Earth Hour @ SkyBar

Having heard many comments from friends and forums lately talking about how good is the KLCC Twin Towers viewing from SkyBar. I went there  for drinks and photo taking with friend of mine last weekend. The place wasn't really big as i thought, it could be the long swimming pool as the center of attraction is taken most of the space and the pool only can be used by the hotel guests. Both sides of the pool are surrounded by drinking tables & the sofas seatings desk, which has the nice viewing at the twin towers from the glass windows. The walk way between the pool and the sofa seating is quite narrow, chances are... people may fall into the pool easily due to low lightings visibility. I was worried to get myself tripped into the pool while walking through it (pheeewww.....).

Unlike Luna Bar (nearby to KL Tower), there's no outdoor viewing area in there as the place
is a entirely closed-up indeed. Moreover tripod is not allowed to be used inside but camera only as advised by the bar officer. We couldn't get the nice sofa seating as it was all fully taken by the time we reached. Anyway, we still got a table next to glass windows with twin towers view but it was just too close to the entrance, which giving me a problem taking shots because of the reflection lighting bounced from the glasss (what da hell.....). Nevertheless, i still managed to snap some pictures with different settings before the Earth Hour got  started, and we saw the twin towers got lights-off and blackout finally.

Well, it would be very nice place for drinks if we were seating at the sofa seating cubicle to enjoy the towers view and taking pictures at the best angle without disturbance of reflection lightings. Even so, we enjoyed our times there before we left for dinner. Will try to get sofa seating next time if i ever come by again.

Hot Balloon Fiesta @ Putrajaya

There was pretty crowded with spectators in the early Sunday morning when i reached there. That was the only free day for me to be there for the final day of photo shooting indeed. But a bit of disappointing as there's not many hot balloons show up in the morning session. Some special designed balloons that i read it on newspaper were never there and also seen it on the newspapers. To make the thing worse, balloons setup arrangement seems not so organize while the setup gap between each other wasn't close and 'crowded' but the spectators. Moreover, the cloudy weather was another bad factor caused most pictures taken were not attracting but it's still acceptable anyway.

Well, I made a wrong decision on that day and
going back to Putrajaya again in late afternoon. It
was heavy rain when i drove there but not knowing same thing was happened there as well. Needless to say, the hot balloon fly-out session was forced to canceled due to bad weather condition and there's nothing i could take (shittt...) and also stuck in the car park for about half an hour before i could leave the place in peace. The good thing is, i made a right choice at least and went there in early  morning otherwise i might miss it again until next year.

Hong Kong & Macau

That's my second vacation trip on last weekend after Ipoh-Cameron Highlands trip lately. Feeling great and joy traveled to places i never been there before, and also excited to experience how busy of crowded population in HK as they walked along the streets, crossing traffic lights, boarding for MTR/buses/ferries. Eating there is quite expensive and mostly starting from HKD28 (about RM12) onwards but food portion is big enough to feed hungry stomach.

The bad thing is the weather, damn cloudy and foggy (about 19c-23c) all day and night long since the first day i arrived and hardly see the sunshine. There's no luck for taking HK island view pictures from The Peak because of the misty weather blocking the Kowloon peninsular view and things were also happened at Avenue of Stars (Tsim Sha Tsui East) where the fog covered all over the skyline. Walking along most areas and spent most of the time in Kowloon such like, Mongkok, Yau Mah Dei, Tsim Sha Tsui, Tsim Dong, etc... and just The Peak, Ocean Park in HK island. It might be rushing or for time consuming purpose that some places we planned to go but got to ignore it.

Spending one night in Macau before flying home. Cloudy and foggy weather is similar to HK but it was even worse when reached there Nice to see lots of casino and those colorful signboards along the Macau city. I've been walking almost whole night until 4am taking pictures at the well-known landmark - Venetian Hotel and visited its open-concept casino... (pretty big and flat). Most of tourist attractions in Macau are historical like churches and temple and only went for the famous 'Tai Sam Pah', Senado Square and Macau Tower.

It was a good experience and enjoyable to walk through almost half of the Macau island all the way back to hotel from Macao Tower. Frankly, the free and easy trip was nice but duration is bit short and weather was really sucks and spoiling my mood of photos taking at most of the places. Well, i may be going back again in few years time if things are right.

*More photos are coming up on my FB photos album soon...