Mask

Never in my mind someone has ask me to review about beauty product which is Mask. I admit I am not a metrosexual guy and I have never done any mask before. Haha! I am quite surprised and amazed by the types of mask offered by KING OF MASKS, the only authorized license for My Beauty Diary in Malaysia.

Seriously I dun even know which want to start with. Haha. Coz there are too many variety of masks. Imagine they have sake yeast mask, black pearl mask, aloe mask, rejuvanating mask and many more. Haha.

May I should try to start with coffee mask. Haha! Dun laugh. They do have coffee mask. But I just scare I cant sleep after doing the coffee mask. Haha!

Good nite.

Chitraparuvam

When I was back in town for Mother Day, Teluk Intan is having some Hindu festival or better known as Chitraparuvam. The festival somehow look like Thaipusam and it is the largest Hindu festival in Teluk Intan where Hindu devotees will come from all over the states to pray for blessing.

As usual, my parent and few of his friends will take this opportunity to do some donation by giving out mineral water to the devotees. During that time, Nizar (MB of Perak) was there as well at the booth where my dad just pass him the mineral water while I busy snapping him.

Perak MB Dato Seri Nizar who was there as well to gain support from the people accompanied by some VIPs

Chained his body and pull the trolly while his wife and son are sitting at the trolly.

Another young boy who bring kavadis to the temple.

Tongue piercing

Close-up!

Keep on walking until he reach the entrance of the temple

Kavadis

Another tongue-piercing and kavadi carrier.

My parent with friends distributing water to the people.

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The Wedding - Yit Shern

Help out my bro, Yit Shern to take some picture on his wedding day. We used to play football together and once in a while will see him fetching his GF around my taman with his motorbike. Time passes so fast and now they have become husband and wife.

Yit Shern and wife

The ASOB brotherhoods

The love nest

Parent preparing the bridegroom to be smart and handsome

The heng dai and the pig bearer

Preparing the car to "kidnap" the bride over

The heng dai..

Happily ever after...

Preparing to go to her new house.

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Broga Hill

Long time never exercise, the hike to Broga Hill almost took my life away. Haha! I am a bit dramatic and exaggerate. Totally no stamina to climb the hill like last time where at least I got do some excersise. It is time to built up the stamina if not hiking Mount KK will be a dream for me.



Our group photo. Hope will win USD100 from Quantum MyQ. Hehe!

(note : did not take much picture, for more picture from previous outing in Broga Hill, you can click here -> http://mrblurster.blogspot.com/2008/12/broga-hill.html)

Hanoi - Day 4

This will be last posting for the vacation I have in Hanoi. On the last day, we have ourself a day tour to Tam Coc and Hoa Lu. Tam Coc means three caves, which took about 2 hours drive from Hanoi. As usual, the place is so crowded like what we have in Halong Bay. But for this time the small boat is fulling up the river instead of big junks (vessel) as what we see in Halong Bay.

Lady in blue

Small boat ready to fetch tourist

One of the shot I like

We seated in a bot that are rowed by two local persons in Hoang Long river. The mother and son who rowed us in a small boat to see the first limestone mountains that run along the riverwaty for several kilometres. It is not an easy job to rowed the boats as the whole journey took almost 2 hours to complete.

Tam Coc is a place for photo hunters

We cruise along three caves and along the riverbay, you could see water rice planted. The river trip is so wonderful for photo hunters like myself as all are created by wind and water from a legend of time.

Entering one of the caves.

Limestone mountains

Entering another cave again

Hoa Lu is very near to Tam Coc, is the relics of ancient capital of Hoa Lu. It is just another temple for me.

Enjoy!

My leg trying to lay down on the boat and enjoy the scenery

A trip to Hanoi is definitely memorable for me as Tam Coc and Halong Bay is such a beauty of nature. Hope that place will stay beauty and pure and will not over developed as I could see the place has been more and more commercialize.

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Hanoi - Day 3

As usual, our tour guide fetch us in front of our hotel sharp at 8am. Our next place that we wanted to visit is Halong Bay which is one of the places that I wish to go for a long time. My journey to Halong Bay took about more than 3 hours to reach and it is located in Quang Ninh province about 170km east of Hanoi. Along the way, our tour guide keep us well informed about the history of Halong Bay.

"Ha Long" is literally translated as "Bay of Descending Dragons" and it is a UNESCO World Heritage site for its famous scenic rock formations. Once we reach the site, I am so surprised to see sea of "junks" or better known as tourist boats that resemblance Chinese sailing vessels. Somehow, it is just over-crowded and can't even enjoy the unique panorama view of Halong Bay.

Sea of boats that waiting to fetch tourist to Halong Bay. Way too crowded!~!

Another type of junk.

Black and white view of Halong Bay.

We hop into one of the boat and started cruising along the Halong Bay. The weather is just nice but a bit hazey. The view of Halong Bay is just fantastic if you could minus out all other boats. We stopped at one of the island to explore one of the famous cave Thien Cung gratto. Exploring the cave is fun thing to do. Make me feel like I am at Gua Tempurung but somehow the cave are more interesting with the explanation by our tour guide.

One of the limestone does resemblance the dragon according to the local.

This cave is supported by four large pillars as told by our tour guide.

Picture taken at the end of the cave.

We continue to cruise along Halong Bay while enjoy the scenery.

Some of the local selling local fruits to tourist at rip off price. But the pineapple is extremely sweet but small in size.

The famous kissing rock

Halong Bay

Of course myself wont miss out the chance to take picture with Halong Bay. Thanks to my dear who help me to took this picture.

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Hanoi - Day 2

Wake up at 7am and have our breakfast in hotel. The tour guide reach at our hotel 8 am sharp for the city tour around the town of Hanoi. Our first destination is to Tran Quoc Pagoda that sits on an island in the West Lake or better known as Ho Tay. It's  one of the oldest pagodas in the country that was built near the Red River in the 6th Century. A bodhi tree in the closure is said to have been growth from a cutting of the tree under which Buddha has achieved enlightment.

Tran Quoc Pagoda

The old lady is 93 years old who spent most of the time in the temple reading sacred manuscript in the temple.

The Golden Statues of God inside the temple.

Lotus flower which are sacred flower of Buddhism.

The Pagoda



Then we stop over at Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and also Museum. Surprised to see that there are so much people visiting the Mausoleum during the public holiday. You even have to queue for quite some times before you are able to see the house that Ho Chi Minh used to stay before. Somehow, you wont see Malaysian spent their public holiday visiting Tugu Negara or National Museum because they rather spent their time shopping in Midvalley.

Ho Chi Minh Masoleum.

Ho Chi Minh reject to stay in this palace. Therefore, it become the places for him to meet leaders from oversea. He however stay at a small house nearby this palace.

This is the house that Ho Chi Minh used to stay. The lower ground is for the children to play when they come visit him. The upper part of the house consist of 2 rooms. One is the room to sleep and another room is the study room.

Too bad the Mausoleum was close during the public holiday therefore we cant go inside. The tour guide even told me, even if the Mausoleum is open during weekdays, you will have to queue up for a long distance before you can get inside the Mausoleum. After that we stop over at One Pillar Pagoda. According to the local, the Pagoda was built by the king to worship Kuan Yin after he dreamt that Kuan Yin handed him a son.

One Pillar Pagoda

The entrance to Temple of Literature

Another section of the temple.

One of the king that built one section of the Temple of Literature

Musical performance by using traditional music instruments.

The Ngoc Soon Temple at Hoan Kiem Lake

We move on to the Temple of Literature which was founded as Confucian Temple. It become the Vietnam's first university that trained a lots of scholar. The large courtyards consist of nice gardens, lily pond, bronze statues of crane, stone carved of all the scholars and beautiful styles of chinese gates display. There is also short performance about the tradisional music instruments of Vietnam inside the Temple of Literature. We also visit Ngoc Soon Temple at Hoan Kiem Lake which is nearby our hotel.

Tea pot

All are hand made.

The owner's son and daughter who welcome us to their factory.


Thang Long Theather

The traditional water puppet show.

After lunch, we visit the porcelin factory which was outside the Hanoi city. Too bad some of the big factory was closed during the May Day. At night, we walk to Thang Long Theather to watch one of the most famous troupe in Hanoi, the Water Puppet Show. A traditional Vietnamese orchestra provides background music accompaniment. The instrumentation includes vocals, drums, wooden bells, cymbals, horns, erhu (Chinese two-stringed fiddle), and bamboo flutes. The bamboo flute's clear, simple notes may accompany royalty while the drums and cymbals may loudly announce a fire-breathing dragon's entrance. It portrays the day to day life of rural vietnam and the folk tales handed down over generations. Stories of the harvest, fishing and the festivals are highlighted. One should never miss such an extrodinary show of high cultural value.