Day two of Pavin and Paveena’s wedding in Seremban was at the Allson Klana Resort in Seremban.
Wedding dinner at the Allson Klana Resort Seremban
Hindu Wedding at the Sri Balathandayuthapani Temple in Seremban
Thought I would share some photos from Pavin and Paveena’s Hindu wedding at the Sri Balathandayuthapani temple in Seremban.
Pulau Redang Scuba Diving Trip
Arrived on a sunny day at the Coral Resort on Redang
The swimming pool at the Coral Resort in Pulau Redang
Beach front at the Coral Resort
Stormy day at the end of the season on Redang
I went to Pulau Redang for a Scuba diving trip last weekend. These photos are taken with the iPhone so saturation, sharpness and quality are a bit “Applely”. Needed to go for the trip to finally get my Scuba licence. I nearly completed it 12-13 years ago but due to other commitments I had to drop it. A bit of a shame as I had completed 5 open water dives around Tulai and Malang already with a group that trains in the CMAS qualification. I wish I had pursued it as most people don’t know what it is and it’s certainly more exclusive and less commercially oriented than PADI. But both work.
Well that aside, I needed to be retrained and complete my dives again and PADI was the quickest and easiest to do. Due to the impending monsoon closing in it had to be done by last weekend because it’s the end of the season and the resorts and dive centres were all closing down. Diving season is now closed until March next year I believe.
Water was not super clear but it did clear up to about 10m. Completed 5 dives on the increasingly choppy sea (2 other divers got sea sick) and managed to see some reef sharks, puffer fish, stingrays and moray eels amongst other things. The morays were LARGE. One of the sharks was as well. Black tipped reef sharks grow to a length of about 1.6m and one of them was likely very close to this size.
The day I arrived it was splendid weather but once the weather closed in…well you can see from the last photo above.
Getting there: FLY. I was told I should take the bus. Did that on the way up and the 15 hour trip was murderous. I “burned” the return and took a flight back with Berjaya to Subang. To me it’s a no brainer.
Where to Stay: The Coral resort is nice. IÂ don’t like slumming it. So it was an easy choice. 3x meals a day are included and the drinks at the bar are reasonably priced.
OK that’s it…I gotta go back to editing.
Wilfred and Chintia’s Wedding in Pekanbaru, Sumatra.
Just back yesterday from covering a church wedding in Pekanbaru, Sumatra, Indonesia. Saw lots of friends from City Harvest Church in Subang Jaya as most of the friends in attendance know the bride and groom from their student days studying in Sunway/Taylors colleges. Pastor Kevin from City Harvest Subang was in attendance and made mention that it was the biggest reunion of the Indonesian contingent from City Harvest. All the old leaders and many familiar faces from many years ago when we covered Pastor Kevin’s own wedding.
Super Fun Chinese Tea Ceremony with a difference
This is going to be a fun post. Last Sunday’s wedding in Kajang. Chinese tea ceremonies run the whole gamut of emotions. Sometimes they are just outrageously fun! This was certainly one of them. I strongly believe weddings should be F-U-N. In this case the traditional Chinese Tea ceremony was an opportunity for some early morning hijinks in the form of Wine, Brandy, Coffee mix and some outrageously large beer jugs! Well, I will let the photos speak for themselves. Fantastic.
Product placement. Still waiting on the sponsorship money.
Drinks are served
The bar keeper
A brandy connoisseur
Cognac does a fine job as a stand in for tea.
Time for some red wine
Red wine adds that special something
Very nicely lit. 3x flashes bounced
I kept thinking it was a bit like Christian communion
More wine!
There can be too much of a good thing. In this case beer jugs filled with TEA!
Getting romantic
Coffee sir? Some tea will wash that right away!