Taman Botani's OKU Camp
Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Last weekend (27-28 May 2006), Taman Botani Putrajaya organised a camp for Orang Kurang Upaya (OKU). It was indeed a success and the team from Taman Botani were glad and happy that they managed to run the camp as planned. Let me get more news about this camp and possibly get a few photos to share it on this blog.

Oh, by the way, Taman Botani will be organizing a few more camps next month. Of course, there are also a few camps planned and booked in Taman Wetland including the Putrajaya Wetland Camp Series (Taman Wetland's signature camp) and Cool-to-Care Camp (by Rotary International) during the school holidays from 5-7 June 2006 and 7-9 June 2006 respectively.

So from now until 5th of June, the team from Taman Wetland and Taman Botani will be busy preparing for the camp.

posted by wengchun @ 8:42 AM, ,


Lifer for a beginner

Last Monday, I wanted to get a shot of the large-tailed nightjar on daytime and since Zuraida (a beginner in bird watching and a staff of Taman Wetland Putrajaya) was around the park. I asked her to come along to look for the nightjar. I know she was very excited to see a nightjar 2 months ago when I showed it to a group of local bird watchers. I was so well-prepared with my equipment - I've got my scope, nikon cp4500, DSLR Nikon D70 and the tripod all ready for the assignment. We came to a spot where the chances of seeing the nightjar in daytime is almost 90%. Okay, even when the time was 4pm I can still say there is still 90% chance of seeing at least 1 nightjar. We were scanning through the area with the scope and naked eyes. Nothing. After a while, I decided to informed Zuraida that there is another spot to see this nocturnal bird, but we need to climb up a slope. Before we wanted to climb up, 3 nightjars flew up to the sky from the ground near our path. A beautiful sight indeed!!! No, that's not a lifer for her. So we continued our climb and reach the spot with lots of bamboos. I have spotted the nightjars 2 weeks ago. We went to the exact spot....nothing *sigh*. Move around the area and still nothing. Then, we decided to go down the slope and continue to look for other birds. Got into my car and was driving along the wetland cells. We were seeing swamphens, bee-eaters, munias, baya weavers, and many more. "hey! wait a minute....there's a raptor perching far away" I told Zuraida. I stopped the car and look through my scope - a changeable hawk-eagle, now THIS is the lifer for her. She had not seen this bird before except from the book and also the photos that I took. She was so happy and excited. I let her use my budget digiscoping equipment and taught her the basic of using the equipment. She took some pix and video as well. But we had to cut short the tour when we heard another staff requesting her to attend to a school group for a guided tour in the wetland. So, we will be looking for more birds in our future outings. Stay tune....

posted by wengchun @ 8:28 AM, ,


Welcome Speech of MAICSA President @ Taman Wetland Putrajaya 2004
Wednesday, May 24, 2006

What a nice surprise! I was doing a search for "putrajaya wetland camp series" on the google and stumbled upon this speech from the President of MAICSA.

"We are indeed blessed by your presence here at Putrajaya Wetlands on this bright sunny morning to start the two-day camp, on the theme “Making A Difference”. Very aptly, we are making it different at this year’s Camp because it is our 45th Anniversary and we want this to be a Camp with a difference. Organising a Camp of this nature is not something new. MAICSA has held its Leadership Camps on an annual basis. What is different this year however is that the Camp has been organized on a larger scale and we have added a theme, purely because it is our 45th Anniversary. We are pleased to note there are 68 participants at today’s Camp, which is about double what we used to have. In addition to students and young members from MAICSA, we have participants form the Certified Public Accountants and the Bar Council, who will participate in at least four ourdoor activities and one night activity for the next two days. We bid you a warm welcome, and I hope you all will leave this Camp having achieved at least three objectives." Read the full speech at http://www.maicsa.org.my/publication_speeches_040910.htm

Well, well, what do you know. another page on MAICSA Leadership Camp. This page contains photographs taken during the camp with a report written by Zaizalrina Zainun.

 

posted by wengchun @ 6:44 AM, ,


Putrajaya Wetland Camp Series

It's here again! Taman Wetland Putrajaya will be organizing its signature camp for the 11th time during the next school holiday from 5th - 7th June 2006. More information will be posted here soon. So stick to this blog more often.

posted by wengchun @ 4:51 AM, ,


New Blog Skin
Tuesday, May 23, 2006

I've just updated the blog skin. Here is a new simple look which have been modified a little bit from its original skin. The blooming of this lotus flower represent reincarnation - the same goes to this blog, reborn again.
 
 
 

posted by wengchun @ 8:15 AM, ,