Better public transport on the way....

When Klang Valley's residents are all frustrated with the traffic condition in the city, especially KL, what else can be better than efficient public transport for our convenient? Previous post, I had mentioned about the LRT extension project for Kelana Jaya line and latest news shows that it will be built according to the plan. Besides LRT, there are also some new train sets, buses and nwe system for the public transport:

1) 850 new buses by 2012
2) 4 bus expressway transits next year
3) 26 new four-car LRT train sets for Kelana Jaya line next year and 35 in following year
4) 14 new train sets for LRT Ampang line in 2012
5) 15 refurbished KTM Komuter EMUs in 2011
6) KTM Komuter to reduced intervals to 7.5 minutes in 2012
7) LRT extension to Putra Heights to be completed in 2012
8) KL Monorail doubles capacity in 2012

These plans are looking good to improve the public transport network in Klang Valley, make sure all of them will be materialised as according to the plan. Hopefully all of us will benefit from them.

Malaysia finally go HD

As the developed country mostly have shifted to High Definition TV. Now it is our turn to go digital. Astro subscribers can now enjoy better sound and picture quality with their HDTV set. Since the introduction of HDTV set in the Malaysia market, they are not in their full use yet. But now everything is about to change as Malaysia slowly shifting to digital TV.

ASTRO has introduced four HD channels and there are more in the pipeline. Astro's HD TV service, Astro B.yond will be available from 18 December. Existing Astro subscribers will have to buy a new set-up to enjoy the HD service. So, for the beginning, the HD channels included SuperSport HD, ESPN HD, National Geographic Channel HD, History HD and HBO HD. Malaysian can now looking forward for better pleasure of watching TV.

Perodua new MPV: Perodua Alza

After Exora by Proton, Malaysia has it second national MPV unveiled yesterday by Perodua at KLCC. Named Perodua Alza, which the Alza, means "to rise" in Spanish, goes on sale starting from RM55,490 to RM64,190. Perodua offers two version which are standard and premium and the advanced version is coming up next march at the price of around RM70,000. The advanced version will come with complete bodykit, GPS with reverse camera, tinted windows and leather seats. In terms of size, Proton Exora definitely has an edge over the Alza. I think Alza is more to Avanza competitor than Exora. But if you are looking for a car for family with kids, Alza is a perfect choice. So after Exora and Alza, what's next? new Waja replacement? Lets wait and see.

who doesn't like ice cream?

I am wonder are there anyone out there who doesn't like ice-cream? I strongly believe that most of us like ice-cream especially for those living in the tropical country like us. In Malaysia, we can easily get ice-cream almost everywhere. We don't even have to walk far from our house to buy an ice-cream. During hot sunny day, ice-creams are selling like hot cake and the motorcycles which carry small 'fridge' with them with their signature song 'Mat kool mat kool kawanku, mari kita ikut mat kool......' are making good money from selling ice-cream.

So, the demand is there. There is why in shopping malls, high class ice-cream retail stores are available in most of the main shopping mall. There are few popular one such as Haagen-Dazs, Baskin Robbin, New Zealand Natural and Lecka-Lecka. Although their ice-creams are quite expensive but it is worth to try because their ice-creams are different from those selling in tube in supermarket. Try once a while is not a problem especially when there are having promotion. Anyone don't want ice-cream?

New IKEA stores in Malaysia

Currectly, there is only one IKEA store in the country located in Mutiara Damansara which is already 13 years of age. There are news claiming that new stores has been planned in the future. The second new store is likely to open in Tebrau City, Johor. The development in Johor especially in Iskandar Development Region is so encouraging that there will be a good market in the region. With the site for the new store strategically located near Jusco and Tesco, there is no doubt a very good potential market. Besides Johor, Klang Valley is expected to have its second store because of the densely Damansara store. The new store is likely to locate in Cheras and Ampang corridor. The second outlet in Klang Valley is expected to equal existing store. After Johor and second outlet in Klang Valley, the future location is likely in Penang.

new Kuala Lumpur in future

When government is going to announce the budget 2010 soon, Kuala Lumpur is expected to have more emphasis than any other cities in various aspects especially public transport and facilities. In the next 10 years, KL is expected to change massively. We will have improved public transport, a lot of facilities, new skyscrapers, new skyline, upgraded road and etc. Hopefully all going according to plan.

The big different will be on some places such as KL Sentral, KLCC and Mid Valley City. New shopping mall three times the size of Mid Valley City will stand still just in front of KL Sentral with office towers which offer entertainment, foods and services. This mall is also acting as the connector between KL monorail and KL sentral. New Mass Rapid Transit line which connect from Cheras to Kota Damansara will pass by this building. There are also number of new hotel around the KL sentral including the 6 stars St. Regis Hotel which is expected to be taller than Menara Telekom.


KLCC area will change the skyline of KL with completion of Lot C, Troika and Four Season Place. Beside KL Sentral and KLCC, the roads in KL will be upgraded to solve the traffic problem and to look more beautiful. Lets witness the changes of KL together.

Good plan but can it be done?

Public transport has been the major problem for the very long time especially for KL and Klang Valley citizen. This is also one of the reason why traffics in Klang Valley are massive jam everyday. Recently, there are few plans that involve with the extension of existing public transport in Klang Valley and building of new public transport which are look very pretty good but there are only the plans. So, here are the major plan:

1) Extension of KL monorail
2) Extension of KL Express to proposed permanent LCCT
3) Putrajaya and Bandar Sunway monorail
4) Shah Alam monorail
5) JB high speed train
6) Mass Rapid Transit in KL (Kota Damansara - Cheras)
7) Extension of LRT line (Kelana Jaya - Aman Crimson, Subang Depot, Kelana Centre Point, Subang Parade, SS15, SS18, USJ7, USJ8, USJ19, USJ21, Seksyen 27, Seksyen 28, Putra Heights)
(Ampang Line - Bukit OUG, Kampung Muhibah, Kinrara 9, Bandar Kinrara, IOI Mall, Bandar Puteri, Rakan Muda Complex, Batu 12, Puchong Perdana, Puchong Prima, Sri Aman, Putra Heights)

Construction for extension of LRT will be begin early 2010, let wait and see.....

Surprise Formula 1 team

There are some news said that Malaysia is hope to have its own Formula 1 team one day, but it won't be anytime soon and it is just a plan. Surprisingly, on 15th September, suddenly there are news saying that Malaysia will compete in next year Formula 1. What the .......Don't know from where suddenly Malaysia has its own Formula 1 team. I was think that these people planning for this should be very serious and too eager to do it.

FIA approved Malaysia own '1Malaysia F1 team' as the 13th team to compete in next year championship. And is the 3rd new team to compete. 1Malaysia F1 team also mark the return of Malaysia own Lotus into Formula 1 . The team is the partnership between the Malaysia government itself, consortium of Malaysia entrepreneurs such as Proton, SIC, Air Asia and Petronas. It will based temporary in Norfolk, UK which is close to Lotus cars factory before shift to proposed headquarter at Sepang F1 Circuit. Tony Fernandes, CEO of Air Asia is the team principal and the team technical director is experienced Mike Gascoyne.

We will see Petronas and Air Asia which are currently sponsor other Formula 1 teams to stop giving their money to them but back to ourselves. This is one of the good side of having our own team. So, now let us wait and see how our team will stand? Are we going to have Malaysian driver? I think certainly yes. Formula 1 car buatan Malaysia? haha.....lets see.....

Ambitious team......

English Premier League has kicked off last 2 week. From the early result, we can see that many top teams like Man Utd and Liverpool have already dropping point in this early stage of the competition. Some other teams like Tottenham and Man City have play well so far and the Premier League is tougher than before. We can expect more tight game every week and the top 4 finish in next May is really unpredictable. The big four team are facing the real challenge like never before and it will be very hard for every team to fight for the title.

Man City large recruitment of players in transfer market has pay off so far with 100% record. The big transform of the team is look ambitious and they are in the position of challenge for big honour this season. In the pre-season, they have spend a lot in bringing football stars in various position include Carlos Tevez, Roque Santa Cruz, Emmanuel Adebayor, Gareth Barry, Kolo Toure, Sylvinho and Joleon Lescott. With all the qualities of the new players and together with the existing good player like Shaun Wright-Phillips, Robinho and Micah Richards, the new Man City is look promising and it is interesting to see what they can achieve this season.

Until when we have to wait?

The BWF badminton World Championship 2009 in Hyderabad, India saw Malaysia team yet again failed to win any title in the championship. The Malaysia team has prepared so well for the championship especially world no.1 Lee Chong Wei who trained in Korea to avoid any distraction. Malaysia hope to win at least one title in the world championship dash when all the players crashed out in semi-final of the man's double events. Credit to man's double players who played so well until reaching semi-final. But luck is not with them this time, there is nothing to complain about when they already gave everything they have. Lee Chong Wei crashed out in quarter-final to Sony is really disappointing. As a player like Chong Wei as world no. 1 is not easy but he need to learn to become strong like Lin Dan then only Malaysia can do well in major events. Hopefully they learn from failure and now focus on future event especially the one we sure waiting for which is Thomas Cup final in Malaysia next year.

Tough time for Man Utd

It has been a while since my last post. I am busy with all my school works until now only have some free breath. Although busy, but I still manage to catch up the latest football news. After the end of 08-09 season, every club in Europe are busy in transfer market to build up the team for new 09-10 season. Real Madrid had the spotlight during the transfer window with all new galactico team. They have signed superstar Kaka, Benzema, Alonso and Ronaldo from Man Utd with new transfer record, 80 million pound. EPL teams are also busy signing player from everywhere especially cash rich Man City. Man Utd not really active this time around with only 3 players signed.

After the departure of Ronaldo who are the most important player in Man Utd for the last 4 seasons, Man Utd should have to worry without him. If Sir Alex is to sign a replacement for Ronaldo, it will not to be easy because the talent in Ronaldo is so special that it's hard to replace. However, Man Utd has signed Obertan, long time target Antonio Valencia and the surprise Owen. Man Utd has to work hard without Ronaldo and play well as a team better than before if they want to regain the title. It will not to be easy but it is not possible. Hopefully this season will be another great season for Man Utd. Glory forever.

Appreciate .........Life

It's not easy to live the way you want to; it's also not easy to live the way you don't want to, but as a normal human being, as long as we live happily and peacefully in our life, there is nothing else that can distract your life. One person must choose the correct way to live, choosing the correct path in their life, contribute as much as possible to the society. The main objective of human life is do what is only correct and enjoy every single moment in our life in the right way. But, nowadays, there are getting more people that just have their life wasted just like that.

Many people or normal people I have to say only know how to appreciate their life when something has happened to them. Sometimes, it is too late to do that. For me, as long as we still alive in this world, try your best to appreciate your life and also the people around you if you don't want to regret one day.

The highest level of appreciate your life is when you know you are going to leave this world, you still do your part to contribute to the society, to the people just like normal person that don't know he or she will die soon until his or her last breath. I remembered this chinese movie about the life of a TV presenter who know he will die soon because of cancer, but he keep hiding from his family until his last presentation on TV. He don't want his family to feel sad because he want to enjoy his life as the presenter as long as he still alive until the day he can't take it anymore. He also want to enjoy every single moment with his family. It's not easy to do that especially when you know you are going to die soon, really respect people like this. Imagine if you are in his position, can you do like him?

Adventurous Gua Tempurung

Last 2 week on Sunday, just when I wanted to wake up for my class trip to Gua Tempurung nearby Kampar, rain was falling heavily outside and we have to cancel out trip due to safety reason. Then, the plan has postponed to the next day after we have discussed since we don't have class on Monday.

Before that, let me briefly introduce about Gua Tempurung. It is located in Gopeng, Perak. It is more than 3km long and is one of the longest caves in Peninsula Malaysia. There are a range of tours of different lengths and difficulty with different price and duration.

Monday's morning has arrived. I woke up on time to have my breakfast since we will straight away go to there. We gathered near 7-11 in Kampar here before we headed to Gua Tempurung about 20 minutes drive from Kampar. Thanks to 5 of our coursemates drived us to there. Most of our class people are joining this trip. We reached there around 9 in the morning but we cannot enter after we bought the tickets because we have to wait until 10. We choose the most difficult route. While waiting for the adventure to come, we walked around and snapped some pictures. And also prepared ourselves with touch light, plastic bag and camera.

The time we all waiting has arrived, finally, we can start our journey in the 'gua'. There are 4 tourists from California joined us as a group that will explore the journey together. The feeling before enter is scare, nervous and curious because according to the ranger there, we will have to crawl in some part of the journey in the water. Anyway, we have to go in also, so we started our journey after some briefing from the ranger.

As we just started to walk in not say very long, we already started to contact with water. Then, our clothes slowly getting wet as we walking deeper. Inside the cave, we have to relied on torch light for vision as there is no light at all. Walking in the cave was the wonderful experience, you can see different types of stones, stalagmites and very rare insects in the cave. Some part of the journey required us to crawl in the underground water river which is very small, slide down the hill and climb up the slippery hill, walk through the underground water river and go through the hole. The whole journey took us about 4 hours and we have a unforgettable experience which is not easy to gain. I recommend this place to everyone as it is really a nice place to visit. Come here if you want to have some good adventures.

Food heaven.....Malaysia

To live in multi-racial country such as Malaysia is so lucky I have to say. We in Malaysia are surrounded by various of nice food and cuisine from different ethnic groups and some of them are influenced by multiple ethnic. As the result, we have Nyonya food, Chinese food, Malay food, Indian food and others.

For Malay food, we have all time favourite Nasi Lemak, Nasi Dagang in Kelantan and Terengganu, Apam Balik, Kebab, Murtabak, Malay traditional Kuih, Ketupat, Rendang and Lemang during Hari Raya. For Indian food, some of the nice one include banana leaf rice, Putu Mayam, Nasi Briyani, Tosai and their aromatic curries. Not to forget Malaysia all time favourite mamak food which is simply too nice to skip. Mamak is Indian Muslims which served us some truly Malaysia food like Nasi Kandar, Rojak Mamak, Maggi Goreng, Teh Tarik and various of roti such as Roti Canai, Roti Pisang, Roti Telur, Roti Cheese, Roti Bawang and many more. Too many to name.


For me, Malaysia Chinese food is really tempting. We have so much food that can't use word to describe how good are there. Of course in Malaysia, the Chinese food is influenced a lot by the local ingredient which gave us so many different type of food. In normal Chinese coffee shop, we have Char Kuey Teow, Har Mee and fruit Rojak which is famous in Penang, Chee Cheong Fun, Curry Mee, Chicken Rice, Loh Mee, Wantan Mee, Mi Sua, Pan Mee and Kuey Teow Soup. During Chinese New Year, we have Bakkwa which is the dried bbq meat. Beside all these, other main Chinese food also included Dim Sum, Bak Kut Teh, Bak Zhang, Pau, Curry Chicken Bread, Cantonese fried Mee, Hokkien Mee, Clay Pot Chicken Rice, Tau Foo Fah, Yong Tau Foo and others. For side cuisine, we have Yau Zha Gwai for breakfast or eat with rice porridge, popiah and various Tong Sui for tea time.


Just when you think I almost list out all the main food available in Malaysia, actually that's lot more to list out. When I was writing this blog, I already feel very hungry but now getting more hungry. For Nyonya food, their food is quite unique and special. They are developed by Peranakan and they used a lot ingredients like Belacan, lemon glass and coconut milk. Some of the main Nyonya food included Asam Laksa, Otak-otak, Ayam Pongteh, Acar and Nasi Kunyit.
Besides all the various delicious delicacies, others popular one included Ais Kacang, Cendol, Pisang Goreng, Keropok Lekor, curry puff, various Nyonya kuih, Satay, Ikan Bakar and many many more. Look at how fortunate are Malaysian compare with other nations. We must learn to appreciate it and help to spread out the unique and speciality of Malaysia food. Yummy..............time to eat.

Tribute to the star of century

When first I heard about his dead from my friend, I was not believe it because I though it's just a joke from them. But when I saw a lot of news about this, I was shocked because of the sudden dead of the superstar. I can say is megastar, perhaps. Too great to name him. No one can replace him forever. The person I mention about is Michael Jackson. Full name Michael Joseph Jackson, who is 7th child of the Jackson family, made his debut back in 1968 as a member of The Jackson 5. His solo career began in 1971. He is also referred to as the 'King of Pop". His influential, power and energy on the stage is really amazing. He's a great entertainer, dancer and singer of all time. His popular songs include "Beat It", "Billie Jean", "Earth Song" and "Man in the Mirror".

MJ collapsed at his rented mansion on June 25, 2009 in Los Angeles. He was noted to have suffered in cardiac arrest and pronounced dead after that. All the fans of MJ would surely remember his moonwalk and performance. The most sad one is his death at the wrong time. He was in preparation to perform in 50 farewell concerts in London. All the fans who already bought their ticket surely feel dissappointed and cry in pain. No matter what, his contribution to the music world is irreplaceable and he will surely remembered forever by the world. MJ.....rest in peace. may the god bless you...

Life is beautiful.....

Just when you see many peoples getting old, suffer in the illness and die, you might think that life is so scary. But every single life on the earth regardless size, type and species are going through the same process of life. The normal process of life is already destined or assigned to every single life. So, it is stupid if someone always complain about their life and compare themselves with the others. When you are complaining, did you think they are actually many more peoples outside there that are more pity than you. Why don't you compare with these peoples? The idiot people only will do this. No matter what are you facing and how difficult are your life is, just do your best and thanks to god for every single moment you are having. Appreciate your life and others one as well. Your responsibility is to stay alive with meaningful life, do good and you will get good.

I have this one of the tree planted in front of my house chosen as the place by bird to build their nest so that they can lay their eggs. I am kind of curious why they choose this small tree because it will endanger their eggs. Anyway, since the first day I noticed the nest, I was like watching a national geographic 'live'. From the first few days after the mother bird had lay the 2 eggs safely in the nest, the eggs seem like would not success to born the birds because the parents seldom stay in the nest. After the few days, the eggs surprisingly broke with 2 small little baby birds. They were so quiet in the first few days as baby. They were no movement but the parents take care of their babies so well.

After a week, the babies have grew a little bigger and they are looked cuter than before. Then, I started to observe them closely. The parents whom I believe is the mum and dad of the babies take turns to feed the two little birds. They always watch their babies closely. Every time I walked near to the nest, I can heard sound from their parents from no where to warn me not to do something with the nest. When the babies know it's eating time with the food from their parents, the two siblings were like trying to snatch the food from their parents. But I believe their parents are fair enough in dividing the food, otherwise, one of them might already dead.

After a week again, the babies have grew to small birds and have fir covered on their body. One day, the small birds suddenly flies away from the nest leaving the nest in peace. So, I got the nest as the souvenir. It was fascinating to watch process of the birds lay from the eggs to small birds and finally fly away. When the birds started to fly, they were accompanied by their parents to learn how to fly. This is so touching......T T....The following are some of the wonderful moments I managed to capture:

Simply too beautiful....dream house

Have anyone of you wonder how is house of a billionaire look like? well, lets take a look at the new house build by one of the richest in Malaysia which is Tan Sri Dato' Seri Francis Yeoh who owns YTL Corporation Berhad. YTL Corporation was founded by Francis Yeoh's father, Tan Sri Dato' Seri Yeoh Tiong Lay. According to Forbes 2009, Francis Yeoh ranked number seven in Malaysia with net worth of US$ 1.8 billion. He also ranked number 397th richest man on earth. This is what the Yeoh family did, hired a Paris based agence, Jouin Manku and work together with YTL Design Group from Kuala Lumpur to design this superhome located in Bukit Damansara, KL. This ultra-modern and stylish home was completed in the late 2008. Three generations of the family are inhabit the 32,000 sqft residence designed to accommodate various functions. The unbelievable spec of the house include 9 bedrooms, multiple kitchens, minimum 21 bathrooms, a chapel big enough to host small weddings and a ballroom for 200 peoples. More details as below:


When you see the picture, you can clearly see the contrast between the house and the surrounding house. Actually the house in the vicinity aren't small, they are all bungalows owned by the famous and rich. So, you can know how rich is the family.

This is the result from spending 45m to hire a French design firm from oversea to design the house. It is unique and modern.

This luxurious and natural look building includes two family rooms, a family kitchen and a private dining area, a family library, a game room, a study room, a public reception area, a formal dining room, a swimming pool, two guest suites plus indoor private and guest parking. Look at the designed grilles entrance of the house. This house is nicely design with good design and environmental friendly. It used many glasses to allow natural lighting in the house.

Beautiful view and scene at night from the outside. Just look how beautiful is the swimming pool at night.

Another view that don't look like in Malaysia. The house has a lot of unique design that is not common.

Beautiful decorative ballroom. Look at the ceiling and the wall and floor finish. This is nicer than those ballrooms in five star hotel outside. Expensive natural wood is used in the design.

The very high ceiling with nice and long hanged lighting make it beautiful and attractive.

This elegant look interior include the amazing staircases resembling the inside of a shell when viewed from above.

This is perhaps the family open kitchen in the house with ceiling to floor glass and custom made materials and furniture.

This is another wow place in the house. Everything of the house is simply amazing and magnificent. Just look at the pictures make people feel jealous. There are actually lot more interesting detail about the house but too bad it is too much to write. Anyway, this is indeed the most crazy and luxurious house in Malaysia. One word, wow!!! All the information and pictures are provided by TheCoolHunter.net

Health is golden

When you see everyone is seeking wealth in this era, you might think money is very important in our life. But if you are rich but not rich in health, then there is meaningless although you are rich. Health is very important and crucial especially to human to enjoy every single moment in our life. The concept is simple, no health, no life. Some people can live happily in their life even though they are poor if they have the good health. If you are rich but poor in health, your wealth is nothing to you. You can't enjoy your wealth because you don't have health. So, health is more important than wealth. People often say you are what you eat. What you eat affects your health. No matter who you are, good health enable you to perform well in daily routine. For example, for a student, a good health allow them to learn, obtain knowledge and perform well. When you are sick, you are suffering and cannot function well. You just want to sleep only most of the time because you do not have the energy. When you don't take care of your health, it means spending more money than what you are earning now. If you have a good health, do appreciate it a lot because there are some people that always get sick easily with weak body. For people that always get sick, take good care of your health and hope for better day in the next day.

Lose but not lost

I had witnessed the night Manchester United were beaten by Barcelona in Rome. Ya, it is a dream final with 2 best teams in Europe play in the final but the way MU played is not up to expectation. In the first few minutes, they played well but after Barcelona's first goal, things just not going well for MU. They started to give ball easily and hard to get the ball back. Just when i thought that things will change after half time but it's not. They played even more awfully and it's sad to watch them play such the way. I think 1 of the main reason for this is the absent of influential Darren Fletcher in the final because of suspension. Darren has been the important player for Mu in Champions League. He is intelligent in midfield with passing and defending. If Darren were here, the result might not be the same. I believe MU is a great team with many good players and is better than Barcelona. Now what MU have to do is try to reshape the team and go for it again. Glory glory Manchester United.........

Sudirman Cup 2009

This year edition is held in Guangzhou, China from May 10 to May 17. For anyone who don't know about Sudirman Cup, it is a mix team competition where each team which have representative in 5 categories of badminton. Then, all the country will play against each other with the most win. Each edition will have 7 groups with different countries. Only countries from group 1 has a chance to win the cup and the other teams will play for promotion.

This year, Malaysia, Denmark, Korea, Hong Kong, Indonesia, China, Japan and England from group 1 will fight fot the trophy. Malaysia has set the target of reaching semi final for the first time after so many attempts. Malaysia best achievement was 6th place 2 years ago. With the world number 1 Lee Chong Wei, hope that Malaysia will try to achieve good result this year. All the best!!!!

Digital TV in Malaysia

By 2015, Malaysia's analogue TV system introduced since the first TV broadcasting will fully converted to digital system. By that time, Malaysia will have TV channel as many as 19. In the plan, RTM is expected to introduce these 19 free-to-air channels with seven would contain content from RTM such as news, dramas, sports, lifestyle and entertainment and the remainder would be offered to private companies. The current problem is how to equip each household with a decoder to receive digital signals. The cost of the decoder will decide whether we may get the decoder free or subsidy. Latest news said that it may cost around RM500. RTM has started its trials for digital terrestrial TV since September 2006. The high-definition television (HDTV) is part of the digitalization and we can see more and more HDTV set sell in the market.

Effect of global warming

Recently, the weather in Malaysia is so hot that like we are staying in the big oven. In the past 1 week, the water drop from the sky is hardly can exceed half cm in a 500ml mineral water bottle. Can you imagine the heat that reach us when there is no rain for 1 week in the hot tropical country? Not only human are feeling the heat but also the plants. You can see some of the trees at the road side are getting bald. They are so thirsty and even their deep root cannot help them to survive when the water content in the soil is drying.


I realized the weather is getting hotter as the time past. As the time past also, they are deforestation happened everywhere and so with our forest is getting smaller. I cannot imagine what will happen if this is going on without any action. Sometimes the weather outside there made me feel lazy to go out. I rather stay in the house the whole day from going out even one step from my house. Nowadays, I think we cannot survive without air conditioning in the house and some peoples will make their house full with air conditioner every corner in the house including toilet, store room? so, people, please, do something or at least plant some tree and start from a small red bean tree will do.

Malaysia very First MPV

Everyone has waited so long for this, Malaysia first multi-purpose vehicle from Proton.....Proton Exora. I can't wait to see how this model look like and how much it cost in local market. All these are finally unveiled on 15 April through live telecast on TV1. When I first look at the car, I think 'waa, not bad at all'. It is an interesting model from Proton which I expect will be selling like hot cake in the coming time. With its competitive priced at around RM69k to RM79k, It definitely can bring a positive effect in local automotive market. There are different features for the M-Line version and H-Line version. Both versions has the same basic features but the H-Line has more additional features with its higher price offered. H-Line has added cruise control, LCD screen, DVD player, leather seats, touch screen portable GPS device and different trim outside. Now everyone can afford a MPV with such a good price offered. All I can say is well done, Proton but remember to improve the quality.

My Malay timber house assignment

This assignment is my toughest assignment for this semester. We are required to form a group of two with 3 topics to choose from which are steel, timber and reinforced concrete building. At first, when I heard our lecturer want us to distribute the topic among all the groups in the class, I quickly choose the timber house because the group choosing the timber building will be given more marks. But timber house is the hardest to do among all the topic because it is hard to find a timber house to do.

I were planned to start early with this assignment but I couldn't because I still have other assignments to complete. We were given more than enough time to do this assignment but I only started to do it 3 weeks before due date. As the time past, I slowly proceed with the assignment and managed to finish it before due date.

About searching for Malay house for the assignment, my groupmate and I managed to find a few timber house about 20 minutes ride from my house here in Kampar. It is located in small town called Chenderiang. We choose only 2 different timber houses to take picture. The first timber house is a beautiful designed collapsed Malay house and another one look perfect but very simple. After we showed the pictures to our lecturer, he asked us to do the collapsed one. Then, we have to go back and do research on it for second time.

The pictures below are part of my assignment which is for presentation. I used about 1 day time to complete my drawing. I drawed 4 of them below. When I drawing these plan, it remind me of my difficult time last semester in technical drawing which I spent so much time to complete the assignment.

Madness of Dubai

In my last post, I talking about the overall development in the wealthy Dubai. In this post, I would continue the development in Dubai but more focus in only skyscrapers to be built in Dubai. In this post, you can have clearer picture of Dubai about how rich are they actually. Seems like Dubai is showing off to the world about how rich are they. The entire city skyline of Dubai is about to cover with supertall skyscrapers. When we were amazed with the beautiful Hong Kong where also to be known as concrete jungle but this time, Dubai is about to win over the eye of the world with its impossible to build city. There are many skyscraper projects that are very interesting in terms of height and design. And there are no normal height in the skyscrapers of Dubai, most of them can easily higher than Taipei 101 and Petronas Twin Towers. There are too many building to listed out in Dubai. Nevertheless, Dubai is crazy!!!

Here are some of the skyscraper projects in Dubai:
1) Burj Dubai, 162 floors
2) The Pentominium, 120 floors
3) Burj Al Alam, 108 floors
4) Marina 101, 102 floors
5) Elite Residence Dubai, 92 floors
6) Dubai Princess Tower, 101 floors
7) The Torch Dubai, 84 floors
8) Ahmed Abdul Rahim Al Attar Tower, 76 floors
9) Al Yacoub Tower, 72 floors
10) 23 Marina, 90 floors
11) The Index, 86 floors
12) Ocean Heights, 82 floors
13) D1 Tower, 80 floors
14) Infinit Dubai Dancing Towers, 52-80 floors
15) Dubai wave Tower, 92 floors
16) Marina Sky Towers, twin 100 floors
17) Hard Rock Hotel Dubai, 91 floors
18) Damac Heights, 105 floors
19) Oasis Beach Hotel Tower, 90 floors
20) Al Sharq Tower, 102 floors
21) The Lighthouse Dubai, 66-80 floors
22) proposed Al Burj, 228 floors

I wondering what is their purpose of building so many skyscrapers with so big office spaces. Do they need so many spaces? Do they take environment problem into account? Can all the building to be fully used once there completed? Let's find out all these in the next few years.