We in the Mirror

This photo was taken when our family having a Christmas lunch at one of the restaurant at Sunway Pyramid Shopping Mall. This is nice!

Christmas Celebrations @ One City USJ 24 Dec 2014

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This year, Daddy had bought a lighted snow man, instead of a Christmas tree to place at our house. We put it in front of the our entrance door. We pulled an extension cables to light the snow man. It looks cute!

This couple of weeks we did visit One City quite often, as it is near Christmas, thus the Christmas decorations are filled within the shopping mall. There is a high and giant Christmas tree at the centre of the Atrium. It looks grand!

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Subang Jaya Branch Christmas Party 20 Dec 2014

This year is our special Christmas Party, as we celebrated with our Subang Jaya church members.

Well, it was just a simple pot luck party with the church members, and of coarse we were asked to invite our family and friends to join our branch Christmas Party as part of our missionary works.

Our branch presidency never forget about the missionary works for members.

It was a warm party as not what I had expected. May be if in Sidang Injil Borneo Kuala Lumpur (SIBKL), it would be celebrate in huge and grand, such as musical performances, stage performances, plays, etc. They would have grand celebration.

At Subang Jaya branch, all the programmes are organised by the youth group. There was an opening hymn follow by the opening prayer. Then there was a short play presented by the youth, followed by a short presentation by the primary children, after that there are some games which all of the church members can participate. And, our pot luck dinner too, a lot of food we prepared.

Our youth were so thoughtful that, they prepared some gadgets for “Christmas Party Photo Booth” for us to snap photos. Finally, the most important part – Santa Clause is coming to town! Our branch Missionary Couples Elder Bagley became our Santa Clause for the gift exchanging and sharing moments ^^. Every each of us were asked to prepare a small gift of around RM5.00, then we will exchange within by drawing the numbers by Santa Clause.

Our family have a warmth and home coming Christmas Party evening. Even it is just a small party, but we were surrounded by kind, humble and hard working ever Saints in following Christ!

All this while, I was wondering how would our Christmas be? Will it be different? How different it is?

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Eventually, days before actual Christmas, the messages and videos from our church website let me realise something, I know my knowledge before this was silly, but at least this is my realization:

Christmas is not a celebration of gifts giving.

Christmas is all about Heavenly Father’s love to us.

Jesus Christ was the First Gift from Heavenly Father to us.

For Heavenly Father so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Meeting with Sisters Missionary 14 Dec 2014

Sister Callor and Sister Asanuma with our family. Photo taken in the PJ Chapel.

It’s Christmas Caroling! 14 Dec 2014

Our family joined the Christmas Carolling for the church to the houses of the members of the church. This is our first time joined the church Christmas carolling.

These are some of the photos while we were carolling at Sister Margaret’s house. Just look at our funny missionaries Elders!

Sasaran International Arts Festival 2014

On our way back to home, we passed by this small village called Sasaran. Few years ago, we did notice this small village too, as we were on our way to Kuala Selangor.

With a few objects which are considered ‘recyclable items’ such as old tyres, empty oil tanker, and rot timbers with an artistic touch, thus changed it to a beautiful sculpture. The art sculpture just impressed us so much!

Sasaran International Arts Festival - It is all started by a group of local residents who even not fully understand what is “art” leaded by artist Ng Bee decided to contribute something to their home town.

Their dream is to change their beloved small town - Sasaran from a small fishing village to an art and cultural centre.

The first time ever 14 days “2008 Sasaran International Workshop” was successfully organized and received appraisable responses, not only from the participated artists, but also from the public. It caused a ripple in the art community. Taiwan held the similar program in 2009; Philippine also organized theirs in 2010, followed by Vietnam in 2012 and Thailand in 2013.

After 2008 Sasaran International Workshop, Sasaran Arts Association (SAA) continued the flame of art by organizing activities such as art painting competitions, participated in various art exhibitions, art workshop in Malaysia and other parts of the world.

SAA held another big event with a larger scale on 8th Dec 2011 to 20th Dec 2011. More than 50 artists from 14 countries met at 2011 Sasaran International Art Festival. Artists from 14 countries shared their respective culture and ideas with the public in Sasaran and the fevers of art caught on throughout the local art community. About 8000 visitors from far and near visited this art festival.

Again, 2014 with the theme ‘ART in the Air’ and was from 27 Nov 2014 till 8 Dec 2014, with various of the programme organised by the SAA, such as Wall Art, Sculpture Park, Ceramic Pottery, even education programme for the younger children such as Art Competition, Environmental Fashion Show, Children’s Art Camp and such. The whole village of Sasaran came down and contributed to this event.

Obviously, we missed the actual festival. But, we did visit the school on viewing the participated artists works. And, can see some of the sculpture displayed at the open area, and the 3D art too.

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Sekin Fisherman Village Hotel & Resort 12-13 Dec 2014

As this is not the first time we come to Sekinchan, but it is truly our first time staying over night here at this small town.

We came a crossed this hotel during our earlier trip here, as it is located just on the way to the Pantai Redang and in the Bagan Fisherman Village.

Sekin Fisherman Village Hotel & Resort considered is one of the largest accommodation establishments in Sekinchan. Behind of the hotel is the beach Pantai Redang, whereby in front of the entrance is facing the Bagan Sekinchan Fishing village.

The hotel is nicely built up with the theme of white colour, and the rate is decent starting at RM113+ and above, comparing to other hotels that are either home stays or converted from commercial shop lots with rates from RM50 and above.

The reception lobby is quite simple, and it is connected to the function hall and meeting room.

We walked through a corridor of shaded green behind the lobby to go to our room.

All the rooms are quite spaciously and all in a single storey building, with a set of outdoor small round dining sets at the patio area. I did not snap much photos on our room.

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We took the room with one queen and one single bed because the smaller rooms were fully booked due to the weekend holiday.

Our room is spacious, and it comes together with Astro, compliment coffee/tea, mineral bottles, kettle and a mini fridge. The bathroom too is spacious too with the water heater. It costs us about RM180 per night.

In the hotel compound area, there is a big fish pond which can be let the visitors fish feeding, and the fish food can be bought from the canteen at about RM3 per packet.

Both Issac and Annabelle were so excited during the fish feeding time, there are enormous fish swim up to the surface of the water and fight for the food.

There is a ikan bakar restaurant in the hotel, thus the source of the ikan bakar must be come from this pond.

Another interesting here is the viewing tower. We had to walk up about 5 to 6 storey high of timber staircase to reach to the top.

It give us the fantastic view from high – the surrounding Bagan Fisherman Village and the hotel compound at one end, whereby another end we can see the coast line of the Pantai Redang.

It was so amazing to see the thin fine line between the sky and sea at the horizon line, while enjoying the sea breeze at the top of the viewing tower.

We had a comfortable stay at the hotel although the landscape and maintenance of this hotel compound can be improved.

This can be a more exciting hotel by looking at the compound area and the potential it have here in the near future if the management of the hotel will put an extra effort in it.