Floral Fest 2007, Penang

上个星期日是槟城一年一度的花卉節。平时宁静的植物园突然变得好热闹。

I went to Penang Annual Floral Festival at Botanical Garden last Sunday. Well.......the festival starts from 27th May to 3rd June. So, here it is with a big sign board in front of Botanical Garden entrance.



这里有漂亮花儿的展览，也有好多花儿出售档口。这段期间，这里变成了植物种植家的购物天堂。 除了欣赏和购买花儿，主办当局也有呈现教育走廊和讲座会。

There are beautiful flowers exhibition, competitions and some education programs. Besides that, There is a gardening fair selling all kinds of flowers, fertilizer and gardening tools.



全国各地的花卉爱好家都带着他们心爱的花儿来参加比赛和交流心得。

Here are the pretty flowers competiting among themselves.



花中之后能骄傲地戴上奖牌。

The winners will have a medal hanging on them. :p (jz like human)



除了有漂亮花儿比赛和展览，也有插花艺术展览。这些应该是日本插花艺术吧！日本插花艺术比较喜欢利用天然的材料（有缺陷的叶子，树枝，花朵等等。）我怎么知道？因为我妈妈有学日本插花。 嘻嘻！西方式的插花艺术可以在高级餐厅或酒店看到。:)

They have a floral arrangement exhibition too. In the eye of an artist, something beautiful may not look beautiful for normal human. hahaha. As far as I know, These type of floral arrangement is Japanese style, bcos my mother got take up this king of floral arrangement classes. Then, what is western style? ermmmm.........u can find western style in most of the hotels (4 stars and above)



花儿花儿好美丽。。。。。。。我很想买一架专业相机，但是现在资金有限。看着那些专业人士拍照，真羡慕他们。

Now, showing off my photography skills. Don't compare with those professionals, I don't have a SLR camera. :( When looking at those SLR camera guys..........I'm so jealous :p

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《旅游玩家》是双月刊，一期是RM8。比起 National Geopraghic Traveler, 当然是便宜好多啦！ My first post in this new blog, especially for travel posts. The first is to introduce Malaysia Backpackers Club. I found this club from a local chinese traveler magazine 'Travelmate Magazine'. The website is in chinese...sorry for those 'chinese blind' friends. Usually foreign traveler magazines will always introduce places that I can hardly step my foot on that piece of land.(because too far, too expensive :p). I like this magazine bcos it introduces local interesting places that we (Malaysian) usually will ignore. Bcos not interesting? boring? too cheap? too far? too near??????