Birds of Borneo- Egret

Our Long Filamentous Feather Friends
The egret is one of the bird-species found in great numbers around the coasts of Sabah- North Borneo. Kota Kinabalu is home to the great egret family and they can be seen all year round, especially around the swampy areas or mangroves. From my expereince, the months of March & April see egrets gathering in greater [...]

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Nightscape of Tanjung Lipat

City Mosque By The Sea

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Freedom of Entry to the City- KK (IV)

It Ended With A Somg & Dance
And so the show was brought to a close with a song & dance concert. First off came the traditional indigenous dances.
Let’s Do The Sumazau
 It looks like the “Blind Leading the Blind Formation”, don’t you think?
And the Bajau Limbo
 Then Came My Darling Sweet Heart
 Murut the Head Hunters
 A music concert [...]

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Freedom of Entry to the City- KK (III)

Post Sunset Ceremony
Officially, it was to be a Sunset Ceremony by the Malaysian Navy at the KK Esplanade, but the sky was already pitch dark when the ceremony took place. I wonder how the organisers arrived at the sunset time? Scientifically or by instinct?  According to my photo time info it was around 7:15pm when the lowering [...]

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Freedom of Entry to the City- KK (II)

The Combats
This is the second part of the event “Freedom of  Entry to the City”
 

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Freedom of Entry to the City- KK (I)

Permission to Come Ashore, SIR!!!!!!!!!!!!  
 
 

And so the troops came marching in and having a swell time.  April the Eighteenth was the day the navies were granted permission to enter the City of Kota Kinabalu. Naval Contimgents from five nations visited upon KK, namely from Brunei, India, Indonesia and USA plus Malaysia, of course.
 
 
 
 

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Freedom To Entertain

And the Troops Came Marching In

 Our Boys & Girls! 

 

 Find out, Next!
  
 
 

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Pantai Manis

Sweet Heart No More
It was a beach dear to the hearts of the people in Papar and was so named as the Sweetie Beach.  Manis means sweet in the local lingo and pantai the beach.

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Likas Lagoon

Car-Spotting By the Lagoon
Now that you have finished and done with the tour of Likas Bay Park, why not just pop across the road to Likas Lagoon to do a spot of bird-watching? Whoa… whoa… whoa….. keep it down. Sorry to keep your blood pressure up. I mean bird watching of the feathery kind.
 

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River Tuaran

The Lifeblood of Tuaran

 

 
 

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Likas Bay Public Park

Taman Awam Teluk Likas
This is a popular picnic spot for the locals. Weekends will see the beach swamped with picnickers having a fun family day out. And of course a dip in the sea will go without saying. The beach is also one of the venues earmarked, unofficially, for the New Year celebration. On New [...]

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An Outing to Tanjung Aru Beach

High Noon At the OK Coral
Shooting the shooter at Tanjung Aru Beach

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Easter Sunday

The Resurrection of Christ
The end of Ash Wednesday- how was the boiled bacon & grey peas dinner? The day the Christians celebrate & believe that Jesus came back to life three days after his death on the cross.
Easter Sunday would be the most attended Christian masses of the year, I am sure. Good Friday saw [...]

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Good Friday

The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ
On this day the Christian world will commemorate the day Jesus Christ was crucified on the cross.
The name “Good Friday” may well be derived from ‘God’s Friday’ in the same way that good-bye is derived from ‘God be with ye’.
The Roman Catholic Church treats Good Friday as a fast day, according to [...]

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KK City Day Regatta 2009

Pop Eye The Sailor Man
Belated event update.
The 10th KK CITY DAY REGATTA 2009 was held over two days on Feb 21 & 22 at Tanjung Aru Beach. It must have been a forgettable event as I have forgotten all about it- till now. Never mind, better late than never.
The event is actually held every year [...]

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Hong Kong Glittering Stars

From Hongkong with Drama
Cut!    Cut!    Cut!    Cut! …………
“Born Rich”- I would be so lucky!- the new Hongkong soap opera drama series was on location shoot in KK recently. And you know what? It was certainly a most enlightening experience for me. Did you know that being on location shoot is not what it is cracked up to be? [...]

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Parrot in Flight

Who’s the Pretty Boy Then?
This parrot flew past me and caught me by surprise. Fo the like of me, I would never imagine in a million years I would see a parrot flying in an open sky and in the wild and all. The place I captured the flight of the parrot was going to be [...]

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Praying Mantis

Pray for Your Life!
In Space No One Can Hear You Scream!

 

Facts: (Wikipedia)
i ) approximately 2,200 species in 9 families
ii ) exclusively predatory and their diet usually consists of living insects
iii)  their compound eyes have a large binocular field of vision
iv)  masters of camouflage
v)  evolved from proto-cockroaches
vi) are primarily diurnal, but many species will fly at [...]

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Grazie Café

Mucho  Grazie ………   
by Chihuahua87
Note: Writings in red are added by Odysseyist
So me and a friend were bored sometime last week, and we wanted to go out for “yamcha”, which is literally translated as “drink tea” in Cantonese. Anyway, we were racking our brains for an exciting venue (yes, yes, I know: near impossible!) when I [...]

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KK Landscape

Have A Break!
A Break Would Do You A World of Good.
 Turtle Speed Again From TM Net!

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Art of Borneo

North Bornean Art
Art, oh yeah, the word that puts a chill up my spine. However, if you are an art connoisseur or a lover of fine art, then look no further. When you are visiting Kota Kinabalu do drop in at the Wisma Budaya Building on the Tunku Abdul Rahman Road, where a few art [...]

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Nusantara Heritage

Batik & Songket Fashion Show
Continuing the  journey up the Nusantara countries

 
 

 

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