Air Keroh Malacca Zoo

Posted by Mrs Imran on Nov 25, 2011
Filed Under Cuti-Cuti Malaysia | 1 comment

This is the third time Ichiro rides a horse. His face expression gets more and more excited compare to the first and second time. Precious

I’ve been thinking to bring my son to zoo for quite sometime. So last 2 week we finally brought him to see animals at Air Keroh Zoo, Malacca. When I was little, Air Keroh Zoo was pretty awesome. I got to see so many “Orang Utan” and fed too. So, I was tempted to visit the zoo and to see all of the animals and feel the joy again, this time not as a little kid but as a mother to a kid.

We arrived there about 10 am in the morning, there were few people queuing for tickets and from my observation zoo entrance was in a very poor condition. Sangat sempit, lack of decoration and not attractive at all. I was pretty disappointed but kept telling myself that animals that we gonna see would be awesome despite the unattractive entrance.

Ichiro sitting on a stone tortoise (I think)

So, we walked in and was welcomed with colorful parrots. Cantik memang cantik. The birds were not caged so Ichiro can have a very close view. But then I spotted plastic bag, empty can, bottle all over the place, it really gives me instant sore eyes. Obviously the zoo is not well maintain, the janitor is nowhere to be seen.

Then we walked further, I saw many run down, abandoned food and souvenir stall. Apparently business is not so good I guess, so they got to close the shop. The one that still in business need some kind of shop lift up, because it looks super horrible! The paint has washed out, dirty, not hygienic and poorly decorated. This kind of place , I mean place like zoo, it has to be attractive in order to attract kids to come and see the animal. From what I can see, if I were a kid (now) this isn’t a place that I would die to go, but if it is 20 years ago, yes. This used to be my favourite place. Setiap kali pergi melaka, mesti tak lupa nk tengok papan tanda besar tulis Zoo Air Keroh and read it out loud. For me at that time, the zoo was a symbol of joy and happiness in Malacca. Sbb masa tu tkder mall and etc, so zoo, taman buaya and park2 yg sewaktu was the only place to hang out with family and to spend holiday.

Then we walked further up, tengok binatang ala kadar, sebab betul2 tk berkenan dgn kawasan keliling yg semak (worse than hutan!), becak, binatang yang tk dijaga dgn elok, semua nampak kotor dan tk bersemangat and hardly can spot the animals. I remember there are many kind of animals dulu, sekarang ni not only type of animals that they keep in the zoo has went down, but the quantity also! Ada cage yang besar bagak, but ada sekor jer musang? Cage burung yg sangat besar, lagi besar dari 3 futsal court combine, cuma ada seekor merak dan seekor kancil yg sangat “kancil” i mean sangat kecikkkk. Semak tk boleh cerita lah dalam cage tu, dgn keadaan yg basah, rasa mcm tk selamat jer nk bawak my son masuk. But since dah sampai, I bawak jer lah. Tawakal.

But animal like lembu and deer mmg tersangat banyak. Deer tu ok lagi, tapi lembu nk tgk banyak2 buat apa? Lembu kt tepi jalan pon banyak. Then my mom said, they don’t mind keeping lots of lembu and deer because they can slaughter them and sell the meat. Well, that kinda make sense.

We have been walking half round and yet to see any zoo keeper feeding the animals or cleaning the cage. This is disaster! The zoo is nothing without watching zoo keeper in action! Dah sampai separuh jalan tu, I dah mula bosan and can’t wait to finish the tour and balik. Nothing much to see. Binatang tk banyak, kalau we spotted a cage, nk kene beliakkan mata cari mana binatang. And most of the cage was empty.

Another thing, there’s also no activities going on, no elephant or tiger performance. Kuda pon ada 2-3 ekor jer! Gajah ada, tapi berantai and mundar mundir tkder tujuan. Buaya punya sangkar adalah scary ok. My brother told me, when the area immersed in water due to flood few years back, the crocodile somehow managed to jail break and swam to towards the lake next to the zoo. Dan buaya tu lepas bebas begitu sahaja. That really scary ok! Everything is scary about the zoo. Dah la tk ramai org and sangat semak, not advisable to visit the zoo alone. It is very unsafe.

I think you can now imagine how poor the condition of the zoo and I hope Malacca government would do something to fix this. I don’t understand, how can you claim malacca as a growing state if many of the facilities and tourist spots are dying??? Kembalikan zaman kegemilangan zoo melaka, taman buaya, mini malaysia and many more.

Ok lah, next nk try A’Famosa plak. My brother went there, dia kata quite happening. So, nnt nk try pergi. Entrance fee agak mahal sket more or less mcm nk masuk Sunway Lagoon. But if it’s worth it, as always I don’t mind paying. I think maybe they should increase the ticket price to enter the zoo, so they could renovate it, keep more animals in the zoo and also maybe invite a mobile circus or funfair to do a performance in the zoo. That would make the zoo more “alive” rather than alive but appear dead like now. No offence.

Decoration and Design

Posted by Mrs Imran on Nov 22, 2011
Filed Under Event, Husband, Lonia, Nilam | 2 comments

Wooden frame in black with picture of the baby, daisy flower in a bottle, chalkboard table greet tag, polkadot table runner and candle in glass to halau lalat. Huhu.

I know…I know…I have few entries pending and stories going stale, but better late than never. Even though at this time, am so tempted to write about our football team, but I guess that has to wait. Apa-apa pon congrats to Malaysia!

I made this on the eve of the event. Sangat2 last minute because my friend requested it. Sebaik sempat siap Nampak simple, but the signage was actually printed on piece of paper, glued on the board and shrink wrap with shrink wrap film to keep the paper intact.

Last weekend I was busy preparing decorations for my friend’s kenduri (aqiqah for her son) It was my first time experience decorating for an event and I was glad that it was only a set of simple decorations as I don’t think I can handle big event just yet. Lots to learn, especially time management.

Another set of centerpiece, this one comes with baby’s biodata

So about the event, I was being informed by my friend (customer) that the theme would be “English” and color scheme for the event would be red & black. Even though I think pastel colors is more suitable for “aqiqah” ceremony, but I honored my friend’s request still. The cradle was a huge pumpkin cradle and surrounded with teddy bears. Sorry no picture also because I was working hard that day. Huhu.

Another baby in the family that being celebrated. Different set of centerpiece. I love to combine more than 2 types of decorations to give more variety. This set comes with a zink tub with bunch of flowers (compose by my husband ) , white black table runner, table greet tag, wooden frame and candle in orange skin (the orange has been removed leaving the skin that I used as a candle pot)

This one comes with the other baby’s photo

So these are a few shots of the decorations. Very decent, nothing huge. I supplied the guest table center pieces, table runner, chalkboard table greeting tag, chalkboard style menu label and buffet table center piece. But later I spotted a wooden table in the gazebo so, I decided to take the buffet centerpiece and place it on the wooden table. It’s nicer there. But too bad I don’t have a picture of it, as I didn’t have much time to snap pictures around.

Front top part view of the dress

Other than decorations, she also ordered a pair of 2-piece dress to be worn on that day. The day she confirmed the order was actually pretty late, I have less than 4 weeks to make the dress and as she sent me the payment I quickly sketched the design (can check the sketch here ) , fabric scouting, send it to my seamstress and beader for doing the 3D flowers and beading. It was a very fast forward process with no FITTING! Can you guys imagine? It was kinda panicking as I don’t like my customer to take the clothes without trying it first before my eyes, because I don’t want them to feel worried or unsatisfied when the fitting isn’t perfect. But in this case, I know my friend wouldn’t mind (but I don’t take that for granted, I still prepared the dress the best I could). Thank god everything went well, she fits the dress nicely and she looks fantastic

Close up of 3D flowers and beading

The only full frame picture of Rufida wearing the outfit that I made for her that I manage to snap. Ini pon mcm curi-curi ambil sekejap sbb marhaban semua tgh berlangsung masa ni. Fid pon tk sempat nak betul-betulkan her baju sbb she was carrying her son masa tu. So sorry tersenget-senget. He shawl pon wasn’t properly fall into it’s position. Insyallah we will be having a special photo shoot session for Fid featuring the same outfit soon.

Everything went quite smooth and in case my husband reading this (I know he wouldn’t, he seldom read my blog, this year…never once pon huhu), I just wanna say thank you soooooo much to him for being such a helpful, supportive and good husband. He knew that I was too busy to prepare my baju for the event, without me asking him to…he ironed my baju kurung. And he also woke up very early the next morning to help me arrange all the decorations stuff in the car including the flowers. And when I was preparing the deco at site, he’s willingly to help me to cut the flowers and put it in the vase, yeah he did all that. So dear, I just want you to know that I wouldn’t be able to make it this far if it’s not because of you. From the bottom of my heart…thank you so much for being a husband, cheerleader and a best friend.

Puma Social Event

Posted by Mrs Imran on Nov 17, 2011
Filed Under Event, I Heart & Recommend | 0 comments

I’ve been trying to update my blog for 2 days, but unfortunately got knocked off early for 2 days in a row. Pretty tired, went there and here to settle my works. Lucky am doing things that I love, so no complaint. Can’t imagine if it is not something that I fancy to do, with the amount of works and responsibility that I need to hold, surely I will giving up in no time.

For your record, I sleep early also today, but manage to wake up in the middle of the night, so here I am…blogging at 5am in the morning! Sweetttt. Huhu.

Gambar ulangan. There are few more photos of me and other bloggers, but not sure who’s camera.

Orait then, the second Puma Social Campaign was launched at Cosmic Bowl, Mid Valley on 11th November. I was invited and kinda excited when I discovered that the event will be held at the bowling area and the best part is I can bowl for free. You know what, bowling is the only sport that I think I’m good at. “I think” ok, judging from my performance in other sports, I do better in bowling. Huhu. So, that’s the reason why I love bowling so much, I did try archery also previously, but nahhh it’s suck. I mean me suck not archery. Archery is pretty fun.

Manage to get my family to look after Ichiro, because me and husband wanna play bowling! Husband can throw the bowl twist style and he always ended up having a split. Split yg jenis 1 end to 1 end. Gila how to get spare like that. Me definitely no style, I just throw in straight line.

Me and husband was grouped in different group. I got to know that after we got our wristags. I was in Songbirdz group and hubby in Picfreak. I didn’t bring my camera, since my aim was to PLAY! Hahaha. I don’t want my belongings to bother me as the bowling area was dark and I don’t want to keep checking my camera and my other stuff if I bring them. But don’t worry, I have few photos from the event sent to my email.

The event attended by members of the media and a host of PUMA Friends such as Jay Menon, Suki, Dennis Lau, Phat Fabes & Ben, Jason Phang, Jeff Chin Chermaine Poo, Roshan, James Baum, Aric, attendees were introduced to the elements that make up PUMA Social’s latest campaign, which include a personality test and “pimped-up” version of its latest social sports – BOWLING.

So basically Puma want to introduce after-hours Social Sports by bringing together after-hours athlete from all over the world, giving us a platform for social exchange and friendly competition all in the name of fun and camaraderie. Consumers were introduced to the campaign via a fun and interactive club event, known as the PUMA Social Club Tour. Entitled “Here’s to the After-Hours Athlete”, it paid homage to the champions of late night games i.e. foosball, ping pong, darts and arcade games, and applauded accomplished individuals who enjoy the smell of victory and the agony of defeat.

Talking about camaraderie, yeah I did feel it. The moment I joined Songbirdz group, I felt bit alienated by those who came earlier than me. But that’s pretty normal, so I just wore a thick skin on my face and simply introduce myself that I’m in the group and I want to throw the ball. That was it and before I knew, I’d already becoming one of them and the best part it I was also contributing to my team till we won second place. Team awesome! If hubby in the same team, sure we can menang first prize. What a miss. Huhu.

Guy in blue sweater is the host. His name is Josiah Mizukami. Pretty sure he’s a mix blood, but what blood eh? Can you tell? Indian? Japanese? Eurasian? Oh can you guys spot me? I was about to throw a 9kg ball. Ehe.

I got a Puma voucher worth RM50 upon collecting my press kit and another RM200 voucher for winning the game in second place. It’s like a flashback, 2 years ago I won first prize for bowling also during my company annual dinner. Did I tell you that bowling is the only sport that am kinda good at? Heee.

Foodie team. Boooo. Songbirdz awesome!  (hahaha ni namanya frust menonggeng tk menang nombor 1)

Am looking forward for Puma grand finale event which is in December. Too bad this time round I won’t be able to bowl because the competition will be among the winning team only. Arghhh how I wish to get invited to play again. Hishhh. By the way, the winning group is Foodie and I have no idea how they managed to surpass Songbirdz scores, because we were actually leading for the first half.

To those who wish to win PUMA vouchers and score invites to the PUMA Social Finale Party will
need to log on to PUMA Social’s microsite: www.puma-social.com.my and answer three (3) questions
that will determine their personality types. And also become a fan on http://www.facebook.com/pumamalaysia to get fresh and fast updates about the event.

Till then, now it is 6.03am. Who says blogging is easy? I spent an hour to finish up this entry. Blogging ain’t easy….Good night everyone have a good day ahead!