Last week i've posted some hobby called AQUASCAPING...
Actually its been here in Malaysia for a long time.From what i know, the first person who ever get involved is this was back in 1990's. That would be 20 years ago.
Do you know that this hobby actually are recognized worldwide? Even they had an International Aquascaping!!!
Back in the first year when i got involved, it was in 2008...i got so amazed by the fact that during the 2009International Aquascaping Competition which they called it INTERNATIONAL AQUA PLANT LANDSCAPING COMPETITION (IAPLC) , 2 of our own...yes Malaysia were in the TOP 20!!!!!
Just can't believe that this was why i got very hyped to get involved in this unique , full of challenges, i can call costly & really can give you the best feeling you had ever had watching your plants grow....
Ok..back to those contestants. Here are the recap ot the winners for 2009.
Malaysia actually had the 3rd largest numbers of entries in the WORLD!!!!
GRAND PRIZE WINNER (#1 WORLD RANKING) - VIETNAM
GOLD PRIZE WINNER (#2 WORLD RANKING) - TAIWAN
SILVER PRIZE WINNER(#3 WORLD RANKING) - JAPAN
SILVER PRIZE WINNER(#4 WORLD RANKING) - MALAYSIA!!!!!!!!!!!!BRO SIM a.k.a STORMY!!!!HE'S FROM JOHORE.
BRONZE PRIZE(#5 WORLD RANKING) - CHINA
BRONZE PRIZE(#6 WORLD RANKING) - HONG KONG
BRONZE PRIZE(#7 WORLD RANKING) - TAIWAN
#8 WORLD RANKING - VIETNAM
#9 WORLD RANKING - VIETNAM
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#10 WORLD RANKING - INDONESIA
#11 WORLD RANKING - TAIWAN
#12 WORLD RANKING - MALAYSIA!!!!!!!!BRO KIN CHEONG!!!!!!!!TAUKEH FROM SS19 NATURAL AQUATIC WORLD FISH SHOP!!!
And the list goes on & on until #2k like that..hehehe..and along that TOP 100 got a few Malaysians made their name.
Well, as is it not an easy or not a 1 day job to make their tanks looked like that...it really paid off for these 2 guys.....Why???
Cuz Big Bro Sim & Taukeh got full paid trip to Japan for the prize giving ceremony with accommodation!!!!
And as the prize...Bro Sim received a whooping 100,000 yen!!!
Here are the pictures of the winners during the ADA Party or Prize Giving ceremony in Japan.
Thats Sim with his cheque replica. #4 world ranking.
Thats Malaysian who won the #4 & #12 world ranking...very proud of them...congrats..
Well...thats it for 2009..a bit late but a good history to remember & for me to keep me going to work harder to achieve more in this hobby.
As for year 2010...Malaysia didn't perform very well, maybe because of the fact that everybody have quite the same theme & styles....so.. new ideas coming out in a year time.... was quite challenging...anyway...got good news for the year 2011...will update the result in another post soon.
Nice!!!
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