About Malaysia: August 2015

At last! I am writing the last entry which is the conclusion. Thanks to Allah that really give me a strength and perseverance to woke up and complete this assignment. In good conscience, I feel thankful after I am finishing this most recent entry. If you guys want to know honesty, honestly this topic has completely exposed me myself more to love my lovely Malaysia. Basically, during my time struggle to find all the sources in order to gain more knowledge about Malaysia. I found a lot interesting things inside Malaysia such as their culture and ethnic, place visit, history and much more. I myself can improve my knowledge about the diversity of culture and traditions inside Malaysia.

I hope the objectives that I have stated earlier in my introduction entry will be completely reached with the existence of this blog. Therefore, I really put a hope that this blog will positively help all the reader to made they understand clearly about the unique of Malaysia. I also hope that my lecture (Madam Hawinda binti Karmon) will be happy with my progress since I have completed this blog. As a result, thank you so much for reading this blog! Happy blogging!

Indian Culture

Indian

Beauty of Indian Culture

Malaysian Indians or Indian Malaysians are Malaysian citizens of Indian origin. A lot of are offspring from those who transferred from India for the duration of the British establishment of Malaya. In contemporary Malaysia, the word “Indian” is mistakenly labelled as a "race" in Malaysia, thanks a lot and appreciate to the British colonial legacy, who did frequently took many ethnic groups of the Indian subcontinent hooked on one classification, supervising the quantity ethnic multiplicity that happens inside the South Asian residents.

Malaysia is a home to unique of the biggest residents of Overseas Indians, Yet establishing around 8% of the Malaysian residents. Malaysia's Indian residents is prominent for its system or formation of layer, classes or categories. Within the big leading and minor income groups and varied racial variances even within folding. The Malaysian Indians also make up an unreasonably great ratio of the Malaysian expert employees per capita and out of a hundred of Malaysian specialists

Chinese Culture

Chinese

One of Malaysian Chinese Traditions

Malaysian Chinese or Chinese are part of Malaysian residents of Han Chinese heritage. Peak are the offspring of Han Chinese who reached in the middle of the early and the mid-20th century. Malaysian Chinese establish one group of Overseas Chinese and not to forget it is also one of the biggest Overseas Chinese communities in the world. Inside Malaysia, they are typically just referred to as "Chinese" and be the next major ethnic group in Malaysia after the ethnic Malay popular. Malaysian Chinese are dominant in both the business and trade sectors in Malaysia.

Malaysian Chinese remain a socially and economically deep-rooted conventional ethnic group and make up a highly top-heavy percentage of Malaysia's upper middle class, with a record of high educational accomplishment, and one of the uppermost household incomes between minority citizen groups in Malaysia.

Malay Culture

Malay

Malays during the course of their past

The ethnic who explanation for over half the Malaysian population and mostly production a governing role of politically and are included in a grouping identified as “bumiputra”. Their natural language, Bahasa Malaysia, is the nationwide language of the country. By meaning of the Malaysian components, all Malays are Muslims. In Sarawak, mostly of the non-Muslim native ethics are classified as Dayaks. In Sarawak, Dayaks constitute about 40 percent of the population. During the course of their past, the Malays have been acknowledged from the coastal-trading civic with fluid ethnic appearances.

They fascinated frequent cultural topographies of other local ethnic groups, such as those of Minang, Acehnese, and to some degree Javanese culture. Yet, Malay art, music, and literature varies by being more obviously Islamic than the variety of religious Javanese nation. The Orang Asli, the earliest inhabitants of Malaya, formed only 0.5 percent of the total population in Malaysia in 2000, but represented a majority in East Malaysia Many tribes have converted to Christianity.

Culture of Malaysia

Malaysia draws on the varied cultures

The philosophy of Malaysia attractions on the diverse cultures of the different persons of Malaysia. The leading people to live in the area were original communities that still remain nowadays, they were charted by the Malays, which moved there from central of Asia in early years. Indian and Chinese cultural which influences complete their mark when line of work began with China and India kingdoms and completely the result increased with arrival to Malaysia. Additional philosophies which seriously influenced Malaysia include Arabic and British. There are also many type and different ethnicity that presently happen in Malaysia consume their own unique and idiosyncratic characteristic traditional selves, with some limit or boundaries. Foreigners over and over again wrongly talk about to things Malaysian as basically "Malay," imitating only one of the cultural groups in the social order. Actually the word “Malaysians” is refer to their national culture as Malaysia’s tradition in the national language

Destinations 2

Pulau Redang

Crystal clear waters of Redang Island

This beautiful island is located 45km off the coast of Kuala Terengganu, is the major of a group of nine secure islands spotting the South China Sea off the Terengganu coast. The island compromises crystal clear waters and plentiful dive sites for fanatics. Protected within the Pulau Redang Marine Park, the waters here are fully gorgeous in marine life. At noontime when sun rays spear the sea, bright kinds of coral, anemones and marine life can be seen clearly.

The seawaters about this island also enclose two historical shipwrecks: The H.M.S. Prince of Wales and H.M.S. Repulse, which sank here at the beginning of World War II, location the period for the Japanese living of Malaya. This delightful island is perfect for snorkeling, swimming, scuba- diving and many more exciting activities.

Tioman Island

View of Tioman Island

Highly praised as one of the finest island getaways in the world, Tioman Island was the location of the Hollywood musical set, 'South Pacific' in 1959. The coast of Pahang lies Tioman Island, an appealing trip paradise in the Southern China Sea. Conferring to myth, this island is the absolute resting residence of a legendary dragon princess. The heartfelt waters and good prominence make Tioman a paradise for tourist.

This island is a restful promotion for relaxed days below the sun. Swiming in its bright green seawaters, delight in a promenade by the beach or be comforted to sleep by the complete music of the waves is really can brings excitement.

Genting Highlands

Part of Outdoor Games

This City of Entertainment promised visitor unlimited fun, on edge the top of cool, windswept Genting Highlands. One big attraction in Genting is the equable of cool weather. Because of the 2,000m altitude, Malaysians likely love to visit just to delight in the 'European' meteorological conditions.

As city of Entertainment, visitor can find other attractions like Genting Sky Venture, the only free-fall skydiving simulator in Asia, and Genting X-perdition Wall, an international-standard rock-climbing wall extending to 15 meters in altitude. There is also indoor excitement sport such as bowling, a video arcade and many more fun rides.

Destinations

Kuala Lumpur

Skyline of the Kuala Lumpur City

You'll most likely go to Kuala Lumpur but unlike other big Asian cities where tourists reach and head out of town as soon as promising, Kuala Lumpur is a worthy starting point of its own.The fusion of Malay, Chinese, and Indian inspiration means that you'll have no lack of gastronomic exploits in Malaysia's capital city. Fascinating and interesting highlights such as the Petronas Towers, the Perdana Lake Gardens, Sunway City and Menara KL Tower provide plenty of enjoyable distractions before you head out to explore Malaysia.

As the center of Malaysia, is called KL by citizens. Its contemporary skyline is conquered by the 451m-tall Petronas Twin Towers. The towers also deal a public sky bridge and state floor. KLis also home-based to British colonial-era innovations such as the Sultan Abdul Samad Building and the Kuala Lumpur Railway Station.

Malaysian Borneo

Part of Borneo Island

The choice to exchange muddy real for green rainforests and rich of wildlife is only a low-priced, rapid flight away! Tourists come and visit Malaysia frequently stick to the mainland and disremember almost the natural miracles and phenomena on earths third-largest island only a short journey away.

From in danger of extinction orangutans to tropical rain forest covering walks and some of the top diving in the world, Malaysian Borneo should absolutely be a share of any tour to Malaysia.

Langkawi

Part of Enjoyment in Langkawi

Located at the northwest corner of Malaysia, Pulau Langkawi (Kedah) is the top island starting point in Malaysia for both foreign tourists and Malaysians. With both ferries and airport linking it to the central, as well as a huge number of tourist arrangement, Langkawi could be known as Malaysia's style of Phuket, the full of an activity island in Thailand.

Langkawi has loads of tourist pulls such as natural landscapes such as the crowded-but-beautiful Pregnant Maiden Lake, a gorgeous creation that is maintained to help make ladies extra luxuriant and Malaysia's major indoor aquarium that is very exciting to visit.

Point of interest in Malaysia

Mount Kinabalu Sabah

Activity on the top of mount Kinabalu

Mount Kinabalu is a famous mountain on the island of Sabah in Southeast Asia. It is situated in the East Malaysian state of Sabah and is nearing extinction as Kinabalu Park, a World Legacy Site. Mount Kinabalu is also the 20th most famous mount in the world by topographic fame.

Mount Kinabalu contains the interesting Kinabalu montage alpine field’s Eco region in the montage grasslands and shrub lands biome. The mountain and its backdrops are among the most significant natural locations in the world, with between 5,000 and 6,000 types of floras, 326 types of birds, and more than 100 fauna classes recognized.

Legoland Malaysia

Legoland Enterance

Legoland Malaysia is a first Malaysia’s international theme park that has opened in Johor, Malaysia on 15 September 2012 with over 40 cooperating rides, shows and fascinations. It is the leading Legoland theme park in Asia and sixth in the domain upon its launch.

Legoland Malaysia arrangement start out with the Legoland main entering zone with the customarily central entrance Legoland sight. There be a big shop Legoland biggest supply selling Lego merchandises, toys. Fancy will be to the left of the Start in this of park will have Interactive Lego building and Lego games this consist of dimensions and test an interactive Lego building pull where visitors build be able to build anything such as cars, skyscrapers, houses and

Taman Negara

Tourist enjoys the view in Taman Negara

Taman Negara accurately define as 'national park', and well, Taman Negara is Malaysia's eldest national park and is reflected to be one of the world's oldest tropical rainforests. A long covering path provides tourists a chance to appreciate life from head to foot in the trees that usually isn't noticeable from the ground.

Visitors also can delight in waterfalls and lovely hiking, rafting, fishing, and have a chance to see wild elephants mostly. Tourists able to sleep from corner to corner the stream in Kuala Tahan and then take low-priced boats to the park entering.

Saturday, 29 August 2015

Historical Place

A Famosa Melaka

The gate of the A Famosa Portuguese fort in Malacca.

A Famosa "The Famous" in Portuguese is a fortress located in Malacca, Malaysia. It is among the eldest remaining European architectural leftovers in south East Asia. The Porte de Santiago, a small entrance house, is the only part of the fortress which still leftovers today.

In 1511, a Portuguese armada reached in the command of Afonso de Albuquerque. His forces take on and defeated the armies of the Malacca. Moving rapidly to unite his gains, Albuquerque had the fortress built from place to place a natural hill close the sea.

The Malacca Sultanate Palace Museum

The Malacca Sultanate Place Museum

The Malacca Sultanate Palace Museum is a museum located in Malacca City, Malacca, Malaysia. The building is a modern renovation of the palace of the Malacca Sultanate. It display case the history of the region. The museum structure was constructed in 1984 and developed to be a cultural museum. The museum was formally opened on 17 July 1986 by Prime Minister of Malaysia Dr. Mahathir Mohamad.

The Malacca Sultanate Palace is basically a replica of the construction which was made by the already destroyed sultanate of Malacca. In the present day, the palace is the home of the Cultural Museum which rejoices the Malay side of the Malacca's history. The museum showcases more than 1300 items of Malacca's historical.

George Town, Penang

skyline of the george town penang

Named after Britain's King George III, George Town is located on the north-east corner of Penang Island. George Town was founded on 11 August 1786 by Francis Light, a dealer for the British East India Company, as base for the company in the Malaya. The historic profitable center was segmented into the banking and trading zones related to port events which included shipping businesses, the import and export, and the traders who control the southern section of Beach Street until now.

Thursday, 27 August 2015

Malaysia’s tourism

Malaysia Truly Asia

Malaysia is ranked 9th in the world and 1st in Southeast Asia for tourist arrivals. In early 1999, Malaysia launched a global promotion campaign called "Malaysia, Truly Asia" which was mostly successful and took in over 7.4 million tourists.

Why travel to Malaysia? As one of Southeast Asia’s top travel destinations, Malaysia keeping an endless range of fascinations and happening activities that provide for the international shopper, cultural fanatic, historical buff and nature-lover.

Malaysia is a very exciting and pleasant nation to visit. At a distance from being a wealthy nation, it has people from diverse religions background and cultures co-existing as one on this attractive land. Though the biggest religion here is Islam you will also find Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Christians and people of other religions exist in Malaysia. As its hugely popular promotional determination boasts, Malaysia is certainly "truly Asia." A rich mixture of interesting peoples, historical places, modern prospects, wild environments and postcard-perfect beaches, Malaysia's variety of attractions offers something to just about every tourist.

Malaysia’s history

History of Malaysia

The First Prime Minister of Malaysia

Malaysia or also known as “Tanah Melayu” long ago is a Southeast Asian nation that located on strategic sea-lane that disclosures it to global trade and foreign culture. Hinduism and Buddhism from India conquered early regional history, reaching their greatest during the control of the Sumatra-based Srivijaya civilization. The adoption of Islam by the 15th century during that time saw the increase of an amount of sultanates, the greatest prominent of which was the Malacca. Islam has had a deep influence on the Malay people, but not to forget Islam has also been influenced by them.

The Portuguese were the first European colonial rules to begin themselves on the Southeast Asia, seizing Malacca in 1511, followed by the Dutch in 1641. But, it was the British who, after primarily founding bases at Jesse ton, Kuching, Penang and Singapore, eventually secured their domination across the territory that is now Malaysia.

During World War II, Japanese attack has ended British domination in Malaysia. A hard military response was required to end the revolution and take about the establishment of an independent, multi-racial Federation of Malaya on 31 August 1957. Against this setting, independence for the Federation within the Commonwealth was approved on 31 August 1957, with Tunku Abdul Rahman as the first prime minister of Malaysia.

Tuesday, 25 August 2015

Interesting Facts About Malaysia (POI)

World Tallest ‘Twin’ Buildings Located in Malaysia

Petronas Towers

The Petronas Towers are twin skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur. The Petronas Towers were the tallest buildings in the world from 1998 to 2004 and are still considered as the world’s tallest 'twin' buildings. These towers are one of the most admirable buildings in the world, Petronas Twin Towers sport unique and suave architecture. It cost US $1.2 billion to build Petronas Towers.

The towers were designed by Argentine - North American architect César Pelli. Pelli have chosen a distinctive postmodern style to generate a 21st-century icon for Malaysia. The construction of the framework started on 1 April 1994. The Towers was formally opened by the Prime Minister of Malaysia's Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad on 1 August 1999. The 88-floor towers are built largely of covered concrete, with a steel and glass facade planned to be similar to ideas found in Islamic art as reflection of Malaysia's Muslim religion.

Penang Second Bridge is The Longest Bridge in Southeast Asia.

Penang Second Bridge

The Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah Bridge or Penang Second Bridge is a dual roadway toll bridge in Penang, Malaysia. It is the second bridge to connection the island to the mainland after the first Penang Bridge. The total distance of the bridge is 24 km with distance over water at 16.9 km, making it the longest bridge in Malaysia and the longest in Southeast Asia.

The Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah Bridge is planned and designed basically based on the double "S" curvy outstanding idea to the geological reasons. Mainly the numerous "S" like curves along the 24 km give are an obligation under the Road Safety Audit. The idea was to help motorists to keep their full attention on the road while driving.

Sarawak Chamber is the largest known cave chamber in the world

Sarawak Chamber is formed in Melinau Limestone that located at Sarawak, a range compound of Upper Eocene to Lower Miocene age. Sarawak Chamber was formed by karstic solutional processes. Its excellent zone is thought to be the effect of the stability provided by the structure of the rocks in which it lies, dipping strata creating an anticline side close to a syncline axis. The external area of the Sarawak Chamber can be more precisely calculated and has been circulated at 162,700 square metres.

Sarawak Chamber

Sarawak Chamber is located on the northern side of the Melinau Paku Valley near three and a half hours walking from Park HQ. For visitor trip, it is promising to visit Sarawak Chamber as an experienced visitor caver but these trips are hard to organize and are disposed to to cancellation due to flooding in the entrance passageway.

Sarawak Chamber from inside 1

Sarawak Chamber from inside 2

Interesting Facts About Malaysia (EVENT)

The 1998 XVI Commonwealth Games Were Held In Malaysia

The 1998 Commonwealth Games were held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 11 to late September 1998. The 1998 Commonwealth Games be there the first held in an Asian motherland and the last Commonwealth Games of the 20th time. This was also the first period the games seized place in a nation with a head of national other than the Head of the Commonwealth. The 16th Commonwealth Games opening ceremony took place on 11 September 1998. The games were officially opened by the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad. 'Unity towards Progress' was the theme of the opening ceremony. 69 national teams were represented at the 1998 Commonwealth Games including Australia, England, Scotland, New Zealand and Wales. The main venue was the National Stadium, Bukit Jalil, National Sport Complex, Bukit Jalil and Bukit Kiara Sports Complex

1998 XVI Commonwealth

1998 XVI Commonwealth Ceremony

Sapok Biki won the gold medal in 1998 Commonwealth Games

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