The Kuala Lumpur Traveler

Pak Lah has declared Thaipusam as a public holiday for Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya. Malaysiakini reported 15,000 Malaysian Indians had attended the gathering at the Cheras Badminton Stadium earlier today, as a show of support to Barisan Nasional and MIC.
Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who was greeted by a thunderous standing ovation when he appeared, announced in his speech later that a public holiday will be declared for the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya for the Thaipusam festival.
Source Malaysiakini
For records, the Indian community had been requesting for Thaipusam to be a public holiday for a long time since …read more

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I should have been there but I could not due to office matters, but my heart was in Putrajaya the whole morning. As soon as the clock hits 12.30 noon, I quickly drove to Putrajaya, praying that the march was still not over maybe due to FRUs and the police stopping them from proceeding. But Allah did not answer my prayer this time. So I reached Putrajaya about 35 minutes later staring at the empty facade of Palace of (In…??)Justice in Putrajaya where it was still raining when I arrived.
I just drove back to my office disappointed and immediately …read more

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Ahmad Fairuz says: No comment
Nazri Aziz says:
“I am his minister. I am the minister in charge of legal affairs. He is clever enough to know that the reporters will ask me for a response,” Nazri explained when contacted today to explain his intervention in the matter.
Nazri also branded the Bar Council’s plan to hold a march on Wednesday to press for investigation into the scandal as an attempt to display ‘hostility’ and as support of the opposition.
Source: Malaysiakini
I say bullshit.

The lawyers plan to march from the Palace of Justice to the Prime Minister’s Department in Putrajaya to submit a memorandum …read more

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If you are planning to come to Kuala Lumpur anytime soon and looking for some new place to stay, why not try Putrajaya Shangri-La. This stylish boutique hotel is elegantly located on a hilltop very close by to other happening places in Putrajaya such as Alamanda Shopping Center, Putra Mosque by the lake and of course the Prime Minister’s Office just to mention a few.
If you are coming from KLIA, the hotel is just about 25 minutes away by road. Are you planning to have meetings in the heart of Kuala Lumpur? Not so much problem as all it …read more

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What are you doing this Saturday? If you do not have any plan yet, why not bring your family to Putrajaya and get you and your family members surrounded with flowers.
In conjunction with Visit Malaysia Year 2007, the Malaysia Floral Fest is back with the biggest and most colourful display of flora in Malaysia. The theme for this year’s Flora Fest is Colours Of Harmony, as Malaysia’s colourful blooms represent the beautiful racial harmony found in Malaysia. For a whole week in January, several Putrajaya and Kuala Lumpur venues will be transformed with bright, colourful and fragrant blooms.
Inspired …read more

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I went shopping with my wife and kids at Alamanda today. The children are starting school next week so there are a lot of shopping to be done. Alamanda is one of the nearest shopping centre around where I live in Seri Kembangan. The ultra modern shopping center is located in the Malaysia’s new administrative capital of Putrajaya, about 15-20 minutes away from Cyberjaya, where I work.
We did all our shopping today at Carrefour, one of the hypermarkets operating in Malaysia. Everything, well almost everything, is available there at reasonable prices.
Buying everything that is required for the children for the …read more

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