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19 December 2010
I woke early to take the public transport (shared minivan taxi) to Kota Belud for its famous Sunday market. It’s the stuff that childhood dreams are made of, influenced by those tourism posters eg. Bajau horsemen, markets selling jungle produce, water buffaloes being traded … all against the backdrop of SE Asia’s highest peak, Mount […]
8 October 2009
It is 3am. Kim is rather sick from both ends … it is like Revenge of the Pharoah meets Linda Blair from Exorcist, the movie. We went to the doctor just to satisfy ourselves that the dehydration isn’t too severe that it would affect his kidneys (which were recently impacted by another event). We don’t […]
14 May 2009
Above: Do you think this newspaper has had a few Obituary pranks? We left Semporna for KL this evening via Tawau airport. It is sad this marks the end of our adventure and the reality of work awaits. We’ll miss Semporna somewhat but it isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. We like: the fact that it […]
13 May 2009
Kim and I didn’t want to get going today. After witnessing the best yesterday, it was hard to get motivated. Today we were bound for Kapalai and Mabul Islands. We didn’t know much about these sites. We soon realised on our first dive at Sunken City (Kapalai) that the cloudy skies didn’t illuminate the water […]
12 May 2009
We boated out to Sipadan Island around 0800. It was sunny and calm as we took the journey to the Sipadan area, about an hour away. Text continues after this gallery. The Dive Master surprised me when he said that we were at Barracuda Point … where I had specially come to, but […]
11 May 2009
Today was the first of three days diving we had booked online with Sipadan Scuba. We left Semporna about 0830 towards Sibuan Island on a narrow locally-built speedboard … it started off somewhat as a race between us and this 10 year old girl who was in sole charge of a motorised sampan carrying her […]
10 May 2009
Travelling to Semporna, the diving Gateway We took a short flight from KK to Tawau this morning and were transferred by van to Semporna (which means perfect or complete) in Malay. It poured down for part of the way on the road … things have changed since I started taking an interest in travelling … […]
9 May 2009
When we visited in 2001 we visited the neighbouring islands, the foothills and villages. Kota Kinabalu seems to have it all. It is a city by the sea next to South-East Asia’s tallest mountain. So this time, we treated this visit more of a stopover. So it was the usual food and mall stuff. As […]
8 May 2009
Interstate travel woes We switched allegiances from “World’s Best Cabin Crew” (Malaysia Airlines) to “World’s Best Low Cost Airline” (Air Asia) when we flew from Kuching to Kota Kinabalu (which everyone calls “KK” …. err … nearly everyone … the exception was the now defunct Australian Airlines which called it “Sabah”. That’s like calling Melbourne […]
4 May 2009
I rang my blind masseur Mr Stewart to arrange an appointment. He advised that he had moved and gave me an inspecific address (as people do here). Even with the aid of Google Maps, the place was nowhere to be found. Phoning for directions didn’t help … Me: I’m at the technical college; is it […]