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Sabah Bike Fest 2009
Posted in Carnivals, Happenings, Photography, Seaside, Travel, tagged Bikes, Borneo Bikes, Sabah, Sabah Bike Fest 2009, Tanjung Aru Beach on December 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Tamu Besar- Kota Belud
Posted in Carnivals, Championship, Entertainments, Festive Season, Happenings, Photography, Places, Travel, tagged Bajau, Bajau Horsemen, Horse parade, Kota Belud, tamu besar on December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Posse of Horsemen On the Plain
Held once a year in a resplendent setting fused with pomp & fanfare, this has got to be one of the must-see-events in Sabah.
Tuaran Festival
Posted in Carnivals, Dance, Entertainments, Happenings, Photography, Places, Resort, Travel, tagged Bajau, Lotud, Mt Kinabalu, Tuaran, Tuaran 1Malaysia Fest, Tuaran Fest on December 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Unity in Diversity- aka Utopian Society
Another fest springs up from nowhere. Let’s face it, the Land Below the Wind will soon become known as the Land of Festivals & Carnivals & Funs & …… The more the better, I would say- then we can all spend our time having fun. Society of leisure is here sooner than you [...]
Sabah Dragon Boat Race 2009
Posted in Carnivals, Championship, Entertainments, Festive Season, Happenings, Pantai, Park, Photography, Places, Sports, Tournament, Travel, tagged Dragonboat Race 2009, Kota Kinabalu, Likas Bay Park, Sabah Dragon Bot Race on July 1, 2009 | Comments Off
On The Fifth of The Fifth
Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream …………………
Sabah Harvest Festival- Break Dancers
Posted in Carnivals, Dance, Entertainments, Festive Season, Happenings, Places, Travel, tagged Atama, Bakakuk, Borneo, Borneo Boys, Breakdance Sabah, Harvest Festival, Hip Hop Borneo, Pesta Kaamatan, Tadau kaamatan on June 4, 2009 | Comments Off
B-Boying and the Borneo Boys
At the Tadau Kaamatan
Posted in Carnivals, Entertainments, Festive Season, Happenings, Places, Travel, tagged Harvest Festival, KDCA, Kota Kinabalu, Pesta Kaamatan, Sabah, Tadau kaamatan on June 3, 2009 | Comments Off
Samson & Delilah
Borneo Pesta Kaamatan- Tug of War
Posted in Carnivals, Entertainments, Festive Season, Happenings, Photography, Places, Sports, Travel, tagged Harvest Fetsivall, KDCA, Pesta Kaamatan, Tug of War on June 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Games Without Frontiers, War Without Tears
Its a knockout
If looks could kill, they probably will
In games without frontiers-war without tears
Games without frontiers-war without tears
-Peter Gabriel
The Vikings Vs The Normans
Pesta Kaamatan- Harvest Festival
Posted in Carnivals, Dance, Entertainments, Festive Season, Happenings, Indigenous People, Places, Travel, tagged Borneo, Harvest Festival, Kaamatan, Pesta Kaamatan, Sabah on May 30, 2009 | Comments Off
Let the Ceremony & Fun Begin
First, a Thanksgiving Prayer for the bountiful harvest that the Bambarayon (Spiritual Guardian of the Paddy field) has bestowed upon this blessed land that we call “The Land Below the Wind”.
Lady Kadazan
Posted in Carnivals, Festive Season, Happenings, Indigenous People, Places, Travel, tagged Borneo, Harvest Festival, Kaamaran, Kotobian Tadau Tagazo Do Kaamatan, Penampang on May 18, 2009 | Comments Off
Lady of the Gong
Kotobian Tadau Tagazo Do Kaamatan.
Make a date this coming harvest festival - 30-31 May, 09
Peak Nam Tong Chinese New Year Gala Night
Posted in Carnivals, Entertainments, Festive Season, Happenings, Places, tagged Dance Troupes, Dragons, Events, Festive Season, Lions, Lunar New Year, Peak Nam Tong, Unicorns on February 8, 2009 | Comments Off
No Show Business Like Peak Nam Tong
Peak Nam Tong(PNT) sure knows how to put on a show! Not contented with the great Dragon-Lion-Unicorn showmanship performances usually put on every year, this year it went one better and had a gala night with singings and other stage shows. And what’s more, Hong Bao (Ang Pows) were given out [...]
Red, Red, Red @ 1Borneo
Posted in Carnivals, Entertainments, Festive Season, Happenings, tagged 1Borneo, Chinese New Year, Entertainments, Events, Festive Season, Lunar New Year, Places on February 4, 2009 | Comments Off
Acrobats & Musicians, Ooh La La! (CNY Roundup 2)
1Borneo beats everyone else hands down again. The hypermall was dressed up in crimson red (did I hear scarlet? Tough!) and ready to woo the New Year big spenders or perhaps window shoppers, rather. Mind you, the car parks were absolutely filled to the brims and spilled over to [...]
Chinese New Year Night Market Fair
Posted in Carnivals, Festive Season, Happenings, Places, tagged Chinese New Year, Chinese New Year Night market Fair, Events, Happenings, KK CentralMarket, Kota Kinabalu, Places, Sabah, Shopping, Spring Festival on February 3, 2009 | Comments Off
On The Night When Everybody Is Watching Everybody Watching Everybody (Spring Festival Roundup 1)
That is what the Chinese New Year Night Market Fair is all about. Let’s join in and rub shoulders with whoever and whomever and end up buying whatever you don’t need. Fell for it every time.
Rainfall was still with us in the [...]
Gaya St. Chinese New Year Carnival
Posted in Carnivals, Entertainments, Festive Season, Happenings, Places, Travel, tagged Events, Festive Season, Gaya St Chinese New Year Carnival, Gaya Street, Kota Kinabalu, Lunar New Year, Places, Spring Festival on January 24, 2009 | Comments Off
Wet, Wet, Wet!
And Damp, Damp, Damp. Chucking it down the last five days and dampened the spirit of celebrations. The final day of the carnival, though stayed dry for the duration of the show, saw the turnout of crowds greatly reduced from last year’s. Still, in the spirit of the Coming of Spring and supporting the [...]
Spring Forward to Gaya St. Spring Festival
Posted in Carnivals, Entertainments, Festive Season, Happenings, Places, Travel, tagged Carnival, Chinese New Year, Events, Festives, Gaya Street, Happenings, Kota Kinabalu, Lunar New Year, Spring Festival on January 19, 2009 | Comments Off
Tonight’s the Night
Gaya Awaits You! For the next five nights- 19-23 January, feast yourself to a song and dance extravaganza at Gaya St.
Many Happy Returns of Spring!—— 7 More Days!
Mythical Creatures Mambo at Padang Merdeka
Posted in Carnivals, Entertainments, Festive Season, Happenings, Places, tagged Carnival, Dance, Dance Troupes, Dragon, Dragon Lion Unicorn Dance, Events, Festive, Happenings, Kota Kinabalu, Lion, Padang Merdeka, Places, Travel, Unicorn on January 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Day The Dragon Came A-calling…….
And The Lions…..
And the Unicorn
It was a cloudy and drizzling day (17/01/09), but all the fun was had at the Padang Merdeka, Kota Kinabalu. And you know what? The show was finished early and on time. Even a member of a dance troupe was commenting and praising on the fact. Not too much [...]
Motor Show Update
Posted in Carnivals, Happenings, Motor Show, tagged Biker, Events, Happenings, Kota Kinabalu, Likas Sports Complex, Sabah, Sabah Motor Show on January 14, 2009 | Comments Off
Here Come the Biker Chicks
Yo, medallion men! I’ve found the biker chicks. Hope you are ecstatic in cloud 9. You’ve gone and missed the show, haven’t you? Now regrets are what you’ve got! This one is dedicated to all the medallion men and lady-killers.
Are These the Real McCoys Or Harley Davidson?
And folks, the final day was [...]
Chun- The Coming of Spring
Posted in Carnivals, Festive Season, Happenings, tagged Chinese New Year, Chun, Events, Festive Season, Festives, Happenings, Kota Kinabalu, Lunar New Year, Spring Festival, Travel on January 12, 2009 | Comments Off
Chun Jie – the Spring Festival
Get ready for the big celebration coming soon. Chun Jie, otherwise known as the Spring Festival or Chinese New Year, is celebrated in a grand scale by many in Sabah, particular those of the Northeast Asian origin. Come New Year’s Day the Lion, Unicorn and Dragon Dance troupes will be [...]
Sabah Motor Show Bonanza
Posted in Carnivals, Happenings, Motor Show, tagged Events, Happenings, Kota Kinabalu, Likas Sports Complex, Motor Show, Sabah, Sabah Motor Show on January 11, 2009 | Comments Off
Mosey On Down To The Motor Show
Rain & humid sunny days greeted the Sabah motor show. But still, I did mosey on down to the Auto Show held recently at the Likas Sports Complex parking lots. It was quite an interesting day out for me. Pity, the event was not given a bigger publicity to [...]
New Year in Kota Kinabalu
Posted in Carnivals, Entertainments, Festive Season, Happenings, Places, Travel, tagged Events, Festive Season, Gaya Street, Happenings, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, New Year, New Year's Eve, Nexus, Nexus Reort Karambunai, Places, Sabah, Travel on January 2, 2009 | Comments Off
KK Jamming!
Whoopee!
A night of gaiety and merrymaking in the city centre of Kota Kinabalu and its surrounding areas heralded in the New Year. KK was jam-packed with revellers on the eve of New Year. It seemed like the whole KK population jammed the streets of KK to welcome in the brand New Year. KK [...]
Hogmanay- Happy New Year
Posted in Carnivals, Entertainments, Festive Season, Happenings, tagged Auld Lang Syne, Events, Festive Season, Festives, Happenings, Happy New Year, Hogmanay on December 31, 2008 | Comments Off
Here’s Wishing You A Happy New Year
————————May Your New Year Be A Good One—————–
We will open the book.
Its pages are blank.
We are going to put words on them ourselves.
The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.
———–Edith Lovejoy Pierce
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The [...]
Lego Colouring
Posted in Carnivals, Entertainments, Happenings, Places, tagged Events, Happenings, KK Time Square, Kota Kinabalu, Places, Sabah on December 30, 2008 | Comments Off
Colouring & Lego Contest
The day the grrown-ups were let loose to be creative and be kids again. Honey, I shrunk myself. That’s right, folks! That was the day kids could run free and be themselves and be king for the day. Yeah, back to the good old days where kids would be kids.
Recently, Mothercare [...]
Stairway to Heaven
Posted in Carnivals, Entertainments, Fashion, Happenings, Places, tagged Cosplay, Events, Fancy dress, Happenings, Kota Kinabalu, Party, Places, Sabah, Travel on December 27, 2008 | Comments Off
Hell Or Heaven 2008
Who says Sabahans are boring and conservative? All they need is
an outlet n wat dya get? Hell or Heaven!! This cosplay party, organised by Street2 and held at Promenade Hotel, was a blast, everyone came out fully dressed up in Lolita, Goth or their fave Anime character. Even we MCs were [...]
Christmas Greetings @ Gaya Street
Posted in Carnivals, Festive Season, Happenings, Places, tagged Carnivals, Celebration, Christmas, Festive Season, Gaya Street, Kota Kinabalu, Places, Sabah on December 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Nights of Peace, Love and Goodwill
Gaya Street came alive last night! Throngs of people were at the once a year Christmas Celebration event. Carol singings and inter-church choir & dance performances were highlights of the night. And Christmas would not be Christmas without a nativity play. Yep, that’s what you got. Take it or leave it! I [...]
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