Borneo Highlands - Part 1

Have I been neglecting my blog lately... I admit. I can come out with one thousand and one excuse but fck it.

When someone mention the word "Highlands", what is the first thing that pops into your head? Genting Highlands, Cameron Highlands...yadda yadda. Being a true Sarawakian, I am proud to tell the world that we too have a nice highlands... and it's the Borneo Highlands. Some might wonder, where on earth is this Borneo Highlands.


Courtesy of Google Map

It's about 40 mins drive from Kuching City Center. Road condition to the foot of the highlands, which is also the entrance to the highlands is good. And if you are wondering how the entrance of the highlands looks like just in case you missed it, here it is...


Entrance

At this checkpoint, you will need to fork out RM65 (RM50 for entrance fee + RM15 for highlands tour). And upon getting your tickets, you'll need to wait for a specially modded "tour truck" to get you up there.



There are flowers around the entrance to encourage you to start snapping photos.





The whole journey from entrance down here to the entrance up there will take about 20 minutes. But expect some crooked and winding roads, and at some point of the roads, you will start to wonder if the fully loaded truck will even make the 40° climb in 1st gear. But of course, we made it in one piece. We alighted from the big truck and hopped onto a smaller tour truck to start our highlands tour.



Our first stop was to the viewpoint for Malaysia-Indonesia border.


SWK = Sarawak


IND = Indonesia

See the marker on the ground? This is actually one of the many markers to indicate the border of Sarawak and Kalimantan, Indonesia. One second you can say "Hey, I am in Sarawak!" then next second "I am in Indonesia (without a passport... hahaha)"

We were pleasantly greeted by sakuras (there's another name which Bernard told me but I just can't seem to recall)



These sakuras actually come from the same family as the more famous ones found in the Land of the Rising Sun. Behind the Sakura tree is Kalimantan.

I couldn't have asked for a better weather that day (maybe the Sun could be kinder la :P) and the view was fantastic.





See... even the trees here look un-Malaysia.

That's all for Part 1. Stay tuned for more flower shots in Part 2!

Happy Merdeka to all Malaysians!

Borneo Highlands - Teaser

I went to Borneo Highlands with my partner in crime, Snoopy and his gf and Miss "正妹" on Saturday. We managed to secure "staff priced" tickets for the trip so it was quite worth it. Instead of forking out RM65, we only need to pay RM10 each. More updates soon.

Note to Andy, Allen, Fabian: I know that I should be going through photos from the Pustaka Negeri shoot. Patience is Virtue! :)

I love Facebook

snapshot courtesy of Tracy whose FB account has seize to exist

Thank you very much... cuz now we all know.

So dear friends, make sure you check what you post because the internet/FB does not know what and what not to be posted. Damn sia suei wei~~~!

Happy Birthday Lydia

Happy birthday to my sis, Lydia! Glad you came back for the weekend. :)

Hang in there...

Blog Traffic

I bet you guys still remember not too long ago, my blog (yes this very blog you are reading right now) was featured in kennysia's blog. Well if not, click here to find out.

Just wanna share in this post what can that simple gesture by Kenny do to my blog's traffic.

This was the traffic on that very day:


And this was the effect for the month:


The traffic on 11 July 2009 itself easily surpassed the total visitors to my blog in 2008. So my tips to you bloggers out there, if you wanna boost your blog's traffic, try to blog about famous bloggers and hope that one day, they do come across your blog and feature it in theirs.

Have a fantastic weekend!