Thursday, July 06, 2006

Day 1 KK

From Red Dot to Senai airport. Nice bench at the MerryBrown outlet at the airport. Nuah-ing while waiting for the 730am flight.


First shot in KK. Took Air Asia flight. Now everyone can fly!


The plane at Senai 0720hrs


The cultural village. Some hero guy named Monsopiad killed like 42 other tribe leaders and kept their skulls as momentos.


The village rock that supposedly has a spirit guarding the people.


Entrance to the skull place


Bird on a roof. The city wet market


At the village again, grinding rice to make powder to make rice wine.


Bats outside the sull house


Cakes of yeast and distillation equiptment for the wine making (tapai)


The vat for fermenting


There is this new law that says you can't behead your enemies now. So the people killed monkeys instead.


Blowpipe. fun.


Slingshot. Harder than blowpipe.


Terror Teren Killed the monkey!


The guide walking on poles. None of us managed to do it.


Teren with the weapon


We killed everything on the styrofoam, including the tree branch


Heaving sago to get powder to make sago flour.


Sago worms!


Yummy!


I just realized the photos are in very weird order. will rectify it tomorrow.
This is Teren trying to look mean.


Chewed up worm. Proof that I am eligible for the next fear factor round.


yeah, yeah, mum did tell me not to waste food.


Fooling around a suspension bridge


Some weird stools used for wedding ceremonies.


Groupie


Swan song


Kingfisher on the bridge. Chased away later by our laughter.


Cultural performances. This is the harvest dance.


This is the dance where you get your feet cut off.


We escaped unhurt


This is some other dance with this guy screeching 'yeeh' every few seconds.


coins as belts


This is the prettiest lady of them all.


Another groupie


Our lodging in town. Trekkers Lodge. Not bad.


Sunset at the esplanade



The whole row of birds looking for fish at the nearby sea


The market. one section just for shoes.


Roadside fresh produce hawkers.


First meal in KK: burger king. Check out the mountain of fries.


Two kids climbing up the market roof.


This overhead bridge connects 5 rows of shophouses to the market and a nearby shopping complex. Longest overhead bridge I've ever seen.

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Bhu's Bday

Celebrated over a week ago but only posted today. Sorry for the delay.
Oh yes, as for the trip, will run a series on the events tomorrow I guess but for now, the cake!













There's a new face. Lets call him Dragon. New UROPS student. The cake is some coffee thingy with white chocolate and lots of nuts on top. I liked the bottom biscut thingy.

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

away

Flaviguy and Terror Teren will be off to climb Mt. Kinabalu on a faraway island. No updates till 10 days from now. Will post nice pics of the mountain.
Wish us all the best!

cold

Don't know why the lab suddenly become so cold. Everybody either wearing lab coats or sweaters to keep warm. If not, your hand will shake too much to work. I think its a ploy by the safety officer to make everybody wear lab coats beacuse last time few people bothered.
Then this morning, the air cond people came in and supposedly turned up the temp to make it more bearable. Then after some time, I saw this on one of the bottles.




Condensation on the bottles left on the table overnight!
Yup, its THAT cold.

Monday, June 26, 2006

Fio's treat

Food glorious food!!
Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao @ Holland V.

Some spring roll thingy. Everybody was so hungry they couldn't wait for me to take a pic. Turned out quite nice anyway those chopsticks.


Sesame seed thingy. Hmmm...I'll call it unique...


Small dragon bun


The grim faced person paying the bill


Freeloader


Asked if the noodles tasted nice, she says 'ok' while shaking her head vigorously


My beef noodles. Spicy and nice


Kimchi boy complains why his head gets choppeed off in the pic. I say he doesnt know how to appreciate artistic talent.


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For once she smiles.


Dessert. Red bean paste thingy