My friend knows that I don’t like to eat vegetable, so she bought me a noodle made from vegetable. She told me that this is good for me health, and the portion is a lot, is enough for two people to eat. But in the end, I still manage to finish all of it.
That night, out with friends for supper. I crave for the sio bi at open air, haven’t been there for along time. Yesterday night finally have the chance to eat the sio bi, it was delicious. And after that we went to the Sunday Market where I can get cheap, clean, big, juicy apples.
Here is some shoot which I took at the overhead bridge. Kuching is really a beautiful and peaceful city.
Vegtable Noodle, people can actually think of any tactic, idea, just to keep their business going.
I ate eight, while my friend ate two.
On the left side are Satok Plaza, Maybank, and small shotlots. While on the right are Sunday Market. Sunday Market only operate their business on Saturday evening, until Sunday morning.
Cars coming from the Satok Bridge, the independent day of Malaysia is just at the corner, and this year Kuching has been selected as the city to be celebrate in big time. ----------------------------------- I will be having a very very very very important appointment tonight, wish me luck my dear reader. Eat porridge, eat rice is all depends on tonight. I must focus and concentrate.
This is some of the photos that I shoot during my stay at Genting Highland.
Photo No.1 Without Uncle Lim, there will be no Genting. I took this shoot while I visit the visitors gallery before I go gamble at Genting Casino.
Photo No.2 This is the hotel that I’m staying, the First World Hotel. My friend told me that First World Hotel is the biggest hotel at Malaysia.
Photo No.3 Genting scale model, this is the first photo that I took when I reach Genting. So can you see my reflection? Try harder…
Photo No.4 This is my favorite photo. I took this shoot at Tower 2, bird’s eye view on the outdoor theme park, and Genting Hotel.
Photo No.5 This is my visit to the Hotel Highland, this is how’s the lobby looks like.
Photo No.6 This will be the panoramic view inside the First World Hotel. ------------------------------------- So this end up my trip report on Genting Highland. It was a great trip, I enjoy every moment of it. Next year when I go, I will bring along my whole family to go with me.
After the unforgettable trip at Egypt, I then continue my journey all the way to the end of the earth. I went to the North Pole.
I meet up with a few Eskimos people, they are very friendly but they don’t understand English, we had to use hand language to communicate. I go fishing with them, they treat me eat ice-cream, and ride polar bear with them.
Then I went to Hollywood to meet up with some famous movie celebrities. To have dinner with them, no camera allow, so I didn’t take much photo.
After dinner, I was in time for the last flight to England. When I reach there it was 02:15am. All the hotels are fully book, so I have to sleep at the bus stop for one night.
The next day, I took at early flight to the United State to visit the Statue of Liberty. She is indeed very beautiful, and tall. God Bless America.
After roaming around half of the world, is time for me to go back to my own country, so that night after visiting the State, I fly back to Malaysia. By the time I reach, it was almost noon.
To Genting, The city of Entertainment I went to KL Sentral to get the 12pm ticket to Genting at the price of for RM7.30, and make a call to First World Hotel to confirm my reservation. It took me almost one hour to get to Genting Highland. In the bus, there is a young Malay guy sitting beside me. I start to talk with him, he told me that he is going to Genting to pick his friend, and what a coincident, he was in the IT field as well. So the both of us exchange some precious knowledge on some IT stuff, and just like me, he was from a small town then after finish study he went to KL to work and rent a room there. He was surprise that a Sarawak people main transportation to go from one place to another is by plane (like Kuching-Miri-Sibu-Limbang-Sabah), as in KL they usually use Bus, or Train. Yep, we Sarawak people live up on the tree alright, but we have elevator to go up, and our transportation is plane and helicopter.
After an hour, we reach Genting. I bit farewell to my new friend, and went to check in to my room. Well, this is the first time I came to Genting, so everything is very new to me. I follow the crowd to the main lobby, get my number and checked in. I live at the 20th floor, and the room is small but for a single guy is more than enough. I was given coupons to First World Café for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner everyday.
That night, I start to roam around First World Hotel. When I reach the second floor, it was like a big playground. Very colorful, very cold (raining that time), and very crowded. I start to walk around; I had my buffet style dinner at the First World Hotel with my first coupons. After the dinner, I bough myself a ticket to the ”Mysteria – Believe the Impossible” it was perform by Tim Kole, he is the master illusionist from Las Vegas. The show was fantastic, I enjoy every second of it. But we’re not allowed to take photos, so I face a big risk by posting this photo up. But to share with my dear reader, this is all worth it :)
After the magic show, I was very hungry. I went to Burger King to try out the beef black paper burger, and a large size coke. After my supper, I start to roam around Genting again, the rain just stop, and the win was very strong. I was freezing! But despite the cold weather, I still manage to take some night shoots of Genting – The City of Entertainment.
My bus ticket to Genting RM7.30, the bus depart at 12.00pm
Reach First World Hotel one and a half hours later, I’ve check in the hotel. And I was in the20th floor, I didn’t expected that it would be so crowded.
My room, is a bit small, but is more than enough for me.
Went to the First World Café to have my dinner, is a buffet style dinner, I can eat as many round I want, and eat as many stuff as possible.
I bought a ticket to see the illusionist from Las Vegas, Mr Tim Kole. Their theme was base on an Egypt story.
Burger King, my supper after the magic show.
Night view of Genting, the colorful hotel there is called the First World Hotel. --------------------------------- Next will be photo post of Genting Highland.
I had check in at Sunway Tower, the room rate is RM220 per night with breakfast. Actually I was going to stay somewhere near the city hub, but that night I need to meet up with a friend and he live near to Sunway.
After I check into my room I bath, rest, and sleep. The next morning, when I woke up it was almost 1pm, there goes my free breakfast. My appointment is tonight so I still have plenty of free time. I wanted to go to the water world at Sunway where all the sexy girls in bikini were. Just imagine lying under the palm tree, drinking orange juice and enjoying the “nice view”. Just when I was about to go, I saw one of my Kuching friend. The world is too small, we chat and he told me that there will be a function tonight, and would like me to join. At first I was little bit lazy, but when he told me that there will be a lot of “nice view” hm~~I think I will probably go. But it requires formal wear, and I left all my formal clothes at Kuching, under his persuasion the both of us went to shopping at Sunway Pyramid. I bough a new long white sleeve clothes, and my friend will borrow me his spare tie. We spend the whole evening at Sunway Pyramid, until I forgot to go swimming.
That night the function start at 8pm, it was some kind of convention for a company. It was a very grand convention; it has a mini fashion show, a mini magic show, dancing singing and etc, as they had also invited lots of well known people. I had shoot a lots of photos as well. One thing that needs to be improve on is that they should provided dinner. At the end of the convention, I had the change to take a group photo with all the MC, and yes I had pick my favorite one to take photo with ;) after the photos, I thank them all and went back to my room. When I was in the elevator while browsing the photos that I’ve shoot, I just notice I had done something very wrong, and should not be forgotten and this is a mistake that I will remember forever. What did I do? Well, I didn’t ask for her Name, Phone No, or e-mail. STUPID, STUPID!!! *bang my head on the wall*
After depart from airport, I took a bus and came to Sunway Pyramid.
Where is the 13th floor?
The convention was awesome, a lot of entertainment show had been arrange. And I really enjoy myself that night
Me with the angels, my favorite is the one standing on my left. But very sayang that I forgot to asked for her number, she has a very pretty smile, and I almost melt when she smile at me. So guys please don’t repeat the mistake that I made.
After the convention, I just remember that I need to meet up with my friend. I hurry rush back to my room, get change, call up my friend and meet up with them. ------------------------------- Tomorrow I will be going to some place cold, bye bye pretty angles.
Because of work I had been treating my own body like a rented car for the pass six month, so I decided to give myself one week break, a nice one. Where do I go for the pass one week? I went to someplace hot, I went to Egypt to visit the Pyramid :P I pack some clothes, camera memory cards, credit card, sport shoes, book my air tickets and off I go.
I used Air Asia to fly. I heard the stewardess is not as pretty as MAS airline, so this I have to check out myself.
After a few hours of flying, I finally reached my destination. The Pyramid, the weather is hot.
There is nothing to eat at the desert, after few house of walking I found an oasis. There are huge banana, and some other tropical fruits.
After the fruits, I continue with my journey and found this very beautiful palace in the middle of the desert. ------------------------------- I will post up more photos in next post, so compare MAS stewardess and Air Asia’s., Air Asia........I like them all
Will be going to KL for a few days, so I have to close shop for a week. But when I'm back, I will take lots of photos and share with all of you. Till then see ya :)
06:00pm. On my way back home, what a beautiful clouds formation.
07:57pm. Traffic jam and I was late for my date.
02:08pm. Lazy Sunday evening, it was a cloudy day.
06:43pm. Finish jogging, the sun is setting.
01:12pm. Pick up my friend at the Kuching International Airport
12:21pm. Saturday, work half day. On my way home…
01.53pm. Wait my friend on the bus stop, rain heavily.
12.55pm. Help my auntie to pick up his son at school. Miss the good old secondary school days.
6.32pm. A police car right on my tail. ----------------------------------------- Rocky boy is going back to Limbang today, I will miss him, my best buddy. :`(
This year is the 9th Rainforest World Music Festival (7th – 9th July), my cousin brother Kenny and I had went for the Sunday show. Before that I didn’t plan to go actually, cause I think there is no point listen to a bunch of people play drums, plus they are not famous so why waste the money. But everyone is talking about this festival, it only organize once a year. People around the world are coming for this music event, and the culture village is just like 14minuts drive from town (only if Kenny drive) so I just follow Kenny to the music festival.
Kenny pick me up at 10a.m from my hosue, and we first went to the Tun Abdul Razak Hall. An artist name Stephen Bennett was exhibiting his painting at the museum. Some of the picture can cost around USD4000 and higher. He exhibits the portrait paintings of people that he had met around the world including his travels around Sarawak, Sabah, Brunei, and Kalimantan, the theme for the exhibition is called the “Portraits From My World”. His painting wes amazing, it was just like a real photo. There are two types in his portrait photos; one is painted with colorful colors. And another one is with original skin color. For me I like both, as each of them has it own beauty.
So after the museum, we had our breakfast at open air with Kuih Tiao and Sio Bee. We reach Santubong resort at 11.21am. We park our car there, and bough two tickets of music festival (RM60 each), and two shuttle car ticket (RM5 per-person) to bring us to the music festival and back to the resort when finish.
Upon entering the culture village, we have to wear a wristlet to indicated that we had bought our tickets. My wristlet number is 00001, how lucky. The weather is HOT!!! We then went to the auditorium to check out the schedule for the day. Then we start to roam around culture village, Kenny is a tour guide so he knows how to explain the characteristic of each ethnic group in Sarawak to me.
2.00pm, we went to a percussion workshop at Lagenda hall with the theme Feel The Beat. The group consist people from Korea, Madagascca, Latin America, Mongolia, and Malaysia. I felt very amaze on how they can combine all the instruments together and form a fantastic music beat rhythm. Everyone was carried away by the music, we dance, we clap hands, we laugh, and we all had a very good time.
The workshop last for about 40 minutes, and then we went to this Iban Longhouse, the Sarawak Bidayuh tribe dance with member of Biringkeng Tuaan, with the themes Menigal. When we reach, it was almost over, so we proceed to the next workshop at the auditorium. The themes for this workshop were Drones and Popes, this was perform by people from Austria, Scotland, and France but when we reached the hall the show was over. The three workshops are performing at the same time from 2.00pm to 2.40pm.
The time was 3.20pm, hungry :S we went to the food stalls to get something to eat. After surveying, I decided to eat Kebab (RM7). Is a half pizza, half burger thing. Kenny meet his friends, we sat down under the tree shade, and chill. The feeling that time was unexplainable, just imagine in a hot day. You eating bugger, drinking cold coke, while chilling under the tree, and breeze blowing at you. Plus there are a lot of foreigner hot chicks walking around.
We stayed until 4.30pm, then we went to the last workshop at the auditorium again. With the themes Kissing Cousins which will perform Bidayuh bamboo instruments plus Madagascan music instrument. Both of the instruments are made from bamboo. They all give introduction to each and everyone of the musical instrument, and also tell brief history on the musical instrument background. Its like a history class, and I almost fell asleep, seriously I hate history classes I fail my history exam from kindergarten until secondary school. This last workshop is kinda boring; when it ends we have to be inform by the MC that “ok, the show is over now. You can come up and try the instrument if you want.”. Then everyone just start to clap hands, and run for exit.
The night show starts at 7.30pm. We then went to the Damai beach; I wanted to take some shoots, especially sunset shoots. Wow~~seeing the sunset is beautiful, just if you are here beside me. We head back to the culture village at around 7.00pm, felt hungry. Kenny bough lots of food for me (my good cousin brother), we had bugger, coke, sausage, satay, and barbeque chicken for dinner.
The first group to perform is by Istamuzika from Malaysia, follow by Genticorum from Canada, then is Tengir Too from Kygryzstan, after that is Kilema from Madagascar, and then is Calle Sur from Latin America, then Les Yeux Noirs from France, and last is the Finale from all of the performance around the world. The rainforest was full of people, it was like the United Nation. People from around the globe gather together and celebrate. The RM60 entrance fees is all worth it, next year mark the 10th Anniversary of the Rainforest Music Festival, for me I will definitely go for it. See you all next year at the rainforest music festival my dear readers.
Enjoy the photos and clips.
Before I went to the music festival, Kenny had bring me to the Dewan Tun Abdul Razak (Tun Abdul Razak Hall) is situated just opposite the Museum Sarawak. As there’s an painting exhibition.
”Portraits From My World” an exhibit of portraits paintings of the people Stephen Bennett has met around the world.
The tall guy on the upper left corner is Mr. Stephen Bennett. Notice that he carries lots of camera on his neck. That is one of my dreams, to go around the world and take photos everywhere I go.
Inside the hall, the painting is displayed on the center of the hall.
This is an unfinished painting, wonder who is the old dude?
The name of this pretty girl is Jennifer Koo. Just look at how he painted the face, and hair. It looks so real.
This is a biggest portrait painting, it was hang on the center. This painting would cost more than USD4000, and guess how big it is?
Kenny standing beside the picture.
In this picture, the light on the face. It gives me a 3D feel, it looks so real.
His workplace, is a mess. I think every arties workplace is a mess.
Ok, after the exhibition. Our next destination Sarawak Culture Village.
We part our car at Santubong resort.
Tickes girls
Tickets on the left is for entering the culture village which cost RM60 each, tickets on the right is for shuttle car to bring us from the resort to the culture village, and later back to the resort again. Which cost RM5 per person
Kenny and his tourist guide friends.
Yeah baby, welcome to the Sarawak Culture Village
Before we enter, we have to wear this wristlet to prove that we had bough tickets.
Above is the restaurant.
Barbeque chicken wings, and drum stick. Cost RM2.50 each
Lots of booths had been set up to sells souvenir.
First I went to the Chinese House, which I had missed out last time.
Chinese altar
When I step in this house, it had somehow brings me back to the pass. I can still remember to old house that my grandpa and grandma live, the design is exactly the same. The table, how they put the knife, the cooking stove, the cupboard, and the thing that sit under each leg of the cupboard which you have to pour water in it to prevent ants from going to the cupboard. All of this is exactly the same.
Another view on the tradition Chinese house.
The first booth that we visit. This guy sells Tradewind Treasures from the South China Sea. All are ancient shipwreck jewelries and artifacts. Each item is individually handcrafted in sterling silver and in one of a kind.
Malay house
The interior of the traditional Malay house.
the bedroom of the Malay people
The Melanau house. The Melanau are one of Sarawak natives people, which live inside the forest.
They likes to eat sago, sago its like their local delicacy.
This is the Sago tree trunk.
Behold the stage for tonight event.
This dude must be the one who in charge of the sound system tonight.
This is the auditorium theatre, and guess what I saw in the theatre...
...some sleepy staffs.
The first workshop starts at 2.00. The themes for this workshop “Feel The Beet” a percussion workshop. We reach there 15 minutes before showtime, to get a good sit. They are setting up the sound system.
yeah, lets all standup and dance and I was standing on a chair.
Enjoy the clips. The group consist people from Korea, Madagascca, Latin America, Mongolia, and Malaysia.
At the Iban Longhouse. Menigal a interactive Sarawak Bidayuh tribe dance workshop with members of Biringkeng Tuaan.
At the Auditorium theater. “Drones and Pipes", a hurdy-gurdies, harmoniums, and a lof of hot wind. Pity is that when we rach, the show was over.
Is time to dig for food.
Suddenly I was crave for kebab, and I went for this stall called the Little Lebanon
See how he prepare the food.
My lamb kebab RM7. Kenny paid this for me.
After our lunch, we head back to the auditorium again for another workshop. The “Kissing Cousins”, is a Bidayuh bamboo instruments meet Madagascan bamboo instruments. For me it was more like a history class then a musical workshop.
I almost fell asleep in the auditorium
Now all of the workshop had ended, we have to wait till 7.30pm for the night shows to start. So we walk to Damai Lagon, and to the beach to take some shoots.
Welcome to the beach, I haven’t been here for almost one year. Times fly
Beautiful sunset, I just love sunset. Is very harmony, and beautiful. (12 July) a very special day, wish you’re happy always.
Is time to eat again, this round is for dinner.
we had coke, bugger, sausage, barbeque chicken, and Satay for dinner.
Let the music begins
Just if I had a digital SLR, then you guys can see clearly the performance on stage.
The Kilema group from Madagascar.
Just look at the crowd.
Everybody dance with the music. Who cares worldcup is just few hours away,
After the grand Finale which perform by every performance from all over the world, then it marks the end of the 9th Rainforest World Music Festival 2006. here is my ticket to get back to Santubong resort, see you all next year. --------------------------- Kenny thanks for your sun block cream, I just notice that I didn’t suffer any sun burn :) Another thing is Kenny you’ve use to talk to stranger right, do you see the yellow shirt girl, can you go over and…
