Pavilion CNY Slideshow

The narrative from this visit can be read here.

Across to Fahrenheit

I moved on after doing an initial sweep at taking photos at Pavilion foyer. I crossed the road from the fountain at the Bukit Bintang entrance which naturally took me to Fahrenheit. I thought I might as well have a quick peek.

Nothing fancy, but some cute decor. Animal theme and not just the horses. Neat. And less crowded than Pavilion.

The Hunt for the Venue

We promised Irfan that we would do a party for his birthday. The last time we had a party for him was a while back, at the Bird Park. He was due for one. But we had no idea where to do it.

In the last couple of weeks, we had been checking on a few venues. This afternoon, in between my clinics, I went to Kiara Equatrian Club to make a visit.

The venue was available for the proposed date. The question was, would Irfan like the idea. So, on Friday afternoon, we would take him there for a game of bowling and ask him if he would like his party there.

If he wasn't keen, we might have to do more searching. Kids nowadays ...

Return to Pavilion

After seeing one of my friend's entry about the decorations at Pavilion, I was suckered in to return. The new additions were hordes of horses - as the coming CNY would be the Year of the Horses.

They had 688 of them at Pavilion. Exactly 688? I didn't actually counted them all.

Visiting Pavilion on a public holiday - today being Maulidur Rasul - was never going to be fun. I got there before noon, straight after my morning ward round, did some quick snaps walked towards Fahrenheit 88 - then drove to Syria Suria KLCC before returning home to get some errands done.

I didn't hang around for too long. By the time I left, the queue coming I to the car park was horrendous. Guess people wanted to get their shopping done before the coming CNY.

As you could see, the hordes were small but many. Two main colours, white and red. The Bukit Bintang entrance by the famous water fountain had the usual trimmings of lantern and sakura. All to good effect.

It soon got crowded that I was getting in the way of those about to have their photos taken. Time to escape...

More photos from this visit can be seen in this slideshow.

Back to EVE

It's addictive but I just can't help it. I first signed up for this online multiplayer adventure a couple if weeks before Irfan was born. January 2006. Now coming up to the eighth anniversary and after seeing a posting from a former gang member on Facebook, I though about giving it a visit.

The game had been updated over the years and it seemed that I would have to download a new server - 6 GB of it - which took me about an hour at the apartment.

I still have the subscription ready, so I fired up the client both on the iMac and another on the MacBook Pro, signed up and I was back to fantasyland.

EVE is a virtual world set in the far future when mankind had explored another universe through a wormhole from Earth. After a period of exploration, the wormhole collapsed and connection to Earth was severed forever.

In the world of EVE, you explore. UK title galaxies, fight, built up corporations, make a fortune and basically all in a self-contained, open-ended environment. Fascinating stuff. You interact with real people, from other parts of the World - usually 30000 of them at any one point being logged on - just like on twitter or in conversation.

You could be as basic or as complex as you wanted to be. As a casual gamer, I just went with the flow. I just loved to explore. Occasionally, to make ends meet, you had to do chores and Mission, build your fleet of spaceships and mods. You can just do what you want. Some of the arwa worlds were prim and proper, while others were lawless. You take your pick....

I spent the morning exploring. As I usually do, until it was time for my ward round. Yes, real live could get in the way.....