Melaka Zoo!

Sights of the Melaka Zoo!

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The Banteng, biting time!

I hate snakes.................eeeeee.....

Hey guys,

Just wanna share a bit about the 'Cuti-Cuti Malaysia thingy. Well it is all about holidaying in Malaysia.

Well for a start took my family to the Melaka Zoo.

It is about close to 2 hours drive especially if one takes the PLUS highway (E2) southbound coming from Putrajaya.

The zoo is located roughly 2 km from the toll plaza (Ayer Keroh). Coming from the plaza, the zoo is located on the left side. Parking is RM 2 per entry. For adults, the entrance is RM7/person. Children, can't remember ooops.

What is different about this zoo is that the setting and the animal shelter is built in such a way like their natural habitat.

The zoo is cool especially if one loves animal just like my family. Interestingly from my observation the animals that is found in this zoo and not in Zoo Negara (National Zoo) is the red panda and banteng.

Of course, Zoo Negara is still the largest zoo in the country.

In terms of F&B, it is okay plus there is a small well known fast food outlet located over there.

The toilet is well nothing to shout about unfortunately cos it definitely needs a huge make over or something.

Overall the Melaka Zoo is definitely a place you can take your family for cool time. If you are the type who love animals, hey it is definitely worth the trip to check the zoo out. Being a Malaysian, surely it is cool to visit interesting places in the country like this zoo. If you are not Malaysian, hey u can always start planning your trip to the country.

Cheerios!!

Yes!

Guess what!

Today, for the first in many, many days.....SUNSHINE!

Driving to work and was so like ecstatic to see the SUN...

Imagine last week and the week before that, it was raining, cloudy.......

It is a nice break to see the sun again...

Cheerios!

"A Long December.."

Greetings!

Hope all is well. Yup, we are coming close to the end of 2009. One more month to go people! If your resolution is still behind, you still have another a month to go to get it done.

American Football:
My favorite team, Washington Redskins, they done it again! Yup, lose to the Dallas Cowboys and it is pretty close game. If only the kicker kicked the field goal, they would have beaten the Cowboys by 6 points. Urrrgggh....no way JOSE they'll be in the playoff.....!
On a lighter note, my college, VT Hokies won! They are surely bound for another Bowl game. Go HOKIES!

Chin Peng:
Well, he is now back on the headlines. Finally, he admitted and is apologetic to all the victims and those who have suffered during the Communist Emergency from 1948 to 1960 and 1969 to 1989.
Folks, if you don't know him, he was the mastermind behind the whole communist insurgency in Malaysia. He was hoping to change Malaysia into a communist country via warfare. Luckily at that time, the Father of Malaysia, the late Tunku Abdul Rahman was successful in getting independence for Malaysia (at that time was known as Malaya) from the British in 1957 through peaceful means.
The issue now is Chin Peng wanted to come back to Malaysia and settle down for good, well latest is the highest court of the country is not allowing him back since he cannot prove his citizenship.
Personally, of course we can go with 'forgive and forget' and 'past is past', but for Chin Peng is an exception, he was the person responsible for creating chaos, destruction, and mayhem to Malaysia. Wives became widow, children became orphan, homes became ruin, basically, there is nothing really good out of him. Thousands of lives were gone and not spared, the economy and infrastructure were damaged and destroyed. Imagine, Malaysians (Malaysans) at that time were living in fear.
I think it is best he remain where he is (Thailand) and not come back or else it will just deepen further the wound that he had already created.
This is not the subject of fairness, but actually it is about justice especially for the victims and those who have fought hard to protect and preserve Malaysia's sovereignty, security, and stability.

Bahasa Malaysia:
Here we go again, the reminder of the status of Bahasa Malaysia based from last week's paper. My thoughts; Yes, it is our national language so preserve it. It is in the constitution of the country, then what the fuss. "Cintailah Bahasa Kebangsaan Kita, Marilah Amalkan Ramai-Ramai, Bahasalah menyatu padukan kita semua..."
It doesn't meant that if one masters in English or other languages, then Bahasa Malaysia is totally neglected. Come on, Bahasa Malaysia is still our national language and that is already a part of our living heritage.
Despite our different racial background and customs, Bahasa Malaysia is what unite us. It is our 'lingua franca' to begin with since the times of the Melaka Empire!

Cheerios!

monday, monday

American Football:

Yes!

The Washington Redskins finally won a game....Now their record is 3 wins and 6 losses. It'll take a miracle for them to go to the playoff provided that they win all the games and Dallas Cowboyz, NY Giants, Philadelphia Eagles lose some games.... Well at least they get their act together and stunned the Denver Broncos. The next game for the 'skins is a tough one, Dallas Cowboyz.... All the best to them.

VT Hokies, okay they won some games and hopefully not losing anymore. Their back into the Top 20 and hope it prevails that way.

Well folks if you are huge fan of American Football, hope you can understand what I mean. Otherwise, take some time to watch the game on ESPN. It is fun!

Obama and APEC:

The President of the USA was here, well not exactly he was just across the causeway for barely 1 day. The APEC was the highlight over the weekend and as usual the leaders from the Asia-Pacific region, plus USA, Australia, New Zealand, and some Latin American countries. They'll come together and talk about the helping the economy and stuff, but does it really materialize if you are just an average 'Joe'. I mean not being negative, but think about it no matter how much the 'media' impact that major conferences does, at the end of the day how can an average person with a not so high income really understand or care about especially with inflation all around us.
Thanks to globalization and etc, the poor gets poorer and the rich gets richer and more powerful...really depend. Nowadays for most citizen or voter, all we care is not just simply; talk and rhetoric, but walk the talk!

Weather:

Yes, weather has been rainy, but last night was a break because you actually see the night sky (stars!). Today, cloudy again so spells rain maybe on the way. One thing for sure the haze is gone, the night is cool, but unfortunately for some, flood! Our hearts goes to those victims of flood who suffers especially losing their property and home and in some cases, their loved ones.

Cheerios!

Movie Review: 2012

Hey guys,

Hope u had a good weekend. Mine? well surely u can figure it out by now, yes saw the movie, 2012.

Well, here is my review of the movie. My own rating system, 1 to 5. 5 means darn good, while 1 is horribly poor

Casting: 3.5

Despite the strong casting with John Cusack, Danny Glover, and Woody Harrelson, somehow despite the panicking and stuff, but they never really looked scared to death or have this 'fear' look.

Storyline: 4

As expected, natural disaster story. Unlike 'Deep Impact' and 'Armageddon', this got nothing to do with any space object hitting Earth. It got to do with some solar energy that became too strong that it affected the Earth causing earthquake, tsunami, volcanic eruptions which is really a major major catastrophe.

Graphics/Special Effects: 5

Excellent! Look so freakin' real.

Overall: 4

Definitely go and watch it.

Moral of the story from 2012:

Well if you watch it, this is something that may apply or think about in real life

1. The weak will not be saved and the strong (rich, powerful, influential, smart-ass) will be saved.

2. No matter how much wanna save mankind, there will always be a 'devil advocate' amongst us.

3. The Paris Tunnel incident in the movie mentioned later that it was a whole global conspiracy by the US or some Powers to shut the mouth of 'those' who tried to break the secret that the Earth is heading for doom. Now this makes you ponder about the Princess Diana accident in the Paris Tunnel, was it really caused by the paparazzi or poor driving by the driver, or careless accident, or probably someone just wanna kill Princess Diana (and Dodi AlFayed) badly?

4. Life is short and unpredictable so live it to the fullest.

5. Pray a lot for the future of mankind. Whether u are a Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Jews, or whatever religion, the universal thing to do is PRAY hard.

6. Ensure that as a citizen of your respective country or nation that the government is open and not keeping secrets.

Okay guys, go and watch while the movie is still on the cinema. Piracy copy? Better watch original, worth it!

Cheerios!

p.s. the movie poster image is courtesy of Sony Pictures Entertainment

"...Angkat kain jemuran, hujan dah turun..."

Hey guys,

Yup, the beginning of the rainy season making its presence felt right now in Malaysia. Flooding is already making the news especially in states of Kelantan, Terengganu, and Kedah. Not to mention, landslide...

Malaysia Cup:
Congrats' to Negri Sembilan for an outstanding play and being the underdog. Kelantan, thought they would win but lost the game well look at how they play.

NFL/American Football:
My favorite team, Washington Redskins.....one word....SUCK. Don't know what exactly is not right with them since couldn't watch the game. By the look of it, forget about this team making into the playoff.

NCAA/College Football:
Hokies, my VT team. Well at one point they were in the top 5, but lost some important games.. So they are just now in the Top 25, well hopefully they'll manage back to the Top 20 and get into some Bowl games.

Landslide:
Last week, a major landslide occurred at the jalan persekutuan 1 (jln rawang-ipoh stretch) right after the Selayang. Amazingly, no body was hurt. Bad news, it is still a landslide and it occurred near the housing area which was formerly JUNGLE. It seems in the name of DEVELOPMENT, we just still can't be bothered about the recent past events that occurred when it comes to landslide. Not a anti-Development person, but whatever it is we must develop with CARE and UTMOST and not just develop a land for the sake of building it. If we are kind to Mother Nature, then it will be good all the way. If we are nasty and not taking into consideration the environmental factors, then landslide is definitely in the book. We must ACT fast before the next landslide incident may result in loss of lives which is the last thing in our mind.

Cheerios!

For the future...Single Stream School

Dear guys,

My second write-up relating to the single stream school.

Today's paper highlighted of former PM, Tun Dr Mahathir view point of the need to have a single stream school. Of course this idea was first proposed by Tan Sri Dr Khoo Kay Kim.

Think of it why the need to have various type of schools. If we really want to start thinking of being Malaysian, then let us do a way with vernacular type schools in this country. Taking away vernacular schools doesn't mean one can't still speak his or her mother tongue.

Imagine with a single stream school, our children and grand children will not only learn and speak Bahasa Malaysia and English, but also an opportunity for them to learn other languanges such as Mandarin, Tamil, Kadazan, etc via special language classes.

Just look at countries like Thailand, they do have multi-ethnic groups and but go to a common school. Even public schools in the US, despite that English is not the OFFICIAL language, but the school is all taught in English and everybody speaks English. Nowadays not all American have to be white, there is Blacks, Filipino, Mexican, Japanese, Korean, etc...

Single stream school doesn't necessarily mean that you are BN or PR or whatever, it is about unifying people with a common identity, we are MALAYSIAN. It is best to start now, slow, gradually, eventually rather than never.

Cheerios!