KK Trip (Day 1)

This is what I should post long time ago, just that I don't have extra time to arrange all the photos taken during the trip. have to much assignments to do this semester, and there are four assignments which I need to submit this month. But there is some friends who said that my blog almost become legend because of not updating, so I take some time to update my blog with this post. This KK trip is booked by 7 of us since March and we went to this trip during our last semester holiday. The "siaw kia" who is going to this trip is me, Jeremy, Vincent and Lucas, the "siaw cabo" are Wenshi, Gabby and Jolyn. On the first day, we depart from Kuching at 1.45pm and reached KK before 4pm.

*KK Air Asia Terminal.

Once we reach there, the first thing we "siaw kia" do is look for duty free cigarettes. Unfortunately, our favaurite Dunhill King Size is out of stock, so 4 of us just decide to bought the Dunhill Fine Cut. After we get our luggage, the taxi we booked is already waited for us outside the terminal. When we are on the way to the lodge, we realise that our lodge is just located at the town area, and there's many places for us to go around that area.

When we reached the lodge, Vincent help us to check in because he is the one who booked it for us. The price for the room is quite cheap, we have booked two room and each of us just pay around RM170 for four nights. Each of the room got two beds and a washroom, besides that, there's also a recreation room which you can online, watch television, chit chatting and read books.

*Summer Lodge

*This is the recreation room I mentioned.

*Television (Astro and DVDs), Books and tour guidebooks is provided.

*The computer and internet access is free for you to play.

*There's lots of KK travel information on the notice board outside the lodge.

*And this is our 4 "siaw kia" room!!!

So, the first thing we do after we loaded all our luggage is planning what are we going to do for this trip. Actually me and Jeremy is going for mountain climbing the next day but we cancel it because Jeremy has break his ankle the week before this trip while we are playing the paint ball. We have wasted RM180 because we just can claim back RM150 from our deposit we cancel the booking.

*What should we do for this trip??

*Is this enough for me to spend for this trip?

After planned for 30 minutes, we come out with the decision that agreed by everyone and we called our mountain climbing tour guide to arrange it for us. Here's the list of what we going to do for this trip.

• Day 1 - Shopping
  
• Day 2 - Water Rafting
  
• Day 3 - Visit to Kinabalu Park and the Poring Hot Spring
  
• Day 4 - Island Trip
  
• Day 5 - Home Sweet Home

Around 6pm after rest, we went to Centre Point at KK by 15 minutes walks from the lodge. At there, we bought something and waiting for our friend who works for his father at KK here during his holiday. We just hanging around there and we also went to Palm Square which located at the upper floor because this two shopping complex are in the same building.

*KK Centre Point


*"Barang-barang from Sabah", a funny gift shop name at Centre Point


"Siaw Kia" at Palm Square. From the left : Vincent, Lucas, Jeremy and Ah Boo


*"Siaw Cabo" from the left: Jolyn, Gabby and Wenshi

After Ah Boo arrived, he bring us to Taman Tun Fuad Stephen for dinner. There's quite a lot of restaurants around there and the famous one is called the Fishermen's Restaurant because you can enjoy cultural dance performance while you haing your dinner. But we did'nt go that restaurant because some of us already ate some burgers at Burger King just now. So, we just went to one of the restaurant at there and ordered for some seafood.

*Welcome to Taman Tun Fuad Stephen!!!

*That's the Fishermen's Restaurant.

After having or dinner, Ah Boo drive us around KK and introduced some places that we should go. Then he bring us to Bukit Bendera to enjoy the KK night view. I have to say thanks to him because he is the one who bring us around at KK during night time when we were at here. Without him, our trip wouldn't be so happening at night.

*Night view of KK city from Bukit Bendera.

Our first night is not end yet, Ah Boo still bring us to the KK waterfront to have a walk and we found that the place was so happening although it's during weekdays. The place is full with pubs, lounges, karaok and restaurant along the waterfront.

*Waterfront at KK, a place that you must some to experience KK night life.

*The B.E.D, the famous pub at KK.

*K Box is also at here.

Next, Ah Boo bring us to Upperstar that near our lodge for some drinks. At there, we ordered some beers and snacks. 2 big bottle of beers only cost us RM18. The price here is very reasonable and the environment was very comfortable too. There are some table that provided with computer and you can use it for free.

*Upperstar Cafe

*This Pizza is so delicious, the price is RM 13 only!!!

*Can I have 1 pience of pizza?? Please...

We spent our time at there until 12am then Ah Boo sent us back to our lodge. When we back to our room, we prepared the things for next morning because we are going for water rafting and the tour guide is going to pick us at 8am. So, this is end of our first day at KK.

Grand Opening for Swinburne Sarawak Extended Campus

The Grand Opening for Swinburne Sarawak Extended Campus was at 23 August 2008. I become a volunteer for the welcoming group and I manage to took some photos on that day. If you want to know more about that day, you can always visit www.swintalk.com. For this post, I will just put in some photos and slide show. If you wish to view all the photos, just go to my photobucket but I have to say sorry for the blurriness of some photos because this is the first time I use DSLR camera. Anyway, hope you people enjoy it.

Below is the photos of some new buildings in Swinburne.

*New Block

*Multipurpose Hall



*Block B Library



*Library Computer Lab



*Lecture Theater (Grab from Han.L @ Swintalk.com)

For the rest of the post, just enjoy the slide show.

*Grand opening @ Multipurpose Hall

*Student Performances

Swinburne Graduation Ceremony 2008

Last Monday, I went to Swinburne Graduation Ceremony 2008 at Dewan Undangan Negeri. My friends Ian and Saad were graduating on that day. Roy (Ian's Brother) asked me to help him take some photos and sending flowers to his brother before he went to Melbourne. Anyway, at here I would like to congrats all the graduants. I'm so envy those people who graduate because I still got one and a half year too go, it's a long time for me when seeing most of my friends have graduates already. What to do, just wish that I wouldn't fail again in my final exam.

Because there are too many photos were taken, so I just put it into slide show and post it up here. For those want to view all the images or may be you discover yourselves are in the photo, you can always grab it at my photobucket account by just click on the "view all images" button under the slide show.

It's time to 'eat' paint!!!

The week before I went to KK, I was at Pasir Pandak again with my own gangs for another paint ball match. This time, we got 18 people so there is 9 people in each team. Some of us gather around 10am at satok for some breakfast and we reach our destination around 10.45am. When we reach there, we take some time to visit the war field while waiting for the others. Now, let me show you some photo of the war field.

Jungle War Field

*This is what you see when you step in the field. The base of Team A.

*There is many bunkers inside the field.

*Actually there is many crossline in the field, but this is the one that clearly shows that it's a crossline.

*Base for Team B. It's at the back part of the field.

*Everyone looks so excited!!!

"The other Field" (Don't know how to call it)

*This is how the field looks like.

*Although this field is small, but there's a lot of place for you to hide.

*This is just for acting nia!!!

*Surrender or Die!!!

The briefing starts around 11.30am and we start our games at 12pm. This time, we go for the small field match first, and everyone is just given 10 pellets. And this game just took less than 30 minutes to finish. After that, we go for the jungle field, we play 2 games in that field. We set 20 minutes for each game and 15 minutes to rest in between the games.

*Call me 'RAMBO'!!!

*This tinted mask belongs to the marshal, cool leh!!

*Choose your own marker before you go into the field.

Everyone was very fun after playing the games. We finished our pellets around 2pm. And Jeremy has injured his knee when the last game is about to finish. So, me and Vincent accompany him to clinic to check his knee. Unfortunately, he is not able to climb mountain KK on the next wednesday. Because we are the only two who already booked for the mountain climbing, so we have to cancel it. And this cost us Rm235 each for the deposit. So, have to plan for next trip to KK for the mountain climbing.

*This is what I got for this paint ball game, an "oche"!!

Paint Ball @ Pasir Pandak

I back from Sibu on the 5th of July by driving and reach Kuching around 6.30am. Once we reached Kuching, I didn't direct went home but I went to Roy house to have a nap and wake up around 9.30am because me, Roy and Ian have to reach Pasir Pandak (Santubong) by 10am for Paint Ball. The Paint Ball location is located at Pasir Pandak, Santubong. Once you turn into there, just follow the main road and you will discover a sign board with "Sg. Buah" at your rightside, just turn into there and you can see the place. The name of the place is "Borneo Paint Ball".

*This is the place, Borneo Paint Ball!!!

*And this is where they prepare all the things.

Before we start the game, everyone has to listen to the briefing on our safety. Because the owner of the place was late, so there is another person brief us. And his 1 of his gang who invite us for this game. They are all pro in playing this already.

*He is the one who brief us at the beginning, our opponents also.

*Everyone has to pay attention to the briefing.

*If you can look closely, the one with light blue shirt is the owner of this place, Mr Sim.

So, after the briefing, everyone of us know that what's the name and use of our equipment. And we also know the ways to make sure our friends and our own safety. The equipment include mask, neck protector, vest and marker. When we are in the game, once we step into the war field, we have to make sure our mask in on. As long as when we're in the war field, we cannot take our mask on no matter what happen (such as there's bee go inside your mask) to protect your ears and eyes. If you encounter this problems, you have to raise your hand and call for the marshal to help you. This is the most important things to remember when we're playing paint ball. Besides that, we also have to avoid to point the marker to anyone before the game start, the safety pin have to be on before the game start. And if we start shooting, we also can't point the marker to high because it might cause the paintball to fly outside the war field and hit somebody else.

*This is the mask that have to be equipped all time during the game.

*The vest. If you don't wear also can but you have to tahan the pain.

*The cloth with XXX is the neck protector, you can also don't use it if you're not scare to have love bite on your neck.

*This is the gun, and it's called marker.

*The paint ball.

So, what are we waiting for?? It's time to equipped ourself. Our team is using the black vest and our opponents are using the brown vest. As we know, we sure will lose to them because 90% of our team members are playing this for the first time only.

*Guess which one is Ian and which one is Roy??

*It's time to equipped ourself!!!

*Our opponents!!

There's two kind of war field, one is the jungle and one is just a face to face field with many bunkers. For this time, we just play the game in the jungle because there's too many of people. If I'm not mistaken, every team got about 12 people.

*The jungle war field.

*The field with lots of barrels.

*Queuing to get our marker.

*Is everyone ready??

*So, everyone is in the field. Before the marshal start the game, let's discuss strategies.

*The game is about to start in 10 second, please take your position!!!

*This is what we called camping. Hide to wait for enemy to come.

We play for 4 games from 11am until 2pm. Although our team just win 1 of the game, but all of us really enjoy the game. All of us just spend RM50 at the beginning for all the equipment and first 100 bullets. After you finish your first 100 bullets, for every reload, 100 bullet just cost RM20. So, if you want to play until very syok, RM70 is enough, unless you really want to be rambo and shoot non stop, you can always reload if you think that the bullets is not enough for you.

*Head shot!!

*Our team!!!

*Yeah!! It's a nice game. Actually there are more people but many of them didn't join in to take photo.

*This is what I got after the game. Can you feel the pain!!

This is just my first time of playing paint ball and I really like it although I got some 'love bite'. After this game, me, Ian and Roy start to asking our own friends for next game. And guess what, many of our friends really to to join us also. For the next time, I will the the person who giving other people 'love bite', hahahaha~~~ If anyone who like to play paint ball, don't forget to ask me for the game, I would to like join you people also.