Last Day of 2007

How time flies. It's already the last day of 2007. :)

Candid Shot

Rabbit

Not only I found Wahee, the otter but I also met some rabbits. They were cute too but unfortunately, I only managed to take a few good photos. :( Some were overexposed. Too bad. Anyway, I like this particular one.

Wahee - A New Found Friend

When I went to the Mini Zoo operated by Turn Red Sdn. Bhd. a couple of weeks ago, I met a new animal friend. It's name is Wahee and he's an otter. Ooh..I love otter. I think they are very cute! According to the zoo keeper, Wahee likes to eat anything raw from chicken to fish.

So, let me introduce to you Wahee~

Hill Mina

These are my collections of Hill Mina or also known as their scientific name Gracula Religiosa. Inspired by other photography fellows during their visit to Turn Red Mini Zoo at Bau recently, I personally invited a few friends aka photography enthusiasts to join me in a photography outing last Saturday as well. My oh my, that was the first time I spent quite a few long hours at a Mini Zoo. Thanks to Chris, Ian and Sze Cha for accompanying me!~

College Pet

Introducing our college pet - Big Tummy. She's pregnant at the moment by the way. This is how she looked like when she had her eyes on food.

She's almost drooling, and keep licking it's mouth and still keeping an eye for the food in my hand.

She's getting annoyed of me. Haha! ~ Still keep teasing her with the food in my hand.

Ok, she's realised that it's not good to look at me like that so she changed her expression.

Finally, I can't stand the way she looked at me so I let her have the food. She looked cute isn't it?

These are the photos I like best when I was at the Philippines. Thanks to our friendly and helpful taxi driver.

The first one was taken at Intramuros also known as the Walled City. That was the second day there but the beginning of our trip since we missed out everything due to flight delay the previous evening. It is just situated just right in the heart of Manila.

Our destination later in the evening was Mall of Asia. According to our taxi driver, it is the largest shopping mall in the Philippines and used to be in Asia. Lots of things to see here. Nice! A must go if you are a shopping freak.

This one was taken when we were stopping by at Chinatown. It was a nice vacation indeed and cheap too. The return tickets only costs me RM392 because of Air Asia Zero tickets promotion. Other expenses minus the shopping costs me less than RM 600. :)

KK - The Philippines Part 2

23 March 2007. Waiting anxiously for our flight to Clark City, Phillippines. We were supposed to catch our flight at around 1.45pm but due to bad weather our flight was delayed till 7pm++.


But the time we arrived in Clark, it was already 9.36p.m and we're not at our destination yet. We boarded a coach to bring us to Manila which took us about 2 hours ride. Then, have to get another 2 more taxis to bring us to our hotel which took us about 30 minutes.

This was the first interesting thing to see during our bus ride to Manila. Even the toll is the better than ours here in Kuching. Apart from the toll, there's jeepney, traffic, people and more traffic even it was already late at night.


We checked into our hotel (Executive Plaza Hotel) right in the heart of Malate in Manila at midnight. So, the whole day gone just like that.

Pangkalan Sapi

Pangkalan Sapi is just situated along Sarawak River overlooking Kuching Waterfront. A few days back after a hard day at work, I've decided to go there to relax my mind and since I brought my camera along, might as well lar. I took a few shots.

It was a fine evening and the weather is just right for photography.

Didn't know that it's quite relaxing here as well. A good place to unwind. :)

Damai Outing

Went to Damai a few weeks back with Ya Lee, Chris and Adrian. Doing nothing really, just that I had the feeling of wanting to go the beach and relax plus a little bit of photography as well. Most of the photos were just simply point and shoot. It was raining a little bit some more.

Fun with handphone camera

I had nothing better to do last Saturday so I took these photos with my camera phone.

Say cheese and peace~

I took my mum's spec opened my eyes for 2 secs and shot! I think my eyes is a bit juling here.

Hah! Putting cucumber eye mask which I bought from Cosway. Cool! Hahahaha..siaw cha boh! ~

KK - The Philippines Part 1

22-27 March 2007, days that I would never forget. That was the day I had a short trip KK, Sabah and the following day to the Philippines. Both places are totally new to me. In KK, we only managed to go to nearby area such as The Filipino Market and Centre Point which is just directly opposite our hotel (Allson Genesis).

Filipino Market

We had this not so nice encounter at the Filipino market when one of my collegueas actually being taunted for not buying a keychain. This is what we heard as we were leaving the place " Kalau tak nak beli, janganlah minta nak tengok" ("If you don't intend to buy, then don't asked for it"). Wah lao eh, so rude! I'm sure one day the owner would go bankrup soon with this kind of attitude.

This is the view from our hotel room

Joyce's uncle was able to bring us around the town area in the evening and he bought us over to a place called Salut to have seafood. Yummy!

Lakeside view at Salut

Nothing much going on the first day at KK coz is not our target. So, basically, we just jalan-jalan (walking around) and wash our eyes, er..I meant window shopping.

BG Relationship

BG (Boy Girl) Relationship is something which you don't have to go to school, college or University and earning a degree for it. It's something quite natural derived from the instinct of human beings. Something that has been embedded in our human genes to look for the other partner. According to the chinese old folks, each and everyone of us have been tied together with our partner with an invisible red string before we were even born. It will then be our fate and destiny to look for our the other half when we are in the human form. Some of us might not be fortunate enough to have partner coz they (people above) might have forgottten to attach the red string due to some unexplain errors. Interesting huh?

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Inspiration

A friend of mine as well as photography friend, Mick (http://micklong.multiply.com/photos) had recently posted up a very inspiration album entitled "Me & The Darkness", consisting of self taken portrait. This is one of the photos which I'm very fond of. Just read the proverb!

Very true indeed! Thanks Mike for sharing!

Exercise vs Dieting

Standing at 165cm and currently hitting the scale at 66kg, I am actually at the level of being overweight. A friend of mine asked me earlier of the year what's my resolution for year 2007 and I simply said "losing 7 kgs this year (60kg) ". That time I was 68kg and he took my answer with a sinister smile and said "We'll wait and see".

I was still in an idle mode of losing weight until a good friend of mine approached me and asked me to become her bridemaid's for her wedding in November. Wow, a bride's maid..I gotta look good for this! Determined to look good and feel good, I started with more consistency going for hiking with Triora during Sundays if I can make it, going for squash and lately I started brisk walking. I realised that my stamina is really bad during hiking. :(

Yesterday after a full dinner, I stepped on the weighing scale and the needle pointed to 65.5kg. Another 5.5kg to go and I'll be reaching my targeted weight. Another friend of mine said to me recently that execising is useless but dieting is more effective. As a food lover myself, I totally disagree of what she said. I still eat whatever I like especially during the weekends. With this, I'm gonna prove to her that exercise is good and I still get to enjoy the food that I love like ice creams..hahaha..

Around Cat City

I'm gonna be out of the office the whole day today and become a tourist guide around Kuching area. Will post up some photos after the trip.

He Says She Says

Having studied in a SRK and SMK school means there's no Chinese education for me since I was young. Being a Hokkien chinese but was unable to speak in Mandarin have had me avoiding those people who is talking in Mandarin all the time or most of the time. Yeah right, I'm a banana so what?

Since the installation of parabolic satellite at home, I have been following Mandarin speaking programs most of the time and I can say that my understanding of Mandarin language has improved a lot. Only if I had to then I would try to open my mouth and speak the language. That is of course very much broken Mandarin or Rojak Mandarin + Hokkien + English.

One thing that I can't understand is that, most of my good friends around me can speak Hokkien but sometimes they just have to speak in Mandarin even though they know some people in the group cannot speak this language. Why ah? Why? What's wrong with Hokkien or English since everyone can speak those two languages? Imagine going to France or Thailand and you just dunno what they are talking about? How would you feel?

Padawan Outing

Last Gawai holiday, I managed to go to 10th mile Padawan for photography outing with a bunch of photography enthusiasts. We had breakfast at Swee Sen Cafe which is famous for their different range of prices of handmade Kolo mee. The cheapest being RM 3 and the most expensive one is RM 30 (upon request).

After breakfast, our first destination supposed to be Padawan Pitcher Plant and Orchid Garden but who knows, it only opens at 11am during public holiday. So, we ended up at Semenggoh Wildlife centre just in time to see the Orang Utan having their meal. Entrance fee is RM 5 for students and RM 8 for an adult.

Lucky for us, there were 6 Orang Utans all together that day. The daddy utan, mummy utan and the baby utans.

The daddy utan is really cool and he's already 27 years old.

After all the ooohs..and aahhhss at Semenggoh, we went back to Pitcher Plant & Orchid Garden again. Entrance fee is cheap. Only RM 2. These are some of the photos taken there.

It was a great outing and I had fun! :)