Friday, February 15, 2013

Just love 'em Segari turtles



OK. Whenever I'm in Lumut and has enough time I would go a bit north to a part of Segari where lies a conservation centre.


This place is perhaps the only one in West Coast Malaysia specially made for turtles.







Seems like the kids enjoy and love 'em turtles as much as I do.






And they have tortoises and terrapins too...




Going slightly inland at Batu Undan, Lumut


Going about a kilometre inland, the main bridge crossing the Dinding river became obvious.


I don't want to say more. Let's just look at the views...
















Dinding river from Batu Undan

OK. Stepping back to a time me and family spent in Lumut, Perak following an event we co-organised almost 3 weeks ago.


Monday 28th January 2013, I felt like bringing the family to Batu Undan, to get views of the wide Dinding river.


Looking to the right, going downriver one could see parts of the hill call Bukit Engku Busu where lies the Lumut town at its foot.


A look across. 


And a look upriver.



Thursday, February 14, 2013

1Malaysia Book Festival at PWTC

On to February 2013.


After a week of practically confining myself and the family (apart from work) to the house following a tiring program we co-organised in Lumut, Perak on 27th January, we decided to get out and go to the PWTC in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday.


 
The date was 3rd February, last day for a book fair called the 1Malaysia Book Festival.




I believe this is the second edition of the book fair, after making its debut last year.




While it has yet to gain the stature of the more famous and much longer running KL International Book Fair held also annualy at the PWTC I could see that it has grown much and covered obviously more space than last year.










Wednesday, February 13, 2013

A cousin's wedding at Seberang Perak

Just wanted to share some rather recent pictures...


This picture was taken Saturday, 19th January 2013. It's just the family converging after the nikah or solemnisation ceremony of a cousin and his bride at a mosque in Seberang Perak, a settlement in Teluk Intan, bordering Kampung Gajah, in the state of Perak.


Breakfast came next at a local stall...


The wife and baby Johan.


At noon we went to the bride's house for the wedding reception.












The wife, baby and my aunties.


This is me and family with my dad and mum at a stall in Kuala Selangor at night.


On the way home we stopped by a store there where I found this rather interesting dragon mask...