Perak Rally

Three Days Trip (14 - 16 Dicember 2012)

We had a three day trip to Perak. We started our journey on 14 Dec 2012, 8.30am from Seri Kembangan. The trip ended on 16 Dec 2012 and i reachd home at almost 9.30pm. Our itinerary was KL - Ipoh - Kampung - Kuala Kurau - Kuala Gula - Taiping - Kuala Sepetang - Ipoh - KL. Fuhhhh...tiring but we were so happy and thankful that we completed our journey safely. Thanks to Bernard for the planning and piloting, Ai Hua for communicating, Sau Fang for keeping the money and Joseph for photographing.

Day 1, 14 Dec 2012, Friday: KL - Ipoh - Kampung. 

We had lunch at Gunung Rapat, Ipoh - yong tau foo

After lunch, we stopped at Ipoh for famous homemade heang piah with traditional oven...

 

home sweet home - all of us put up a night @ my kampung

Day 2, 15 Dec 2012, Saturday - getting ready for long journey: kampung - Kuala Kurau - Kuala Gula - Taiping - Kuala Sepetang - Ipoh

Say cheese in front of mum's longan tree - with mum and sister

sawah padi near Sungai Baru

 

Kuala Kurau riverside

Udang Geragau in orange colour, at Kuala Gula. 

According to the locals, in purple at one time, as requested by the Thai.

 

Kuala Gula - famous of bird watching

 

Here, we  were lucky that we saw a few types of bird and ...two hornbills, yeah!

 

We had lunch at Taiping with my aunt - the famous seafood porridge (muih)

 

We stopped at Bukit Larut after lunch

 

We visited the famous mangrove forest at Kuala Sepetang, Perak.

Day 3, 16 Dec 2012, Sunday: Ipoh - KL

We visited the railway station after our sunday service at CMC Ipoh.

 Ipoh Railway Station

Post box in front of Ipoh railway station

 

SCMC members - jalan-geng 

(Bernard the chairman, Ai Hua the secretary, Sau Fang the treasurer and Joseph the cameraman)

 
Ipoh Post Office is located next to the railway station

Sg Selangor Dam: Then & Now

Sungai Selnagor Dam, the whole area is as big as 94,000 olympic-size swimming pools with the depth of 110m or 31 floors apartment. According to the information that i got during the first visit on May, it provides water for Klang Valley and can last for three months.

During the second visit by my friends recently, the water level had decreased due the hot weather. Some may got a shock because the water level is still low during rainny season. According to the SPLASH officers, this condition is normal and it will take months fill up the whole area.

Just compare the then (May 2012) and now (Nov 2012) of Sungai Selangor Dam...

over flow, thennow

then

now

New Discovery @ Fraser's Hill

   Again, visited to Fraser's Hill and discovered different type of flowers...

 

KLWRO 2012

Theme: Robots Connecting People

Malaysia had done a great job in hosting the ninth World Robot Olympiad (WRO). The 2012 competition is a worldwide robotics competition which was held at Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre from 9 to 11 November 2012. A total of 403 teams from 30 countries were participated in the competition.  Malaysia bagged eight medals. Visit http://www.wro2012.org for more details.

We, IAB was given the task to provide food for about 2000 officials and participants. Nine outlets located in Sunway Pyramid Shopping Mall were indentified as food provider. Beside that, a friendship night was held at the Sunway Resort's grand ballroom on 10 Nov 2012. It was not an easy task but we did it!

The robot is almost my height

Junior presenter from Japan

Oppa ganggam style ...

robot invented by the juniors

Friendship Night

Workshop @ Selesa Resort, PD

Attended a digital native workshop organised by BPG, at Selesa Resort, Port Dickson, 7-10 Nov 2012.  On 7 Nov, I reached Selesa Resort at about 4.00 p.m. and was told that there will be no briefing session in the afternoon. So, I decided to visit the army museum. Unfortunately, I didn't enter the exhibition hall because of safety purpose...no officer on duty, no other visitors, dimming light in the exhibition hall and... there were workers around.



 In Memory of Our Fallen Heroes, 1941-1942