Hidden Treasures

I left for a few days because I was attending an event called National Undergraduates Convention.

It was actually a 3-day camp which gathered local university students from Sarawak. Most of the committee members were from UUM (Universiti Utara Malaysia) and as a result, most of the participants were from UUM. I was the only one who came from UTHM. Some of them even don’t know what is UTHM. What a sad thing.I know UTHM is not as famous as those UM, UKM, USM or UPM. But I believe that, one day, it will. With the initiatives from all the UTHMians. No thanks to those guards who like to issue me summons. They are dick heads.

Well, this time was the 6th convention and I was forced to enter this convention. My friend paid for me before asking for my approval. Registration fee is RM50 so I thought that I would give it a try since I never enter such convention before. It was happened at Santubong and Permai.

First Day

Registration and introduction to the 3-day events. There were 2 talks about our careers, asking us to come back Sarawak to work after graduates, which I think the chances are low. We are staying in Santubong Resort.

Second Day

There was one exercise session in the morning. We were required to dance something like joget. I have no idea why the hell is it. Then followed by a talk after breakfast after we checked out our room at Santubong. Next was the most challenging part - Walk from Santubong to Permai. Bloody hell. I had produced few liters of body juices walking under the hot sun. Not only that, there were a lot of treasure hunts along the way. Imagine that situation. I never did that in my life before in the past 20 years.

After that, we had our lunch before the last few treasure hunts. Then we arranged the puzzles found during the treasure hunts in the Jungle Hall. And finally, we got some rest before our dinner. Checked in the cabin house at Camp Permai.

The most interesting part of this day was the solo sit. What do you think solo sit is? Sit anywhere you like for an hour? You are wrong! There were guides who lead us into the jungle at 9pm. It was very dark and everyone of us carried torch lights into the jungle for walking and climbing purpose. After half an hour of walking, another guide placed us one by one along the jungle track. One by one with displacement of at least 3 meters in between. The situation was dark. You see nothing. Only the glow-in-the-dark leaves on the floor. Many weird sounds coming from the environment and it was scary.

Luckily there was one friend of mine, came to approach me after 15 minutes and we talked for about 2 hours before the guide came back to bring us out. If he was not approaching me, I think I would be bored for the freaking 2 and a half hour.

Third Day

This day has nothing interesting because there will be the closing ceremony once we finished our obstacle course which looks alike like what you can see in the National Service. Closing ceremony has nothing special. Everyone’s taking photos with each other and that’s all. We checked out our cabin house and left for Kuching.

This was my group. MARS. 火星人，冲冲冲！Yeah!

Hey guys, I am back! Finished my finals and many things to be packed before going home.

I went to Johor Bahru before the finals.

Actually Danga Bay is just like Kuching Water Front. It is located along a river.

There is a theme park there but unlike the theme park at Genting, this one looks like it is for kids. XD

The habour at Danga Bay.

Danga Bay has nothing to draw me to the attention. It has nothing. Even worse than Kuching Water Front. At least Water Front got a lot of stalls along the walking path.

However, there is one zoo which actually attracted me when a promoter showing a brochure to the pedestrians. The entrance fee for this zoo is RM10. Since the night is still young (It’s only 10pm), I went into the zoo.

The Petting Zoo.

These two parrots are lame. They can’t talk!

The scary snake.

This stupid tiger is so gay! It acts like a cat. Shit. Spoils the world’s tiger reputation.

GGGgrrrrr…

That’s all boring place at Danga Bay.

Next, I met with my friends at Johor Bahru and planned to sing karaoke at City Square.

This building is…

Johor Bahru City Square!

We went to Neway to sing. We got our student price by showing our student card. RM7 per pax including lunch set. Cheap right?

However, this cheap thing comes with a pay. We were served with nuts and tit bits before singing and we thought those little things were free. We finished them. At the end of the singing session, the receipt came and…

8 saucer plates of tit bits cost us RM54! Holy shit. That’s RM6.75 per small plate.

This trip ended with a movie called Coffin. Karen Mok was in it!

Story line is nice. But the ending sucks.

Not forgetting the new couple who was in the trip. Hope that they had a good time enjoying their first trip, perhaps.

Have been very busy last few weeks. There are tests and assignments.

Electronic Principles is a quite tough subject I would say, because the tips given are useless. The tips are like, asking us to finish the whole book. WTF.

This is what I always do when I fed up with the studies. It’s making me going hair wire sometimes. The book is just an atrocious piece with its fucking poor grammars.

Of course, not only this. There are a lot some more. Admit it, it’s still the first edition. Sigh.

And there is a one week holiday last week. I had gone to Melaka and Genting Highlands. It’s considered a good trip but unorganised properly.

The black and the white waiting for the girls to answer the nature calls.

This guy had just went into the girls’ toilet to rush the girls out because he has no patient to wait for them anymore. Bravo!

This is somewhere inside the Melaka Parade. It is a big shopping mall like Batu Pahat Mall. Nothing special inside but a lot of branded thingy selling.

The pond behind me is actually connected to the drains outside. And there are big fishes inside. Unbelievable!

The only thing I like in Melaka Parade is its special designed staircase. This staircase is not only allowing people to walk ups and downs, but also allows trolley to be travelled ups and downs the staircase. See how nice and creative the engineer is. Dear civil engineering friends, you guys have to catch up with this. Maybe some day you can create staircase that does not require man to walk on it, just stand will do perhaps. Haha.

This is a larger staircase.

I simply love this photo very much. The colour is filled superbly. Chee Hong does not believe that I really took this photo by myself, using Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot. Frankly speaking, the photo quality of all the photos I have taken is nice. It’s almost like a digital camera but only that it does not have the anti-shake feature and it takes a long time to save a photo before you can take the next photo. One more thing, this K550i does not support zoom in 2 mega pixels mode. You have to change it to VGA mode so that you can zoom further but the photo quality is not as nice as the 2 mega pixels. It might seem a little blur if you take photo by zooming in a lot.

This place is called Janker Walk. It’s like a better Petaling Street in KL. Less people, more space to walk, no people shouting, no people pulling customers to buy things and most importantly, it’s cooler than the damn hot Petaling Street. Many souvenirs can be found here selling at very reasonable price.

Did you see the red-shirt girl at the back? What I want to say is, the red coloured shirt is totally suitable with the theme of this shop. This shop actually is selling chicken rice in sphere. That is the speciality about this shop in Melaka.

The pretty flower at the roadside.

The famous Satay Celup steambot somewhere in the city of Melaka. It’s nice actually, with the satay soup.

Then we went to sit on the Melaka Cruise at Selat Melaka where there are a lot of business trading done at this river in our history book. Oh gosh, I hate history! I should have come to this place earlier so that I can score with flying colours in my SPM. Hahaha.

I can tell you, their night city lighting is very very very glooming. N-I-C-E!

Everywhere is lights along the Selat Melaka.

This is so called the three legs road. In mandarin, we call it, 三脚路, told our tour guide, Chow Wei Shuen, aka Chow Yun Fatt. Haha, it’s usually being called by Mr. Talha.

This is the heritage of Melaka if I am not mistaken. Mr. Chow the tour guide did not tell me anyway. But I know it’s chinese name. It’s called the 古城. To be translated, it is old city. It seems really really old.

This is a stone carved to remember a family which consists of a few very young babies, died because of the war at Melaka.

I have no idea who is this guy? Looks like a Britain who tries to kill human beings. Hahahaha…

Ya, this is the building of so called old city. It’s so boring that it is just a empty buidling. With nothing to see. Very old thick walls around and the long ladder is totally the worse design I have ever seen. Muahahahahaha…

Seriously, I really don’t know a single thing in this freaking old building.

The Red House, more boring.

The B-O-R-I-N-G-N-E-S-S of Melaka. Or maybe that’s why I hate the history subject so much. Why do human beings create history? It’s suffocating me.

In fact, I think she felt bored too. It’s hot under the sun and it’s nothing to see.

After stuck myself in Melaka for 2 days, finally I came to Genting Highland, playing casino! Wooohoo!~ That’s the whole holiday trip of mine during the one week holiday. It’s new and fresh going with different people to different places.

I had been to Santubong Suite to have photography session with my friends in Kuching few days ago.

Actually I was thinking of going to Santubong Resort, which is much cheaper compared with Santubong Suite. But heard my dad said that Santubong Resort is not a “clean” place to go. You know what I mean right? Antonym of “clean” means that it’s a haunted place to go. And I was prepared. I brought my buddha statue. It’s my mum’s order ok. ^^

Santubong is located north of Kuching and it is almost surrounded by trees. Meaning that there are a lot of trails and a lot of jungle trekking can be done over there.

To my surprise, Alvin booked Santubong Suite. Well, as long as it is not Santubong Resort, that’s all fine. Phew. It is a nice suite with beautiful view outside its balcony. With 24-hour monitored security system, every in and out of this suite required a card key before you can use the lift and going to the car park.

If I am not mistaken, this is a 15 floor building and it is well protected by the security. One unit contains 1 master bedroom, 2 rooms, 2 washrooms, 1 kitchen, 1 living room and 1 balcony. It’s big enough for a moderate family.

A moderate family consists of… so many shoes? This is a large family.

The living room.

There are 3 themes for this photography session. The first one is after work. We all look like professionals right? Haha. All wearing nicely.

That’s the view outside this suite. Somewhere near to the golf course.

Right after the golf course, here comes the beach.

Jump.

Err, jump err..

JUMP JUMP JUMP!

What is this? Snake? I was humiliated by Andrew when positioning myself to take this photo. Andrew, you better watch out. I will take revenge on you. =.=”

OooOoo… What is that girl in the middle doing? o.O Too happy or what? Saw a dolphin? Haha.

The second theme is casual.

Here comes the last theme. Wet attires. We were going into the water.

Everyone’s jumping to cheer for the photographers who finished their photography session with us. There were 3 photographers, Edwin, Cecilia and Jeff. They are great photographers.

These photos are not photoshoped yet. It’s originally taken from the Edwin.

At Pulau Lakei, you can discover a world of mystery of rock paintings just a short distance away from the beach. It’s an island few kilometres away from Bako National Park head quarters. It’s an small island and the longest trail is just half an hour. The trail is properly managed and easy to walk.

Arrived Pulau Lakei.

View from the top of the mountain in one of the trails at Pulau Lakei.

Feel like jumping into the fresh, clear and cold water from here. XD

And that’s our speedboat during our whole trip.

After visiting Pulau Lakei, we were moving to Pandan Besar, Bako National Park. Pandan Besar is also a nice beach where visitors are advised not to go through the trail to reach Pandan Besar because of its high and dangerous cliff. Anyhow, visitors are encouraged to visit this beach by boat.

Luckily didn’t drop my camera into the sea. Teeheezz…

Seashell on the beach.

Monkeys are everywhere in Bako National Park. We bought a box of Dutch Lady milk and one of the naughty little monkey grab it from the fridge and pour it all over the floor. Swt. I would have shaved all his pubes hair!

That’s the trip to Bako National Park. Next post will be on Santubong trip. A photographer will be with us during the trip. He will freeze our sweet moments.