Now you gonna be wondering, like, where lah Part One and what’s it all about anyway?
Well, ‘Part One’, was posted up here by the Shaolin Tiger dewd first, so this here entry I put up as Part 2 lah. We’re in a teevee show called ‘Discover Smile Zoom Malaysia’ which will start showing on 8TV on 29th July.
Now how did we get on the show in the first place? Well, it’s all started with a makan lunch session at Kanna’s some weeks back, one thing leads to another and before you can say ‘chappati curry kambing!’ we went to the audition. I speculated that we were selected becoz we ad lib our stuff all the way heh heh heh….
Anyway, fast forward to last weekend, like what the Shaolin dewd posted, at about 7 am we’re off!
No, it wasn’t like ‘Amazing Race’ kind of teevee program, I dontch think my knees can tahan all that pounding running up stairs and jumping over obstacles and stuff (no, me just exaggerating a wee bit here for ‘drama’. if you know what I mean…), we both agreed to have fun while doing the show.
There’s a video camera dewd riding shotgun in the car with us and there’s also a car-mounted 3ccd camera with a 0.7x wide angle attachment lens thingies erm, attached to the lens (makes me face look fat, aiyoh!) pointing at both the Shaolin Tiger dewd and I (now I just realised that there’s no picutre of the 3ccd camera recorded for posterity blerghh..) so that the production can record whatever we say/do/in camera. I think the fun part was when we switched off the ca rmounted camera and started to say unpublishable stuff off camera whoah hahahahah.
Anyway, our first challenge was to make a popiah skin…
do you know he is the last of his kind making popiah skin the traditional way? Now you know lah, he is located at Chowrasta market, drop by lah to see the man in action, and bring home some of his famous popiah skin…
We didn’t wait till we get home tho, we had some right there and then.
Later another challenge that we have to perform (right after we solved a ‘riddle’ provided by our producer dewd, if we dontch get it right we kennot allowed to leave lerrr…) were to photogrpah a group shot of visitors to Botanical garden under the Ebony tree…
…it only took me a ‘mere’ 15 minutes to convince a group of student’s from Johor to agree to have their photograph taken with the Shaolin Dewd. Dewd, I think they were a wee bit scared of you lerr…
(lighting details: direct flash with on camera flash as I only need a record shot nothing artistic)
Anyhow, there were a few task that were quite difficult to finish, like finding a tree that smells like sarsaparilla. The rules of the competition allows the participant to seek help if stuck, so we did ask for help from the friendly Botanical Garden officer’s who prolly took pity of us clueless city folks…
..well anyway, we lost this round ler, the other team already arrived at the finish line, that’s why the officers come around on motorbike to help us finish the challenge else it took us forever to finish whoah hahahahaha
(lighting info: again direct flash balanced with ambient light so not making us all over exposed like tepung gomak.)
Another challenge took us to a restaurant *grins*
After completing the task the Pen Mutiara restaurant (go google ‘pen mutiara curry house penang’) treats us to a nice, scrumptious (to my ‘chappati’ for lunch standard lah that is…) long-ish 2 hour’s lunch.
The asam boi drink really help balanced out the heavy meal, manyak syiok I’m telling you…
Then we proceed to another location when suddenly we become competitive and I dontch take any picture no more whoah hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Night came, and it’s time to head back to the hotel…
…it’s been ages since I’ve been to Penang, and everytime it’s werk related, this teevee program tho let me explore Penang a wee bit more. That being said tho, if you wanna drive in Penang ahh, get a GPS, many, many one way streets and crazily angled junction at the end of the one way streets. (Okay lah mac aka Peter Lim, I gonna get one for ‘werk’ ady…) . latr that night, I went out again to have a nice, quiet TT @ Restoran Subaidah 24 Jam with a few Penangites friends who’ve been following my fesbuk updates all day (thanks to the Blackberry™ ler, nifty gajet these Blackberry™..)
…it’s a productive TT, we’re discussing and making plans about a possibility of having a Ted Adnan’s workshop in Penang in the near future. Watch this space lerrrr……
