Saturday, July 25, 2009

Pantai Remis

Some of the stalls selling salted fish on the way coming to Pantai Remis
And yes not to forget the famous Raub's Durian

The access road nowadays is far more better than it used to be

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Last photo (this will be my reading spot on my next trip ..and yes tea and scones)

Pak Idrus posting on view of the beach inspired me to write this posting. It's a place called Pantai Remis which is about 30 minutes drive from Kelang. And this is the closest beach that I could have. It might not be in the same league of the beaches in Port Dickson or Langkawi but it's better than none.

Probably because of the location it's not suitable for "beach" activities but it has fantastic view and at least one could experience the sea breeze slowly breezing through. I noticed few artist capturing the "sea' moment on their canvas and they have a very good reason to have this place as their painting zone.

Probably my next trip will be on my own, spending the whole day at the best spot finishing the whole books on famous person biography while enjoying tea and scones (pak idrus thanks for the idea) ..hmmmmmm life is good.

RIZAL

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

BookCrossing

The crossing zone..and this one is very nice

This is the official tag ..attached to the released book

Another example of a simple book crossing zone

The official sign for BookCrossing zone

My first encounter with the wording itself was through Pak Adib’s blog and straight away love the idea of releasing and capturing books that is not in one wanted list anymore. It’s another brilliant way to get more people to love and read books.

The idea started in 2002 and the current total number of members are reaching 800,000 and in Malaysia alone nearly 2500. I’ve completed my first book released last week in a shopping complex in Klang and will follow-up the progress of the book from www.bookcrossing.com.

One Utama has been supporting this idea all this while and they even established probably the first bookcrossing zone in Malaysia (jv with MPH Bookstore) and I was told that the zone was really ideal for book crosser to release and capture books.

Anyway , to at least experienced the excitement just click to the official website and register as a member . The next thing you know will be your addiction of releasing and capturing books while making new friends …


Happy BookCrossing


RIZAL

Thursday, July 16, 2009

FAMILY OUTING : MELAKA 2

Night River Cruise (it will take 45 mins ... )

One of the view from the boat and only visible at night

The latest attracrion, Taming Sari Tower and it will take you 80 meter above Melaka city

Sunday, July 12, 2009

FAMILTY OUTING : MELAKA

Bus Ride all around Melaka


This is inside Taming Sari Tower and we're 80 meter above the ground

A must do list whenever you in Melaka..Beca Ride


Our friendly becaman ....


This cool fountain just infront of the Clock Tower
Kassim the owner of the famous Clock Tower Cendol

The famous Cendol stall



A sneak peak at our roo in Hotel Puri

One of the History room at the Hotel Puri lobby


The Hotel Puri main lobby

The famous Famosa chicken ball rice. You can get the
halal version at Melaka Central


Famosa chicken rice ball



My last trip to Melaka (not related to work) was ages ago, which is why I’ve decided to bring my family to Melaka. To add the trill of this trip we’ve decided to take a bus instead of driving.

The trip from Klang Central to Melaka Central took about 2.5 hours. We’ve stayed in Hotel Puri, a 3 star hotel with 4 star facilities and 5 star breakfast !!!. It’s an old peranakan building converted to a hotel and it’s just a walking distance from all the historical places including Jonker Walk.

We’ve tried almost everything …the taming sari rotating tower, rooftop bus ride, river boat cruise, beca ride and shopping at jonker street. And we manage to complete all of in the first night.

Our last day was to visit the museum and interestingly we’ve got 5 in 1 museum that is 5 museum with only 1 entry fee. This is one of the trip that I really planned carefully utilizing the internet and it really helps.

Looking forward to the next trip….Pulau Pangkor (and yes by bus ….)

RIZAL

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

A ROBOTIC WEEKEND ......




AUTOBOTS ....TRANSFORMED !!!!!

THE ROBOTS WORKING ON THE OBSTACLES


THE WINNING TEAM (FROM UTM, JOHOR)


A WELL DESERVED REST ....EVEN ROBOTS NEED ONE ....

Last month , me and the family manage to spend our robotic weekend at the ROBOCON festival in Stadium Melawati Shah Alam. It’s a competitions open to all Universities in Malaysia and the main objectives is to select the best team who can create a machine aka ROBOTS (well no quite like Optimus Prime and company ..) and able to complete the obstacles.

It’s good especially for my kids to get the exposure of technology and at least by now they should understand that the actual robot that we have now is still far from what they’re seeing in the TVs and yes especially Transformer.

Oh ..and we were at the movies last weekend for Transformer 2 : Revenge of the Fallen and it was spectacular ….

RIZAL