St Anne's Festival 2013, Jeti Pulau Aman and Gurney Paragon Mall

St Anne's Festival 2013

It's known as St. Anne's Annual Novena & Feast Day Celebration, but we keep calling it the St Anne's Festival. Again, this is a first for the children. We manage to find time to go during public holiday before the actual big celebration weekend. To avoid the big crowds, we go in the afternoon. I think next time we might try coming in the morning.

St Anne's Shrine. We bought flowers and candles as offerings.

Inside St Anne's Shrine. Not sure if we can take photo, we just diam-diam take one.
We went to touch the feet of the 圣母像 St Anne and St Mary statues in front for blessings.

St Anne's Water

St Anne on The Hill

St Anne's Hill (on the way down)

After making our offerings, we took a stroll around the grounds. It's a hot sunny day, and less hazy compared to the whole week.



Grotto with Blessed Virgin Mary statue

Grotto

Dataran St Anne. Loved the beautiful blue sky but it's really hot.

Dataran St Anne

One of the Stations of Cross

Procession float with giant replica of St Anne Shrine

Procession float with St Anne and the Blessed Virgin Mary statues

Angel at the new St Anne Church

Around the grounds at the new St Anne Church

Since we're near to Hutan Lipur Cherok Tokun, we paid a visit. We only took a short walk around the jungle trail.

弟弟 saw a big worm, yucks :P

After that of course it's dinner time (弟弟 say it's lunch time since he didn't have any lunch after a big breakfast). We had seafood at Bukit Tambun. No photo of food as we ordered the usual stuff.

Early dinner at Bukit Tambun Gee Seng Restaurant

Jeti Pulau Aman

On the way back, since it's still bright, we followed the signboard to "Jeti Pulau Aman". This took us all the way past the Batu Kawan Stadium, past a Taman Cassia. The road there is ok, but the way back is rickety. The view is breath-taking. The sun sets so fast, that one minute we see the orange sun, the next it's gone beyond the hills of Pulau Aman. Loved the colours of the sky in the photos taken by 爸爸. Saw a banner this jetty is called "Jeti Batu Musang, Batu Kawan".

From the patio of The Ridge - Teja by The Sea, overlooking Pulau Aman

Another view from the same patio

Can't help it that the children looks all shadowy here, the focus is on the sunset :P

Walked along the Jeti Batu Musang, Batu Kawan or commonly called Jeti Pulau Aman. Can you see the second Penang Bridge in the background? Well, it's there.

Very near now to the pier

A passing boat in the background.
The next step would bring us where folks take the boat over to Pulau Aman.

View towards the second Penang Bridge

The nice pristine beach with coconut trees but probably unable to reach since it's past a jungle :P

On a bench, lovely view. Wonder why 弟弟 likes to give a piercing stare to the camera nowadays.

Can see The Ridge from here. Many people are here for their buka puasa buffet.

爸爸 trying to capture another shot of the sky, but 弟弟 always gives a funny look.

Hopefully we'll be back soon. 爸爸, please bring us to take the boat and visit Pulau Aman when you are free :)

Gurney Paragon Mall

Didn't want to be indoors only family, but there's some new activities at the malls. The newly opened Gurney Paragon Mall is unique, it's a concept mall and the heritage building St. Jo's is here. We've gone past it so frequently that we didn't think twice about it. But next visit, will sure bring the children to take a look and photos, haha.

The 3-D "aquarium" or pop art at Gurney Paragon Mall, L6 right after Switch. They are tiptoeing so that we crop off the barrier line. Too bad the section near the dolphin is uneven, thus making it flawed.

The children were just lying on the floor-covered wallpaper.
There's a barrier though, so I guess they didn't want people in there.

Maserati Showcase 2013 at Gurney Paragon Mall

Luxury sports car, Maserati Showcase 2013.

Justfood is casual food-court atmosphere but slightly premium price (of course the rent at Gurney Paragon must be expensive la :P ).We ordered Kimchi Stew from Bee Won Korean Food (RM15) and The Hamburger from Hamburger Inc. Amazing, only tofu, kimchi, some oyster mushroom, onions yet can be considered flavourful (although the one I had at Sunshine food court many years back tasted much better but it closed down). I think there's a lot of Korean MSG in the Kimchi Stew as I felt really thirsty after eating. The Hamburger is on charcoal bun (maybe they were too busy and didn't toast the bun enough) and the meat patty is slightly peppery and dipped in BBQ sauce. Kids didn't like the peppery taste though.

Kimchi Stew from Bee Won Korean Food (RM15) and The Hamburger (RM15) from hamburger inc.

James, Brown and Cony (Line characters) posters at Switch Gurney Paragon

An unrelated photo, 爸爸 got these Line characters for the children from Taiwan. Cute lor.

Line characters toys - Brown, Cony and Moon