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2nd Putrajaya International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta 2010: 18-21 March 2010

izzat ruslan — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:05:42 +0000

Salam and hello everyone. If you still don’t have any plan for next week’s weekend, ya next week, not this week. I mean not today. Let me suggest you to one of the events you should consider to go next week’s weekend. Here it is, as stated in the title, the 2nd Putrajaya International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta 2010 is back! Like last year, this year hot air balloon fiesta event will bring 19 hot air balloon participants from all over the globe such as France, New Zealand, Belgium, Netherlands and of course Malaysia too.

For details about the program’s itinerary, please proceed here for details. This event will run for 4 days, I’m not sure which day you should go. If you can come everyday from 18 to 21 March 2010, it would be really great, but anyway, if you ask me which day would be great to go, I will suggest you to go on Saturday (20 March 2010). If you look at itinerary, the schedule for each day is the same, maybe one or two might be different. However, on night of 20 March 2010, there is fireworks show which I think would be great for you if you want to photograph any pictures or you are fireworks’ fans.

Ok, since this event is called hot air balloon fiesta, of course some of you would like to take a ride on any of these hot air balloons, right? Speaking of that matter, you will have the opportunity to ride on it, but you must be ready to pay a few ringgit for the ticket and ready to wait in front of the ticket counter as early as 6.30am to get the ticket. That’s what you have to do if you want to take a ride during morning flight. For evening flight, I’m not sure. If you read my last year entry of this hot air balloon fiesta, you’ll know that the tickets were sold out as early as 7.00am and it were limited to 70 tickets per day only. If the organizer has increased the amount of the tickets for this year hot air balloon fiesta, it would be really great.

Anyway, you can have a look at 1st Putrajaya International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta 2009 photos that I have taken last time, hopefully it would attract you to come to this year hot air ballon fiesta. So, are you going?

Official SPM 2009 Result this Thursday, 11 March 2010 – All the Best to All Former Form 5 Students

izzat ruslan — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:37:42 +0000

Salam and hello all. This is just a quick update as I’m now in a situation where I have to sit in front of my laptop, completing assignments and projects that need to be finished as soon as possible since my final exam is just around the corner. 2 more weeks to go!

Anyway, this is just what I call it, a stress management activity. Whenever I can’t focus on my work, doing something differently from what you’ve to do may fresh you up from your work’s stress. Well, this is me. I don’t know you. Whatever it is, stress management is a must.

Okay, back to the title, I’m not trying to spread out the news since it was already circulating around the internet or maybe in the tv channels already. Well, just to wish all former form 5 students, including one of my sisters, all the best for your upcoming SPM result. Hopefully the efforts that you’ve given before is pay off. Well, don’t simply put SPM is everything, don’t think if you can’t score excellently in SPM you can’t success later. You are wrong if you think that way. You still have a lot of chances and rooms to improve and achieve success. SPM is just one of levels you need to face in order to achieve success, but doesn’t mean you can’t move forward if you can’t make it. I’m saying this because I don’t want to hear another suicide case of student due to failure in SPM like last time. Parents should be more supportive in this matter, don’t judge SPM is everything. Just believe in your sons and daughters that they have done all the best on their side. Whatever result is come out, this is what your sons or daughters have done in their full effort.

Okay, that is all for now. Need to continue with my work. Until next entry, bye!

p/s:To my sister, Acik, all the best with your SPM result.

Proton EMAS: New Proton Concept Car at Geneva International Motor Show with Pictures

izzat ruslan — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:01:25 +0000

Salam and hello to all. If you still don’t know Malaysia’s national car manufacture, Proton is currently developing their own concept car or maybe will go into production soon, here I tell you. The name of new Proton’s concept car is EMAS which stand for “Eco Mobility Advance Solution” and for the first time, it was shown at Geneva International Motor Show. Proton EMAS, it is a great name in my opinion.

This Proton EMAS concept car is the result of Proton collaboration with Lotus and Italdesign-Giugiaro, and as you can see from several pictures that I have shared below, only one word pop up in my mind “WOW!”. Something totally different from what Proton have produced before. I know some of you may say this is the result of foreign company, but well, knowing that this car is the result of collaboration of engineers from Proton and Lotus and designer from Italdesign-Giugiaro, I think as Malaysian, we should proud of this result. Well, I don’t know you, but me, I’m proud of it.

Well, just enjoy the pictures and leave some of your comments, words, opinions or maybe constructive critics about this new Proton EMAS concept car. All the pictures below are credited to Paultan.org and respected photographers who photograph these pictures.

I’m just hoping Proton will do mass production for this car, even I know it is still “concept” which is most probably won’t be produced. However, if Proton decided to mass produce it, I would be proud to drive it. Price? Wait and see or do you have any expected price in your mind? Do mind to share?

Update: Firework Show at Karnival WOW! Putrajaya

izzat ruslan — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:11:51 +0000

Salam and hello everyone. This is just another quick update for Karnival WOW! Putrajaya that is going to start tomorrow at Tapak Pasar Tani, Presint 2, Putrajaya. According to myJazmanie, visitors will have firework show tomorrow at Putrajaya in conjunction with this carnival and if you want to shoot firework, this is the right time for you to practice your photography skills. Get ready with your gears, tripod, full charged battery etc. Hehe

I’m not sure where is the location for this firework show. It is unlikely it will be shot at PICC like MIFC last year because the location of the carnival is too far from PICC. I’ll update it later, maybe via my Twitter. So, follow me at Twitter for latest update. The firework show is expected to start after the concert, so it would be around 11pm onwards.

Some quote from myJazmanie regarding this update.

Assalamualaikum dan Salam Sejahtera YBhg. Tan Sri/Datuk/Tuan/Puan yang dihormati,
WOW!!! Sukacita dimaklumkan bahawa Putrajaya akan bermandi dengan limpahan bunga api sempena Karnival Wow! Putrajaya. Jangan lepaskan peluang untuk menyaksikan pertunjukan bunga api selepas Konsert Wow! Putrajaya pada 20 Februari 2010. Datanglah beramai-ramai dan pastikan anda mendapat tempat yang strategik dengan datang awal ke tapak Karnival.
Disamping itu, penyertaan bagi Mini Cycle Hunt dan Wayang Putrajaya masih dibuka kepada orang ramai. Hadiah menarik disediakan. Disertakan poster yang berkenaan untuk rujukan.
WOW!!! Rugi kalau tak datang……

So, if you don’t have anything in plan to do tomorrow, come to Putrajaya and have fun!

Karnival WOW! Putrajaya 20-21 February 2010

izzat ruslan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:51:02 +0000

Salam and hello everyone. Have you planned anything this weekend? If not, you may consider to bring all your family members, friends and everyone to Karnival WOW! Putrajaya this weekend, on 20 and 21st of February 2010. The purpose of this carnival is to promote Putrajaya Event Calendar throughout this year 2010 including the 2nd Putrajaya International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta 2010 that will be held from 18th-21st March 2010.

Well, the details for this event is as you can see in the picture below.

If you don’t know where is Tapak Pasar Tani, you can check out the location using Google Map below. Hope it will help. If it doesn’t, look for Putrajaya Millennium Monument, the area for this event is just around this monument.

View Larger Map

Several program that I want to highlight during this event are as follow, which you shouldn’t miss out.

Tarian Cuti-Cuti 1 Malaysia.
Persembahan Tradisional dan Kebudayaan.
Hot Air Balloon. I don’t know how many hot air balloon they will provide, but if you have chance, take a ride on it.
Konsert WOW! Putrajaya. Have fun with performance by M.Nasir, Jamal Abdillah, Misha Omar, Ella, Aizat and many more during this concert.
Cheerleader
Rhythm and Grooves
Nature Drum
Banghra Dance

So, if you don’t have anything to do this weekend, why not come to Putrajaya and have fun with all these program with your family and friends. I’ll be there too, maybe after my volunteer work on this Saturday is done. So, are you going too?

Happy Chinese New Year and Happy Holiday

izzat ruslan — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:04:27 +0000

Salam and hello everyone. Just a quick and short entry for this period of short holiday. Haha. Anyway, I want to take this opportunity to greet all Chinese people out there, Happy Chinese New Year and to all people and myself, happy holiday. I hope you have a great moment with your beloved family during this celebration and holiday. For those who will drive back to your hometown, drive safely and carefully. You can make a different.

Well, the picture above was taken last Thursday night at Thean Hou Temple, Seputeh. It was somehow unplanned photoshoot session actually, hence I only able to take a few shots of pictures and this is the picture I considered as best from that day. Anyway, if you yet watch video advertisement from Petronas and Telekom Malaysia (TM) for this year Chinese New Year, here I share with you 2010 video advertisement for Chinese New Year from Petronas and Telekom Malaysia (TM).

As always, Petronas comes with such a great advertisement for every celebration, same for this year Chinese New Year. Full of message inside and bring a lot of us to think about it more deeper. Simple, but full of impact to us.

I think I’m going to stop here. Until next entry, have a nice day, weekend and holiday with your beloved family and friends. Bye!

Boring Weekend? Some Cuteness May Chill You Out

izzat ruslan — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:49:09 +0000

Salam and hello everyone. I think this blog is going into hibernation mode soon, maybe in the next few weeks or next few days. Well, I don’t know. It seems I have several important tasks which are still not yet finish in my first priority scheduled tasks. Even the dateline is not so soon, but I’ve not started any of it yet. So, as the result, I have to focus on my assignments and projects first, and maybe will write some entries here if I get some chances to do so. Well, several entries may come out later as scheduled-to-post entry. Just wait.

Anyway, back to title. How was your weekend so far? Ok, please take note that this is the first time ever I’ve asked you about your weekend in this blog. Well, actually I don’t have any ideas of what to write. Ok, ok, it is not I don’t have ideas of what to write, but I don’t want to write something that I consider as heavy entry which means, something that I’ve to read something to write about something. Something that I need to think carefully before I think to write about it. Ok, forget about it. I don’t want to drag this entry into a long entry.

Anyway, I don’t know if the following videos may chill you out or not, but at least these videos make me smile and laugh. Well, just enjoy the videos, hopefully it may chill you a bit this weekend. Well, sorry I don’t have money to bring you to cinema for movies, pay you for karaoke or maybe bring you all the way to Genting Highland and have a ride on that I-will-never-ride roller coaster to chill you out, but I hope this free-to-watch video from this big-free-online-cinema-on-the-internet, Youtube may chill you out during this weekend. Ok? Have fun and enjoy. Let me know what you think about this video or maybe about this unplanned entry. (Unplanned because it was unplanned)

Ok, hopefully these videos may chill you out a bit this weekend. Anyway, happy weekend ya! Stay tuned!

Irresponsible Malaysian: Stop Any Provoking Actions

izzat ruslan — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:41:39 +0000

Salam and hello everyone. I hope you are in good health, both mentally and physically. Anyway, I think you aware about the current issues in Malaysia right now and lately, about the arson attempt on two surau in Muar. But I’m not going to write any speculations or assumptions regarding this incident, but any speculations and assumptions are possible to relate this incident with any unwanted incident happened before. Well, you guess what?

PETALING JAYA: Four men, including the son of a policeman, were arrested by Johor police for Thursday’s arson attempt on two surau in Muar, Deputy Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar said Saturday. He said the suspects, aged between 16 and 28 years old, were picked up in separate raids conducted on Friday from morning to evening, and, with their arrests, believes the case has been solved. [Read complete news here]

I don’t know what are these fellow Malaysian were thinking before they did something. Have they thought about the consequences from their actions? From what I’ve observed so far, what I can say is they didn’t think about the consequences from their actions and act emotionally without rational thinking. Come on fellow Malaysian, we are independent and free country, we have law and constitution. We have right channel and medium to express out opinion, thought and standpoint. Follow that, simple. Doing these kinds of provoking actions will not bring us anywhere, but can cause the issue becomes worse.

Anyway, as I said earlier, I don’t want to comment this issue and come out with any speculations because I believe you, Malaysian are clever and can think rationally before taking any actions. Think before you act. Think about the consequences. Together we protect this country’s harmony and peace. We are 1Malaysia, right?

2010 First Partial Solar Eclipse – Friday, 15 January 2010

izzat ruslan — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:28:24 +0000

Salam and hello everyone. I just want to share this interesting information about a rare phenomenon that is expected to happen this Friday, 15th January 2010, which is the first partial solar eclipse for 2010. The last partial solar eclipse was on 26th January 2009 and you can view some of my pictures from the last partial solar eclipse here. This 2010 partial eclipse phenomenon, which is expected to happen from Africa then go through Indian Ocean where the annulus maximum time will reach up to 11 minutes 8 seconds. Then, it will across Asia from Bangladesh, India Myanmar and China. Hence, in Malaysia, people will be able to see this phenomenon this Friday as early as 3.00pm until 5.45pm. So, grab this rare chance.

So, how to see this phenomenon? Before I continue, let me give a warm warning to you. DO NOT SEE DIRECTLY TO THE SUN WITH NAKED EYE. Doing so may damage your eye or even worse, may result you go blind. So, please don’t. Listed below are few safe ways on how to see this eclipse phenomenon:

Use Pin Hole camera
Use solarscope
Special eclipse spectacle
Telescope with sun filter

So, listed above are some of safe ways on how to see this eclipse phenomenon. However, for those who are living around Kuala Lumpur, you may come to Planetarium Negara Kuala Lumpur from 2pm to 6pm because they will organize a program for this phenomenon. So, you may see this eclipse phenomenon using the special telescope at Planetarium Negara. And for those who are living in Langkawi, you may see this phenomenon at Kompleks Pekan Rabu, Langkawi from 3pm to 6pm on the same day.

Anyhow, for those who cannot go both of those places, don’t worry. You can see it live via Angkasa live streaming at www.angkasa.gov.my from 3pm to 5.40pm on the same day. So, wherever you are, you can see it.

p/s: Hopefully the weather is good to see this eclipse phenomenon this Friday because it seems every evening is raining here in KL.
p/p/s: For Muslim, you can get the guideline on how to perform “Solat Gerhana Matahari” from Kujie2’s blog here.

Source: Berita Harian

Bloggers, We Care Each Other

izzat ruslan — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:29:37 +0000

Salam and hello everyone. This is a special entry dedicated to a campaign which is currently running by hundred of bloggers in the mission to help one of our friends, Megat. This campaign was inspired by Hydir in the mission to collect the donation to help Megat with his problems he is currently facing now. Megat is the nickname of Faisal Amirul Othman, who is a blogger too. Since he is mostly known as Megat in this blogsphere, I hope you don’t mind if I used his nickname in this blog entry. Anyway, you can give a visit to his blog here.

So, the purpose of this campaign as I’ve mentioned earlier is to collect the donation to help Megat solves the problems he is currently facing now. For details about what are the problems Megat currently facing, you can read about it in this entry “Tangisan Aku, Isteri dan Anak-anak” which was written by Megat a few days ago. Megat blogs in Malay, so I hope you can understand what he has written in that entry. To be honest, I’m the one of his blog readers start from last year when he was blog about his “unknown-mystery-disease” and continually follow his updates from that moment. Anyway, since he was not blog about his life about a few months ago, I thought his disease is already cured or maybe get better, but otherwise. When I read his entry about a few days ago, I realized that his life becomes tougher than I’ve ever imagined before.

So, how could you help Megat?

You can bank-in cash into either two of these bank accounts under the name of Faisal Amirul Othman.

CIMB Account. Faisal Amirul Othman. 0123 0015 4575 21.
Maybank Account. Faisal Amirul Othman. 1010 7541 8124

For verification purposes, because I’m not the one who knows Megat personally, but some of other bloggers do. So, you can check some verifications from AzmanIshak.com and OHMalaysiaKu.com for verification purposes of Faisal Amirul Othman. I hope these links are sufficient for verification purposes, or if you are one of Megat friends or knows him personally, you are kindly appreciated and welcomed to verify this.

Anyway, for those who is not able to help in cash, you can place the following special ribbons in your blogs as a commitment in supporting this campaign. Place this special ribbon in your blogs and each of ribbons you place in your blogs will donate RM1 to the donation fund which then will be paid by the sponsors of KBSoccerNet. After you have placed the ribbon in your blogs, please notify this campaign organizer in this entry by leaving a comment in the entry or notify them through KBSoccerNet@Twitter so that your participation and support in this campaign will be calculated.

You can use the following HTML code to place the ribbon in your blogs. All these ribbons will be hosted at my blog hosting, but anyhow, you are free to upload it to your own hosting or any other free image hosting.

HTML code for ribbon size of 150×181px. Copy the following HTML code and paste it to any visible places in your blog.

HTML code for ribbon size of 125×125px. Copy the following HTML code and paste it to any visible places in your blog.

The original size ribbon can be downloaded here.

So, I hope you guys can give some little help at least by placing the ribbon in your blogs to show your commitment in helping each other. We bloggers, we care each other. Do you care?