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.

9 Days @ Sibu

Lets continue the post of my 9 days Sibu Trip from 27th June until 5th July. We went there for Celcom Roadshow which held at the Borneo Cultural Festival. The Borneo Cultural Festival is the annual event of Sibu which like our Kuching Festival. Once we reach Sibu, we went to the BCF location to survey our booth. We were so shock after we reached there because the area for this event was so big, if you know where is Wisma San Yan, then you should know how big is the field in front of that building. Not only that, the area of this event still include the open space that as big as the our Kuching Festival area which opposite the big field in front of Wisma San Yan. Unfortunately, I just manage to take some photos of this event because we start work everyday when the event start and finish the work when the event ends.

*This is the open area that I mentioned, and this is where we worked.

*Rainbow spotted at the first day before we start our work.

*Photo taken from the place I worked.

*The photo was too blur to shows the happenings.

*Traffic Jam during the festival.

Every night, we were at the same place for our job. And it's hard for us to promote the Celcom stuff because this festival is not same as PC Fair. For PC Fair, everyone is going to buy something but for this festival, most of the people went there to walk around, eat and look for something interesting. And it's quite bored for us to doing the same things everynight. Luckily, there's some programmes arranged to attract customer such as live performance. Celcom invite local artist, the borneo headhunter, ERNESTO to perform at the fifth night. Although this is the first time I heard about ERNESTO, but he's quite popular in Sibu. May be some freinds in Kuching know him also. I recommend one of his song, "Seribu Satu", this song is nice and it's also the only song I like throughout his whole album "1001".

*The fans of ERNESTO, borneo headhunter.

*At least this help to increase some sales.

*ERNESTO, the one with long hair.

*Many people ask for his signature poster.

*Yeah!! Tat's Mr. Mat Cool from other booth.

During our last night at BCF, and also the time that we fight for our sales, part of the event area suddenly blackout. Although this situation last for 20 minutes, but it keep on happen for around 4 to 5 times. And this make us really bo xim because no customers at all. So, we just wait the time to pass.

*Can't do anything at all in this situation!!!

*Celcom Promoter with the "blue ears".

*Soi Zai and Roy!!! Looks scary or not??

*Me and Soi Zai!! Can you see a face behind us??

We worked 8 nights for the celcom roadshow in this Borneo Cultural Festival, but it's different stories during our days time. Every morning, we just go to our shop near night market there to train the new staff that just hired by boss.

*Smoking time!!!

*The face of "pek cek"!!!

After few days of training, we let them go to look for sales around the night market area, and we just stay at the office to wait for them. Sometimes, we also followed them so that we can know how's their attitude towards their job. And it's quite boring and tired also if we just stay at the office to wait for them to come back. When we feel bored, it's time to find something meaningless to do.

*Our new trained tattoo master, SOI ZAI!!!

*Don't know what the stupid things he draw. And guess who's hand is it??

*ROY and the tattoo!!!

Normally, we will be at shop from morning until 4.30pm. After that, we will go for dinner because the BCF is going to start on 6.00pm every evening. We mostly went to KFC for our dinner, the one located at Sibu Gateway because we always when that place to photostate our flyers. After dinner while we waiting for our flyers to be done, some of us spent our time at the park there.

*This one only know how to smoke!!!

*Roy with his chinese horoscope, "COW"!!

*Actually, I'm so pai seh when taking this photo because many people was looking at us.

We always doing the same things for this 9 days at Sibu. Every morning wake up, breakfast, office, lunch, office, dinner, BCF, supper then back to room. There's nothing much we can do when we're at Sibu because we were there for working purpose. Although there's something unhappy happen but we still have a lot of fun at Sibu and we also tried many delicious food which I mentioned my previous post, Sibu Again!!!

A Trip to release stress before final exam

This post is about my 2 days 1 night trip at Permai to release stress 1 week before my final exam. I went there with all my scout buddies (Jeremy, Ah Choi, Ah Ong, Terence and Alvin) on the afternoon. We reach there around 2pm and it's the time for us to check in the long house.

*Jeremy, my best buddy~~

*Ah Choi, just came back for holiday from KL~~

*This one we call him Tua Pao Ong because he always bluffing~~

So, can you guess what we doing once we reach our room?? From the photo above, you can see that everyone have already position themselves, that's just for 1 reason~~~ It's time to play MAHJONG!!!!

*This is how we position our bed and table we carried from outside!!

*It's MAHJONG time!!!

*Everyone was so concentrate in playing this!!

Ya, there's still 2 person that I haven't introduce. One is my another buddy, Terence who also came back from Malacca for holidays. Another one is Alvin Tang, he is also a scout but he's lazy all the time unless he's doing scout things.

*This is Terence, my buddy also. Don't play play ah, he's a pilot now, second officer of MAS Wings.

*No need I say you people also know he is Alvin, lazy chin ah!!! Come here to sleep nia~~

After our mahjong match, the time is around 4.30 pm, and this is the time another group of our friends reach here. They are Ah Jong, Pin Wei, Kian Wang and Yong Siang. While waiting everyone taking bath, some of us who already taken our bath went for a walk at Permai Beach and Damai Puri. And I'm taking some photo from the lobby corridor of Damai Puri.

*The view of Damai Puri beach.

*Damai Puri Swimming Pool.

*It's almost the time to look at the sunset.

Around 6pm, we went to Buntal to have our dinner. I already forget which the restaurant that we go but the price was reasonable and the food taste very nice also. Especially the seasoned jelly fish. There are 11 of us, and everyone just pay less than Rm15 for the food and drinks.

*Everyone was so hungry while waiting for the food.

*This is what I mentioned about, the delicious Seasoned Jelly Fish.

*Cangkuk Manis, everyone was so kin teo to get it because of too hungry.

*Lemon Chicken.

*Butter Chicken.

*Oyster Omelet, my favourite.

We finished our dinner at around 8pm and we bought some "drinks" from the restaurant for our night. Without the drinks which is also our friend, "HEINEKEN", it would be a boring night. So, it's important for us to remember to "ta pao" our friend back to Permai. But not all of us overnight at there, Ah Ong, Ah Ong's GF and Terence went back home after the dinner. So, just left 8 of us at Permai.

*Although we just bought 1 crate, but it's better than zero!!

*Just a few cups, Ah Jong give up already.

Some of them (Ah Jong, Pin Wei, Yong Siang, Kian Wang) get on bed early after we finished the Heineken while me, Jeremy, Ah Choi and Alvin drove along the way down to Open Air Market to have our supper and then drove back to Permai again. Everyone woke up around 11am at the next day morning, and we just directly checked out after we packed our things and go back to Kuching. This is really a nice trip to release my stress before the final exam.