A good life in April ~ little travel to Penang and Broga

Hi, an update on my April moleskine journal. 

In April, life a bit different as compared to previous months as I make a trip to Penang, on my own without family. 

 I spent one day hanging around the island and 2 days attending the workshop at this elegant mansion. 

On the first day arrival (about 1 hr flight), most of the time I spent touring around Penang Peranakan Mansion, baba nyonya museum. 

 

There was a lot of antique / vintage stuff to see, but my favorite was the room which filled with shelves of colorful Vaseline Glass Epergnes collection from England (1890-1930).

I attempted to draw it in a journal. 

I settled my lunch at 4pm in a zakka cafe ~ Chai Diam Ma (I had a late breakfast inside the plane)

Most of the pages were prepared in advance for ease of journaling.



We have a long holiday from May 1 to May 4. We enjoyed our sunshine, outdoor by making our trip to Broga. Oops..no hiking, but we drove to 2 km further up from the famous Broga Hill (Selangor), the Broga Town (Negeri Sembilan) . We visited the Taoist Temple, which is located at the Broga.



A dedicated page to record our recent outing to Broga Hill, Semenyih.

The lush green hill at the other side of the temple gave me a feeling of tranquility, a pause moment that I willing to slow down my steps.



I was inspired by the green hill.
On the top part of the journal page, I put on some watercolor and doodled, and the result turned out unexpectedly nice.

elegant mansion called Homestead

Last week, I managed to make my first trip to Wawasan Open University in Penang, 

the white mansion used to be called as Homestead by most Penangist.  

This building, also the University belongs to the family of Yeap Chor Ee, a prominent Penang tycoon and philanthropist. The mansion was donated by Yeap's family for education purpose. I happened to choose WOU University to further my studies was after seeing this building. The old building somehow amazes me in somewhere. 

("Towkay" is meant "boss" in Hokkien language)

I've captured some photo during my 2 days workshop here. 

Mandalas, from black to colour

feeling bore with just black ink pen 

eager to fill the circle with colour pen

It's doesn't matter if there were upside down. 

 hope you don't mind. 

Inspiration 《文具手帖》

So tempting with the series magazine from Taiwan. 

Stationery & Journal 《文具手帖》is one of it. Love the Season 7 which highlights the postcard collection. I am a huge fan of postcard and stamp, a postcrosser since 2009. 

I am not the only one who will send a postcard to our own self during the trip :)

It is so good to know that there are others who did the same.

This season's topic reported more about the influence of TN in Taiwan,

I have observed that the Traveller's Notebook (TN) has become a trend

among the youngster of Malaysia. I fancy with Moleskine notebook since 3 years back.

   However, all of those journal are very pricey at local (Due to import tax, currency conversion & shipping cost). 

Taiwanese ~ Round-robin journal book. 

100 Mandalas Challenge (9 to 14)

Get back to Mandalas practice 

No pressure , no hurry, simple one

Life is in beautiful details that only

last for a glimpse of seconds.