Wednesday 29 February 2012

Butterfly Farm in Cameron Highlands

With the rising of more buildings, it's not easy to get close to nature. But, visiting the Butterfly Farm in Cameron Highlands, your wish to be closer to nature will eventually came true!

With the entrance fees at only RM5 for adults and RM2 for kids, it's definitely worth paying for it. There's a farm filled with hundreds and maybe thousands of butterflies and moths flying around you. It will be an exciting experience as people now can hardly get closer to nature and experience it with them.

fishes in a small pond inside the farm.

All the butterflies gather at a corner, and this is only a small portion of them!

You can finally get to see closer on how butterflies feeds on the flowers

Leaving the farm, there's a small corner where many rabbits were found there.

Another small pond outside the farm with many small fishes there.



After the ponds, there will be a kind of gallery with many kinds of insects there. All these humongous insects, there are some rare kinds that you can hardly see in the city



One of the beetle species

Other kinds of frogs

Scorpions

Centipede


Many kinds of snakes

Turtles


Porcupine

chipmunks


It's a great opportunity to get near and closer to nature. If you happened to be visiting Cameron Highlands, do not hesitate to pay a visit at the Butterfly Farm as well!


BY: ELAINE KUM SZE LIN

Tuesday 28 February 2012

~LYNAS~

26th of February 2012, a large gathering held at Kuantan, Pahang. That's the hot issue in Malaysia now, lynas! The 'Stop Lynas' gathering started at 9.30am at Kuantan Padang MPK (4). Around 30 thousands joined this event and many of them are from other state, this shows that lynas is not only about Kuantan people's life and health but it is about all Malaysian!

     Around 30 thousands people gathered at Kuantan Padang MPK (4)


  All these people are heading to the location and they are full of passion


   no matter Chinese, Malay or Indian, we all support to STOP LYNAS!!


  they are setting up the banner and get ready to use it when the event start!


YES! Obstacles mean nothing to us!! 


some of the guys colored their hair to green to support this event 
because the title of the event is 'Himpunan Hijau 2.0'


No RUBBISH were found after the gathering! Because we don't want any pollution!


STOP LYNAS SAVE MALAYSIA! That's the slogan!

Kuantan is a beautiful city, why we let lynas destroy it? I am from Kuantan, and I have been there when the gathering is going on. I can feel the power and their passion to stop lynas! My friend and I passed by, and they all ask us horn to show our support, we did it! I feel so touching because many people from other state gathered there to show their support. Lastly, I wanna say one more time 'STOP LYNAS SAVE MALAYSIA!" 



BY: CHAI LING XIN

Sunday 26 February 2012

Special Forces

Last Tuesday (21/2), I happened to have the chance to watch the premiere movie screening for the movie "Special Forces" in Midvalley. The director of the movie is Stephane Rybojad. I was late into the cinema and hence I missed out the 5-10 minutes of the starting. As a result, I did not understand well what had happened and I got bored. Seriously, I thought the movie is about some special agents like CIA or undercover on a mission, I never thought it will be something that involves the military. I don't like watching those movies because it somehow bores me. I almost felt asleep in the cinema. However, as the movie goes on, it turns out to be interesting and a great one.

The movie screening pass!

It is a story about a German-born French reporter, Elsa Casanova (starred by Diane Kruger) is kidnapped by the chief of the Taliban regime, Bin Laden-ish Jihadi Ahmed Zaef (Raz Degan), while she was investigating a case of human trafficking in Afghanistan. The Taliban regime is well known with the human trafficking cases. After he captured Elsa, he released a video to the world annoucing that he will behead the attractive reporter. Due to this reason, the French government felt outraged and fear of the hugely embarassing spectacle that she will be executed, they call in a Special Forces unit that consists of 6-man elite to rescue her. It was led by the serious leader, Kovax (Djimon Hounsou), Tic-Tac (Benoit Magimel), Lucas (Denis Menochet), Elias (Raphael Personnaz), Victor (Alain Figlarz) and Marius (Alain Alivon).

The elite and the reporter

The team was dropped into the Pakistani tribal area where Elsa is held. They managed to free her from the cell with Amen (Mehdi Nebbou). However, their planned extraction fails under heavy gunfire from the Taliban and their radio was destroyed in the resulting shootout. Therefore, they are forced to travel to a safer haven on foot with the Taliban on their tail, their mission reduced to a predictable game of cat-and-mouse in the majestic Hindu Kush mountains, where is the borderline of Afghanistan/Pakistan.

Escaping

During their escape, they realized that they do not have enough warming clothes which are needed in order to climb up to the mountains. They found a small community (or village) on the way to mountains. The village only contains the elders because the young men were all captured by the Talibans. They went to there to borrow some clothes. Despite the conflict of their identities, the old villagers agreed to lend them what they want such as food and clothes. They even get along with each other very well. They left their guards down and totally forgot the Zaef and Taliban regime who was tightly on their tail. In the end, the team was found by them and attacked by Zaef and his Talibans. Although they managed to escape, Marius was shot and died in the shooting.

Some screen shots from the movie

However after the escape, Amen and few of them decided to go back to the village to save the villagers because they knew that Zaef would make a massacre in the village because of giving them a nice treatment. Amen felt that he has to save the villagers because of the guilt. In the end, all of them went back to the village while Victor stayed with Elsa.

As expected, back in the village, the cruel Zaef killed the old villagers without a blink of eye. He even shot his subordinate in the head. The rest of his army obeyed him only because of his cruelty. Amen died in the fight while Lucas was injured from the gun shots which later he died also. Elias volunteered himself to be the bait so that the rest of them can escape. However, he ended up the same destiny as Amen.

Elias, the youngest in the team

Zaef's team was cleared off to 30% while Kovax's team only left Tic-Tac and Victor. Kovax's team was very depressed because of the lost of their buddies. While they were burrying Lucas, two men from Zaef team approached them with hands up (a sign that they have no harm) and helped them to burry Lucas with rocks. After that, they continued their journey to the mountain.

'Special Forces'
To the mountain

On their journey to the mountain, Victor was shot by a hidden man from Zaef's army. They carried the severe injured Victor to the mountain. The mountain is covered by white snow and it was very cold. Obstacles come from one after one. There was a storm. After the storm is over, Victor was found frozen to death.

Victor's frozen dead body was found

The remaining people in the team, Elsa, Kovax and Tic-Tac continued their journey. They are getting closer and closer to their destination. After they passed by the mountain, they had another intense encounter with Zaef and his remaining army not more than 20 people. While Kovax and Tic-Tac were busy handling Zaef's people, Elsa was caught by Zaef. Zaef tried to use Elsa to threaten Kovax, but he was shot in the head by Kovax without a chance to speak a word. Tic-Tac was shot at the leg.

The three of them continued again. The danger of the lowlands kept comig to them. Kovax was injured in a landslide where the rocks buried his leg. When his leg was taken out from the rocks, it was badly injured where the bones were broken and came out. Kovax and Tic-Tac knew that they couldn't move any more. In addition, there wasn't any sufficient resources for them to continue. In order not to drag Elsa down together with them, both of them decided to let Elsa continue the remaining journey alone which is not far from the destination. They let her to go and asked her to bring along the food and water.

Elsa continues the journey alone

Elsa alone continue the journey in the hot desert. She fainted and was then found by the France army. Later on, she made a request to search for Kovax and Tic-Tac. Fortunately, she succeed and found them in time.

This is really a nice movie. The audiences were all so tensed at the climax. The uncle sat beside me, was so agitated that he sat so straight up. While the uncle sat in front of me, keep mumbling "Aiyo.." Meanwhile, many gasping came from the female audiences. It was really a very touching movie as well, I watched those touching scenes with watery eyes.

The team that symbolises brave

I think I might have leaked out too much for the movie but it is another experience for you to go to cinema and watch it yourself. I would rate this movie 7 out of 10.


Here's the trailer, it was already screen in the European countries' cinema last year. For Malaysia, it is released on 23 February. I'm not sure what is the language they are speaking, but in Malaysia cinemas it is dubbed with English already.



BY: YEONG YEE SIONG

Saturday 25 February 2012

Live happy and healthy

There are so many people who are overweight and obese. Some even die of obesity. So what do we do? Do we continue ignoring this fact or are we going to do something about it? Most people have realised about this and so they have taken precautions by exercising or dieting or even both. Most celebrities also try to keep their body fit by exercising. These are some of the exercises you could do.

1) You could exercise on your own or with your partner by going for:

A walk with your partner to get some sunshine, enjoy the view and exercise.

No wonder Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes look awesome! Run Forest! Run!
2) You could also make this a daily family fun activity.

Jenny Arnold having a fun ride with her son
3) If your partner does not have the time to do this with you, you should try exercising at home by following exercise cds that has aerobics, dancing, weights, yoga, step exercise and pilates.


These weights would turn my fat into muscles.

An exercise machine that would take me places
Crunches would give me flat abs!


Hula hooping is fun and also it shapes the waist.

4) You could join a gym. Some say that they feel bored doing exercise alone at home so they go to the gym to join with the others.

Doing aerobics in a group is much fun

This is good for cardio.

Those are just the simple ways to have fun and exercise at the same time. At first you might find it tough but once you get the hang of it you would feel a change in your body and you will start to feel more active and healthy. So stay healthy by exercising!!



Friday 24 February 2012

Romance in Fate - Bridal Fair 2012

Thinking of moving your relationship further? Ready to have a family with your love ones? Thinking about your upcoming big day preparations? Having much stress thinking and worrying about it?

Afraid not! The Bridal Fair had finally arrived! Organised by Feminine and My Wedding magazines, this even is held in MidValley Exhibition Centre from 24th February to 26th February 2012

In this fair, there are up to more than 100 booths set up there, filled with companies all around Malaysia. From decorations to shoes, future brides and bridegrooms can have their problems solved here. Many exhibits their dresses, pictures, magazines and many more to attract the attentions of the fellow visitors.

the entrance to the exhibition centre will likely captured the eyes of the visitors. 

 
The exhibits of wedding dress.


A wedding car exhibit there with decorations all over.

Exhibitions of the shoes for the brides.

A special booth set up before the exhibition place. It have many collections of wedding magazines, suitable for all future brides and bridegrooms.

The place where they place all the magazines


Along the entrance of the exhibition, they placed a beautiful sets of wedding dresses.

While you are in the exhibitions, places like the picture above were set up for consultation and Q&A sessions.

Booth promoting their bridal shoes.

This booth promoting their photoshooting services, which received the most attention in the fair.

From digital wedding to wedding dress, they offer it all to the brides and bridegrooms.

Consultation session takes place there.

Poh Kong company have their booth installed there, selling jewelries such as wedding rings, bracelets and necklace just for the wedding purpose.


Besides the exhibition, there are fashion shows on the wedding dress. The people are setting up the stage before the show.


Besides the pictures shown above, they have exhibitors exhibits on bridal house, wedding venue and banquet, beauty and slimming, as well as wedding services.

Wedding is an event that gonna take place once in your lifetime. It is a day where both brides and grooms will feel lucky to have each other. So, make no regret on this big day. Visit the exhibition before it's too late!

Interested readers can have a look at the event!



Date: 24th February 2012 - 26th February 2012 (Friday - Sunday)
Time: 10.00 a.m to 9.00 p.m
Venue: MidValley Exhibition Centre (Hall 2 & 3)




BY: ELAINE KUM SZE LIN