Malaysian International Batik Festival

I brought my family to Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC) last weekend for sight-seeing, shopping and lunch. They just came from Kangar, Perlis last week. And KLCC is always be one of the must visit places for my niece and nephews. They really enjoy sight-seeing and playing at the KLCC park. For the adults like my MIL and FIL, I think they just need some relaxing moments spent in KL, other than Kangar, Perlis. And not to forget my SIL, she’s busy with her shopping…My husband and I have to become the driver of the day…Heheh…

When we reach KLCC at about 11 am on Saturday, we straight away go to the KLCC park. On the way there, we saw a stage with a backdrop written “Malaysian International Batik Festival”. There you go…My niece and nephew were so excited to watch the demonstration held at several booth at the festival.

What make they became more excited is where they’ve got the opportunity to try themselves producing their own batik print. After received the batik chop from the first booth, they went to the second booth to color the batik design. Once completed, they can kept their works. Maybe it’s good to frame the batik design and hang them on the wall…

At the festival, there have been many interesting activities held, which much of the focus has been given to promote Malaysian batik to international level. I can see many tourists and foreigners experienced themselves on batik-making process. Detail explanation has been given by the demonstrators on the step-by-step process of making batik. It was really fun, yet informational.

I’m sure there will be more activities coming up in conjunction with the Malaysian International Batik Festival.Don’t forget to watch for more events. My family cannot really visit every booth on that day, as we had spent too much time waiting for the kids coloring their batik. After finished with the coloring, we had our lunch at Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). Need to go earlier, otherwise it will become fullhouse. Really enjoyed ourselves at the festival.

Good Bargain @ Padang Besar

Padang Besar, which is located in Perlis, is a border town between Malaysia-Thailand. Padang Besar is a popular place for shopping, particularly items from Thailands. Shoppers can purchase variety of items (e.g. leather goods, accessories, households items, groceries, clothings, snacks, etc.) that came from Malaysia and Thailand at a bargain price. A duty free shop is also available at Padang Besar. I will not miss to visit Padang Besar, every time I went back to my home town.
Padang Besar is not only an attraction for local and international travellers, but also business owners. Some of business owners get their supplies from Padang Besar, and sell the items to end customers at affordable price. So, those who don’t have the opportunity to visit Padang Besar, but would like to buy something from here, they can get it from the business owners. That’s why we can see nowadays, most products available at Padang Besar are also available at other places. But, may be it is sold at higher price.

In my opinion, Padang Besar is more popular among the ladies, compared to men. This is because, sometime I can see several grouped trip arranged at own cost, to go to Padang Besar for just 1-2 days, and most interesting things, they are all ladies. The main purpose is just to “shop” at Padang Besar. Of course there are several places nearby Perlis that are very popular for shopping too, for example Wang Kelian and Bukit Kayu Hitam. These places are just border of Thailand. Look for forthcoming entries on these two places in near future.

Padang Besar is also synonym with Rantau Panjang, which is located in Kelantan. The shopping experience that one may have in these two places is very similar. I can see many tourists spend their money to buy households items such as comforters, home decors, towels, etc. While the children love to go there because there’s a lot of toy, teddy bear, snacks that they could have at Padang Besar. The man, may be they can shop their casual clothing and enjoy the fresh coconut drinks with Thai meals at the food courts.

Although most of Padang Besar items can be made available at many other places, the popularity of this place remains especially during festive seasons and school and public holidays. Many people who visited Perlis should not miss the opportunity to visit Padang Besar, a must-place to be visited in Perlis.

Putrajaya Flower & Garden Festival 2007 - Floria

Last Saturday, my husband and I went to visit the Putrajaya Flower and Garden Festival 2007 (Floria Putrajaya), which is held at Precint 2, Putrajaya for about 1 week. It’s still not too late if you wanna go there. We went there on the 25th August, the very first day of the event. After we had our breakfast at TTDI Jaya, we straight away go to Putrajaya. My husband was really excited to watch the event. He said that he wanna apply the photography knowledge that he got from the Internet. Let’s see…

It’s already 11.30 am when we reach the venue. It’s quite late actually…matahari pun dah naik…the weather is getting hot (cair le puteri lilin ni, paling tidak pun sunburn). With the theme of “Splash of Colour”, visitors will be enthralled by a spectacle of every imaginable colour of rainbow being displayed in all its glory throughout the festive setting.

We visited the “Merdeka Garden”, a special garden designed in conjunction with the 50th Anniversary Celebration. This garden features as the entrance garden that aimed to be an inspirational masterpiece. Next, we entered the “Floral Pavilion” that exhibit floral masterpieces by both the international and local designers. Each garden is segmented into several sections (Special Gardens, Floral Windows, Flower Power, Floral Sculpture, Floral Fashion, Tutti-Frutti, Fine Dining and Floral Arrangement), so that visitors can really appreciate the beauty and feel the differences between sections.

Not enough with the indoor garden, an outdoor garden showcase consists of the Floria Showcase gardens with the theme “Rainbow Serenade”, Orchid Precinct, Garden Square and Bazaar, etc. While watching the beautiful scenery surrounds the exhibition area, you can also buy souvenirs such as “kain batik”, plants, cupcakes, and a lot more.

For both of us, this event is definitely an event worth visiting. We thought that we had to pay the entrance fees, but you know what?!!...It’s free…No need to pay anything to enter the festival…The parking is also FOC.

Wow, definitely the 50th Malaysian Independent’s Day celebration will become another remarkable event for Malaysian. I can see there are so many activities take places in conjunction with this memorable event. Looking forwards to see the firework performance…and may be the Merdeka Parade…

Source of info: http://www.putrajayafloria.com/