Sekinchan & Fisherman Village

We will always have mini local trips, during Glyn's annual visits to KL from UK. So, last year he came end of April and we thought one of the best place to bring him around was Sekinchan & Fisherman Village.

I, myself have not been to Sekinchan too, but I did long to visit this place. Never I seen so much greenery paddy fields in my life. It was such a different scenic and to getaway from the city for just a day. If you want to see green and gold colours of paddy end of April is one of the best times. Fully golden bloom will be in May.

Well, don't want to blabber so much and just want to spam pictures. I tried my best ;)

Does it look like it comes from a movie?

The sky was so clear with all white fluffy clouds shining at the greens below. Nice? I love this picture a lot!

Erm.. Glyn said this is some insect's egg and it's pink.

A snail lurking underwater

***Picture credits to LiJing

The road less taken

Window's wallpaper?

Paddy flower

We also visited the paddy/rice factory. The weather was so hot, so we ate ice-creams!

 

 This is not your normal drive way, guess what is it? 

It's a freaking huge weighting machine! It's to weight the rice that's transporting out of the factory.

After taking in this green scenery, we were a bit hungry so we headed to the fisherman village. Explore a bit and have lunch.

Grass on the roadside

If my memory serves me right, I think there's either a fish or a crab here. Or is just me trying to take artsy picture of rubbish and sticks.

Fishing nets and very thick ropes

Backbone of a boat

I want to share some of LiJing's picture. Does my picture comes any close to his?

It looks so much lively than mine.
***Picture credits to LiJing

Taking the road less taken

***Picture credits to LiJing

Looks more like a hair commercial than focusing on the green paddy field? *wink wink*

***Picture credits to LiJing

Group pic! Everyone was just goofing around

***Picture credits to LiJing

Lunch time! I don't remember the name of this restaurant but it's located opposite the row of shop lots in the fisherman village. It's the second lane of the fisherman village. This fried squid is soooo good.

Bitter gourd with salted egg 

Kungpo chicken, I think

Super love this fried mantis shrimp

I really enjoyed this mini trip a lot, great scenery, great companies and good food. What else can you ask for a getaway day trip?

5th Hot Air Balloon Festival at Putrajaya

Alright! Hello April! I'm greeting you with this updated Hot Air Balloon Festival that I went over the weekend! It has been held every year and this year I decided to check it out with the BFF.

It's quite a good experience becox I never see an actual hot air balloon up close or ride on one. Though I did not take any rides this time either. If you have missed out this year's one, check it out next year!

It was a 3 day event but I picked Saturday to visit the place. The plan is get there in the evening, snap the hot air balloons flying, wait for the night glow and fireworks. Cool right?! Here's how the actual day went with lots of pictures.

RAIN!!! Before I even step foot out of my door during the evening. I figure the rain will be a short one so didn't care and just went out anyway. Picked up the BFF and head to Putrajaya. Lucky the rain had stopped already. Meet snailyin there as well to have some photography session.

First hot air balloon we saw is a pink one! I have already forgotten about the rain LOL! It was about time the balloonist set up the balloons for the night glow.

There were a lot of people showing up for this event. Check out this green one here... the blue one is Disney's latest movie - Oz The Great and Powerful. I couldn't get the balloon to turn and snap the design on it. #Failed You can also see the famous Putrajaya bridge from a far.

Btw, there will be quite a number of fail attempts for pretty picture during this photography session. Please bare with me showing you amateurs noob pictures.

#FailedAttempt1 for night mode

OK attempt?

There are a lot of other side activities beside seeing hot air balloons during the event. So, guess what's she's doing?

Clueless? Can't guess? She's making huge bubbles!!! So fun!

Spot the bubble everyone is looking at. More #FailedAttempt2

One of the main balloons we want to check out is the Smurf one! The ballonist are getting ready for the night glow now. You can check out each balloon and the ballonist profile *here*.

#FailedAttempt3

Basically night glow is each balloon will light up following the music beats. Quite cool! It's like they slowly dancing and bumping each other.

So we were enjoying the show while waiting for the fireworks. Snailyin who came last year knew that the fireworks will be setting right behind these balloons. We found a nice spot, set up the tripod and camera and waited.

The emcee suddenly yell/scream, the next thing I knew was the fireworks had came. 

Well... it came alright, juussst right on top of the balloons!!! 

There you go.... can you see anything? I quickly ran to a more visible directions only to get more #FailedAttempt4, 5, 6!

There were people blocking, I wasn't tall enough, not enough space to set the tripod properly, most of all... lamppost and signs blocking me!!!!!

See.... more signs and lamppost

AND... bigger signs!!!!

Most of all, the fireworks wasn't that much and it only happened a short while. That' the end of the wait D= 

Oh well, maybe next year then. We decided to stay for awhile more to try our luck with more picture shooting.

#FailedAttempt7

The hot air balloon rides were still carry on becox the queue was too long and the last of the line was only able to get their rides after the show. Crazy right?

Checking out the balloon very up close! The heat was a bit crazy for me. Up, up and there they fly... just for a few stories high and back down they come.

This is the view when you are on the Putrajaya bridge

#FailedAttempt8

The bridge changes colour now and then. Pretty? I don't think I fail for these pictures right? The picture below is when you stand right beneath the bridge.

#FailedAttempt9 apparently, there are boat ride in Putrajaya

 

See anything funny in this picture? But it's also consider a #FailedAttempt10 though it's was an interesting accidental shoots.

A little girl was blowing bubbles beside me an there were some slight wind. I just snap along. I had fun snapping it although I'm very noob at it, you'll see why.

#FailedAttempt11

#FailedAttempt12

End of the visit, ciao balloon festival and Putrajaya. Nitez peeps!