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lenscaped skip to main skip to sidebar lenscaped sometimes the lens captures what the eye sees sometimes what the heart remembers wednesday march 11 2009 i was a movie reviewer once for a little while i did write some occasional movie reviews don t know how i did it but for posterity s sake i thought i would just link up to all i could find here da vinci s code lighten up it s ok just ok pathfinder the vikings are coming lady in the water story s tale poseidon top 10 elements of great disaster movies failure to launch love on autopilot the producers produce this hitchhiker s guide to the galaxy on the road to nowhere kingdom of heaven the soul estate king arthur the once and not so mythical king alexander textbook alexander 8 femmes femme fest intolerable cruelty game set match secondhand lions the lion sleeps tonight bang rajaan thai epic cinema at its best there were more i am sure but i have to go dig it up from my own archives posted by mona at 11 11 pm no comments saturday january 03 2009 i know i know warning photo heavy yes it has been an age and a half since i updated this blog i ve almost forgotten what blogger looks like but as usual the impetus to write only begins when one has something to say and now i have something to say with pictures two years ago i posted about the moonlight bungalow in cameron highlands well two years later i managed to get close enough to moonlight to take these shots moonlight is now for sale the view as you walk up the driveway the path he jim thompson may have gone down the veranda view the chimney view the veranda the story was moonlight was bought by an english man some two years ago and he basically refurbished the ground floor when he applied for a permit to build an extension and refurbish the upper floor he was denied the rumour was that the sultan of pahang did not want any part of the bungalow to be demolished or renovated in anyway for heritage reasons so the english man left the bungalow in its current state and put it up for sale anyone got rm 5 million in spare cash are you ready for some photoes of the interior staircase to the upper level parlour fireplace on the end of the big living space on the ground floor is another fireplace the two doors beside it lead to two rooms with ensuite bathrooms the front room windows facing the driveway the back room window facing the caretaker s quarters the kitchen is seperated from the main house by a small passage at the other end of the veranda here is where the cooking range would have been the upper floor and the caretaker s quarters were left in disrepair and i didn t want to take photoes of it didn t want to chance capturing some random orbs posted by mona at 6 19 pm no comments labels cameron highlands holidays moonlight bungalow friday june 30 2006 gregory s first piano lesson he s getting so big here s a little clip of gregory playing the piano with granny posted by mona at 4 43 pm 1 comment friday june 09 2006 cameron highland bungalow blues i ve wanted all my life to go to cameron highlands never had a chance as a kid as my dad was not very keen to drive up the winding roads it didn t help that he lost a cousin to an car accident up on the ch road several items actually peaked my interest in recent years i was in a quilters list at onelist this is pre yahoo group days when one of the quilters in us wrote me and said she used to go to boarding school in cameron highlands after the advent of google i finally found out that the boarding school she was talking about was now bala s chalet it used to be the tanglin school for expatriate children check out its history here and here the school was closed in 1948 because of the increasing danger from communist insurgents surrounding this area arriving at bala s at drizzly late afternoon gave the whole cottage a serene cosy feel we were tucked under the big umbrella having hot masala tea and scones on iron wrought benches surrounded by the sweet smell of honeysuckle and jasmine the garden sported a moss sampler different moss grown on little tiles and a unique birdbath unfortunately i have lost touch with the us quilter who use to go here but i would be grateful if anyone has any memories or photographs of the school until its closure in the 1940s cameron highlands has the one of the highest numbers of well preserved colonial bungalows being a hill station established in the 1930s many colonials would take this arduous journey up the montains in elephants first then motorcars to partake of the fresh mountain airs the journey is still as arduous even in this modern day and age but well worth it one of the bungalows that evokes the most sense of mystery is moonlight the bungalow jim thompson was staying in before his mysterious disappearance in 1967 many malaysians now will remember jim thompson as a premier brand for thai silk never realising that he was a man with a quite sinister past in fact his disappearance sparked a huge search by local and international jungle experts including many psychics for a great read on his disappearance including a blow by blow account you have to go to this site and read this forum thread it s pretty old but in the later pages there are excerpts of the book solved the mysterious disappearance of jim thompson the thai silk king i m unable to get a hold of this book and have written to the author but will update when i do now when i arrived at moonlight i was greeted by a very grumpy looking caretaker who did not like us looking around he gave us 5 minutes and said no photos fair enough looks like i might have to pay the rm 750 for rental to justify the some serious investigation in to the place it was a bright sunny day but when i was walking in the garden the sun went behind the clouds and it seemed to get darker it was so quiet almost as if the place was blanketed by time such an old place with so much history i could almost see children playing in the garden and women have tea on the terrace a peek through showed a parlour with an open fireplace where once men had sat and smoked their cigars and drank their brandy i wished i could catalogue the history of this place the families who owned it and the people who lived here i ll just leave you with some bungalows we managed to snap from afar as they re privately owned thank god for zoom lense posted by mona at 5 42 pm 1 comment friday may 26 2006 land below the wind i m off to cameron highlands this weekend to pursue my passion of photographing old houses meanwhile i ll leave you with a video i took in kota kinabalu sabah we were walking down tanjung aru beach to pass the time before departure when we happened to catch a dance troupe at their rehearsals the bamboo dance is native to this region and there is a similar dance in the philipines the sabahan variety uses 2 beats while the filipino one use 3 i think sabahan dance is much faster by far posted by mona at 1 36 pm no comments tuesday may 23 2006 random conversations around the office amber dives amber chia the darling of the malaysian modeling scene is about to skydive at the malaysia skydive 2006 showcase in july what happens if she freezes rl suggests a follow up headline amber kia my da vinci code review is up lighten up it s ok just ok i had confessed to rl earlier that i was intimidated by da s review brake the code to which he answered it s ok nothing you ever write will be comparable to the great da hence the title and format another colleague suggested another cool title opie s dei out but i somehow couldn t work the review around that theme since i didn t think he opie outed anything at all sorry ct check it out posted by mona at 5 14 pm no comments monday may 22 2006 why this blog exist i ve been thinking of setting this place up for ages thinking that there needs to be another place to deposit my random thoughts and photoes also to allow some of my non crafty friends to catch up on my life without their eyes being too glazed by the knitting or other craft related posts in that other place what really spurred this on is this blog post on the star s citizen blog the citizen s blog is an outlet for malaysians to post about well everything it is fast becoming a complaint station an ethics calssroom and an outlet for victims of road rage and assinine behaviour by malaysian drivers amid the earnest and serious post about malaysian mentality mother s day and father s day musings and various relentless ciri ciri kewarganegaraan reader beware i have been known to make up words as i go along here is an incongruous post about the dangers of poking oneself with a keyring if i may paraphrase whenever i accidentally hit my thumb to something or touch something whether it s my towel or books there is this indescribable pain i felt it till my whole body tremble and i can t help screaming pain pain very pain it has been two weeks now and there are still no improvement after applying few types of ointment ouch literally posted by mona at 3 58 pm no 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