Whoa !

Wohoooo I'm back from the hornbill land, the orang utan preservation place, the cat city...bla bla bla *actually there's a shop in kuching..that's really called bla bla bla..tho i don't know what it sells...=(*

all started at klia when i was damn shocked o realise that to travel to the east coast they need your ic!! okay i lied. i wasn't shocked just annoyed...anyways, the flight to kuching was only about 1 hour 45 minutes so short=sweet. haha slept most of the way..
mostly it looks like any city in the peninsular. kinda reminded me of ipoh. but much bigger..
didn't do much the first day but attempt to play tennis with my brother. *sob* the hilton doesn't have badminton courts. so tennis it was. even though my back's aching from spending two hours mostly picking up theblardy tennis balls. well the one that didn't get hit to the car park lar...

kuching does have some interesting signs..

celcom's really expanded it's territory...:P

then we hada to go to some seafood food court. the whole 'foodcourt' was actually...seafood...
sarawak is famous for its seafood..

looks really gross..
their version of ocen..mmm...the shell is like keropok...
really crispy..




Anyways, kuching was awesome!!!but i didn't have enough time to explore the state like it deserves. i mean, only one full day for sarawak!! bleh..
so i did what any self respecting ulu tourist i opted for a tour. ish ish...
it was a toss up between the bako forest reserve and the fairy caves+sarawak cultural village. but in the end leeches didn't really appeal to me..anyways what better to experience sarawak's many diverse races*so farking full of crap* than to visit the cultural village set on the foot of the scenic mount santubong. the fairy caves were just cos i've never seen real life fairies before...

it was all very peresonal tho. haha one good thing about going during off peak season, not many tourists. wakakaka...the tour i went with,it was just my brother and i * my parents totally disappeared on us...nyek..* on a 12 seater van...
both weirdly awkward and comfortable at the same time. comfortable that i don't need to make small talk with the other *potential* tourists but awkward that i have to ake small talk with the tour guide..tho nice she is, i couldn't understand her english..
and when i did try speaking to her in malay..she replied me in english!!
so in the end..the 1 hour ride to the fairy caves was spent in a blissful state of unconscioussness...









sighs...so whimsical...i can *totally* believe fairies live here..
but the truth is..
ibans used to live there..
now some chinese people go there to pray.but i honestly don't know why it's a tourist attraction..

next was the sarawak cultural village. once again..all hail to the off peak season!!okay lar..thqt place sounds lame.
iban
melanau
penan
bidayuh
orang ulu
malay
chinese
for the first time ever...
i can actually name the tribes in sarawak without resorting to secong guessing...
huhu
educational trip indeed..


at the iban long house

my favourite house..bidayuh!!

going native..almost hit the bullseye!!



with the orang ulu. totally love the wooden wall carvings...:P

melanau..


okay so all the houses were like damn nice authentic sarawakian...i mean the melanau ppl even had 3 stories!!! so when it was time to the chinese house...*so excited*



blardy hell looked like a farking tin can. i tot it was a container!!!

wakaka...so they did redeem themselves a bit..that's our chinese pavillion...

then was the 45 minute cultural show.a dance every tribe..



i liked this the best tho. it's supposed to be a melanau funeral dance, but seems very de happy. the red blur is some guy spinning on a pole...

not sure which tribe this is from. but i'm guessing it's bidayuh...

wakaka...i actually *sorta* had fun there....even better the cultural village provides homestays for tourists. you get to stay in one of those authentic houses for a night or two.sounds very appealing..tho i wonder if they have hot water..


and the real reason i came to kuching.i didn't know what i got myself into..
apparently it's my dad's university reunion. bleh...25 years after they graduated.
so they do it every five years..
what better way to spend the weekend then to chill with middle aged doctors..
at least when you die of boredom...there'll be people to resuscitate you..
but i did get to wear my dress. and was pretty fun..
watching all those people were once like me, who had hopes and dreams..
but are now *almost* fulfilled..
one's some dean, the other a champion line dancer who's competed internationally cum doctor..
can you imagine a champion line dancer doctor?
another's a psychiatrist *so cool!!!*
there's one who came in with a mansuhkan ISA badge..nyek.so DAP...
wakaka...and they played this game..get old pictures of them in uni. censor a few parts of the face. and you're supposed to guess who they were.
of course in the era of coke bottle glasses, hippy hair and black and white pictures,
it's amazing they even got it right..not on the first try tho..
nyek suppose i'll be doing that in 30 years..

then there was the part where they put family pics up and they tell each other about what's going on in their lives...what their kids are doing..how to most important thing is family..
and how i found out why my dad's so keen on uk..
more than half of the all the doctor's kids are studying in the uk..
and i so thought i was damn sesat , all alone in the uk..
but most of them are doing medicine..
so technically i'm still sesat...





with one of the medics to be..nyek..


indulge me...:P