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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Watch Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra

Watch Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
Age-age I have never watched such thing as music orchestra, already embedded in my mind that the audience and the orchestra players are the ones who classy, ​​high-flavored music and wearing the latest fashion era. Far different from my kumel, udel and likes to dress as good as rock songs. So for me, watching his own orchestral music is a luxury.

While a free ticket to me too interested to try to enjoy live classical music. In a written ticket that we are obliged to wear batik shirt or jacket and shoes polite. If you only wear t-shirts, jeans and flip-flops are sure you will be kicked out. I also wonder why the hell should be neat, very neat, his music universal, Who are we allowed to listen to even though he just use gloves, so what? My sister also had a story that classical music in his native country, Austria, he never watched an orchestra with just wearing a t-shirt, jeans and sandals, but may go tuh.

Watch Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra

Finally, by wearing a suit and shoes that are narrow andelan marriage, I finally watched this also the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. The room is not too big as I imagined, there is a balcony on the left and right side of the room, and high ceilings decorated by a beautiful ornament. Lightingnya warm, not too cold air conditioning, spectator man in a suit, there is also a local batik and spectators wear women wearing party clothes. Deh-like atmosphere of the rich. Just did not have small children, fear of noisy point. Even so, there is also a special orchestra presented by the children and for children here, but we must look at the schedule prior dahulu.Belum have 5 minutes to sit, Malaysian music player Music Orchestra (MPO) began to arrive. They immediately alat2 busy tuning their music, hear the sounds of musical instruments ngak ngik ngok, but not interfere. Soon the conductor with longish hair 80's style comes to the accompaniment of applause which echoed across the room. After I noticed a list of names and tampang2nya MPO music players, I believe that 90% of them are foreigners, mostly Caucasian people. Continue where yah orang2 Malaysianya? His name doang Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra but was nearly all Caucasian people.

After getting the cue from the conductor began was the classical music that is sometimes sad, happy and anger flowing. I think each player will be awarded MPO megaphone on each instrument, but it was not tuh, so the original music that came out really supported by room with good resonance. I do not remember any song first, because the title very long and weird, basically there are three songs as a whole. The concert begins at 8.30 pm and finished at 11 pm plus 20 minutes resting.

Watch Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra

What's interesting about this concert is the introduction of a guest performer (Caucasians) are very good at playing the piano, his fingers pumping out beautiful tunes in each and every piano perfectly. The strains of violin and piano together in a melodious bersahut-replication makes me lulled for a moment. Unfortunately at the end konsert this world-caliber piano player I think in 'forced' by the committee to bring the songs of Malaysia. What made me surprised again, 'the song malaysia' which turned out to be a song sung Rasa Sayange ours, have Indonesia! Ntah of necessity and lack of exercise, the song Rasa Sayange and another song but I forgot what song I think Indonesia is also a diaku-I by Malaysian-made me sound a bit saggy and force. Fortunately, these songs are played for a while, if I had run away once baseball. The funny thing for me, whether it's orchestral music tradition or not, every song out of the conductor will be given applause and disappeared behind the stage. Then he will reappear and give honor to the audience and the audience will clap their hands again. After that he's back behind the stage, then back again to the stage, and so on, I count to five times as possible.

The funny thing also for me, probably because not cough during the music progresses, every music out of the audience were competing cough, Kasian, I think they restrain restrain a cough during a concert in progress. So it's good if more severe cough you do not watch deh orchestral music. Oh yes, in the concert hall you can not motret, you could still sneak motret using camera phones, but if caught you are going didamprat by security.

To me that people this Ndeso, watch a live orchestral music is an interesting experience. Ticket price was reasonable for me, you can get tickets for just RM 20 for a goat class. Other classes are also available and the most expensive is RM 80. 1 RM was about Rp 3000. You can check the list of events and buy tickets online at the website MPO. Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra is located in KLCC or Petronas Twin Towers building. This orchestra was founded on August 17, 1998 by Petronas, Malaysia's oil company. When are ya Pertamina made like this?

Hiking in the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia

Hiking in the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia
Make you who love hiking was fun, there is a place near the Kuala Lumpur, his name FRIM (Forest Research Institute Malaysia), located in Kepong, about 16 km from Kuala Lumpur. Was founded by British colony since 1929, FRIM is 600 hectares of forest laboratory which is also a place to conduct research on tropical forests in Malaysia.

Hiking in the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia

Aside from being a laboratory of scholars, FRIM is also a means of recreation and education. This forest represents the areas yangg popular for local people to hold picnics, jogging, cycling, jungle tracks, bird watching and even wedding photography. Try in Jakarta is not you think this kind of forest that is located just 16 km from downtown?

Hiking in the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia

During a visit there I took myself to see that even a small waterfall but rather was for my children play there. These waterfalls have been the subject of water to the river that divides the flow of tropical forests in FRIM. The river does not so big and also not very clean, but there aja people and small children playing and bathing in the river tersebut.Tidak far from the waterfall area there is an area called 'Kampong Java'. There I saw a row of houses on stilts and some ordinary houses. I do not know what they meant to give the name 'Kampong Java', or indeed the people of Java used to live there?
Hiking in the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia

One of the destinations that are sold here is actually the way to the Canopy Walk. Canopy Walk is a man-made road bridge built in trees, where you will be able to take a walk on the tree at a height of 30 meters. The length of its own Canopy Walk about 50 meters. Unfortunately when he got there the two sons of my fears, so I did not even had time to enjoy the experience of walking over to the Canopy Walk pohon.Untuk you must buy tickets in advance. RM 5 for adult tickets, student (aged 13 years and over) RM 3 and for children (7 to 12 years) cost RM 1. Canopy Walk is open daily from 9:30 till 14:30, but closed Mondays and Fridays. You also should wear hiking shoes and clothes for the trip quite far, about 1.4 km in total. During the first 900 meters, the road that we must go up enough, fit for a car is roughly, but travel about 500 yards further small road, just trails and hiking terus.Satu again the important thing is do not forget to bring mosquito repellent lotion, umbrella (if longer rainy season) and water, because along the way to the Canopy Walk, there is no such thing tuh drink vending. Journey to the Canopy Walk will take about 30-45 minutes one way. Total general travel back and forth probably about 2 hours. Do not bring grandparents or your in-laws, can-can gempor them later, but his physical strength. Visit to FRIM is suitable for those of you who like berpetualangan in outdoor, strong walk and loves nature beautiful forest. When do more, you can enjoy the forest after all this time cooped up by the life of the city's increasingly crowded and narrow? To go to FRIM you can use the KTM train from Kuala Lumpur Kepong and stop at the station. From Kepong station you can continue the journey by taxi. Or if lazy to take the train, you take a taxi directly from Kuala Lumpur, not far away so anyway, just 16 km. FRIM tesmi website you can access

Train ride from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore

Train ride from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore
Many ways to Singapore from Kuala Lumpur, in addition to using planes and buses, among them is to use the train. In early 2009 I get the chance to go to Singapore from Kuala Lumpur. Because I had been using aircraft and also a bus to Singapore, my wife and I finally decided to try using the train.
The train that I use when it is a name train humming Night Train Express, my name is very poetic yah? As the name implies, Railway Express Senandung Tonight at 21:20 the night depart from Kuala Lumpur and arrived in Singapore at 8.15 am the next day. Tickets classes I took were VIP tickets, which we'll get your own room with two beds and a bathroom complete with its own special hot water shower and toilet duduk.

Train ride from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore

Tepat at 21:20 tonight, we are all called to go to the railroad. I calculated carriage trains have about 15 cars. Once on the train car and into his VIP room, well it feels really different, well, not as I imagined. The place is smaller than I imagined and felt it was her room is less well maintained and some of the furniture looks already a bit old. And unfortunately again so willing to turn on the TV, it turns out there is writing on the bottom of his TV which stated that the current TV can not be used. Damn, I thought, if you can not sleep and no TV going manyun deh ...
Promptly at 21:35 the train started moving and not some time later officers train came to give an immigration form and give us the food menu. His menu was only there two, fried rice and fried noodles. I chose the fried rice, and oh yes, these VIP tickets for us going to get rations for dinner and also breakfast for free. 22:00 Hours fried rice come and direct me to eat, is bad taste, not bad at all.

Train ride from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore

Selesai eat and feel satisfied drowsiness was attacked, I try to euthanize myself. But whether because his train rocking continues and every hour stop at each station, plus another train whistle sounded diligent enough, my wife and I could not even sleep through the streets. And again it is super cold air conditioning and can not be set because the central control of this makes us more difficult to sleep because of cold, despite being provided blankets. Unfortunately again the TV is broken, so I can only baca2 bengong2 or stale magazine just in my room all night.

At about 5:10 am the doors on tap by railway officials and he said that we must prepare passports and immigration forms. Five minutes later at about 5:15 am we arrived at the train station as well as the immigration office in Johor Malaysia New. Then the Malaysian immigration officers came, plump and not friendly. Because no form coming into Malaysia we are both even in the fretted-omelin by immigration officers, our explanation plausible actual fact not received by him, in fact we both added in the fretted-omelin

Train ride from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore

Malas to argue me down last longer dr wagon and head office immigration at the station and fill out the arrival, this time the staff more friendly and smiling. Form is form arrival when you want to enter the country of Malaysia, so hope you do not eliminate them. When checking the immigration office in the city of Johor Malaysia New, we do not have got off the train, because in fact immigration officer who will come to each train car.

After spending about 1.5 hours here, at 6:40 o'clock in the morning the train was moving again towards the immigration office in Singapore at Woodlands, Singapore. Around 6:45 or five minutes later we arrived at the immigration office in Singapore. Well here we have to rush off and spend all your items to check at the immigration office in Singapore. I myself first not ngeh why the people in running down and rushed from the train, carrying the goods, it turns out they do so because they want quickly to the first queue at the immigration office counter Singapura

Train ride from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore

Untungnya my train of VIP It stopped right in front of the immigration office, so I do not have running such as those in lower class carriages. At the immigration office of Woodlands Singapore, I have no problem but the problem instead of my wife, because the passport validity period of stay of 5 months longer. Information is also for you, check your passport expiration time, for 6 months is a minimum figure. We recommend that you renew your passport first before going overseas. Fortunately my wife can get a visa as well to warn, warn of an immigration officer in order to extend the passport as soon as possible.

In Singapore Woodlands station you can opt out of the station or fixed station continue the journey to Tanjung Pagar in Singapore. Tanjung Pagar Station is near the area of ​​Orchard Road or Marina Bay, while the Woodlands station some distance away from downtown Singapore. At that time I decided to not get out of the station and went on to Woodlands TanjungSetelah station spent about 55 minutes at immigration offices in Singapore, train set off again towards Tanjung Pagar station at 7:40 o'clock in the morning. At about 8:25 am (more than 10 minutes dr schedule) we finally arrived at the Tanjung Pagar station, Singapore.

Train ride from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore

Total general long ride humming Night Train Express from Kuala Lumpur KL Sentral Station to Station Tanjung Pagar in Singapore is around 11 hours! Plus I could not sleep all night, it feels shattered body deh. After experiencing this, two days later I decided not to return to Kuala Lumpur by train, but by using a long bus journey is only about 4.5 hours!

Train ride from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore

For those of you who type 'stuck to the pillow a little delay' and could go to sleep on the train that cold, noisy and rocking on and also want to save on hotel accommodation costs, travel by train this evening I was feeling bad. But for someone who was difficult to sleep at my new place like this, do not take the train tonight deh, it felt really tired. Take the train that morning or afternoon! Then the next time I have to choose whether to use a bus or train from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore, I would choose to use the bus alone, only 4.5 hours long journey and at the immigration office if you use the bus only takes about 15 minutes only and not for hours as if we use the train. Well you count for yourself, if you take the bus, how many passengers does the most that should go down and taken care of at the immigration office, at most only 50 people, try to compare with the number of passenger trains as many as 15 cars? Check my article about the bus ride from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore here.

Train ride from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore

This train ticket you can buy / messages via the Internet at his website here KTMB. Once you open the website you are looking for regions origins KTMB you 'Sentral Kuala Lumpur'. At that time the price that I bought a VIP ticket is RM 250 for 2 people. The details are under the bed bed RM 135 and above RM 115. There are some class / type of ticket for train carriages, some wearing bed (berth) or just a place to sit (seat) alone, you just choose according to your own budget. On the website there is also KTMB sample photos for each class room tickets.


If you do not want nginep semaleman on the train you can also use the Railway Express Sinaran morning, departing from Kuala Lumpur at 8.30 am and until 16:05 pm in Singapore. Or People's Express Train, departing at 14:00 from Kuala Lumpur and until 21.30 in Singapore.

Here are details about the trip by using the Night Train Express Senandung:

21:20 -------> Login / boarding train
21:35 -------> Trains depart
22:00 -------> Dinner
5:10 --------> Dibangunin officers and given little food and preparation for the examination of passports at the immigration office in Johor Malaysia New
5:15 --------> Up in Malaysia's immigration office in Johor Baru, do not go down because the immigration officer will come to each wagon train
6:40 --------> Departure to the immigration office in Woodlands Singapore
6:45 --------> Up at the immigration office in Singapore at Woodlands station, go down and take your goods to check the immigration office in Singapore.
7:40 --------> Departure for Railway Station Tanjung Pagar in Singapore
8:25 --------> Up in Tanjung Pagar Railway Station in