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My trip to Kota Kinabalu, Sabah

I went to Kota Kinabalu last week for 5 days to visit my long lost relatives which was my mom's mother and half-sister. It was fun! The place there was completely different from here. It was clean there and the shop houses were mostly joined together like a long house. The neighbourhood there was quite safe. Many people kept their gates open and were not afraid of robbers.

There were many kinds of seafood there. Some I question whether it is edible or not like the puffer fish. Lol! The beach there were clean and beautiful. The waters were blue and clear. No rubbish littering on the sands. The Manukan Island had a beautiful beach. The boat trip the island there was fun and it only took about 15 minutes.

The Manukan Island pics

Many fishes under the jetty! The water is very clear.

Fishes feeding on the seaweed

The Boat Trip there

The Seafood Restaurant

Soon Hock

Lobsters!

Cultural dance

Gang gong with cutter fish

The bus

The species of snails I ate that day. Very nice and crunchy >_<

Tiger prawns

Mantis prawns

Abalone

Abalone

snails

Me, my aunt and mom

The Market

Puffer fishes

Hammerhead shark!

Blue-fin Tuna fish

Hotel Lobby

My grandma's dog, Magnum. So cute!

All the car number plates are like that there

The Creatures of Permaisuri Lake

I've lived fifteen years of my life near the park which has a huge lake called Tasik Permaisuri. I always go there to walk and jog. It's a pretty popular park. Ask anybody they'll know where is it.

The park is really big with paths that go through the secondary jungle. In that jungle you'll find all kinds of living creatures such as wild chickens, civet cat, monkeys, monitor lizards, magpies, etc. Many of these animals I havs just mentioned can only be seen by chance especially the wild chicken, I saw it flew across a path into the jungle one day. Yup, I mean flew. Few feet above the ground. Chickens reared by people can't fly because they're not lean like the wild ones.

The lake is the biggest attraction here though. Many people came here to picnic and have a good time with their families. Many come here to exercise, There are some children came to swim in it too. I remembered I used to love to come feed the turtles and talapias with bread. I like to see the turtles come in big group and snap out the breads. However, the fishes beat them to it all the time. Lol!

Well, all of them have become a memory in the past. Not because I've grown tired of feeding them. It's because almost all the turtles are dead. Even the numbers of fishes has been reduced.

Why? The lake has become so polluted with rubbish, sewage water, and breads that eventually kills most of the turtles and many fishes. It didn't happen back then when toilets weren't built and the place isn't developed. After they developed the place, more people come and more brainless people throw rubbish and feed unscrupulously to the turtles.

How unscrupulously? Well, I'll tell you how. They throw the entire piece of bread into the lake. I mean come on, any common sense will tell us to tear the bread into smaller pieces to make it easier for the turtles to eat. Even the fishes go after the smaller pieces. And some people throw muffins (the pink coloured type used for offering at the Buddhist altar) for them. For goodness sake, turtles don't eat muffins. Not just one person, many other people did the same as well. Can't they see the first person who threw the muffins in the turtles have no interest in them at all? These eventually decay and pollute the lake later.

After that, I lost count the times I've walked around the lake and smell the smell of rotting flesh. I've seen many dead turtles and fishes floating on the surface. Flies flew around them and smaller fishes feed on their dead bodies. Now, nobody sit by the lake and feed the turtles anymore since none surface for a long time already.

Last year I got my wish. I've always wished there are ducks and geese swimming in the lake and it came true. First it was geese. There were two species. See the pictures below.



They were a great attraction at first. Many people stopped by to see them swim in the lake. Sadly, few months later all except one began to disappear. Later, three ducks were added but they too, disappeared.

Yesterday, we've finally found the source of the disappearance. It is the work of greedy people who see the geese and ducks as nothing more than food instead of decoration. Yesterday there was a man who swam into the lake and capture the last remaining goose. He was so happy. He even had a grin on his face. Unluckily for him, someone reported his theft to the city council guards who were patrolling there. They made him release the goose back to the lake but didn't fine him.

It is so sad indeed to see the lake's number of animals and environment deteriorating.

Movie Review: Slumdog Millionaire

Rating:
9/10

Genre:
Romance/Drama/Crime

Summary:

This movie tells the story of an 18-year old orphan from the slums in Mumbai, Jamal Malik, who participated in a contest "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" in India.

He is just one question away to win a staggering 20 million rupees when he is accused of cheating and taken away for interrogation because they don't believe a boy who grew up in the slums can know so much.

After some torturing and protesting that he knows the answers, he tells the story of his life to the police officer to explain how he knows the answers.

Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost.



Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions.

Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show?

Why no new post lately...

Sorry folks, for not posting much lately. I have just finished my semester 1 exam like a month ago but I haven't posted anything much either. Guess I was too happy so I kept playing computer games and watch TV shows, hehe.

After the long exam, it was Chinese New Year!!! And also not the end of my stress... During that time, I gotta do last minute spring cleaning and help up in baking cookies and cakes. There's one cake I made all by myself, that is the Rich Chocolate Nut Cake.

Ya, ya, the nuts seemed uneven. I'm still an amateur at baking, hehe. It's a flourless chocolate cake with brandy. It's that kind of cake people only eat at tea time or as a dessert after lunch or dinner. After baking it, I brought some to my uncle's house for reunion dinner. Luckily I did, there's no dessert available there beside my cake. Everybody love it and finished it that night.

On the second day of CNY, we went back to my mom's hometown in Sitiawan. We celebrated CNY as well as my mom's uncle's birthday. We went to a restaurant to celebrate. They booked like 10 dishes for every table! We ate until we can hardly move! Lol! It was a nice trip though, I got many ang pows! Muahahaha!

Then, was just visiting, visiting and visiting. Went to friends' and relatives' houses for party a few times till college starts again.

During the CNY I've watched two great series. One is a famous Japanese drama, One Litre of Tears and the other one is Kyou Kara Maoh! or rather known as God(?) Save the King!

One Litre of Tears or One Litre no Namida is an adapatation of the diary of a Japanese girl named Aya Kitō, who suffered from spinocerebellar ataxia. Throughout the series is about how she cope with her illness. Despite knowing she's going to die one day, she did not lose all the will to live. She got the illness when she was 15 and her life ended when she was 25. This is a very sad and touching true story.

Kyou Kara Maoh!, on the other hand, is a funny anime series about a boy named, Shibuya Yuuri who got flushed into the other world when he tried to save a boy from the bullies but ended up getting his head shoved and flushed into the toilet bowl by the bullies instead. Lol.

In the other world, he found himself being hail as the next Maoh or Demon King of Shin Makoku. He later began to learn that the demons, called Mazoku in the series, do not live in peace with the humans. He was reluctant to be the Maoh at first but later agrees to it and try to bring peace between the humans and Mazoku. Throughout the series, Yuuri always ended up in hilarious situations such as accidentally got himself engaged to a boy, Wolfram, when he slapped him. In the Mazoku's custom, slapping someone is asking that someone for his or her hand in marriage, LOL! If you like comedy/adventure/shounen-ai genre then you'll enjoy this series :)

Kyou Kara Maoh

My favourite character in this series is Conrad Weller. He's the most handsome guy in the series without looking too girly or act too wimpish. There are many male characters in this series that look either too girly or act too wimpish. Even the main character, Yuuri can act very wimpish sometimes. Lol.

Conrad Weller