Surrounded by towers of books, time seems does not exist.
And it did two weeks ago when I made my pilgrimage to that Chowrasta Market,Penang. During my volunteering years in Laos (2002 - 2003), that was the place I went while waiting for the next train to leave for Bangkok. It was kind of ritual to take the night train to Butterworth from KL and arriving in Butterworth at 7 am the next morning. Jumping off the train, I would take the ferry to Penang and walked to Masjid Kapitan Keling to have my morning shower. And I would spend the next hours at the Chowrasta Market immersed in my reading before clutching some books for the 2pm train ride to Bangkok.
Jalan Chowrasta
Chowrasta Market
close-up: Bahagian buku-buku lama
Inside: Heaven on earth!
towers of back issues of Reader Digest
11 comments:
Is, so you called me from here lah kan?? Ha, now i get to see the place! And Is, I like the new template.
Thanks Dr Bubbles!
At least I now know what Chowrasta looks like:-)
Btw, I never been there.
I hope to go there as soon as I can.
Pak Adib
kakteh,
yup! I sms-ed you from this place.it is only 5 minutes away from KOMTAR Penang and you will get a chance to stroll along the quiet lane of Chowrasta.surreal but nice!
it is actually the original template i used for my lost blog.kusyi told me recently of another blog using drbubble (with no s) and she said that the fellow blogger with drbubble name is female and a doctor. hahaha. that was my lost blog!
i think I will keep it as my templatelah.warnanya chantek kan?
pak adib,
kalau nak ke sana someday, let me know . :). to me that place gives me a great pleasure and it always reminded me of that book villages of Wigtown,Scotland and Hay-on-Wye,Wales. kakteh sudah ke hay-on-wye kan?
is, i sekolah dulu kalau ponteng kat sinilah lepak dgn pak we....tak de lah, acah je
atenah,
hahaha..what a strange place to lepak with yr pakwe. by the way prangin mall is just 5 minutes away. :)
sedih is, dah berkurun lamanya tak ke sana. prangin mall pun tak pernah jejak lagi. can you imagine that?
oh oh oh oh oh....*run around as if seeing sweets, too many swees*
Salam Is,
Thanks for showing the photo of the shop. If I am right, I've been there many times before, buying nutmeg and pickles. Never know it is in the same place!
naj,
tempting kan?
jiwarasa,
ironinya, betul-betul dibawahnya (ground floor)ialah bahagian daging khinzir!
Hi, can you tell me if the secondhand bookshops in chowrasta opens on Sundays as well? Thank you.
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