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Mount Kinabalu

This week, I’m gonna talk about Mountain Kinabalu. It located in a state of East Malaysia which is called Sabah.

Mount Kinabalu’s height is about 4096 meter, is the highest mountain in Malaysia.  Many tourists like to climb Mount Kinabalu when they travel in Kota Kinabalu (is the capital of Sabah). They climb the Mount Kinabalu for seeing the gigantic Rafflesia and orang utan (man ape). The name kina from Kinabalu means China, while balu means widow.  About its legend, there was a merchant who came from China came to Sabah and he met a beautiful local populace. Then, they were married and lived together. However, after that, the man decided went back to his country to visit his family but after he back to China, he never came back to Sabah. The girl stayed on the peak of Mount Kinabalu to wait for him coming back. Until she death, the man still never came back. So, futurity name this mountain as Mount Kinabalu. Another incident of Mount Kinabalu is the earthquake. Logically, this is impossible that earthquake will happen in Malaysia but it still happen once in 2015. Local populace said that the God which stays at this mountain was angry. This is because of the behavior of some tourists. Few days before the earthquake, there are 10 tourists who came from western country had stripped and urinated at this scared place. So, the god was angry and the earthquake happens.

View from the peak of Mount Kinabalu

Petronas Twin Towers (KLCC)

This week I gonna talk about the tallest building in Malaysia. That called Petronas Twin Towers. It located at Kuala Lumpur (吉隆坡). We can call it KLCC too.

It is 452m height and 88 floors including 5 ground floors. However, Taipei 101 is higher than KLCC. Inside KLCC, there is Suria Mall. There are so many tourists go shopping at the mall.

Besides, there is also Science Museum inside KLCC. It is very suitable for children visiting there. They can know and learn many things from Science Museum. There also have some interesting activities for the children having fun at Science Museum.

The bridge between the towers is Skybridge. It is at the 41th floor and 42th floor of the tower. We can see the view of Kuala Lumpur at there. I had been there once. I joined a trip that was hold by my secondary school before. I recommend you all can go to Skybridge at night, the scene will more beautiful.

Outside of KLCC there are water fountains. It is very beautiful and attractive. At night, the fountain will full of colours. It is really gorgeous. KLCC also features a wading pool for children having fun there. I think most of the foreign tourists will come there if they travel in Malaysia.

Pulau Pinang

Pulau Pinang is a very small state in Malaysia but there are so many interest places I may recommend you to travel at there.

The most popular thing of Pulau Pinang is the street art in Georgetown. Georgetown is the downtown of Pulau Pinang. There are so many beautiful wall paintings in the city. In 2014, I had joined a trip to Pulau Pinang with my friends. In this trip, I had taken photo with 40 wall paintings. We found the wall paintings by walking around the Georgetown. That was a quite special experience for us. There are about 60 wall paintings in the city. But now, there are some artists will draw new wall painting at there. So, the number of wall paintings is still increasing.

Besides, there are a place where many traveler love to go is Escape. Escape is a theme park for having fun and challenging some difficult games. The games are designed for any range of age groups. There are so many level can be chosen in a game.

The last place I want to introduce is the upside-down museum. Although I never visit there, but from the picture I show below, we can know that it really is an interest place to go.

Melaka

Let talk about Melaka this week. Melaka is one of the states in Malaysia. Even though my hometown is not in this state, but it is quite nice place for tourist to come. 

There was an interest story about how Melaka this name came. Long time ago, Parameswara who was a king rest under a tree beside a river. Suddenly, he saw a mouse deer was chased by his dog. When the mouse deer was in danger, the mouse deer kick the dog into the river to self-defense. This scene was seen by Parameswara and he felt impressed. So, he decided to find an empire here and named the tree which he rest under as Melaka Tree.

Now, Melaka is a famous scenic spot. Many foreign tourists will come here too. Many historical building is located at Melaka. For instance, there are A Famosa, Red House and other.

A Famosa

Red House

Many teenagers like to come to water theme park of Melaka.

Water Theme Park (1)

Water Theme Park (2)

Moreover, the place I love the most is Jonker walk. Night market is at Jonker walk. There are so many delicious foods at there. If you are interest to travel in Malaysia, I recommend you all come to Jonker Walk.

Jonker Walk

Deepavali

Last two weeks, I had post about festival of Malay. So, this week, I’m gonna talk about Malaysian Indian’s festival which we call Deepavali. 

Long time ago, there was an evil god. Its name is Narakasura. Narakasura liked to torture people who were at low hierarchy. Besides, Narakasura was greedy. When he came to a place which had many foods, he would finish all the foods and didn’t leave any food for villagers. No matter how many foods there had, he wouldn’t leave any foods. In order to save the villagers, there was another god fight with Narakasura. Narakasura was defeated in this war. The villagers were very happy and defined the day as Deepavali’s day.

Narakasura

When Malaysian Indians celebrate this festival, they will use colorful rice flour or powder to make kolam(a form of drawing) on the floor in front their home. My Indian friends told me that kolam will bring good luck and benediction to home. He says the god who had defeated the evil god will come to the homes which have make kolam in front their homes. They will leave the kolam eat by bird.

Kolam

Kolam

Nasi Lemak

This week I’m gonna talk about food again. What I want to introduce is Nasi Lemak. Nasi Lemak is a Malay cuisine that rice are cooked in coconut milk and pandan leaf. Many Malaysians love to eat Nasi Lemak. It is considered one of the most famous dishes for a Malay-style breakfast. Nasi Lemak usually sold by Malay. It generally served with peanuts, boiled egg, cucumber, anchovies and sambal (a type of chili sauce).

Nasi Lemak

But now, Nasi Lemak has sold in small pack by using pandan leaf to pack Nasi Lemak. Inside only have sambal, boiled egg and peanuts. It is very cheap and available at stall beside the street in Malaysia.

Nasi Lemak which packed by pandan leaf

However, there are some Nasi Lemak are very expensive. It usually served with fried chicken, beef and seafood as sold at restaurant. People can choose anyone they want to eat.

Nasi lemak served with fried chicken

Nasi lemak served with seafood

Some Chinese will call it ‘辣死你媽’. It is because of Namewee (黃明志) had directed a movie which call ‘辣死你媽’. If you are interesting in his movie, you can watch his movie. It is quite funny.

Movie which directed by Namewee

Source:Wikipedia(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasi_lemak)

Hari Raya Puasa

      Hari Raya Puasa is festival of breaking of the fast(puasa). Hari Raya Puasa celebrates by Malay in Malaysia. 

      Before celebrating this festival, they have to fast for a month. The purpose they fast is to experience the poor’s life. Understanding how the poor live without food.

       First day of Hari Raya Puasa, man or boy must go to Masjid for worshipping in early morning while women or girl will prepare food for celebrating and serving visitors. After worshipping, they will go to cemetery for worshipping and visiting their family who had left the world. After that, they will come back to village celebrate with their family. They will visit their friends too. There is a ceremony of Hari Raya Puasa is making apology for what their do throughout this year to their family. They will send greeting to each other by kissing hand of elder or giving hug. Children will also get money from elder like Chinese’s ‘Angpao’ but they call 'duit raya'.

Masjid

Making Apology

Duit Raya

      About food, Ketupat (a type of dumpling made from rice packed by palm leaf) is a food they must prepare during Hari Raya Puasa every year. Ketupat usually served with rendang(spicy meat dish) or curry. Lemang (made of glutinous rice and cooked in a hollow bamboo stick) also served with this.

Ketupat

Lemang

Rendang

Roti Canai

     This week I want to introduce a Malaysia food. We call that ‘Roti Canai’.

Roti Canai

     It’s a type of Indian food found in Malaysia. For my opinion, I feel that ‘Roti canai’ quite alike with Taiwan’s scallion pancake(蔥抓餅). Many Malaysians including me love to eat ‘Roti Canai’. Most of the Malaysians have ‘Roti Canai’ as their lunch or supper. It often sold at Mamak Stall(is a restaurant which operated by Malaysian Indian for 24 hours a day) in Malaysia.

Mamak Stall

Outside of Mamak Stall

     ‘Roti Canai’ is served with some type of curry. Some children like to serve it with sugar. ‘Roti Canai’ has many flavor, such as ‘Roti Telur’(with egg), ‘Roti Bawang’(with onion), ‘Roti Planta’(with butter), ‘Roti Milo’(with milo). What I shown above only some flavor, It still have many flavors I didn’t show. There is a special ‘Roti’ we call it ‘Roti Tisu’. It is a thinner version of ‘Roti Canai’.  They make it as a cone shape and coat it with sweet substance, such as sugar.

Roti Tisu

     At Mamak Stall, they always have their ‘Roti Canai’ with a cup of ‘Teh Tarik’. Its flavor resemble milk tea’s flavor but made in different way.

Teh Tarik

About Malaysia

        Malaysia is a country which consists of 13 states and 3 federal territories. I will show picture about states and federal territories below this post. The capital city of Malaysia is Kuala Lumpur which has the largest population, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government. 11 states and 2 federal territories are located at west Malaysia,  while other 2 state and a federal territory are located at east Malaysia. Perak is the state where I come from. I had told everyone last week in my introduction.

Location of states and federal territories

Flag of states and federal territories

        My country is also a multi-ethnic country. The ethnics are including 3 main ethnics which are Malay, Malaysian Chinese and Malaysian Indian. Half of the population is ethnically Malay. There are so many festival celebrated by every ethnics respectively in Malaysia. I will introduce the festival in my blog later. So, hope everyone will always follow my blog.

Malay

Malaysian Indian

        I think most of you may not interest in history. So, I won’t talk too much about it but I will say something quite important about Malaysia. Malaysia’s independence day was on 31 August 1957. The day was the end of administrate by British Empire. The Malaysia’s independence was declared by our first Chief Minister of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman. On the day, Tunku Abdul Rahman lead the crowd shouted ‘Merdeka’ 7 times loudly at Stadium Merdeka. ‘Merdeka’ means independence. 

Independence day

Tunku Abdul Rahman