Introduction
What did I do on Christmas day this year? Tidying up my blog layout. You could see a refreshing new look of Travel Feeder‘s header block! What about Boxing Day? I had a photo shooting session with my friends in KL Butterfly Park. The whole idea of the session was for my friends to try out their new lenses! One was shooting with Tamron SP60 F2 Macro lens while the other was trying his new Tamron 17-50mm f2.8 VC. What about me? 
I was only using my Nikkor 18-55mm kit lens with macro converter…
While I’m still in the midst of sorting, processing those photos taken in the park, here are 2 photos taken by me (above and below) on Boxing day with my Nikon D60. Both were shot without the macro converter. I decided to take it off because the focus distance is just too close to keep those butterflies in place.
Results from photos captured in the session were mixtures between bad to fair. Virtually no excellent results was captured on that day, one was because of insufficient lighting due to rainy day and the other was due to insufficient equipment… Photographing butterfly is nothing easy like baking a buttercake where temperature and ingredients of cake could be controlled so the results more predictable. Like the one below, 180 degreeC and 30 minutes set in the oven and my Chrismas butter cake was ready to eat! (This butter cake was my little Chrismas present to Jean on the eve) 
Macro photography is something I need to practice. Butterflies photography is something very tricky to master. So, which one you prefer, butterflies or buttercakes? - Travel Feeder.
p/s: I’m travelling off to Port Dickson today with my family to celebrate new year. If I missed the countdown tomorrow… Happy New Year 2010 !!
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If you are watching Astro and you are a travelling enthusiat, then you should have watched the Lonely Planet travel show on channel 707, The Discovery Travel and Living channel. Lonely Planet is an UK-based travel company that publishes tips and guides for travelers online, over TV or books.
Recently on the 2nd of November, Lonely Planet released its latest issue of Best In Travel 2010 guide and various top 10′s of different categories were published. Among them are the Top 10 Best Value Destination to Visit In Year 2010, Top 10 Countries To Visit in 2010, Top 10 Cities and Top 10 Regions of the world to visit in year 2010.
Off course, what most unexpected while inspiring is my beloved country, Malaysia, is in! Malaysia is selected by Lonely Planet as one of the Top 10 Best Value destination for travelers to visit in year 2010 ! Hurray! Lonely Planet, the publisher from UK, in its Best In Travel 2010 guide, said Malaysia “is a clever choice for travellers on the lookout for a bargain”.
I’m so excited and wish to introduce briefly my country, Malaysia, to whoever hasn’t or wish to come here. Malaysia is a multi racial nation with Malay, Chinese and Indian as 3 major ethnic groups among others, and they live very well together in a peaceful environment. Moreover, our current premier initiated “1 Malaysia” concept recently which will further harmonize our population.
Malaysia is a tropical country with rain forest covering majorities of our lands. It is separated into West and East Malaysia. They are peninsular with seas surrounding them. So travelers could find beautiful beaches all over Malaysia as well as rainforests and highlands. However, modern metropolitan living and environment could always be found in most major cities such as Kuala Lumpur, George Town, Ipoh and Johor Bahru. Since Malaysia tropical weather is hot with plenty of rainfall, bright sunshine is throughout the year. Off course, local people are friendly, helpful and cheerful, just like me! Catch Travel Feeder after this for the Top 10 Places To Go In Malaysia…. subscribe my feeds now!
Some of the lists of Lonely Planet’s Best In Travel 2010 Guide are below:
Top 10 Best Value Destination (Alphabetic ordered)
- Bulgaria;
- Kenya;
- Iceland;
- India;
- Las Vegas;
- London;
- Malaysia;
- Mexico;
- South Africa, and
- Thailand
Top 10 Countries To visit in 2010
- El Salvador,
- Germany,
- Greece,
- Malaysia,
- Morocco,
- Nepal,
- New Zealand,
- Portugal,
- Suriname, and
- The United States.
Top 10 Cities To Visit in 2010
- Abu Dhabi,
- Charleston (South Carolina),
- Cork (Ireland),
- Cuenca (Ecuador),
- Istanbul,
- Kyoto (Japan),
- Lecce (Italy),
- Sarajevo,
- Singapore, and
- Vancouver (Canada).
Bali is also among the Top 10 Regions to visit in year 2010! Is your country or city in the list? – Travel Feeder.
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Congratulation, and celebration…. First started to blog for travel on 17th June 2008, I’m glad, though not excellent, that Travel Feeder could reeach its 100th post benchmark in 10 months or slightly less than a year! Hurray!
I love travel, especially vacation travel. I will travel whenever time and money allow me to do so. However, vacation travel in the current economy situation seems luxurious. Sadly to thank the crisis, at least now we can enjoy cheaper vacation with cheaper air fares and cheaper, lower demand accomodations. More sadly to thank us as human to ruin our naked earth by setting terrorism, protests, bombing, government overthrowing and the current Swine Flu infection, cost of travel particularly to those socially unstable countries is now even cheaper (if only you dare to travel there )
So, being a travel blog, I would say Travel Feeder is the most exciting blog among others that I’ve been blogging so far. As I iterated in my introduction at the beginning post, Travel Feeder has been sticking to my motto: WORLD IS BIG, MONEY IS SMALL, LET’S TRAVEL BE WORTH EVERY PENNY THAT WE GOT! I will continue to blog and share my travel experiences, travel tips, travel guides and the latest travel news with travelers worldwide.
In case you are new here, I’ve blogged about some (though I would hope it could be more) countries and cities and also some local travel destination in Malaysia. Among others, London, Paris, Venice, Rome, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Bali, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Nanjing, Wuxi, Genting Highland, Penang and Langkawi are some travel destinations that I’ve been to. Of course, my travel ambition doesn’t stop here. My future plan is to travel Phuket in this October and hopefully to Bijing, HongKong, Singapore and revisit Bali in near future.
Another motivation to blog in Travel Feeder is my hobby in photography. If you could notice or have been following us, I got my new travel camera in October and cameras in December last year. So, more frequent travelling means more chances for me to take photos. Until today, I love both my Panasonic Lumix FZ28 and Nikon D60. Bear in mind, I still sticked to my motto, they are bother budget models . They have been giving me better photos to share in Travel Feeder as well as in my photo albums. Hooray!
So, stick with Travel Feeder. I will share more photos, tips and guides with you and I sincerely hope that I could travel more by earning more money and getting more competitive prices in fares and accomodations, but not taking advantages of those world’s social and economic crisis! Please! WE LOVE PEACE!!!
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