I AM THE BORNEO EXPLORER 婆罗洲探险者

View Larger Map During Christmas Day I was with my friends form the LifeCareSociety, and pay a visit to Mr Pat . My last visit was at last year 30th October 2008. ( The mountain road to Kampung Dunuk, where Mr Pat stay. Is a long way from Kuching Town ) I calculated the road of Jalan Borneo Height is about 24.7KM from the Padawan township. Padawan is a sub-district of Kuching, Malaysia. We called it 10th Mile, and it also used to refer for local council in Sarawak Padawan Municipal Council (Majlis Perbandaran Padawan) and one of Bidayuh village also known as Kampung Padawan. The Jalan Padawan also available which is the road near Mile 23th Kuching-Serian Highway. In my previous post where I visited the Kampung Mundai that’s the road which can link from Tapah Village, by pass Borneo Highland, to Padawan towship. It was a long journey, we start out journey at around 12:00 noon from the Padawan Township. We drop in to an Omni shop to buy some food for Mr Pat and his family as C...

Kampung Mundai is situated at 22nd Mile, a Malay and Native village which is very near to the Tapah Village. I wake up early that morning, and I always wanted to take some village scenery shoots, I think this would be that perfect time. I start my car and drive into junction just 500 meter away from Tapah Village. View Larger Map I’m driving in a snake like road, as the road has many sharp turn, and driving up and down of hills roads. Along the road site I can see that there are lots of paddy fields, there are also other plantation like papaya, pineapple, bamboo, corn and rambutan. The Mundai village has a small library, an Omni shop, and a catholic church. There is a water treatment center, this center provide clean water to Tapah Village, Beratok Village, Mundai Village, and the rest of the village in this area (from 21st to 23rd Mile of Kuching Serian Road). Most of the people who live here have cars, but their main transportation is bike. They can ride heir bike to the pad...

Just when I finish my jogging around 7pm, I saw on north site of my house the clouds gather and became a group of dark clouds. And I can also saw some thunder in the clouds. Some slow shutter speed photos, the IDS is keep to 200 The lightning are not strong enough, not very satisfy with the outcome. And also I dont understand on why are there additional light displaying on the photos? I didn't adjust any other setting besides the aperture and shutter speed. Or is it because of the camera lens? ======================================== Some historical Related Post on Thunder The Art of Nature The right time again Before and After Friendship Park @ Night Time

Yesterday night went to have a test drive on my D90, this is the first attempt to shoot night shoot with my D90. Not very familiar with what should I set on night photo, so not very satisfy with the shoot I made. The new Sarawak State Assembly Building. The Astana palace -------------------------------------- Post on Kuching Waterfront: I'm going to the Cruise Again Sarawak River, Kuching Waterfront, and My Camera Kuching Waterfront to KTS village

View Larger Map I follow my friends to visit a small town called Meradong (Sarikei Division, Bintagor District). From Kuching to Bintagor by car is around 4 hour with an average 120km/h car drive. We reach my friend hometown at around 4:30pm, drop by his brother's house (Inherit by his pass away parent). He told us some stories during his childhood time. This Myna Bird it can make many Human Voice, it even knows how to say "你好吗" (how are you) in Chinese....cool! My friend's brother raise chicken, bunnies, and Ginnie pigs. The bunny is so cute, I pat the rabbit body, the fur is soft. Just like a doll. Every place has a symbolic signature, at Kuching - Cat, Sibu - Swan, Sarikei - Pineapple, Serian - Durian, Limbang - Buffalo, Miri - Seahorse, and here at Bintagor is Grapefruit . *update: Bingator Symbolic is called Bintangor Orange (this info is given by a blog reader of mine) Meradong Town view, the population are most native people, then m...

On my way back to Kuching Town after dinner from Tapah village. It was around 6:45PM, I drive along Kuching-Serian road. I drive on the left lane of the highway, I must stop for a photos, cause the sky is on fire. Here goes... Sunset at Beratok village ( 21th Mile Kuchng Serian Road ) This is my first batch of HDR photo, the sky is on fire

Yesterday I'm going to the River Cruises agian... The hazy sky, can't bring out the true color of Kuching waterfront. Just have to bear with the haze, hope they stop burning the forest. The new Sarawak State Assembly. How much does this cost? Traveling and photography is the coolest thing to do in the weekends. Don't really like boat, but I'm on an assignment. Will take photos for a group of people later. Rope which equals the size of my friend's arm.

My friends called me up, say will drive me to a special place for photography, and eat some durian. I wait them at the selected place, and after half an hour they’re still not here. I was getting sleepy, and start to fall asleep, and suddenly my phone rang. Yep, it was them. I hop into my friend’s car together with my D90. We wait for another group of friends on our way to Santubong, my friend told me that we will be going to Kampung Pandak. Is the place where most of the durian sellers get their durian from. It is a durian manufacture factory :S I don’t really crave for durian. But if there are a lot of friends eating together, the taste will be nicer. *sign* I’m a bit disappointed cause I tough I can go to the sea, to take some photos. But in the end I guess we all have to squad beside the road eating durians. While sitting inside the car, I close my eyes to rest for a while. The car bounces a lot, which I can’t rest properly. I saw my friend make a left turn, follow by a left turn ...