Andrew & Jessica Wedding

Andrew & Jessica Wedding on 13th December 2014.

Tamu Bintulu

What a long time not posted anything in this blog. It's been a journey through the half end of the year, change of work place and to suit myself in new workplace which needs me to take my hand off my blog quite a while.

I come back with my post about street shooting at Tamu Bintulu (Bintulu Market) where locals sell and buy fresh vegetables and meats. The color from the fruits and vegetables are vibrant and even the people surround is multiracial which reflects true harmonic environment in the Town of Bintulu and in the Land of Sarawak. Below are my set of photos at Tamu Bintulu in the morning. Enjoys.

Jonathan & Bernadette Wedding

Jonathan & Bernadatte Wedding on 29th November 2014.

Filipino Market

After having tired and fun team building building with my section team, I had managed to visit to Philipino Market which located at Kota Kinabalu town before my flight back to Miri on the same day. The market is situated next to the fishing jetty which is mainly for fisherman to transport their fishes and sea creatures to be sold. The Filipino Market is combination of vegetables market, dry sea products market and gift shops.

If in the night, Filipino Market is the place where you can get seafood freshly from sea but unluckily I have no time to wait for night as I need to catch up with my flight in the afternoon. Maybe next time my trip with my wife, I will have the chance to explore the seafood stalls in the Filipino Market.

Below are sets of photo taken at the Filipino Market. Enjoy!

Tribal mask.

Shop alley.

Teenage kid sort out the dry anchovies.



Caress cat.

Happy Kids at Fisherman Jetty.

Island Hopping to Pulau Sapi and Pulau Manukan

It is a great opportunity and pleasure to have a chance to do Island Hopping to Pulau Sapi and Pulau Manukan. The activities is the effort of our section to bring closeness between the staff. Pulau Sapi and Pulau Manukan is situated at Kota Kinabalu (KK), Sabah and the first Island that we visit is Pulau Sapi which took us around 15 minutes to travel with high speed boat from Tanjung Aru Jetty.

Pulau Sapi is the neighbouring island to Pulau Gaya which is a large island in KK and can be seen clearly from KK town. During of our time visit to Pulau Sapi, the island is fully occupied with tourist from local and foreign. The activities that can be done there but with additional payment is para-sailing, flying fox, banana boating, jet skiing, diving and snorkeling. Our island hopping is fully covered by our selected package which include the service of tour bus to transport us from hotel, boat to travel from jetty to island and vise versa, snorkeling sets and a dedicated tour guide.

It is a beautiful island to hopping in due to its white beach and clear sea to give you a clear view of sea corals and animals, such a fantastic experience because it is my first time to do snorkeling. On the last part of our island hopping activity we landed on Pulau Manukan which is 15 minutes away using boat from Pulau Sapi. By the time that we arrived there we have a few hours to do snorkeling before we headed back to Tanjung Aru.

Below are sets of photo taken during the island hopping. Enjoy.

Waiting at Lobby

Ready for a trip to Pulau Sapi

Para-sailing. Credits to Abg Razali for the Photo.

Beach at Pulau Sapi, beware of Stingers A.K.A Jelly Fish. Ouch!

Snorkeling.

Fish in the sea.

Trip to Pulau Manukan from Pulau Sapi.

Jetty of Pulau Manukan.

Beach of Pulau Manukan.

Nick & Leona Wedding

Nicholas & Leona Wedding on 22nd November 2014.

Color of Boats

My collection of boats photo during my visit to my wife hometown.What I found out during my visit, I'm attracted to the variant colors of the longboats that have been made by the locals. Just like our car, we identify our car by the registered number that appear at the front and back of our car. But for the local that own a longboat, their identify their longboat by color or the shape of the longboat. Most of the longboats are handcrafted. In the future, I would like to see the crafting of the longboats with my own eyes and off course to capture it with my camera. For the time being, it is hard to find a local here that are expert in longboat crafting.

Thanks for viewing. Enjoy!.

A local paddle off the wharf to depart to his longhouse.

Moment of boarding the longboat.

Locals return back from town. The common transportation for the local in Song to their longhouses.

Local crowded the express boat during the back to work day after Gawai. This overloaded express boat should be avoided as there are few cases of express boat capsized due to the heavy load it carried. This doing is the act off the unresponsibility person that disregard the safety of the passenger who onboard their express boat service.

I managed to captured the incoming express boat from Kapit during our cruise to cross the Rejang River. It took nerved out of me if we didn't manage to avoid the express boat at that time. But for the local, they dealed with this situation almost everyday. The skill of their's to navigate the longboat is well trusted.

Longboats mooring along the Song River.

Local preparing the longboat before setting off to town.

Local transfering their luggage.

A local having a chat in his handphone surrounded by coloful longboats.

Variant colors of longboats and even a express boat mooring at Song town wharf.