I AM THE BORNEO EXPLORER 婆罗洲探险者

Christmas Theme 2011 @ One Borneo Shopping Mall, Sabah Been to the 1Borneo Shopping Mall at Kota Kinabalu, and this year they have this Pirate Ship Christmas Theme. It look to cozy and pretty, and they have my favourite color, blue... Christmas Theme 2010 @ One Borneo Shopping Mall, Sabah Went to this mall last year 2010 on a family trip, and they have rain deer and toy soldier. More to red color, and giant Christmas trees. 

I went for a 4 days 3 night trip to Kota Kinabalu, KK is one of my favourite place to visit, especially the Kundasan area there they have the cozy weather, and the Mount Kota Kinabalu. OMG, cozy weather here I come.... oh wait, I'm here for the Charity Ride thingy, so have to settle everything first before enjoying. Went to a house warming party, is my friend's cousin house. He did very well in KK, and bought a half million house to stay in. Is a 3 stories house, the outer looks is good, but they really need to put more effort on the interior. Or hire an interior designer to do the design for them. Is time to check in to our hotel, I'm staying at the Sabah Oriental Hotel (formerly knowns at Beverly Hotel). There is a group of Filipino band, and the two singer can sing very well (and very sexy too). This is how the lobby looks like, there is a water fountain just surrounding the stairways (and the x-mas tree), and they have lots of real tortoise swimm...

Each time I only get to transit at the Bintulu airport, but this time is my first time to visit the Bintulu Town. I follow my friends at the charity society here for a short 2 days 1 night trip, and to attend a charity dinner. Bintulu is famous for the oil and gas industry here, and it also the only division which has the flight academic school here. So who wants to be a pilot, they can come here to learn to fly. When we reach Bintulu, it was meeting the whole day. I don't have any time to actually go around the Bintulu town, and took photo :( My friend bring us to a restaurant, and ordered a famous dish. Is the fish, they cook it by warp the fish with aluminium foil, and put lots of salt inside, and steam it. That restaurant is the only one who can make such dish, and is very tasty (according to my friend). All the fish are kept inside a fish tank, and there are a lot of fishes in that tank. I feel so pity for the fish, waiting to be slaughter, and be eaten by people just ...

Visited Siniawan Town with my brother when he's at Kuching. Is a 30 minutes drive from Kuching, and every Friday and Saturday night the Siniawan old town will have this food fest, and karaoke competition. Too many choice, I order this batu kawa meat balls. Burn my tongue, I ate too fast. The latest trend, Angry Bird. Is all over the place, books, exercise book, lantern, t-shirt..... and the kids are crazy about it. uh!! gonna show you my ride ;)

After my Kanowit visitation , then we took another detour to Julau while on our way to Meradong (Bintagor). And a little bit of background details about the Julau Town. Julau is a town, and the capital of the Julau District (1703.39 square kilometers) in Sarikei Division, Sarawak, east Malaysia. The district population (year 2000 census) was 34,500. The population is dominated by Iban as well as Chinese especially the Fuzhou. This is the first time I saw raw rubber, the lorry was loaded with these stuff. During the rule of Sultanate of Brunei until the White Rajahs dynasty, Julau is one of the places situated inside Kanowit. Julau is a town, and the capital of the Julau District (1703.39 square kilometers) in Sarikei Division, Sarawak. So compare Kanowit and Julau. Julau is much smaller, and not much facilities here. The warf, I'm not sure where this river links to, but since is near to the Kanowit Town, so it might be linked to Kanowit. ...

I went to Sibu with a bunch of friend, then we all drive to Bintagor, along the way we drove pass the Kanowit town. As I never visit the place before, so we decided to take a detour into the town of Kanowit. Kanowit is a town and the capital of a district of the same name. It is located within the Sibu Division, Sarawak, east Malaysia and comprises 2,253.5 square kilometers in area. It is built on the mouth of Kanowit River at the bank of Rajang River, approximately 174 kilometers from the coast of South China Sea. It will take 45 minutes to get there by land transport and about an hour boat ride from Sibu. The main ethnic groups are Iban, Chinese, Malay, and Melanau. This is the landmark singnature of the Kanowit town, the olive? hmmmm..... The town takes its name from the Kanowit, a Melanau ethnic group called Rajang by the Ibans. The language is still spoken. There still are some Kanowit people living in the Kanowit area. However, the language is doomed to extinction. The t...

Last week the Raya and the Independence day falls in the same day, had a few days off. So I went to the Pandan beach with my fiends, and also for Raya visiting (yumm yum, I finally get to eat the satay). The top photographer Wilson Chin (me), this is the grocery shop just right next to the beach. This is a public beach, so there are a lot of people came here to spend their holiday. My parent use to bring us to the beach when I'm little, miss the old days. My friends :) Cheers, Wilson The water are very salty, and I can't really open my eyes when swimming :S

I visited the most beautiful temple at Penang, is on top of a hill, and it's called the Kek Lok Si temple (极乐寺). In the Buddhist teaching, there is a place called the "Pure Land of the West" in Chinese is 极乐世界. The temple name was adapt from there. I'm impress with the building structure, they have really details painting, and magnificent engraving, very huge Buddha statue, beautiful panoramic view on the hill top, and more. I like where they have a lot of souvenir stalls on the way to the temple, and also a lot of food stalls. I tried some of the food there and it was really nice :) That day when I visited the place, it was a cloudy day, I like it cause is not that hot. Took a lots of photos this time, the photos that I took 2 years back are all corrupted. I will make sure that I capture every details this time, and keep my photos in a safe place. I've made a shot clip on my kek lok si temple trip together with my parents, check it out my friend. ...

This is the first time I visited the Penang Hill, as I remember when I was a kid, I did read this in the text book about the introduction of the Penang Hill. At first I know we need to use a train to go uphill, I tough it was a cable car, but I was a bit disappointed when I'm there, and notice it uses a cable train instead of a cable car. oh well, at least I don't have to climb all the way up. So I uses the Penang Hill funicular train service to go up, and paid RM8 (round trip) for adults. The railway starts to construct at 1906, and had also undergo for upgrading after that. From the trip up, it took around 5 minutes. The cable pulls the train all the way uphill, and the train did stop at the platform when going up. Is 833 above sea level on the very top. Also there is a 5.1KM tarred road, is open for vehicles of hill residents, and for off-road motorcycle to travel up the steep terrain. When on top of the hill, I can view almost the entire Penang Town...

My last day at Penang, and the only pace that I went is the Heong Shan Shi Buddhist temple. I was with my parent to attend a Buddhist chanting ceremony, as this is the month of July in the Chinese Lunar, so usually as a Buddhist it would be good if we go to the Buddhist center and pray. There is a big puja ceremony at this Buddhist temple, and it starts at 9AM and ends at 8PM. Well of course in the middle there are break time. This is the first time mom and dad come to Penang, and throughout this few days I bring them around Penang, and am really glad that they are having a good time here. All of my brothers also concern about mom, cause she sometime worry to much about us. Guess all the mom in this world will do the same for their kids. Thank you for following my travel post for this few days, and remember to bookmark my page, as I’ll continue to share some of the interesting about my daily life. Cheers, Wilson Holiday ends today :) Penang Trip Re...

This morning my friend brings us to 2 gardens at Penang, which is the Botanical Garden, and the Penang  Municipal Park Botanical Garden, Penang Municipal Park Both of these park has a lot of people, this is nowhere to be found back in Kuching. I found out why when I start to walk in the municipal park. Inside the park, there are free entrance, the government build a lot of outdoor gym equipment for the public, not just that, there are also 3 – 4 small swimming pools for the kids, several tracks which has their own unique themes, they also has a court specially for skateboard, and BMX bicycle. A lot of senior people group together for morning exercise, and practice tai chi. One thing that I regret is during my walk at the garden, I forgot to bring my camera… Sorry guys, no photo to be shown here. Goddness of Mercy Temple This is also known as the Guan Yin temple, is a popular temple at Penang which specially dedicated to the goddness of mercy. It...

Today I’ll drive my parent to visit a small town called Balik Pulau, and then will eat durian as lunch. Tropical Spice Garden I drive pass this garden, and went in to have a look what’s inside. The entrance fees is RM14 for adults, which I think is not worth it. The stuff that available in the spice garden are the stuff that I can easily found at India street back in Kuching, and even my mom plant most of the spices herself. For the spice garden, sorry guys, no photos… Forest Recreation Park and Museum For this park, there is a signboard hanging on the entrance saying that they suspect there are “mice pee virus” (something like that) in the park, so they now temporary close the park, and after they make sure that the virus is gone, only then they will reopen the park for visitors. For the Forest Recreation Park, sorry guys, no photos again… Balik Pulau Town After that we drive along the mount road, the roads are like snake, some have danger 100 degree curv...