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Venerable Port of KK Countdown towards the New Dawn for the last call- the final farewell……….. . It’s been nice to know you! . A PhotoPainting by number from iKonVista

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Rule, Britannia! A throwback to the times when Britannia did rule the waves. British North Borneo Chartered Company was the entity assigned to administer the territory of North Borneo in the days when colonialism was the buzzword and the byword.  And this is where the story of the artillery guns begins.

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Austin Powers Singing the Blues Registered in the island of Labuan in 1960. Not quite contented with the quiet island life after six happy years running around in a tiny little spot. It was time to hit the road and see the big wild world. And it was “KK here I come!”

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Sailing the Seven Seas With the Gypsies Lepa is often associated with the Regatta Lepa that will burst into life in the water of Semporna with a glittering multicolour extravaganza every April month.

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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.

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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 [...]

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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!

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Reflection of A Life Sorry, caught the Writer’s Block syndrome! Just relish this picture taken at Jesselton Point  and contemplate what life could have been! ##################################################### I am sailing I am sailing home again ‘cross the sea. I am sailing stormy waters to be near you to be free. I am flying I am flying [...]

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Once Upon A Time In Jessel’s Town An image that was once quite a common sight around the Port of Sabah in Kota Kinabalu. Now with the new port located away from the city at Sebangar Bay, this picturesque spectacle is no longer a familiar sight. And the port has been renamed Jesselton Point to bring [...]

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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 [...]

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Time Is A-Changing Things You May Find While In Kota Kinabalu…….. And a Torture Contraption to keep you in line with the boss ↓ And could this be the Torture Chamber? ↓ Take a Good Guess. No Prize for Guessing…….

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A Throw Back to the Colonial Time The monument was originally erected to commemorate the 13 soldiers who lost their lives defending the British Empire. Over the years, commemoratives of Malaysian & Australian Armed Forces lost in the defence of North Borneo / Sabah have been added to the rolls of honour. The original site [...]

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The Night That Launched A Thousand Stars more about “The Night A Star Was Born“, posted with vodpod    

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Country Road- Back to the Times We Left Behind Driving along Jalan(Road) Inobong always triggers in me the memories of  times past and the longings  to be back to the countryside, where once all our ancestrors lived and tilled the lands. To the city slickers, of whom I am one born and bred, these are the [...]

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Rabbit On the Moon

Rabbit Or Man On The Moon? Chinese legend has it that there lives a Jade Rabbit on the moon interminably  pounding the elixir of life for the moon goddess, Chang’er. Chang’er was banished to the Moon for having stolen the pill of immortality from her husband. Take a closer look on the picture below, doesn’t  the shade [...]

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The Real McCoy!  Picture courtesy of http://www.freefunnypixs.com/

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Journey Back in Time

Atkinson Clock Tower Colonial Clock Tower Billed as one of the oldest wooden structures still standing in Kota Kinabalu- the state capital of Sabah. It was commissioned in 1903 to commemorate Mr. Francis George Atkinson – the first District Officer of Jesselton (now renamed Kota Kinabalu), who succumbed to a tropical disease during the British North [...]

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