I went by Danga Bay, Johor Baharu last Saturday and saw a group of people in the process of putting a large hot air balloon. It was my first time to be able to watch people setting up a hot air balloon like this.

Watch more of the photos -> My Flickr Gallery.

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One of the most well known old mosque in the state of Johor, Malaysia. It was said to be built in the late of 18th century under the direction of Sultan Abu Bakar of Johor. It was also said by many that the mosque was build without the use of any modern building material like cement and people are still debating on what or how the bricks are able to be placed firmly together and what exactly been used in place of cements, some legend said yolk were used, instead.

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I went to Pantai Tanjung Leman, Mersing or Tanjung Leman Beach early April to send off one mof my cousin to her new acquired family through marriage. It is accustom for a relative to join the family for sending off after marriage to the new family. Her husband's family lives somewhere at a place called Tenggaroh, Mersing and it is very close by at about 11 kilometer to the Tanjung Leman Beach.

Tanjung Leman Beach is a typical east coach beach of Malaysia, a white beautiful sandy beach. But somehow when I got to the beach, it is a wrong time of the day that the water line was too far away and this made the beach not very attractive at all. To reach the water line is muddy all the way and not very much swimming can be done. Anyhow do enjoy a few photos taken at the beach.

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Mesjid Sultan Ismail, Batu Pahat is the main mosque in the district of Batu Pahat. It is a beautiful mosque in which the dome sometimes resembles an egg plant.

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The uniqueness about Malaysia in comparison to many other countries that have the same traits and attraction of a melting pot county is the richness of cultural heritage. Malaysia is one of the Malay Archipelago, a cluster of islands consist almost 20,000 island in which constitutes Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei and stretching to Papua New Guinea. As such many of the cultural activities like dances, foods and even languages are common from one country to the other.

Most of the local people where I live (Batu Pahat) somehow or rather can be traced to be originated from Java of Indonesia, many of which migrated over a century ago. And many cultural inheritance like dances and food are rather similar with the current people of Java, Indonesia. One of the most popular entertainment activities is Kuda Kepang dance. It is especially popular during wedding festival and many special occasions.

Last week I manage to take a few photos at one of the Kuda Kepang dance and it sure brings lots of memories since nowadays you hardly find it to be held at weddings anymore. Not like when I was a kid whereby each and every wedding would host a Kuda Kepang dance.

Checkout this thread I post in a forum at http://www.photomalaysia.com about that Kuda Kepang dance. You need to log in to be able to see the photos. More
photos of Kuda Kepang.


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The Prime Minister's Office building.

Putrajaya is the new Malaysia's government administration centre and it is named after the first Malaysia Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra. It has a beautiful city centre with large uniquely shaped building that makes you feel like you are somewhere abroad. Last week I was in Putrajaya and everywhere you see are gardens of flowers that the city is dubbed as the Garden and Intelligent City and the surrounding environment is very welcoming that will make you want to come again and again.

Since Malaysia is celebrating its 50th year of independence, Putrajaya held many events, one of which is the Putrajaya Floria that I manage to get to. Initially I wanted to see the Malaysia International Fireworks Competition 2007, with the camera ready and the mind set but somehow something came up at home and need to go back home to Batu Pahat and as such I was unable to watch it, so unfortunate.Visiting Putrajaya is definitely a must, even for a Malaysian because it really represent the new Malaysia and I assure you that it is a worth the effort. And it is not infected by the traffic jam yet as of Kuala Lumpur. Even seeing the city centre from above, from Google Earth is kind of a welcoming design, first impression one must somehow feel that the architect and the town planner must have watched too much National Geographic or maybe the movie "Sign" played by Mel Gibson I guess it is intentional that Putrajaya welcomes visitors from above and beyond.

One thing that I really don't understand is the naming usage of places at Putrajaya is rather differs from most of Malaysian places. I suppose it came from the US, or an influence from Singapore naming of Precinct for block or groups of housing estate. The various places are called Presint and many blocks of buildings are called Parcel. Parcel C, D and E or Presint 1, 2, 3 and etc.

Anyhow, I could see a lot of tourist visiting Putrajaya, armed with camcorder and all sorts of digital imaging devices. But I supposed I managed to get to take a photo of a forgotten visitors.

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Finally, I managed to go to the one of the buzz of year 2007 last Friday, set up in conjunction to the Visit Malaysia 2007, the Eye On Malaysia located at one of the oldest lake park of Kuala Lumpur, the Titiwangsa Lake Garden. In fact I spent almost a day over there, in the morning with my two kids after dropping my wife at KL Convention Centre and in the afternoon with my parents and my sister while waiting to pick up my wife from the KL Convention Centre. My two kids were the lucky ones, got to ride the Eye on Malaysia twice in a day.







Eye on Malaysia (EOM) is actually a ferris wheel, a very big ferris wheel. the idea of Eye On Malaysia came from the similar concept in London, if I am not mistaken called the London Eye. A 60 metre structure comprises of 42 fully air conditioned gondolas. Riding with Eye on Malaysia is a 12 minutes joy and if my counting is right , it took exactly 8 revolutions or is it 10. I lost count after 5, enjoying the ride so much.



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It has been quiet sometime since I have been to Kuala Lumpur or KL for leisure, normally I have to attend a meeting so no sight seeing is included in the schedule. But today I got to see KL by myself since the kids is with the my mum at my sister's house and my wife is at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre attending the KL International Breast and Colorectal Cancer Congress. The conference will be for 3 days so I have many time to kill. Since my sister insisted that we stay at her house, I have to travel early in the morning to reach the convention centre, would it be great if my wife know how to take the public transport, anyhow, KL traffic jam reminds me on why I left KL years ago to find work at my hometown. Luckily, I still got all the skill of driving learned back when I was a system support engineer in KL even though many of the routes have changed.

KL Convention Centre is a grand place indeed, never been there before and I suppose I look like a fish out of water, everyone else is all dress up unlike me with a t-shirt and a snicker. May be tomorrow I'll just drop my wife off at he main entrance. Anyhow, snap the picture of the Petronas Twin Tower with my Nokia N73.

Maybe tomorrow I will bring the kids to the Zoo and most probably later on to take a ride on The Eye of Malaysia.

This month is a special month, on 31st of August, Malaysia will celebrate its 50th Independence Day. Along the way from Batu Pahat, everywhere you turn you would see Malaysian flags all over displayed proudly by Malaysian.







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