Sarawak trip - we took 2000+ pictures!

Duration: 4th-13th December 2006
(4 days 3 nights in Mulu, 7th night flew to Kuching)

Places we went:
-Mulu:
1. showcaves namely Clearwater Cave, Cave of the Winds, Deer Cave (where there are lots of bats and guano), Langs Cave
2. Racer Cave which is an adventure cave
3. Penan village

-Miri:
1. Taman Aman
2. beach (forgot the name)
3. Boulevard (a shopping centre)

-Kuching:
1. Damai Beach & resort
2. Cultural Village
3. Jong's crocodile farm
4. Main Bazaar (the place to buy souvenirs)
5. Waterfront
6. Sarawak Museum Garden (a few museums around that area)
7. Wind Cave
8. Cat Museum
9. Tasik Biru
10. Wisma Saberkas
11. Kuching State Library

Team members:
1. Ryan
2. Wong
3. Conney
4. Penny
5. Chean Ying
6. Yeu Sheng
7. Shuang-Xiu
8. of course me!

People I met:
-in Miri:
1. Ling Weng
2. Siaw Tze

-in Kuching:
1. Christine Wong (flew from Sibu to get her books)
2. Amelene
3. Kia Miang
4. Boon
5. Roger
6. Cheng Khoon
7. Michelle
8. Merlin
9. Daphne
10. Josephine

Food I ate: (see if I remember how many...)
1. Cafe Mulu's fried rice & nasi lemak (RM7.50 each!!)
2. Sarawak laksa
3. 'kampua' mee (I dunno how to spell)
4. Sunny Hill's ice cream (thanks to Boon)
5. deer meat in Miri (thanks to Ling Weng & Siaw Tze)
6. tomato mee in Bau
7. Seafood, steamboat etc
8. Amelene's mom and Kia Miang's mom's cooking! =P

Activities we did besides visiting places (I remember a few):
-in Mulu:
1. playing cards in our room at night (very fun!)
2. taking crazy pictures (the boys were so pity having to obey OUR orders..haha~)
3. boat ride
4. adventure caving (quite dangerous but nice experience)
5. canopy sky walk
6. observing bats (they flew like floating 3D shapes in the air)

-in Miri:
1. dinner 'chia' by Ling Weng & Siaw Tze (thanks gals!)
2. playing around at children's park
3. walking the 'sky bridges' (similar to the canopy sky walk in Mulu)

-in Kuching:
1. singing songs in Boon's car
2. dinner 'chia' by Cheng Khoon (good boy who listens to his mom..haha~)
3. steamboat with the whole gang and Kuching friends
4. walking around in Amelene's house's neighbourhood and saw some cute puppies
5. celebrate Amelene's birthday at her house
6. bla bla bla...

Terms I learnt:
1. Ah Wong san jiao ku (read in Chinese)
2. Ryan si jiao ku (again, Chinese..)
3. qing wa Conney (Conney the frog)
4. Chean Ying toilet
5. Chean Ying feng shan (fan)

A conversation during a dinner in Kuching...
We were joking on Conney as a frog and Cheng Khoon as ikan paus, then I said last time we used to say Conney is a far relative of the cat (a.k.a leopard)...

Me: eat people one oh, the cat's far relative...
Boon: is it?? wah so scary ah, I have to hide lo..
Cheng Khoon: Then I also have to hide lo..
Conney: (to Cheng Khoon) you no need la, you are not human! (laughs)

Basically we had much fun during the whole trip though it's quite tiring in Mulu, having to wake up early in the morning to explore the caves and appreciate the wonderful stalactites, stalamites, columns, rock formations and river... and also the creatures in the caves such as bats, crickets, spiders. In Mulu, we are exposed to the nature while in Miri and Kuching, we met our friends. Ling Weng and Siaw Tze drove us around in Miri during the half day on 7th December before our flight to Kuching at night. In Kuching, Roger, Boon, Merlin, Amelene's parents and Kia Miang's dad drove us around. Conney, Penny and me stayed at Amelene's house while the other three gals stayed at Kia Miang's house. The two boys stayed at Boon's house. Though separated we still managed to visit places together and take lotsa pics! Chean Ying even helped us burn the 2000+ photos into DVDs and I heard that she slept at about 3 something am that night. THanK YoU gal!!

Here, once again, I would like to thank a few people:
- Ling Weng & Siaw Tze for the dinner and for driving us around
- Boon & Roger for driving us around
- Cheng Khoon for the dinner
- Daphne, Michelle & Merlin for joining us in eating~
- Amelene, Kia Miang & Boon for accommodation

A picture says a thousand words, they say. To see photos go to Friendster! I've uploaded some..hehe =D