After the TWG Tea Party we headed to Sg.Wang for Nijigen 2.0. Next to the event entrance I saw MinNature gallery and being a miniature lover this peaked my interest.
So literally the next day I went to MinNature with few friends (more like dragging them).
MinNature Malaysia is brought to you by a group of crazy miniature enthusiasts led by an even crazier miniature enthusiast who always love to refer himself as Le Grand Architecte. This self-proclaimed architect has no experience in any model making or miniature making; all he has, is a vision to bring wonderful and beautiful miniature art works for everyone’s enjoyment. He always fake that he has OCD, actual fact, he doesn’t. With a super great team, MinNature and MinNature Malaysia was born. Without the team, MinNature Malaysia would still only be a piece of imagination.
PART 3: Taste of Malaysia
We started with one Malaysia is famous for; FOOD!
I'm just hungry from looking at them *drools*
PART 4: Mini in the Glass Wall
The first thing I saw in this exhibition is the scenery of typical Malay village.
One of the mini games is to find five missing frogs (and we managed to find all yay!). Next to the Malay display is the classic Chinese settlement/town in Malaysia.
The mini game here is to find pai tee (Pie Tee is a thin and crispy pastry tart shell kuih often filled with a spicy, shredded Chinese turnips, sweet mixture of thinly sliced vegetables and prawns. It is a popular Peranakan dish.) - and again we managed to find it.
Scenery of bird's nest harvesting. Farmers have to scale ladders to obtain their harvest, removing each nest gently from the ceilings and ledges where the birds have built homes. They then have to clean the nests and remove any feathers and dirt before cooking them.
Scenery of bird's nest harvesting. Farmers have to scale ladders to obtain their harvest, removing each nest gently from the ceilings and ledges where the birds have built homes. They then have to clean the nests and remove any feathers and dirt before cooking them.
Today for the first time I learn of kelong. A kelong is an offshore platform built predominantly with wood, which can be found in waters off Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia. Only a handful remain around Singapore due to rapid urbanisation.
The next and last scene of this part exhibition is the scene of Sabah and Sarawak. The mini game is to find twenty animals. We give up, I think we managed to find less than ten.
My Sarawakian friend complained with one part of the scene; while it's true the river in Sarawak have crocodiles, while it is true kids do cross usually destroyed manmade bridges, no one build bridges on crocodile infested river not any parents would let their kids cross it.
All the questions in this exhibition section. Had to google some for the answers.
Time to head to the next exihibition.
PART 5: Heritage Buildings and Kek Lok Si Lightsaber
The first part we saw if a fort in Kedah which confused me; I had live in Kedah and never seen this fort before - even tho from the info the fort is not far from where I used to live.
The rest is a mixture of other places in Malaysia. We discovered some miniature sections are interactive. They also created a touchless sensors to activate the interactions.
Most of them are trains, but they are also miniature humans doing daily jobs.
The Cameron Highlands (Pahang) sections focusing on night life and lights.
(Gotta admit I forgot which are is this but I have a feeling this is in Perak).
This section have Kek Lok Si area light show for every ten minutes. The area lights would be turned off, and there's two benches for visitors to sit to enjoy the light show.
The funny thing to me is that Kek Lok Si is just behind my grandma's house. I can just open the window or go to the balcony and see the massive statue - and yet I haven't been there.
PART 6: We Are Malaysians Series
The first introduction of this section is all the races in Malaysia. I am amazed and admire all the efforts put into this, considering we have many races in Malaysia.
My Sarawakian friend was excited to look for his race - the Bisaya only to find out they haven't finish building them 😂 (poor fella).
Next segment is recipes of our local dishes, I snapped each so I can try to cook later.
If anyone really tried any of these recipes please lemme me know 😂
Common scenes of Malaysian food stalls at the morning markets.
Look at the details! Down to the chopping board.
PART 7: Heritage Buildings and Dataran Lightshow
Here we focused on heritage buildings across Malaysia, starting from Melaka (Malacca to non-Malaysians) and all the way to Terengganu. Main highlight is Dataran Merdeka.
The second light show is at Dataran Merdeka (Independence Square) for every 20 minutes.
Merdeka Square is a square located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is situated in front of the Sultan Abdul Samad Building. Literally Independence Square, it was formerly known as the Selangor Club Padang or simply the "Padang" and was used as the cricket green of the Selangor Club.
Explanation/concept/ideas of each scenes of the light show (wonder why they didn't have one for earlier show at Kek Lok Si?).
PART 8: Heritage Buildings
Continuation of heritage building series; resume from Selangor to Sabah and Sarawak.
I must admit I am ashamed to never heard or knew of the Mah Meri people and culture! Now we are planning to visit their culture village since it's not far from our places,
Teratak Za'aba at Negeri Sembilan. Teratak Zaaba is a museum dedicated to the life of the learned Malay writer, Zainal Abidin bin Ahmad, better known by the abbreviation Za’aba (sometimes spelt Za’ba). He is credited with modernising the Malay language and pioneering grammatical rules through the publication of a series of grammar books.
I just had to take the Batu Caves area as it have special story involving Domagoj.
Batu Caves is a limestone hill that has a series of caves and cave temples in Gombak, Selangor, Malaysia. It takes its name from the Malay word batu, meaning 'rock'. The hill was originally known as Kapal Tanggang from the legend of Si Tanggang. The town nearby is named after the Batu Caves limestone formation
Every year during Thaipusam, hundreds of thousands of kavadi are carried by devotees, mostly male, as they walk miles or climb steep stairs to give thanks to Lord Murugan. Body piercing, mostly done on the cheeks and back, is observed by some devotees as part of their penance to show endurance and willpower.
We finally reached the end of the whole exhibition and we were greeted with this 😂
Well, we did turned back to do some scavenger hunting and look for more punny signs.
Scavenger Hunts
For each sections of the exihibition (starting from Part 5) there's a scavenger hunt activity.
While I was interested to find all of them, the rest was less enthusiastic 😂 Still we did try to find Gandalf at the last exihibition and it took us almost an hour to look for him!
There we2 main miniature to look to win some prices but again the rest were not interested
SPOILER ALERT! Some of the miniatures we unintentionally managed to spot.
The first for us to spot and the one we didn't even bother to look since it stick out like a sore thumb 😂 Even my commentary was hilarious 😂
I mean....UFO in the middle of Malaysian forest kidnapping a poor Malaysian.
PUNNY SIGNS
Upon entering Part 5, as I mentioned earlier I was confused about the port I don't recall seeing it in my life. My friend noticed a sign board next to and peeked, hoping to find the name of the fort - only to irked him to find a punny signboard instead 😂
Well played the MinNature team, well played. We spent time to find as many punny signboard as possible + adding another almost an hour inside the gallery XD