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I was going through August Man Magazine recently and I came across something interesting.

Mamak Mee-Ah! The Musical Spoof!

After seeing the musical Mamma Mia! myself, the name Mamak Mee-Ah! surely caught my attention.

The blurb from the poster sounds funny too.

“From the team that created and presented the hugely successful Broadway Parodies Lah! and award wining Broadway Parodies Lagi Lah!“

This local musical production is written by Brian McIntyre MM2H, an Ang Moh (Mat Salleh) who has been living in Malaysia for 20 years.

The musical will be showing some familiar tunes with some spoofed lyrics mixed with Malaysian culture, characters and icons, rojakally.

Sounds fun right? I’m so tempted to go.

So I suppose I have to go to the Box Office and order “Boss! Mamak Mee-Ah satu!”.

Ok lah lame joke I know.

Show Info

Presenter: The Actors Studio Teater Rakyat
Date & Time: 8–10 & 13–17 April @ 8.30pm | 11 & 18 April @ 3pm
Venue: The Actors Studio @ Lot 10
Ticket Price: RM50, RM40, RM30 (students, sr. citizens & the disabled)

More information can be found on The Actors Studio’s website.

Pulau Ketam

One fine day, my friends and I planned for a trip to Pulau Ketam (Crab Island) for walk walk shoot shoot.

The island is a small fishing village located not far away from Klang.

We drove to Port Klang, took a RM7 (one way) ferry at the jetty, and after 30 minutes, we were already on the island.

The main street of Pulau Ketam.

Pulau Ketam is very similar to my mother’s hometown — Pantai Remis — in many ways. So it was nothing new to me.

There was really nothing much on the island. We walked from one end to the other and back in less than an hour.

We got bored and started to take some portraits.

After that, we settled down on a restaurant and ordered, what else, crabs!

Fried lala omelette and fried crabs.

Although the lala’s in the omelette were small, but the food was really nice. Loved the crabs so much. They were so fresh and full of meat. They really live up to the island’s name.

After meal, we took the last ferry at 6 PM to come back to Port Klang. Since there was still enough time for us to catch the sunset, we head on to Tanjung Harapan.

Tanjung Harapan

Tanjung Harapan is near the North Port. It took us a while before we found the way.

Ted on action.

Tanjung Harapan is a nice place for sunset shooting. But too bad that day was too cloudy for us to catch a nice sunset.

Sophea on action.

After sunset, we call it a day and drove back to KL.

Oh I miss the crabs on the Crab Island so much. Slurpsss…

It was the 7th day of Chinese New Year, Sophea and I decided to go to Thean Hou Temple (天后宫) situated near Mid Valley Megamall for photography.

Thean Hou Temple is decorated with lots of red lanterns.

It was my first time being there. Thean Hou Temple is indeed a very beautiful temple.

Carvings of dragon and pheonix on the temple's roof.

To my surprise, there were so many photographers that day. Almost half of the visitors were holding DSLR.

Lion dance at the entrance of Thean Hou Temple.

And what’s more surprising was, there were so many Malay and Indian photographers as well. I mean, isn’t that nice? Different races gathered with no political or religious conflicts doing what they like to do — photography.

Sophea on the left, and Guanyin statue on the right.

The main reason photographers went there is of course, to shoot the lanterns. Sophea and I reached there at 5 PM and waited until around 7 PM when the lights of the lanterns were turned on.

Panorama of Thean Hou Temple's lanterns at night.

Lanterns on one of the towers.

Lanterns on the highest tower.