Sabah muzium

The locals laughed at us when we said we visited muzium. It is a place where I don't bother to visit back in KL what more in other state. But it was worth visiting as we got free entrance into the 3 in 1 - The muzium, art gallery and heritage village.

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I am impressed by the Bryde's whale, the whale's skeleton aged 2 years and it smells fishy still when you approach nearer.

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The heritage village.

Somebody please help Rani with a bench! Haha, fun to tease her :p

The muzium is not that bad after all. I enjoyed the heritage village the most.

Mamutik and Manukan islands

Yeah, beach again! This time we spent a whole day in 2 islands after we got a good bargained price. It took us only a 15 minutes fast boat ride to Mamutik island from Jesselton point.

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Mamutik island

Snorkellers all ready!

Manukan islandThe dead fish :pHanging on...

Manukan island is comparatively bigger and nicer than Mamutik. I wouldn't say it is a nice snorkelling site after been to Perhentian island. It isn't as colourful. Too bad the last boat back to the port was at 5pm and we didn't manage to catch the sun set.

Heard Sapi island is one of the nicest. Am looking forward :)

The escape

If you noted the post on "Journey to white water rafting", there was this picture depicting how unsafe the antique train was. I enjoyed the ride anyway, despite how danger it was until last night when my housemates and I were watching news.

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A train along the same track to Padas river over turned, 2 killed, 3 severely injured and a few were flown into the river. It was no joke, we were on the train 2 weeks ago heading towards the same destination. And half way through, the train actually stopped for a while, it looked like there was some technical problem and a few passengers went down to check it up. I was informed by a passenger who peeped through the window: "Tayar bengkok!" I did giggle a bit.

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However, the train resumed its speed after a while. Thank God that we were back safely. And glad that we did our rafting before this incident or else we wouldn't want to take the risk. To remind those who love adventuring without safety measures (like me), safety comes first!

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Time alone

Getting along with people is never an easy task. Being a lone ranger for a while, it takes some efforts for me to adjust.

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Has been sharing a same car with 4 other people and a room with 2 room mates for the past few weeks. They are not somebodies that are hard to get along with, but a lot more considerations and tolerations are required. I believe the same goes to them tolerating me since all of us have different habits and obsessively compulse different things. I can hardly do whatever thing I want anytime. Things must be planned and discussed together before it can be acted.

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Aw, I miss my Nissan Sunny back in KL, my comfy single bed in Seremban. I miss strumming the few chords singing praises. I miss time being alone.

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Trying to maintain my quiet time regardless of where I am. Has been an ignorant by gradually scrapping off a lot of things from my prayer. I am coming back.

Monsopiad cultural village

Monsopiad was a well known head hunter originated from Kadazan tribe 300 years ago who hunted the enemies' heads as a prove of victory. This cultural village gives a good insight of the tradition and culture of Kadazan involving head hunting and spirit worshipping. We were introduced to some traditional instruments, wines, games, costumes, performances and so on. I thought it was a good place to visit if one would like to know more about the culture of the native.

The red arrow shows the place where the hunted heads were placed. The stone in the middle was where the spirits lied and it aged more than 300 years.

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These are the remaining broken skulls after so long.

The rice wine is made up of 7% of alcohol. The recipe of making were given in the slide shows below. We were supposed to react how the given rice wine tasted (Sakthi's expression was misleading). I could only drank one third after much effort. The alcoholic taste was too strong.

Tembanau time. Could hardly balance myself still...

The traditional performances were cool! Siew Li was invited onto the stage by one of the performer. It was rather funny and lovely. I shall not talk more about it since the involving person doesn't permiss. Overall, the cultural village is superb!

Lok Kawi wild life park

The Lok Kawi wild life park is a mini zoo with mini animals. It would be a suitable place for family outing or kindergarten half day trip. We happened to drop by for a visit during one burning hot afternoon after our hospital duty.

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Puteri-puteri lilin walking up hill...

Alike?

Perfect match!

Deva and her own (favourite) species.

The entry fee for the park is RM10 and I personally think it's not the best option for tourists like us. The good point is, they have a net forest where we are able to be in touch with wild animals (different kinds of birds, squirrel etc.) and really have to beware of their poo-poos. Check out the little zoo below. Have fun!

The break in

Yesterday, 6.30am.

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I was not waken up by my alarm clock as usual. My room mate came into the room, uttered:

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"The wooden door downstair was opened, the drawers in living rooms were in mess!"

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Another room mate and I got up immediately, groggily went downstairs. We paused for a while, mind went blank. True enough, we had a house break in. One of my housemates whose valuebles were left in the living room were all gone in a night. We didn't go to the hospital that day. Spent our day calling, travelling to the police station and bank. That day was more tiring than any other days.

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Really thank God that the robbers didn't invade our rooms. Everyone is safe. However, we no longer feel secure. A lot more precautions are taken. Small little things like a missing slipper could easily trigger the thought of another robbery. Everyone seems to be so anxious.

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Before dawn today while everyone was still asleep. I noticed the ceiling fan stop spinning. Sleepiness stopped me from getting up to find out the reason why. It was termination of power supply most probably. When we talked about it in the morning, the same thought inevitabily crossed our minds.

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"What if the robbers switch off the main power supply and come into our rooms? What can we do then?" I asked.

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And to answer it myself, I'm not sure if I'll stay as calm as I'm now. I will probably call onto God, dial 999 and scream as loud as I can with my room mates. What will you do?

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I feel for my housemates. It's not the robbers that worry me but how unpeaceful they sound. My housemate handled her lost well, strong enough to set aside negative emotions. However, she is no longer as bubbly. A tad anhedonic which is tolerable. This marks a full stop to her pleasant trip here in KK. Being verbally unexpressive as usual, I was speechless. I didn't know how to comfort her. Whatever it is, may the peace of the Lord guard your hearts. *Hugs*

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The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters.

He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For you are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life;

And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

-Psalm 23-

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Do pray with us for protection and the peace of mind.