Funny photo

Funny Party!!

Pulau Ketam

I went to Pulau Ketam with the Olympus fans group for photo shooting.  This was the first time I have continues few hours to hold the PEN EPL-1 camera, with the new lens 150mm~300mm.

I really love the art filter features available in the EPL-1 that makes photo shooting more interesting.

The world is blur, if you focus wrongly.

Fishermen village

Human's best friend

childlike naivety

When will human wake up?

Fall into river?  No.... he walked towards to the boat.

Busy but simple life.

Just fish...

Hi, handsome.... I am handsome too.....

Parking

Good business

Fisherman Village Road

i-City: The City of Light in Shah Alam

Very beautiful view in the evening

I was recommended by my sister to visit i-City to take photo at night for quite sometimes ago.  Just happen to visit an office there couple days ago in the evening, so I stayed until sunset for the photo shooting.

To enter to i-City is free, certain area with theme was gated and need to pay to enter.  I did not enter but could see from outside that there are some figures of dinosaur and animal around.  If you drive in to the parking, parking fee is RM10, and you may use the parking ticket as entrance fee of one of the theme galleries.

i-City is a property development under Malaysia Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) project.  The developer uses a very creative idea by "planting" the electronic trees to make the surrounding so colorful and become a tourist spot in Shah Alam.

LED light

Attractive figures made by LED lights

Colorful Pine Tree

Tips:  
Parking fee only start collecting from 6:00pm, you may choose to drive in before 6:00pm, look for a place for a cup of tea until the sky turn dark.  Not may shops for food there, got a steamboat restaurant.  I took a cup of ice coffee at RM6, not very nice, expensive.

Creative and colorful Christmas Trees

Raining Day - Traffic Jam

Cross junction.

 It's a raining season again.  This photo taken at 8.30pm from a high location.

Traffic jam

As usual, raining day caused a long traffic jam along the highway along Federal Highway, both direction.

Flower bud in the morning

Happy morning!!

Hardworking Bee

Bee is working hard!!

Snapped this photo in early Saturday morning.  

Would like to share this quote with you:

~ When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn’t an option. It’s a necessity. ~

Steve Pavlina

Things to do in East Coast Malaysia - Cherating

First time in my lifetime I saw turtle laid eggs in Cherating - Live!!  Unfortunately, we can light up too bright in the whole process, taking photos and video are not easy.

If you are planning to experience yourselves, there are several things you might want to be aware of.  Turtles lay eggs in seasonal, months of August and September have the most according to the guide.  For more information, you may visit http://tourism.terengganu.gov.my/nature/marang/turtle_sanctuary.htm.  However, you have be prepared that this is to watch nature and turtles lay eggs during night time, you may have to wait at the hotel lobby until mid night before the tour guide found a turtle on the beach ready to lay eggs.

The good advise is to inform your hotel on duty staffs to arrange a tour guide for you, then you can go ahead to sleep early in your room, when the tour guide confirmed there is a turtle laying eggs, he will inform the hotel staff and you will get a wake up call to be prepared your tour with the tour guide.

You may have a chance to see baby turtle, those baby turtles were hatched in turtle sanctuary.  We touch, hold and even out them back to the see.  Very memorable experience.

Nick was holding two baby turtles.

The mummy green turtle

Cute baby turtles

Turtle eggs - fresh

After the mummy turtle laid the eggs and back to the sea, the eggs will be dug up carefully and will be sent to the turtle sanctuary.

You can enjoy the moment of sunrise from the sea level at East Coast Malaysia.

Golden sky

Sunrise

Holiday Shooting at Cherating

Cherating is located at East Coast Malaysia.  Along the coaster road, there are lot of beautiful resorts at the seaside.  We had a family vacation in one of the resort there - Impiana Cherating.

Coconut trees at the seaside.

One credit to Impiana Cherating Resort is that all the rooms are facing the sea.

Immature coconuts

Immature coconuts can be found under the coconut trees everywhere.  May be the wind is too strong at the seaside.

Sea shell

Very nice beach

Jelly fish on the beach

A jelly fish was found on the beach during low tide.

Crab was resting on the beach

Hi, baby... I am awake now!!

Crabs are around on the beach during low tide.  Really fun to play with them.

The swing is fixed in a very nice location.

Another activity - climbing to the tree

Kampung (Village) house

This is fun, especially with kids.

Yellow coconuts

Full of coconuts on the coconut trees.





Will share more exited shots with you in the next post, beautiful sunrise and turtle lay eggs (hope I can manage the video clip to be edited).

Tour within Nature for Rafflesia

Rafflesia is the largest flower in the world. We thought rafflesia only can be found in East Malaysia until recently I were told that it is found in the jungle of Perak.

Last week, I had an opportunity to join an adventure tour organized by MyTravelKaki, the member of BNI Leverage Chapter. It was an exciting trip.

We drove all the way from Kuala Lumpur to the parking area of Gua Tempurung, another tourist attraction, the scenery around this area is gorgeous. There is a lake in front of the car park, the water is still and the reflection is clear. We were waiting for the transport from the tour guide.

The tourist guide spent an hour drive to take 9 of us up to a village called Ulu Geroh. The Orang Asli there brought us into the jungle, we hiked in the jungle for about an hour to reach the rafflesia flower.

Houses in Ulu Geroh Village

The water of the lake in front of Gua Tempurung is still and flection is clear

Spider under the leaf

River cuts across Ulu Geroh Village

Very nice flower

Rafflesia - side view

Grasshopper

We made it!!

A lot of leeches along the way, you need anti-leech socks.

Spores of Rafflesia

Rafflesia - top view

Very interesting view when flash into the flower

Found a lizard on a tree