Not For Parking

While we have more & more cars on the road, we may have less parking space. Not only in downtown, there are some commercial blocks in residential area being a piece of hot cake. Every inch of land is so valuable and people would think of any method to secure their territory. This is seen in the busiest spot in First Garden where barriers are being setup to ensure the space reserved for a stall, although this is not an official lot assigned by city council for street business.

Kinta Riverfront Hotel In Operation

After about 2 years of construction, Kinta Riverfront Hotel is finally open to public on the first day of 2012. However, the work on these buildings has not fully completed. Despite the hotel block opens for operation, the adjacent suites apartment block still under construction for final touch up. Anyway, Kinta Riverfront has change the skyline of Ipoh city & offers a new spot to accommodate the visitors. Although it's not as luxury as it's promoted, the setup is still quite presentable. And the remarkable thing is it has Ipoh's first glass view elevator where passenger can enjoy the beauty of Ipoh city when moving upwards in the hotel.

Another Great Sunset

Most of the people are still enjoying the new year holiday today. However, crowd at Kinta City has reduced & congestion is not seen at the roof top car park of the mall. It's a warm day & the sky is relatively clear compared to those rainy days last week. I just able to capture the moment of beautiful sunset.

The Storm Is Approaching

The first day of 2012 seems to be a rainy day in Ipoh. Sky starts getting dark since afternoon that quickly turns into storm at Kledang Range and start moving towards the heart of the valley.

Back To Bricks & Dust

Finally, the building at Clare Street disappeared, leaving only bricks & dust. Old Ruby cinema at adjacent may not escape the same fate if one day it cannot serve any commercial value.

Street Artist

It is not usually seen in Ipoh an artist painting on the street. Outside Kinta Heights, this man is capturing the scene of Leech Street in the morning. I am sure he still can find many other nice spots around Ipoh for painting.

Screens to Welcome Crowd

With two giants of retailing landed in Station 18, this area is now a golden triangle of southern Ipoh. A brand new AEON Jusco is going to open early next year, which is just few yards away from the currently operating Tesco. Commercial units that surrounding these two malls are now of the best valued properties in town. With expected increase of traffic along Pasir Puteh Road, two LED advertising screens are being setup at two major entrances to the Station 18 commercial park.

Good Morning Ipoh

An awesome scene of sun rise in the morning welcomes all Ipoh citizen to start their day in this beautiful city.

They Love Toys

If you think garbage truck is not worth for any decoration, then you may be wrong this time. This team of scavenger may like toys a lot. Although being dumped by their original owners, these poor bears & dragon are now enjoying their ride around the city to serve the public.

Scene at Clare Street

The scene at Clare Street is changing with this row of shop being torn down. The main structure was still intact when seen in August, but it is going down today. Looking at the broken pillars & distorted structure, I believe it will be completely demolished very soon.

The Memory Lane

This Sunday flee market used to be located at Market Terrace (Tingkat Pasar) few decades ago, probably in 1970's. There were selling second-hand or used goods. Later it was moved to People's Park and stayed for many years until a landscaping project carried out there. Finally the city council relocate the flee market to Horley Street & name it as "Memory Lane". We still see crowd on Sunday like in the past but the visitor has changed; it used to be majority local Chinese but now I see there are mostly Malay & foreign workers.

Sunset at Klebang

It's almost the end of a day. Sunlight refraction starts creating beautiful scene in the sky. The brightness above Kledang Range versus the soft reflection in the east which looked like an aurora. Although this is not a breathtaking scene but it's just an eye-catching moment.

Irresistible Display

Found your favorite characters here? Well, this is the window display of a gift shop in Ampang, Gunung Rapat. Indeed, toys are not children's privilege but also interested to the adults, especially the game characters. Well, you know what I mean, it's the Angry Birds. This is just irresistible for me to snap & share this colorful & funny scene.

New Skyline Seen from Ipoh Padang

Now it looked different when viewing from Old Town Cafe across the Ipoh Padang. In between Wisma Taiko & Islamic Bank Building, the two blocks rose from ground reaching its full height now are the Kinta Riverfront Hotel & Condominium. Ipoh city center skyline is now added with these towers which are touching the height limit of Ipoh's high rise building. When seen from a farther distance, it's clearly noticeable that Kinta Riverfront Towers are in same level with Tower Regency Hotel, sharing the crown of tallest building in Ipoh city center.