6th Putrajaya International Hot Air Balloon

Yes dear parents the annual hot air balloon fiesta is back this coming school holiday. 

I would strongly recommend the following main event stretching from 27th to 30th March:

7.00am - 9.00am:   Hot Air Balloon Flying Show (Blue Zone)
7.30am - 10.30am:   Tethered Hot Air Balloon Rides (Blue Zone)
6.00pm - 7.00pm:   Hot Air Balloon Flying Show (Blue Zone)
6.00pm - 9.00pm:   Tethered Hot Air Balloon Ride (Blue Zone)
9.00pm - 10.00pm:   Night Glow & Fireworks Display (Blue Zone) - Only on 29th March (Saturday)

The tethered hot air balloon rides is a must to try but only limited to children who are above 4 feet. Please bear in mind it is very popular among visitor as such tickets are sold out super fast. So be there early to purchase it. Ticket price at RM20 per person.

Counter open:
7.00am : Morning Flight
5.30pm : Evening Flight

*Subject to weather conditions. Limited to 180 tickets per session.

Look at the layout below to locate the Blue Zone area.

For more information, please go the this website and Facebook.

Logos Hope - Largest Floating Book Fair

THE MV Logos Hope is the newest ship of Operation Mobilisation (OM) and will visit Port Klang from 29 Sept to 23 Oct 2011. This is the vessel's first call in Malaysia. Logos Hope replaces the MV Doulos which last visited Port Klang in 2006.

Known as the world's largest floating book fair, the ship carries over 5,000 titles on a wide range of subjects for sale at discounted prices. Through this, the ship has met the educational needs of communities around the world. The book fair will open daily for the general public.

Logos Hope is also here to bless the community through conferences and seminars on board, through ministry teams sent on outreach, and through a two-week volunteer programme for Malaysians to experience work and service on the ship.

This is one of those interesting outing worth going with children. So I am planning to go with my little kids more so they have not been into a big ship such as this. 

For more information please click here

29th KL International Book Fair 2010

THE Kuala Lumpur International Book Fair is back and this time, the event is even bigger in terms of the number of booths and space occupied.

The event, themed “Books: Building the World of Tomorrow”, is on from 19th March till 28th March at the Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC). There are plenty of good bargains on all kinds of books and educational tools both from local and foreign publishers.

Occupying five halls, the book fair features 856 booths, out of which 128 are taken up by foreign publishers

Venue: Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Time:

• Mondays-Thursdays (10.00am - 8.00pm)
• Fridays-Sundays (10.00am - 9.00pm)

Click here to find out more of their activities.

2nd Putrajaya International Hot Air Balloon

The Fiesta

Date: 18 - 21 March 2010 Coincide with school holidays to capture the children and parents from all around Malaysia.

Venue: Putrajaya Precinct 2, adjacent to the Monument Alaf Baru.

Time To stretch the event time from 7am to 9pm.

• Number of Hot Air Balloons: 23
• Normal shaped : 18
• 13 hot air balloons for free flying
• 5 hot air balloons for public tethered rides
• Special shaped: 5

Participating countries

• Countries involved were Belgium, USA, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Malaysia and Japan.

Click here to find out more of the itinerary

Tanglong tanglong here and there

This year Mid Autumn or Mooncake festival we managed to spend time with our family on both sides. Overall the celebration was much quite then usual. Not many people were seen celebrating the festival as I observed in my neighborhood and other place. People still very much reserved by the stagnant economy.

At least the kids are enjoying it. Much delight especially for Reanne and Sarah for the tanglong a.k.a lantern and candle lighting experience.

Carol's Church Wedding

Attended my ex-colleague, Carol Tee's church wedding at Kajang Holy Family Church few weeks ago. This is one of my family first visit to the church new building and also our first time attending a catholic church wedding ceremony.

Congratulations Sean and Carol!

Powerpuff girl

Last month we celebrated my youngest sister in-law, Alana's birthday by dinning out. We ate at Seri Kembangan Lek Lek Restaurant. The finale was the birthday cake singing and cutting. My brother in-law Chee Yoong specially make for Alana a 3D Powerpuff Girl cake. Powerpuff Girl is one of Alana's favourite cartoon character. The cake not only looks special and cute, it also taste good. It's my first time seeing and eating such unique cake.

Once again for the record, blessed birthday Alana.

Should you interested and wanted more information on my bro in-law unique cake, you are welcome to visit his website at http://lyra-patisserie.blogspot.com. He takes order and makes delivery (depending on location).

Moving forward

Knowingly and unknowingly, the season of change is setting in. And the theme of change is 'moving forward'. Entering of a new season.

That is what Latter Rain Church, the church that my family attending is undergoing. Our church is litterally moving forward as we will be moving to a new place of worship at Jaya 1, Petaling Jaya. We are currently doing the 'Big Move' as our first Sunday Worship in Jaya 1 is in 30th August 2009.

Just yesterday the worhsip and media team have shifted some major components to the new premises. My buddy blogger Dan'Lion has captured the scene with his ready camera (click here to see). I was busy with others packing, shifting and setting up.

The changes is not only seen in my church but also in my life. The sense to move forward is strong (kinda hard to explain) and it keeps building up in momentum. You just want to make shift from the usual place. Move out from the comfort zone.

Move it, move it!

Dataran Budaya Kuala Lumpur 2009

My family were at Dataran Merdeka last Saturday attending the Dataran Budaya Kuala Lumpur 2009. Our main purpose was to visit my sister in-law Soo Mei who has a display booth together with few of her friends for her homemade jewelry a.k.a Molecule Handmade Jewelry (you are welcome to drop by her website www.mol3cule.blogspot.com). This is her first debut via offline ever since she have launch her home based handmade trinket online shop as she described it.

Congratulations Soo Mei for your successful national and international debut!

Note: Beside Molecule Homemade Jewelry, Soo Mei also the creator of Bling Deco (http://www.blingdeco.blogspot.com)

Company annual dinner 2009

Together with KL colleagues

Company annual dinner on last Friday held at Mines Wellness Hotel, Seri Kembangan. Here group photo with my Penangnite colleagues who came all the way from Penang.

Putrajaya dragon boat festival

We didn't miss out the 1st ever dragon boat festival held at Putrajaya last Saturday.

First, the location was pretty obscure as the official website didn't provide any map. All it mentioned was Putrajaya Lake Garden. Soon I found out that it is held at Precint 6 beside the newly opened Pullman hotel, just nearby PICC (Putrajaya International Convention Centre). Second, even when we are there we have difficult time to find a good and decent signage to guide visitor there. Not really good first impression for an international event.

Anyhow, lets forget the shortfall but the family trip we had. 7 of us were there i.e. Silas, Rachel, little Sarah and my family. Overall we did enjoy ourselves. Suprisingly it is not the dragon boat race but a free horse ride that really trill us (kids and adults la). One thing for sure, the facilities there were good, with one grandstand for visitors, observation tower and boat deck. Under a shinny hot sun, our outing only last 1.5 hours. It's just very hot!

Horse riding for everybody!

Putrajaya International Dragon Boat festival

PUTRAJAYA will be hosting what is touted to be the largest Dragon Boat event in Malaysia, with more than 1,500 participants from various countries.

The three-day sporting event will be held from June 5 to 7 at the Putrajaya Water Sports Complex. So far, 1,500 participants from 30 local teams and 20 foreign teams – from China, Singapore, Indonesia, Britain, Vietnam, Japan, Thailand and the Philippines – have registered.

Sound interesting for me to bring my family there as we did last trip for the international hot air ballon festival. The kids will love it. They never seen it before......so am I.

Kajang 2009 Easter March

This Saturday (18 April) 2,000 crowd is expected to participate in the 2009 Easter March in Kajang town.

The march is a combined effort of 23 main and independent churches of various denominations around the Hulu Langat district. The aim is to seek God’s blessings, protection and provision for the district, the state of Selangor and the nation as a whole, with emphasis on unity and good governance.

Themed “One Body, One Spirit, One Lord”, the march will start at 3pm at the Holy Family Church on Jalan Gereja after an opening prayer. It will end at 6pm following one hour of prayer, worship and fellowship at the Holy Family Hall.

Priests, pastors and church elders would lead the march, which was open to all, young and old. The colour code for the afternoon will be red T-shirts.

The 2009 Easter March will be the 14th of its kind. It was held annually but since 2005, the march has been held biennially. The march was initiated by the Kajang Assembly of God (KAOG).

World Book Day at Popular

In conjunction with the World Book Day, POPULAR is organizing a nationwide promotion with the following offers from 17-30 April 2009:

1) FREE* Exclusive Memo Pad with minimum purchase of RM60 for POPULAR Card members & RM80 for non-members in a single receipt. Strictly while stocks last.

2) Selected English Book titles rebate up to 20%.

3) Selected Chinese Book titles, Members rebate 20% & Non-member rebate 10%.

4) Selected CD-Rama items offered at special prices.

5) Selected Stationery items, Members rebate 30% & Non-member rebate 10%.

Night Glow at Putrajaya - video

Part of the Night Glow event captured live for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!

Night Glow at Putrajaya

After gotto to know about the first ever hot air balloon fiesta at Putrajaya, we made an afford to go to experience it......especially for kids. Pei and I had neither have a close encounter with it yet. The event starts at 7.o0am but the main event is at 8.00 am when the participating balloons take off and fly. Unfortunately we arrived late on 8.45am and missed the excitements. We only saw one showcase balloon which for visitors to have a fun ride on it.......at a cost. Anyway tickets are all sold out. Nevertheless, we hang around for about one and half hours photo taking and visiting the exhibitor booths.

Feeling not satisfied, we decided to come back in the evening to watch the night flow show which will be on 8.30pm. This time around, we try to be early if not on time.

By the evening, my family and Silas' family reach about 8.30pm at the same location. Thank God, we wasn't late. The show was delay slightly. About 9pm the nigh glow slowly warms up with balloons mushrooming one by one from the ground and starts to light up. Not really a 'wow' thing but still was quite an experience. We located a spot and sat on the ground to watch the event. About one hour (or maybe less) the event ended. Not bad for a 1st time experience but could have been better. Maybe next round then.

Hot Air Ballon at Putrajaya

From 19 - 22 March 2009, Putrajaya will be the venue for the Hot Air Ballon Fiesta 2009 which is the very first.

Venue: Putrajaya Precinct 2, adjacent to the ‘Monumen Alaf Baru’
Number of Hot Air Balloons: 25 (20 standard shaped hot air balloons and 5 special shaped hot air balloons)

Participating countries includes Australia, Belgium, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Oman, Philippines, Switzerland, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, United Kingdom and United States of America.

For further details, click here.

The Malaysian Savings Sales

The year-end festivities begin in November with the all new Malaysia Savings Sale 2008 or MSS – a much anticipated shopping event in the country. Previously known as the Malaysia Year-End Sale, this year’s shopping extravaganza will commence from 29 November 2008 to 4 January 2009, presenting shopaholics with 37 days of fantabulous retail therapy, great dining experience and fun entertainment.

Throughout the duration, participated malls will be having events and activities spanning from Klang Valley, Kedah, Penang and Johor. Click here to view the details schedules and dates.

DKSH Stock Clearance

DKSH (Diethelm) is having its stock clearance this 6 & 7 Sept 2008 from 9.30am to 5.00pm at its Petaling Jaya office.

Venue: Lot 74, Jalan University, Petaling Jaya
Items: Housesold appliances, pesticide control products, oral care products, pharmaceutical products, personal care products, musical instruments, cameras, watches & clocks, kitchen use products, toys, shoes (Scholl), carbonated drinks, energy drinks, healthfood drinks, chocolate milkpowders, baby milkpowders, snacks, oats and cereals.

Further info, click here

Malaysia International Fireworks Competition 2008

Tonight will be the Grand Finale of the Malaysia International Fireworks Competition 2008 which is being held in Putrajaya's PICC. Admission is free.

Four team i.e. Malaysia, China, Canada and Spain already have performed their fireworks couple of days ago.

Below is the layout suggested by the organizer where you should observe the display around PICC.

For more detail information, click here