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Saturday, August 7, 2010

Koh Samui, Thailand daily weather update; 8th August, 2010

Today's weather;

Samui is cloudy and it looks like it's going to stay that way for the whole day. Just before 7am I saw some thin layers which allowed the sun to shine through but I think we may have to wait two more days to see some more sunshine. Current temp at 7am is 26.2C

Yesterday saw cloud cover mixed with some sunshine until around 5pm when rain and very strong winds started to play around, culminating in another storm. Max temp reached 30.9C

Camille

Friday, August 6, 2010

Koh Samui, Thailand daily weather update; 7th August, 2010

Today's weather;

It's cloudy with a fairly strong and it rained during the night and Samui's air feels wet right now. Current temp at 7am is 26.5C

For the 5 to 6 days strong winds with heavy wave action is predicted on Windguru and occasionally rain as well. Not a great prospect for next week.

Yesterday saw another sunny day however with a max temp of 33.7C

Camille

Johor Bahru Art Festival@Bangunan Sultan Ibrahim, June 2010 (Part 2)

After the Cultural Dance of Johor Bahru Art Festival 2010, the show continue with the Diabolo (Chinese Yo-yo) Performance. Diabolo formerly also known as "The Devil on 2 sticks". You can read more of the Diabolo here.

The show started with the girls group

Twist and turn!

Follow by boy & girl

The intsructor - Lau

Out of sudden, all of them ran out from the stage and continue to performed outside the stage! Oh! They need a bigger space to have a group performance! During that time, we saw all the Diabolo fill up the sky! It were everywhere crossing on top of your head! Haha!

The performance last about an hour and the stage continue with some Cultural Dance again until almost midnight!

The Lion Dance Performance of that night was Canceled without notice!

Related post :
* Johor Bahru Art Festival@Bangunan Sultan Ibrahim, June 2010 (Part 1)

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Koh Samui, Thailand daily weather update; 6th August, 2010

Today's weather;

A light cloud cover hovers over Samui this morning most likely soon to be pulverized by the sun.

Current temp at 7am is 27.7C

Yesterday saw a sunny and dry day. Max temp reached 33.8C

Camille

Johor Bahru Art Festival@Bangunan Sultan Ibrahim, June 2010 (Part 1)

The Johor Bahru (JB) 7th Art Festival was held at the space behind Bangunan Sultan Ibrahim, Bukit Timbalan - Johor Bahru. It was started on 29th June till 24th July 2010. Different programs everyday, and we visited the place on 12th July 2010 night was because of the Diabolo performance and Lion Dance.

The stage was nicely arranged, and it was also a farewell dinner for one of the VIP in Johor Bahru that night. Below are the photos of the night...

The farewell dinner and the stage of Art Cultural Show

Lighting for the stage performance

The peoples there were friendly enough to invite us for the dinner together, but we refused because we wanted to take photograph of the show...:)

After the opening speech of the MC, the First show of the night was the Ang Klung performance by Mr Max. It was a special musical instrument made from bamboo.

Max was ready for the show

Concentration on his instrument

Mr Max - The Ang Klung Performer

He played many numbers of today pop song that night, and it was really Nice!

Follow by the Culture Dance...

Cultural Dance of JB Art Festival

The above photos were from The Malaysia Multi Racial Cultural Dance Performances of Johor Bahru Art Festival 2010.
The Official Website of JB Art Festival 2010 is here.

The Diabolo Performance will be continue in Part 2...

I would like to blog about this event in 2 parts because of too many photos...:)

Related post :-
* Johor Bahru Art Festival@Bangunan Sultan Ibrahim, June 2010 (Part 2) - Diabolo Performance

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Koh Samui, Thailand daily weather update; 5th August, 2010

Today's weather;

It's cloudy this morning over Samui with a good chance for sun I would think. Current temp at 7am is 26.5C

Yesterday saw once more a sunny and dry day on top of that. Max temp reached 33.5C

Camille

Bangunan Sultan Ibrahim (Building) at Johor Bahru

Bagunan Sultan Ibrahim (N1 27.471 E103 45.666) is located on Bukit Timbalan (Hill) at Johor Bahru Town. It houses the State Secretariat and the offices of the state government for 67 years until Johor state government announced that they will relocate to Kota Iskandar - Nusajaya, Johor State New Administrative Center in 2010.

Bangunan Sultan Ibrahim of Johor Bahru

The History :-

"The foundation works for Bangunan Sultan Ibrahim began with the officiated ground breaking ceremony by Tengku Mahkota Sultan Ismail on Monday, 7th November 1938.The Royal Highness later laid the foundation stone on 10th March 1940. The building was complete in 1942 at a cost of $2 million. A banquet was held at the Royal Palace on Tuesday, 3rd November 1942 to mark the official opening of the state government office.

The building was designed by the architectural firm of Palmer & Turner, which was also responsible for designing Hospital Sultan Aminah. The building is a combination of the cosmopolitan architecture of Renaissance style with an overlay of Anglo-Malay influence. The building was constructed by local craftsmen under the supervision of an European architect.

On Monday, 9th August 1982, the building was officially named as Bangunan Sultan Ibrahim by Al-Marhum Sultan Iskandar Ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Ismail, Sultan of Johor at that time.

It was the tallest building in Malaya during the pre-Merdeka era. In Johor Bahru itself, it stood unchallenged as the tallest building in town until the completion of the Merlin Tower in 1970's. Bangunan Sultan Ibrahim was the symbol of Johor's progress at that time and still remains as the landmark of Johor Bahru." Source from here.

We visited the building because of the Johor Bahru (JB) Art Festival 2010 which located behind the building. (I will blog about it later...) Before the shows start, I took the chance to snapped some night photos of the Colonial building of Johor Bahru.