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Mount Kinabalu as observed from KKIP (Kota Kinabalu Industrial Park) on a clear blue day.
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Wishing Well
Posted in Inspirational & tranquility, Landmark, Photography, Places, Travel, tagged Sabah, Sandakan, Wishing Well, Fountain, Puh Tze Shi on October 5, 2009 | Comments Off
Coins In The Fountain
May your wish be fulfilled.
And Mine.
Sabah State Mosque
Posted in Art, Festive Season, Happenings, Landmark, Photography, Places, Travel, tagged Eid al-Fitr, Eid ul-Fitr, Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Mosque, Sabah State Mosque on September 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Eid al-Fitr- Hari Raya Aidifitri
The End of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting.. Let the Festive Season of Charity commence. The next three days, 20-22 Sept., are officially public holidays in Sabah.
Night On the Town- Kota Kinabalu
Posted in Happenings, Hotel, Landmark, Photography, Places, Travel, tagged KK at night, Kota Kinablalu on September 18, 2009 | Comments Off
One Night in KK
Sabah State Legislative Assembly
Posted in Happenings, Landmark, Photography, Places, Travel, tagged Dewan Undangan Negeri Sabah, Malaysia Day, Sabah, Sabah State Legislative Assembly, Sabah Yang di-Pertua Negeri's birthday on September 16, 2009 | Comments Off
Dewan Undangan Negeri Sabah
Today (16th September) is an official public holiday in Sabah. Officially, it’s the Yang di-Pertua Negeri’s (Head of State) birthday.
On this day in 1963 the Federation of Malaysia came into being. Unofficially, this day is also celebrated as Malaysia Day in Sabah. Unless and until the whole nation comes to the realisation of the [...]
Mount Kinabalu Afar
Posted in Divine, Landmark, Legend, Park, Photography, Places, Travel, tagged KK Tropical Rainforest park, Mount Kinabalu, Penampang Road on August 30, 2009 | Comments Off
Romancing Gunung Kinabalu
On a clear day the formidable sight and grandeur of Mt. Kinabalu is staggeringly spectacular to watch. The legend of the “Widow’s Sorrow” adds an angle of dramatic Romanticism to the mountain.
Semporna
Posted in Beaches, Landmark, Pantai, Photography, Places, Resort, Seaside, Travel, tagged dragon Inn, Regatta Lepa, Seaside resort, Semporna, Sipadan on August 26, 2009 | Comments Off
A Perfect Getaway
Perfect! Just perfect! Who am I to disagree if the local Bajau say so?
A Tour of Duty in Kota Kinabalu
Posted in Beaches, Landmark, Park, Photography, Places, Seaside, Travel, tagged Jesselton, jesselton Point, KK By the Sea, Kota Kinabalu, Mount Kinabalu, North Borneo, Panoramic View of kota kinabalu, Tour of Kota Kinabalu on August 20, 2009 | Comments Off
A Sojourn Down Costa del KK
A tour of Kota Kinabalu by the sea in a Mediterranean sort of way.
Pix 1: from left to right
Gaya Centre, Wisma Sabah, Wisma Merdeka, Hyatt Hotel & Wisma Yakim
Invariably at some point during your sojourn in Sabah, you will embark on an excursion to the tropical islands that are dotted [...]
Durian of Tawau
Posted in Happenings, Inspirational & tranquility, Landmark, Legend, Places, Roadsign, Travel, crankies, tagged Durian, Landmark, Roadsign, Tawau on August 17, 2009 | Comments Off
Durian Town
Tawau- a town that is so proud of the King of Fruits, Durian, they even have s street named after the fruit.
After having come back from Tawau, I am still searching in vain for a Durian Street in Kota Kinabalu. Why can’t KK town planner/council be as creative as Tawau-ians?
Durian, my kind of town!
I have [...]
Freestyle Diving @ Semporna
Posted in Landmark, Pantai, Photography, Places, Resort, Seaside, Travel, tagged Diving, Semporna on July 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A Sunset Dip
Semporna- that Divers’ Meeting Place before heading towards the Divers’ Paradise. Surprisingly, Semporna has now become kind of like an English seaside resort. But…………. everything comes to a halt after 10 pm. So, to bed we went. An early night, the first time in a long while.
What is there in Semporna, you may [...]
Postcard fron Donggongon
Posted in Landmark, Photography, Places, Travel, tagged Donggongon, Kota Kinabalu, North Borneo, Penampang, Sabah on July 6, 2009 | Comments Off
Kadazan Country
Visit the outskirts of Donggongon town. Keep a low profile, we don’t want to create massive traffic jams now, do we?
Up the Mount Kinabalu Country Road
Posted in Entertainments, Happenings, Inspirational & tranquility, Landmark, Nostalgia, Photography, Places, Travel, tagged Borneo, Country Road, Kinabalu Highway, Mount Kinabalu, Sabah on June 28, 2009 | Comments Off
I’m On Fire ……
This weekend, beat a hasty retreat to a romantic rendezvous. Slap on the music and take a leisurely drive up the Mount Kinabalu Highway over the sunset hour.
Aki Nabalu- the Mountain of North Borneo
Posted in Landmark, Legend, Park, Photography, Places, Travel, tagged Aki Nabalu, Gunung Kinabalu, Kota Kinabalu, Mount Kinabalu, Mountain, North Borneo, Sabah on June 20, 2009 | Comments Off
Legend of the Widow’s Sorrow
Mount Kinabalu is what you come to Sabah for. A World Heritage site, over-promoted and over-charged with the local residents sidelined to the periphery. Best not to over promote local sites/sights or else we, the locals, end up becoming the onlookers and by-standers instead.
More on Mount Kinabalu later on …………………
Kellybays Tuaran, Borneo
Posted in Angler, Beaches, Landmark, Pantai, Places, River, Seaside, Travel, tagged Borneo Kelly Bays, Kelly Bays, Kellybays, Tuaran on May 13, 2009 | Comments Off
Keep the Dragon’s Tail At Bay
Kellybays, otherwise referred to as Bay of Dragon’s Tail in Chinese, has that sense of transcendental Shangrila sensational feeling to it, especailly when viewed through during the twilight hour.
Prince Philip Park
Posted in Beaches, Landmark, Nostalgia, Pantai, Park, Places, Seaside, Travel, tagged Kota Kinabalu, Prince Philip Park, Tanjung Aru, Tanjung Aru Beach Park on May 1, 2009 | Comments Off
Take A Walk On The Wild Side
A much neglected, under-rated & under-maintained park in Kota Kinabalu. But, in my humble opinion, it’s wild and yet still the best park in the whole of Sabah. It is, I think, the first public park in Kota Kinabalu and was built to commemorate the Royal Visit to Sabah by [...]
Likas Lagoon
Posted in Birds, Fishing, Landmark, Places, Travel, tagged Bird, Bird-watching, Birds, Egret, Lagoon, Likas Lagoon, Sparrow on April 17, 2009 | Comments Off
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.
Likas Bay Public Park
Posted in Beaches, Landmark, Pantai, Park, Places, Seaside, Travel, tagged Beach, Likas Bay Beach, Likas Bay Public Park, Pantai, Places, Taman Awam Teluk Likas, Travel on April 14, 2009 | Comments Off
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 [...]
Signal Hill Vista, KK
Posted in Landmark, Places, Travel, tagged Kota Kinabalu, Signal Hill on March 28, 2009 | Comments Off
Australia Place
Posted in Hotel, Landmark, Nostalgia, Places, Pubs, Travel, tagged Australia Place, Jalan Dewan, KK Community Centre, Kota Kinabalu, Landmark, Places, Sabah, Travel on March 25, 2009 | Comments Off
The Wizard of Oz
There you go! I am really getting cheesed off with the constant naggings from friends abroad about this little place called the Australia Place. What is there to see and what is it about? Here it is! Read it and weep!
KK Esplanade
Posted in Angler, Landmark, Places, Seaside, Travel, tagged KK Esplanade, Kota Kinabalu, Landmark, Places, Sabah, Travel on March 17, 2009 | Comments Off
A Promenade By the Sea With A View
Mad dogs and the Englishmen. Yes, correct, this esplanade is truly designed & built with the Englishmen in mind. Not mamy trees or shades alomg the length of the promenade, and on a hot day you can be baked under the intense tropical heat to get an instant [...]
Dongonggon Weekly Tamu (Street Market Fair)
Posted in Landmark, Places, Travel, tagged Dongonggon, Places, Sabah, Tamu, Tamu Penampang, Travel on March 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Tamu Dongonggon- Don’t Go, And It’s Gong Gon
Tamu, local slang for Bazaar or more correctly “Street Market Fair”, will see Dongonggon bristling with life and aroma as small-scale farmers & travelling stall vendors coverge in the town once a week to peddle their wares. Held over two days- on Thursday and Friday- the town is [...]
Yu Huang (Jade Empeor) Temple, Tuaran
Posted in Landmark, Places, Travel, tagged Jade Emperor Temple, Landmark, Places, Sabah, Travel, Tuaran, Yu Huang on March 3, 2009 | Comments Off
Jade Emperor- the Ruler of Heaven and Below
Just before you reach the town of Tuaran, there is a temple where the Jade Emperor (Yu Huang) rules over those that he surveys. This temple is relatively easy to find as long as you stay on the Jalan (Road) Tuaran- on your right coming from the direction [...]
Towers of Karamunsing
Posted in Landmark, Places, Travel, tagged Karamunsing, Karamunsing Towers, Kota Kinabalu, Landmark, Places, Sabah, Travel, Trinity Towers on February 19, 2009 | Comments Off
Midget Twin Towers And One
The Trinity Towers situated by the Karamunsing junction do look uncannily like Midgets when contrasted with other high-rises around the world. Nonetheless, they do possess aesthetic beauty and look magnificent and stunning, aside from the flyover monstrosity that is obscuring their elegant charms & beauty.
This is an under-promoted landmark of Kota Kinabalu and [...]
Double Six Monument
Posted in Landmark, Memorial, Places, Travel, tagged Double Six Monument, Kota Kinabalu, Landmark, Memorial, Monument, Places, Sabah, Travel on February 18, 2009 | Comments Off
Remembering June the Sixth
On June the sixth, 1976, a plane dropped from the sky, carried with it the then newly elected Chief Minister of Sabah & six other state cabinet ministers. All on board perished in that fatal plane crash tragedy on that fateful day. Conspiracy theories were abound at the time but no conclusive evidence was [...]
Tanjung Aru Beach for Your Valentine
Posted in Landmark, Places, Travel, tagged Kota Kinabalu, Places, Sabah, Tanjung Aru Beach, Travel, Valentine's Day on February 16, 2009 | Comments Off
An Idyllic Romance @ Tanjung
Lovebirds will flock here during the weekends and public holidays holding hands and strolling along the long white sandy beach watching the sun going down. This has been the local tradition for generations. I am sure most locals have a nostalgic memory of romantic liaison at this strecth of the beach. Casuarina [...]
The Changing Face of Kota Kinabalu
Posted in Landmark, Nostalgia, Places, Travel, tagged Kota Kinabalu, Places, Sabah on February 15, 2009 | Comments Off
The Ever Changing Kota Kinabalu
Take a good look of the photo below, taken in Aug., 2007. The skyline now is no longer the same. In a few months’ time, a new skyline will be shooting up- to be replaced by another new shopping mall. See the crane at the distance? Get the idea? Next will be the [...]
Cascading Down The Kinabalu With Butterflies
Posted in Landmark, Places, Travel, tagged Butterfly, Kinabalu, Kinabalu Park, Waterfall on February 14, 2009 | Comments Off
Madam Butterflies And The Waterfall
When time is on your hands, make a stopover at this little known mini Waterfall up the Mount Kinabalu Road. Take a dip in the water cascading down from the mountain. It’s cool, refreshing and soothing after a long drive up the mountain.
And you never know what you will find. There, right [...]
River Kadamaian
Posted in Landmark, Places, Travel, tagged Kadamaian, Kota Belud, Landmark, Places, River Kadamaian, Sabah, Tamparuli, Travel on February 13, 2009 | Comments Off
Middle Earth- the Shire County
If you happen to be on the way to Mt. Kinabalu, why not take a detour and get on the Route A1 (Ranau-Kota Belud Bypass) instead. You will enter the Middle Earth country once you are on this route. Serene dramatic landscapes, Shakespearian Hamlets, stunning Riverine Villages are words that I could [...]
Tamparuli And The Jambatan
Posted in Landmark, Places, tagged Jambatan Tamparuli, Landmark, Places, Sabah, Suspension Bridge, Tamparuli, Travel on February 11, 2009 | Comments Off
The Town With A Bridge In Its Name
Tamparuli is better known for its famous suspension bridge than anything else. The town is also synonymous with the title of a local folk song- “Sumazau Jambatan Tamparuli”- jambatan meaning the “bridge” in local lingo and Sumazau the local Kadazandusun dance. Whenever the name Tamparuli is mentioned, the [...]
Che Sui Khor Pagoda
Posted in Festive Season, Happenings, Landmark, Places, Travel, tagged Places, Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Happenings, Festives, Spring Festival, Moral Uplifting Society, Pagoda, Che Sui khor Pagoda on January 20, 2009 | Comments Off
Moral Uplifting Society
Another relatively unknown Chinese Pagoda tucked away from the tourists’ prying eyes. It is about 2 miles away from the City Centre off Jalan Tuaran(Rd) and easy to get to with any buses plying the Jalan Tuaran route.
The pagoda is a recent addition and located within the compound of the Moral Uplifting Society. For [...]
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