Showing posts with label Houses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Houses. Show all posts

Sunday, October 04, 2009

Architectural Houses and Korean Dinner


DURING the Raya break I was back at KL with Ning. One day we've decided to tour around some area where I seldom been, some area that has beautiful houses. Ya know, those houses that goes BOOM and shout 'ME'!

Talking about nice houses, I will usually think of Damansara Height, Bukit Damansara or the Bangsar area. These areas have a higher number of bungalows and nice mansions. I suppose many Datuks or angmohs are staying around there.

So off we go!!!

Referring map for location

I came from the road Jalan Istana towards Jalan Damansara, passing by the Istana Negara, National Museum and Galleria Sri Perdana (residence of Tun Mahathir from year 1983-1999). There you'll find interesting houses and surprisingly the area is kinda secluded and there are many trees along that hilly area.

 This is Idamansara at Damansara Heights

 
 A Castle-like house

 
I call this the louver house =) 

Then we have one that looks like a...ship?

Coming out from Damansara Heights to the Pusat Bandar Damansara (PBD), we then continued to Bukit Damansara at the other side of PBD. It is another hilly area where they are many houses built along the steep, contour area.
 
 Such as this one

 
 This cantilevered house can be seen from Jalan Beringin

 
The National Science Centre which is also located nearby at Mont Kiara

There is one particular highlight for our jalan-jalan cari rumah - the YTL Residence. Previously I was searching for this HUGE mansion owned and resided by the three generation of Tan Sri Dato' Seri Yeoh Tiong Lay and luckily I found it. This time I wanted to brought Ning to see the house.

 
There is a security at the entrance

I didn't take much of its photo fearing that the guard will come and stop us. The only photos of the inside  I could get is from the internet. Amazing house you can find in Malaysia huh. It is just unbelievable!

 (Source) Click here for more info

(Source) Look at the scale between the snake-like house and its neighbouring mansions

Later on, we headed to Mont Kiara since we were nearby the area. I saw an APT hair saloon and decided to had my haircut there. RM25 for cut and wash by junior stylist. And I pretty much like it!

lalala~

 Hello, it's me. BOOM!

After the haircut, I brought Ning to Plaza Mont Kiara for a Korean meal. That was actual the plan for bringing her out for a dinner. However to my dissapointment the restaurant where I planned to bring her was under renovation (or closed down I don't know) so we changed to another location in Desa Sri Hartamas.

 
Sura - One of the restaurant the hairdresser recommended me earlier

 
Ooo..use charcoal one

 
 Hungry Ning

 
 Starving me

There was only us and another table of people in the restaurant. My guess it because it was a weekday, hence the less customer. Anyway, we ordered one set of beef and another set of pork as recommended by the waiter. So here goes:

 
 As usual, Korean meal comes with lots of side dishes

 
 Steamed egg

 
BBQ beef

Roll-up the beef filled lettuce with some sause

 
 We couldn't finished the side dishes as it was already close to full

Fruits and dessert are served after the meal

Sunday, January 06, 2008

Leisure Farm Visit

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YESTERDAY Ar. Hong brought us (the environmental workbase) to Leisure Farm to visit the site for our first project. We we told to gathered at the FAB bus stop at 10am and he will lead us to the place.

The Malays waiting

He gave each of us a mandarin orange before we departed
And he also subsidized the petrol price to all the drivers

The journey there took us approximately 30 minutes. We passed by Mutiara Rini, Lima Kedai, Gelang Patah before reaching our destination. It is located at not far from the Second Link to Singapore.

The entrance


Security guard house


Waiting for security to lead us in


First we headed straight to the sales office, passing by a golf course and some bungalows at the sides. The residential community there is totally isolated from city and it looks peaceful inside there.

The Sales and Information office

Ar. Hong explained abit of the master plan and we walked around the showroom seeing some nice house models. Then we were invited to the auditorium room for a video show about the development of Leisure Farm. We were told that about 80% of the residents there are foreigner. Mostly from Singapore. They make them as their weekend homes there.

The master plan of Leisure Farm

The person-in-charge, Miss Ang is actually an ex-student of UTM. In fact, she was a student of Ar. Hong. She lead us to our project site which was just beside the sales office and we were briefly introduced about of the project as we walked around that area.

Ex-student and lecturer

The place is surrounded by a canal and there were some nice houses at the opposite side. According to Miss Ang, those houses costs about RM700,000-RM800,000 each. But it is really nice! I quite like the environment there. If only I can print money at home (or in the hostel).

Photos:

Abit disappointed on the water. But Miss Ang said that it is due to the construction at the other end.

Private access to the resident area

Ar Hong giving some explantation

He talked about planting pandan to keep the mosquitoes away

And also keeps the air (and his armpit) smells nice

Shy look

A funny lecturer

There were also ducks

That's Jean casting a spell on the ducks

Taking pics of ducks on water

A 'modern' tree house

Made of steel and timber

Assessable by a vertical ladder

Pika (L) and Shar

The others

Tiong (L) and Han Chee

Choon Wah, Sim, Vanessa, Steven and CK

..and me

Trying to figure out a pose

Like this can??

In front of the mini maze with ACY

Another nice spot in the park

They pak tor

We too can

Tropical Sonata

Lily

Jean Jean


Some pics of our site:



Suddenly we came across a small bridge on the canal and felt so excited to take photos on it. Here are some of them. Enjoy =)

Me

Me again

Blocked by Ujang


From left: Vanessa, Sim, Steven, Jean, Me, CK, Choon Wah

again..

again..

and again.

Some more

Then two human walked in

And joined us

So we continued

and again

Good thing about digital camera which doesn't require film

So we took some more

Finally...

A group photo

Closer look

After finish exploring and enjoyed the site, we walked back to the sales office.

These trees were being transplant from elsewhere


If don't pose can die one

The cafe area

Openings for natural lighting

Ar. Hong also asked us to visit the toilets and it turned out to be something different.

Can see the opposite side, from the Gents to the Ladies

Taking a rest while enjoy the scenery

Before leaving the place

That's about it. Now it is time to finish the project...
*Credits to Tiong for some of his photos* =)