good solutions. Paul said, “Ya, gud. Gud nice ring. Not bad," and bobbed his head in unison to mine.” The sugar rush didn’t help. Bad words neither. Frustration. Somehow it was zilch. I was dry as a bone. Nothing rattles in my head. The words took a hiatus and left me stranded. Normally it’s a bus depot up there, all the hooting and honking. Pregnant with ideas. Slept fitfully. Escaped, hopefully. This time Indian food wasn’t potent enough to cure this dilemma. A good chorizos, bacon, pine nut basil pesto induced stupor and a super fuelled caffeine high was needed. This time, iced latte with the full blast of syrup tipped in. It came. 5 mins to be exact just as my friend Helena had said. My domain name. I WhatsApp my two. Settle. Done deal. Buy. I’m moving house soon folks. Stay tuned. Read
Friends of Alliance Française come together to celebrate the unveiling of “Paris/Penang", a 20-meter mural in oils featuring the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre, the Queen Victoria Memorial Clock Tower, Penang Hill and Penang ferry at the Alliance Française de Penang. Penang-born former architecture student turned artist Elan Hasyim, 37 created this artwork which was painted over a period of over three months as he is based in Kuala Lumpur. Total time spent on the mural is about 30 days. The mural started with the two famous bridges – the Pont Neuf in Paris and the Penang Bridge which Elan connected to portray the relations between the two cities. “Paris is in a way similar to Penang. The old buildings are conserved and refurbished for adaptive reuse which is great and what I love about the two cities,” he said. The event was launched by Rahime Bouaziz, director of Alliance Française de Penang. – September 28, 2015. This mural can be found on the wall o