Looking like a spaceship, the KLCC mosque is a favourite subject for KL photographers.

KL at night. Nice!

The orange building is Public Bank HQ. On the left is the Kampung Baru, a collection of Malay villages smack in the middle of the city.

My favourite of the 4. Really love this pic and the feeling it gives me.

ALL these photos and many others can be bought at http://www.imagekind.com/MemberProfile.aspx?MID=611924fd-eb4d-4dc5-ae49-9255ccb653eb from Daniel himself.

SO I want to share it with Blog4FT readers. I don’t want to win with all these other people’s pictures, but since they don’t send their entries to B4FT, I’ll do it for them in the spirit of sharing.

KL by ariff budiman

KL by ceq we

KL by m zakir

KL by yamanz

Thank you. I hope my efforts have promoted these photographers to the whole world. Unfortunately I saved these images a long time ago and I’ve lost the url to these photographers’ sites.

Apparently it was built in 1863 when the place was still known as Kampung Rawa.

I have to admit that I’ve only been inside the mosque once or maybe twice. But I’ve performed Friday prayers there plenty of time, though never seeing the inside of the mosque. On Friday, you can see a strange sight, where people just pray wherever they can around the vicinity. I have friends at the nearby Selangor mansion, and during Friday prayer’s time, what they did was just take the lift downstairs, spread the prayer mat in front of the lift (no kidding!) and pray there, in the middle of shoppers and all! Looking back, I really don’t know whether all those solat counted.

Anyway, the Masjid India is to me personally a beautiful little mosque (little when compared to other major KL mosques). Unfortunately, when the authority build the ugly structure that act as the roof of the hawkers’ stall, they manage to completely spoil the view.

Here are the best 2 images of the mosque from the net – I can’t find 3 good ones. As usual, sources are mentioned.

Image 1
Source: http://www.asiaexplorers.com/malaysia/kualalumpur/masjidindia/00.jpg

The maroon facade is actually a new look. It was added on in 2002. Notice the ugly protruding roof of the street bazaar.

Image 2
Source: http://puisijiwarasa.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/masjid-india1.jpg

Congregation waiting for prayer time in front of Masjid India

Masjid Negara was built during the tenure of the first Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman. The unique thing for me about this particular mosque is that its design are completely different from the normal large mosque in Malaysia. There is none of the familiar large round dome(s). In its place is a half-open umbrella like dome. I personally don’t like it, but it’s unique. To each his own I suppose.

Unlike the previous Masjid (mosque) in my Mosque travelogue, I don’t go to Masjid Negara too often. But I love to sit on the stairs fronting the water fountain after the completion of Maghrib prayers, lost in calmness and my own thoughts. You should try it too sometimes.

As for the three best pictures on the Net, surprisingly it’s much more difficult to find good ones – unlike with Masjid Wilayah. My favourites are the HDR pics by baincardin, http://www.baincardin.com/2009/11/masjid-negara-kuala-lumpur.html, but since his pictures are already shared with Blog4FT readers, then I suppose it’s not proper for me to use them. You can click the link.

The following are my three other favourite ones from the web – sources and links included. Like i said previously, I don’t want to steal their photos, I just want to share them with Blog4FT readers. Enjoy!

Image 1:
Source: Wikipedia

—————————————————————————————–
Image 2
Source: aleks.herzog Flickr pic at http://www.flickr.com/photos/60403873@N00/2167271910/

This is my favourite time to be at the mosque, during Maghrib, the compulsory praying time at dusk.

————————————————————————————
Image 3
Source: bensonkua Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/91545223@N00/3617826521

The National Mosque has a sprawling courtyard, with a really 1970's feel to it.

Here I publish 3 of the best images of the mosque I find on the net. All the sources are mentioned and linked. It is not my intention to setal anyone’s photograph or artwork, just that I feel these excellent images should be shared by more people especially Blog4FT readers.

Image 1: http://bighugelabs.com/onblack.php?id=3366314087&size=large

Masjid Wilayah HDR by DELLipo™ / © All rights reserved

Image 2: http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/1607972.jpg

From the front entrance, visitors will take a fligh of stairs before encountering this grand view, the Open Square before entering the main parayer hall

Image 3: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3399/3280703001_4bdf491a93_o.jpg

The mosque is surrounded by a lake, or a moat, if you like. It is well kept and keeps the mosque cool.

(picture taken from Minister’s Facebook)

I’ve always thought the place was in Selangor as it is in Ampang, but apparently it is the KL side of Ampang.

It is officially called TAMAN Tasik Ampang Hilir in Kuala Lumpur, a public park with various amenities to benefit the residents of Ampang.

The park is equipped with 120 parking bays and a jogging track. It also has a multipurpose hall, three badminton courts and other amenities such as toilets, changing room and a surau. The hall can accommodate 500 people at any one time.

So there you go. A new place in Ampang for recreation. Kudos to everyone who made the park a reality.

The concert started with orchestral music by the KL International Festival Orchestra. Unfortunately I don’t know my classical music except for the famous ones like Bolero or Four Seasons. But I did recognize excerpts from Phantom of the Opera, and they had Jessica Lee as guest violinists. Damn she good!

They also had Sean Ghazi and another lady singing. Sean Ghazi has pretty strong voice, although his style is not to my liking so much. I’m not old you know. Anyway it was a great night, a good relaxing evening with the wife and something different from the normal KL night out. Cool!

But what pisses me off big time going there is the comments. “Oooh Sheikh u so cute…”, “Ooo, we pray to God Sheikh will get selected because he’s so handsome and so charming” etc.

Ei bodoh! This is not about who’s more handsome, who’s cuter and what not. This is the typical mentality of stupid Malaysian women! Especially Malay women. I bet a lot of these women are ugly, fat cunts who nobody fancies anyway. And even if they are married, I bet their husbands are just typical stupid looking Malay dudes who couldn’t find anyone pretty to marry. A case of “as long as I get to fuck a cunt everynight then kira bolehla”. And I bet these are the same ugly malays who try to tackle other women, pay gro’s and prozzies for sex, and when they get loads of money from being corrupt, get a perempuan simpanan.

Voronin for top scorer i tell ya !