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I played the google earth few months back to check out is there any mount nearby the the Kuching Serian road, and I notice located about 3KM inside the Siburan Village (17th Mile) of the Kuching Serian road, is a mount called the Sentah Mount. Some local guy took a bunch of photos and upload to the google earth. And I was stunt by those photos; this is definitely a place that I wanted to go. So last Sunday morning I was equipped with my D90, together with 2 of my aunts. We all drove to mount Sentah, they wanted the morning exercise and I wanted the scenery. It was a cloudy morning, and the fogs are all over the woods, which gives a refreshing feeling. Along the way there are a lot of bamboos, while some part of the mount there are also coco trees. The local villages even used the cliff to plant white pepper. It took us around 50 minutes to get on the very top of the mount, and surprisingly there are people live there. No wonder I saw some local walk to

The Color of Spices Indian spices widely use in the India Cuisine, the spices is to add in that unique flavor to the food. The spices are usually grown from herb plant. The Indian population at Sarawak is not as much as in the Peninsular, the Indian spice can only been seen at Kuching, if other division like Sibu, Sarikei, or Miri non of this can be found there. I took this photo in a small lane at the India Street opposite the Kuching Waterfront. The owner of the shop are friendly, as before I took this photo, I show him my camera and the sign of taking photos. He smile at me and twist his head left and right (which means go ahead). What a nice guy :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 双龙出海 Dragon, Chinese legendary creature. The dragon is also a symbol of power, strength, and good luck. This photo is taken from the Hiang Thian Siang Ti (Deity of the North) Temple opposite the food court where I had my lunch . -----------------------------

Continue from Bishopgate.. After we had enough photos at The Bishipgate, then my cousin and I went to the India street. My cousin told me that he wanted to revisit the Battery Street. Commonsense told me that it is name after a battery, so no double that the street sells a lot of batteries. You guess so too? Well we’re all wrong! As my cousin told me that this is the street where the all the first lamppost are, and this street is the first street to have electricity. (scratch my head) this is not connected right, the street name and the background history. After that I did a search on the net, try to add in more details, but found zero result on the Battery Street at Kuching. And plus my cousin he was a tourist guide, so I believe what he says. What attract me the most are the building structures, as some of it still maintaining that British building concept, all the lampposts are still in use until today. This is a very windy lane as the end of the street is an open road, so

This is a street which stored many historical stories of the Kuching city, to catch up with the new generation a lot shop houses had renovate to keep up with time, but though most of the shop lots has been modernize there are few still keeps its original design and structure. I had my lunch at the food court opposite the Hiang Thian Siang Ti (Deity of the North) Temple, and my cousin are very satisfy with the price of the food, and not to mention the portion of the kolo noodles. He said compare to Singapore this is food from heaven, is cheap, and is delicious. The food courts offer drinks, noodles, and tofu with meat. I’m not sure whether they are a family but I do know that they had been working together for more than 10 years. There is one female who gave me a deep impression since the first day I ate here few years ago, she’s in her mid 40 as she had sore all over her head. She’s very hardworking and works at the drinking stall. There is a Chinese opera theater just inside this foo

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