Earth Hour Result

Location: Bukit Rambai, Melaka

Manage to get the whole family support to switch off the lights for 1 hour.

Earth Hour

Earth Hour is an annual international event created by the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature/World Wildlife Fund), held on the last Saturday of March, that asks households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change.

Based on an idea successfully executed in Thailand in 2005, it was pioneered by WWF Australia and the Sydney Morning Herald in 2007, and achieved worldwide participation in 2008.

Earth Hour 2009 will be being taken to the next level, with the goal of 1 billion people switching off their lights as part of a global vote. Unlike any election in history, it is not about what country you’re from, but instead, what planet you’re from. VOTE EARTH is a global call to action for every individual, every business, and every community. A call to stand up and take control over the future of our planet. Over 74 countries and territories have pledged their support to VOTE EARTH during Earth Hour 2009, and this number is growing everyday.We all have a vote, and every single vote counts. Together we can take control of the future of our planet, for future generations.

VOTE EARTH by simply switching off your lights for one hour, and join the world for Earth Hour, Saturday, March 28, 8:30-9:30pm.

Earth Hour in Malaysia is planned and run by WWF-Malaysia and its partners. They welcome all parties to participate in Earth Hour on the 28th of March 2009 by turning off your lights for one hour from 8.30pm-9.30pm.

Here are 10 different ways to spend Earth Hour and reduce your carbon footprint:

1. Attend a local Earth Hour event or organise your own by throwing an Earth Hour street party with your neighbours
2. Gather family & friends for a night picnic in your local park and look at the stars
3. Enjoy a family dinner by candlelight
4. Organise a treasure hunt in the dark
5. Take the dog for a night walk
6. Have a candle-lit bath
7. Sit in the dark and share stories
8. Organise a family night playing board games
9. Share a romantic night in with your loved one
10. Upload your ‘on the night’ photos and videos to flickr and YouTube respectively, and then add them to the Earth Hour flickr group and the global Earth Hour flickr group and the global YouTube Group.
    

Please support Earth Hour

Saturday, March 28, 8:30-9:30pm.

Switch Off The Lights!

Kuala Linggi Fort

Fort Supai or Fort Linggi is located at Kuala Linggi Melaka, a border area between state of Melaka and State of Negeri Sembilan.

When you arrived at Kuala Linggi, the old fort is situated on top of the hill near Kuala Linggi River Mouth. Build in 1757 after the war between the Dutch and Bugis Clan fighting for the tin mining.

Was at this area while taking the back road from Melaka to Port Dickson on Sunday, Feb 22.

We entered through the jetty and walked to the end to reach this fort.

2009 Chinese New Year Reunion

29.01.09- Primary School Friends Chinese New Year Reunion

23 years of knowing each other, some knew since Kindergardens.

Dinner

Location: Cheng, Melaka

Participants: Ijay, Jessica, Sek, Luke, Christina, Chin, Jane, LeLe and Vincent

Yam Cha
Location: Berts Restaurant, Tanjung Kling, Melaka
Participants: Ijay, Jessica, Sek, Luke, Christina, Chin, Jane, LeLe, Vincent, Heng and Teng.

Pisang Waterfall a.k.a. Banana Waterfall

Date: 10th Jan 2009

Day: Saturday

5 of us, 1 expert, 1 semipro and 3 trainees

Do you know that underneath the Karak Highway, there is a tunnel called “Twin Tunnel” that leads to a waterfall called Pisang Waterfall or Banana Waterfall. Without permission, but, special thanks to this site http://www.henrychiah-photography.com/2007/11/sungai-pisang/ for the direction to Pisang Waterfall.

The trail difficulty is easy and the hike will take approximately 2 hours to and back via river and jungle trails to reach the waterfall.

Getting There and Away:-

Two stage to the destination

Stage 1
Pump House

Follow staright and pass by Batu Caves to Sri Gombak, turn in Karak Highway and turn left to UIA Gombak before the Karak Tol. You will reach the first traffic light and turn left. You will passby a Gombak School. Turn right when you reach another traffic light. Go straight along Jalan Gombak (Batu 12, Gombak). You will see a Jungle Lodge Alang Sedayu signboard at your left. Follow the signboard. You will come to a narrow road which goes up to a pump station. Park your car on the side and walk toward a pump house.

Stage 2

Waterfall

Passing the water pump house, go up to a slope and follow the small path proceed to the river trail. This is Sungai Pisang. Crossing the river until to the opposite river bank. Follow the path until you see a big twin tunnels. Go throught the tunnel and you will found yourself in a another part of the wonderland. Follow the trail until you see a red mark showing to the way to the waterfall. Keep treking until you hear the water flushing. Here you found the waterfall.

So, based on these directions, we managed to reach the waterfall, eventhough it tooks us a while to find the tunnel. The most important thing of all, we managed to enjoy the nature and dip into a cool pool, besides taking lots of photos.

Start the journey before crossing the river

In front of The Twin Tunnel

Tunnel front view

Inside the tunnel

End of tunnel- back to nature

River trail

Pisang, here we come! David Beckham already here!

Pisang Waterfall

Cool pool

Suddenly, a plastic bag appeared!

Plastic inside plastic and it's heavy!

Wow, nasi lemak and kueh! Siap with sudu!

Some mushrooms on the way back! Edible????

Tunnel back view

Somebody wrote this, which I agree!

Beside the highway view

Crossing the rive back to car. Sayonara!

Happy New year 2009

Happy New year 2009

New Resolution to achieve these 4 goals of life!

*Trust, faith, family and health*

Trust- trust yourself and let others trust you

Faith- have more faith in your religion

Family- build a better relationship in a family

Health- improve you health by having a better lifestyles.

Happy Tang Yuan Festival

December 22 2008 is The Chinese Tang Yuan Festival.

Tang Yuan is made from glutinous rice flour. This glutinous rice flour is mixed with a small amount of water to form balls and is then cooked and served in sweet broth. Tang Yuan can be either filled or unfilled.

In Melaka, normally it is unfilled and it is roll to form red and white balls.

By eating tang yuan, you will become one year older.

Square Tang Yuan- please look in the middle!

Gunung Datuk

Mountain: Gunung Datuk
Height: 870m/2900ft
Location: Rembau, Negeri Sembilan.
Day/ Date: Saturday, 6th Dec 2008

Since we planned that we shall go for at least one outdoor activities per month, so we decided to climb Gunung Datuk. The idea to climb this Gunung comes from my mountain expert colleague, Shew Mun. According to her, it is not hard to conquer this mountain, and without hesitation, we agreed blindly.

So, early Saturday morning, Shew Mun and her friend waited Joey at KNM Serdang, before Joey car pooled them to pick me up at Nilai. From Nilai, we took the PLUS Highway and exited Pedas/Linggi Toll. We headed towards Rembau and follow the signboard towards Gunung Datuk. The distance from the toll towards Gunung Datuk is approximately 45 minutes (not including the time wasting when we entered the wrong road to a rubber plantation). Luckily, we manage to ask an Ah Pek for direction.

Once we reached Gunung Datuk, we get prepared and start our climbing. At the bottom of the hill, there is a small bridge to cross a stream to the climbing starting point. Since im not a pro in hill climbing, as usual, the starters will climb eagerly. But after for a while, I asked Shew Mun and her friend to go ahead first, while me and Joey followed from behind. This resulting me and Joey reached the top 1 hour later than Shew Mun. This is because we took frequent break and there is no sense of urgentness to get to the top.

Actually, the route to the top is straight forward, but you have to climb it in 45 degree slope. We reached the rest area at the middle of the journey and took a rest for a while before proceed to the top. It took us around 2 hours to reach the top, but we must climb the huge rock to reach the top of the top. According to what I read, if the weather permits, the scenery of The Strait of Malacca will be there for our eyes to view.

The rock climbing with a few metal ladder strap that tied up with old ropes is quite scary. I am not sure since when the ropes and the ladder is there, but I do hope that the authorities replace it ASAP. Anyhow and anyway, Joey and me managed to get to the top and took some breathtaking pictures. The weather was good, but lots of mist, and therefore we can't view the Malacca Straits.

After we re-fill our lungs with some fresh air, we prepared to climb down. As usual, Shew Mun climbed down first, leaving Joey and me at the back taking our sweet time to go down. Half way down, it seems like it is going to rain, and we hurriedly speed up our steps. I feel that my knees almost plug out from the socked, besides feeling tired, exhausted and hungry. After around 1.5 hours, we managed to reach the bottom. I went to the small stream to clean myself and take a cool deep for a while. The water was refreshing and I feel that I want to sleep in the cool clean water.

After cleaning ourselves up, we headed home leaving a good sweet memory of Gunung Datuk. It was a good experience for me in order to achieves another level in Mountain Climbing.
I love outdoors.....