Jun
25
2009
i have finally handed in my report! i think i deserve some blogging moment before cooping myself up with presentation slides. cross your fingers for my presentation this saturday ya x(“,)x
so, we visited this house one fine sunday noon circa may 2009.
source
Situated on a hill at Jalan Istana overlooking Sandakan Bay, it was the home of Conservator of Forests, Harry Keith and his American wife, Agnes Keith, a writer, from the 1930s until 1942. Agnes’ book on life in pre-war Sandakan popularised the old seafarer’s name for Sabah in its title, “Land Below the Wind” (referring to Sabah’s location just below the typhoon belt). Her second book, Three Came home, about their war experiences was made into a movie. Their two-storied wooden bungalow, built on a ridge overlooking the town, was destroyed during WW2 but reconstructed when the Keiths returned in 1946. (source: Sabah Tourism Board)
paid 2buck to gain admission
at da entrance i was greeted by
and a roaming guard to make sure noone takes pics…
after being well-behaved for awhile, da rebelliousness in me insisted that i MUST snap some pics and so i obeyed…
and where’s da guard u ask, i think he’s off to take lunchy…golden opportunity! 
this is the bedroom
da other corner of da bedroom
da study room
da study table
actually hor, it is only an ordinary house, then why izzit so popular and who da hell is Agnes Keith u ask,
click here and here and u’ll know 
my sabahan friend told me that Agnes Keith is still staying in it despite da fact that she had kicked the bucket more than 15 years ago. i somehow believe it u know.
cos im pretty sure that when i took this artillery, it was clear…and when i view it from lappie it went blur :S
da view from top
da dining table
don sked! that’s not what u think it is okie! it is a HE. and spot da cutie refrigerator!
da living hall
da end.
told u, it’s just an ordinary wooden house lo
after that, we adjourned to…
this. is what i was looking forward to.
up next
Jun
21
2009
my daddy is only an ordinary very china-ish ol’ bloke (just celebrated his 50′s burfdae few months back)
mami always dubs him as china man as daddy doesn’t like western food AT ALL. he claimes that stuff (western food) can’t satiate him as much as chinese food does. but we knew that da main reason is because chinese food always comes with rice and man can’t live without rice!
me being da rebellious daughter, however, would force daddy to gulp down all da pancake and spaghetti which i have spent 30mins and 2hours preparing respectively with ” if u don’t eat, next time i won’t cook for u one ar…” 
my daddy is only an ordinary bloke…i don’t need a superman as daddy though…
as i have already had one superdad who cares and lurves us whole-heartedly :o)
daddy, i lurve u :-* …i know i haven’t been saying that in a while…
Jun
20
2009
Category : Intern's Life, Point & Shoot, Think & Thought, Uni's Life, Walk & Run
that’s what we did since da second we touched down. so far, we have compared…
da sea:
Sarawak’s like teh-o.
Sabah’s ooh-la-la.
Sabah wins hands down.
Sarawak 0 : 1 Sabah
da people:
(99% of )Sarawakian’s proprietors are rude! they always show us their bloody sullen faces as if we owe them few millions liddat. gek sei.
Sabahans more friendly. as everyone we met is friendly bah
Sarawak 0 : 2 Sabah
da food:
in Sabah, u can see da sign of “serve no pork” in most of da restaurants.
including those chinese restaurants.
in Sarawak, u can have pork everywhere u go. we lurves pork. hence,
Sarawak 1 : 2 Sabah
in Sabah, seafood are dirt cheap.
mee goreng ayam and mee goreng seafood are selling at da same price. and if u think they give u stale seafood. wrong! they serve fresh ones! we had sou mei (蘇眉 /Napoleon Wrasse) when we were in Tawau, fai tit guess how muchy izzit! 160buck per kilo ONLY. daddy told me that it could simply cost up to thousands in peninsular =-O
in Sarawak, u man man deng la. seafood aint fresh and kinda ripped-off too. 
Sarawak 1 : 3 Sabah
btw, i miss lada a lot
da lingo:
Sarawak: i cant remember anything except sik ada! =.=
Sabah: i miss all da bah, anu, astaga, si, nadah and siao!
we all know siao = crazy right…but in sabah, siao = sorry.
=-O <– my expression when i first heard this.
u try to say siao after jabbing someone in KL. u will end up very sorry.
Sarawak 1 : 4 Sabah
da hostel:
Sarawak’s hostel: shared bathroom. can’t cook (can cook in secret though). no astro (not even 8tv). no air-cond. hot
Sabah’s house: attached bathroom. can cook. astro installed. no air-cond. like oven during da day.
i miss blaring hitz.tv in da morning to wake myself up. and Da Bing’s culinary show.
where we stayed da past two months
me being couch potato
needless to say,
Sarawak 1 : 5 Sabah
haih, i guess i just miss Sabah so freaking muchy. i will be back (clap) . rest assured. armed with diving license
Sarawakians, don’t sulk la… no offense la…just my pure thoughts…i still lurve u all… must say this if not roomie won’t bring back anything for me
ok done. back to reports.
Jun
16
2009
Category : Intern's Life, Point & Shoot, Think & Thought
update: im now back in hutan campus! T-T
so, this is where hock(not in pic), kiki and i have served our internship for da past two months.
tomorrow, we will be leaving this pretty land below da wind (that’s why im posting it today though i have an early flight to catch tomorrow and am feeling very sleepy and annoyed at da berserk internet connection). time really flies huh
mix feeling of 
and ;(
cos need not report to work at 8am anymore
soooo many people asked me,
so, what have u learnt during this internship ar?
i have learnt that working life is no easy / a bed of roses. seriously. so i shall start hunting for a well-off bloke now and marry off so that i dont have to work in da future. period.
that’s my standard answer to them. no, i aint gonna repeat this sentence in my 20-pages report. but, seriously, that’s what i have learnt. i mean da first sentence, not da latter one…
cos i got to travel most part of sabah. thanks so muchy to da boss who always fetch us here and there and treated us mealsss. will blog about it later. u can expect many backdated pics i can assure u of that.
cos i worked with nice and friendly bunch of people. well, most of them.
;( cos em sek tak to leave this place where i have stayed and traveled da past two months. and da people whom i have worked together with and had good rapport with eventually.
;( cos i have to work my butt off when i get back to bint-ulu. my pending sops, proposals, reports, presentations. haih, time to be serious niao
these are da people whom i worked with da past two months, handful of them from gis dept.
lemme jot down their name here just in case my memory fails on me in da future…
back row: jane, kak owen obert, kak mel, kak ji,cik salmah, kak cantik, kak mary, kak su, kak amy, minah, stephanie, kak mas, brenda (hommie), kak ena, and iwan
front row: kak cantik, mr nash, mr frankie, wan, mr saw (da boss), mr jimmy, annant (yala, im like a dark choc now la), kiki, kak siti and daikajie kak anisah
this place, these people…i will surely miss them alot…
