I AM THE BORNEO EXPLORER 婆罗洲探险者

I went to this yearly event, the lantern festive at Carpenter Street last week. With just a blink of an eye, this year marks the 9th mooncake festival. I’ve been visiting this place almost every year, and it brings a lot of joy and memory. The foods are delicious, and the number of stalls has been greater. I saw my friend Kenwy Ho performing at the event, and he also played one of my favorite song The Night Fairy. He is a music professional, who owns three music schools at Kuching. And his main passion is playing the “yang qing” a Chinese musical instrument. I don’t eat much meat and fried food now adays, so in this trip I bought a few snacks and a cup of drink. But I do enjoy the atmosphere; I took a lot of photos that night together with my friends. And composed it into a short clip, hope you guys like it. Cheers Wilson

click to enlarge A brother and sister. I took this shoot at a village near to the Borneo Highland, their mum is a dialysis patients, and have a small canteen just beside their home. Their were in the wooden canteen that time when I visited them. And I also visited their house, I notice something interesting is that there are puppies behind the house. And this is one of them... click to enlarge Isn't he adorable. A cute little pup staring at my camera curiously, while I took this magical shoot.

Click to enlarge An old lady was burning the soil to fertilizes it for the upcoming planting session. The rest of the village also do the same, they do not have any fertilizer here, so this is the traditional way for them to do it, passdown from generation.

My trip to the Annah Rais hot spring Before reading, watch this video. Is pretty amazing to see this phenomena, but Sarawak is truly a hidden treasure. I have heard of the Annah Rais hot spring before, and this is the first time I visit the place. As I know geographically hot spring exist is because of ………and……….so that the water will …………..! ok, I forgot my geography, and I didn’t get good marks in Science . But in a small land like Kuching, Sarawak we have hot spring here. More info on Hot Spring here The Annah Rais Longhouse , and hot spring is situated here, near to the Borneo Highland Kuching. And is one of Sarawak tourist destination, they have home stay, local food, jungle tracking. Is a medium stream, with calm water rapidly flowing downstream. When I just reach there, I began to look for this hot spot. Couldn’t find it, then there is this area with rocks circulating them. This might be it, immediately I jump into the water. It was very shallow, and cold. I walk towards th...

click to enlarge Visited the Dunuk Village 30 min drive from Borneo Highland ( map here ). I saw kids gather around at one corner, they are looking at the fish that they caught. I ask them to show me where they get it, and they bring me to their daily playground. The river behind the village. At first I tough they going to use a pole, or fish net to catch it. All of a sudden, they start to jump into that river o_O" wow~ kids stay in the city will never do this. Quite happy to see them having fun in that river, catching fish, splashing water at each other, discussing plan to catch fish. I had a wonderful afternoon, can you picture the scene from my photo?

This is the stray dog stay near my neighborhood. She has fluffy fur, a fat body, a cute face, and a tame character. She has this milky white fur, so I name her "niu nai" in Chinese, and translate to English it means Milk. Is quite pity sometime see her rounding on the neighborhood. She looks so cute and adorable. She likes to be pat on the head. Everytime when I'm back from work, she just lye in front of my gate resting. And when I call her name, she will come and bow down her head to let me pat. Lols what a cute little doggy. I tried to keep her inside my garage few time, she just keep on barking and wanted to go out. So maybe she's already get use to the freedom, and don't want to have serious commitment. I then just let her go....

Our last hope for getting a boat to the Sampadi Island.... Well, it was around 1PM when we reach this village, and yep we manage to look for a boat alright, but it went off to the island already. And for the ticketing stall, it had close early today due to the fasting month for the Malay people. *both hand slap face and deep inhale* OMG~~~ there goes my Sampadi Island trip for today. Guys, lesson learn today is Must make proper arrangement before go for a trip :P I will get to that island in the future!

After failing to go to the Pulau Sampadi, we have try our luck to look for boat at another village nearby. And we reach the Rambungan Village, as this is another village with lesser house than the Sampadi village. But there is a very long jetty, and there is a group of people fishing there. We went ask for direction, but they have no clue at all, as they are from Kuching (just like us). They are here for the sake of fishing only. Check out the view at the jetty, breathtaking right. Mangrove tress can be seen just right next to the jetty. Just look at that blue sky... and the island nearby. It would be super good that able to go visit the island. I'm imagining jumping into the sea for a swim, drinking coconut drinks, taking a nap under the tree shade. well, look for another boat - FAIL But we didn't give up that easily, so we proceed to the Telega Air, this is another small village, where I went to the Talang Satang Island last time. ------------- So read on baby ----------

Went to the Sampadi Island last Sunday~~well almost there, cause we can't find any boat to sail us over to the island. We can only enjoy the magnificent view of the island on the Sampadi beach. However, this time I have took a series of HDR photos to share with you guys. Feel free to download it. Cheers This is the Sampadi village, where only a few houses available here. A bit disappointed, cause according to the village there, the island is just 15 mins of boat ride. The island is just there in front of us, with no boat available, this will be just a dream. So beside the Sampadi Island, there are still others small island. One of the island that I visted before are the Talang Satang Island Read it here Frankly speaking my friends and I are quite disappointed, as we already equipped with our camera, food, drinks. We try our luck again, as we head for another village nearby to ask for more information, ----------------- read on my next blog ------------

View Larger Map Visited Sematan not log ago, and took a few sunset photos there. I made some panorama photos, dear reader hope you guys like it. Shoot this at the Jetty, the police boat deck there. (click to enlarge) Fisherman left their boat near the jetty. (click to enlarge) Same view, but different angle. (click to enlarge)

I'm having sunburn, and my skin are pealing off... From this angle, guess what did I shoot? check it out here.... This is a long way down, and a local guy actually jump from there. Is very cold sitting at the edge, the mist which came from the fall are all over us. Check out my diving skills And check out my somersaults skills After the swimming and jumping, I was totally exhausted. And go back to photography again... Now guess what I'm shooting? I've shoot this and this :)

Start my trip at 8AM morning; drive around 1 ½ hours reach the Jangkar Village. We stop by to ask for direction, and were told that the waterfall is not here, we have to drive deep to reach the village inside. Drove another ½ hour, finally we got the correct path. There are only a few houses available in the Kampung Jantan (where the waterfall is). Most of them work as a rubber tapper. We need a guide to walk us to the fall, and hire a local kid and tip him after we reach the fall. The walk start at 10.15AM, and my team reach the fall at around 11AM. Was a bit late, cause one chubby friend need to stop frequently for rest. The fall is magnificent. It’s a treasure that was yet to be discovered by most of the people. The fall is about 3 to 4 stories height. And one of the local guy actually jump from the middle of the waterfall, that’s crazy!!! The weather is HOT, a perfect time to soak in the cold breezing water! My dear reader, this is a highly recommended place to visit next time when...

There are many time where we do editing, we would need to split the video in certain part in order for us to insert maybe another image, a sound clip, another movie clip, or an video effect into it. So today I’m gonna show you on how to split a video clip by using Vegas Pro, it will be an easy tutorial today. First click here for the basic introduction on how to use Vegas Pro in my previous tutorial Select a video to be edit, by selecting the folder that you store your video. Then, click and drag the video into the Timeline Window. You can zoom in to the video to have a better view, the zoom button is at the bottom right corner. Then, you have to hit on the Play button, and when the time line reach the place you want to split the video, click on the S button on your keyboard. After that, you can insert a photo, another video, or mp3 into the gap between the split video. Here I’ll put an example; let’s say I want to put my photo between the split clip. So I will click and drag my...

Few years back, there are not much user friendly programs that allows us to edit our photo. The common one will be Photoshop, CorelDraw, and etc. I’m not good at photoshop or any other software, so is kind of hard for me to edit my image. And one of the problem that I face last time is to inset some text into my photo. Previously I had share on how Picasa can help to combine many images into one image, and today I’ll share one of Picasa’s image editing features to insert text into your photo. Is extremely easy to use, and with just a few mouse clicks….your done. So lets get started… Download Picasa here First run your Picasa program. When you’re at the main screen, click on the folder that contain the image you wanted to edit. Then, double click on the image you want to edit. You will be bring to a new windows, and this is the editing window. As you can see at the left corner there are tabs for Basic Fix, Tuning, and Effects. What we need to use is just the Basic Fix tab. Then, click o...