Saturday, April 20, 2013

A visit to Farm In The City (FITC) @ Seri Kembangan

Last weekend, my family visited a themed petting zoo called Farm In The City (FITC, 城の农场) located at Seri Kembangan.


This petting zoo was just opened in 2012, and has been gaining publicity with its family-friendly attractions. I think one of its main objective is to let urban children in Klang Valley to have a place to experience kampong-style nature. You can find quite a lot of bloggers already shared their visit and photos to FITC.

The location of FITC is near Giant Seri Kembangan and Pasar Borong Seri Kembangan. It is nearby the LDP highway and beside it is a new business area with newly developed shoplots (still under final stage of construction), making it more prominent with its name.

We took a family package at the price of RM99 for entrance of 2 adults and 2 children. The package includes the entrance wristbands for the day, 2 packs of soya milk, 2 bottles of vitagen, a calendar, 2 certificates of visit for the children, and a RM10 food voucher redeemable at the restaurant near its entrance (same day, on family set meals only).

We also bought 2 tickets for pony ride (RM5 each). Pony ride is for children only, and the ride is only for one small circle (less than 2 minutes). You can take photo while the kid is on the ride.

FITC has a number of animals which we can have close encounter with them, including some exotic animals such as big land tortoises, river turtles, small crocodiles, etc. Animal foods are provided without additional charge for us to feed some of the animals, including rabbits, horses, fishes, tortoises, birds, goats, deers, etc. Children can also experience kampong-style small fish catching activity with net and small bucket outside the rabbit feeding area. There are 2 ponds at its center with fishes, ducks, gooses, swans and other water habitats.

There is also a small little farm with some crops, a well, a cow and a dog.

Our visit in FITC took around 3 hours. It is a fun and joyful half-day family activity.


Saturday, April 13, 2013

Switched my Astro package to the new RM75 Wah Package (Value Pack 3)

Astro has just launched 3 Value Pack packages, all with monthly subscription fee of RM75 (+6% service tax) respectively.

Basically:

  • Value Pack 1 (Nilai Pack) = Family + Mustika + Indo Pek + Tayangan Hebat + HD Service
  • Value Pack 2 (Namma Pack) = Family + Maharaja + Chakravarthy + Thangathirai + HD Service
  • Value Pack 3 (Wah Pack 哗!配套) = Family + New Emperor + HD Service
The comparison of various Astro Chinese packages and their respective package price is as below:


It is obvious that the new Wah Package is the cheapest among the Chinese packages available. Compared with Super Pack 3 which is more than double its price, the Wah Package does not include Astro On Demand and 4 not so popular Chinese channels. It is value for money.

If you also want to switch to this new Wah Package, you can go to Channel 200 of your Astro and follow the instruction on the screen. You can also call their customer service to do the switch.

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Garmin releases MalFreeMaps 2013.10. Now able to show upcoming highway exit junctions info.

Garmin has made available MalFreeMaps (MFM) NT 2013.10 map update now.

You will be excited to find out that this version of MalFreeMaps NT 2013.10 is able to show the upcoming highway exit junctions info.

 
 

The upcoming exit junctions info in Garmin's highway mode is a standard feature of the GPS, and you should have seen it in the NAVTEQ City Navigator map or MalSingMaps released by Garmin. However, this feature was not available in previous version of MalFreeMaps.

Thanks to the great work of the MalFreeMaps community and Garmin engineers, now this feature is also made available to MalFreeMaps.

One other lacking feature in MalFreeMaps is Lane Assist. The MalFreeMaps community is currently working hard on it, and you can also contribute to the Lane Assist of MalFreeMaps development as well. Click here to find out how you can assist in developing MapFreeMaps Land Assist.

Click here to download the installation file of MalFreeMaps 2013.10 from Garmin server. Besides, the new MalSingMaps 2013.10 is also released. You can also download it at the same place.

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