2007/09/24
Came back from sabah at roughly last friday.
Well, overall, the trip was damn fun. Saw a lot of things i've nvr seen, learnt a lot of things i've nvr learned, it was rly awesome.
Though i have to admit, i almost came back in a coffin. But still, i'm safe now, so we dun rly need details, do we.
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The whole trip can be divided into 3 parts: Before going to the mountain village, At the mountain village, and after going to the mountain village.
Before:
Assembled at some HDB blk near Clementi MRT station
Alrdy, they all started comparing bag sizes
Kang lun won the smallest bag award
Then we set off
The trip there was amazing in a way. The driver had one hand on her HP, one hand on the wheel and was driving at 100 - 120km per hr
The way she kept overtaking cars was shocking
Makes u tink y there aren't any female drivers in F1 racing
They might rly succeed in tt section
Reached the airport
As expected of a JB airport, small and v.few things to see
Then we went up the plane, set off to sabah, reached sabah successfully
I dunno y everytime i sit in airplanes, the videos of airplane crashing i saw in youtube suddenly comes into my head
To make things worse, the landing sux. Whole plane trembling and shaking like siao, makes u tink the whole plane might fall apart anytime
So we reached our inn, the City Park Inn, and we left our stuff and went for dinner.
Wanted to go to the night market, but tt lanjiao place closed damn early, at abt 10pm
So we had a rest. Warren got a bit drunk, so when we have prata for supper, he kept toking abt some self-raising flour.
Tt ends our first day.
- Woke up gan early, but the sun was brighter than i thought. Seems like time is 1 hr faster here.
- After breakfast, set off to Manuka island.
- Boat trip there was fantastic. And it's been a while since i last saw very clean seawater, so it's an added bonus
- When we reached there, we went snorkling
- But i have to admit, i didn't noe how to use tt shitty thing, so i ended up tearing the airpipe and the goggles apart, and only used the goggles
- Fish there was amazing. V.colourful
- And the small fish there was wtf. Ryan kept complaining abt how much leg hair he lost from all the pecking
- Kena a "not-so-severe-but-still-quite-painful sunburn"
- Went back, went for kfc & pizzahut for dinner
- Also had a walk at the night market
- Finally went back. Intended to slp as i had a big cut at my feet from stepping on some rock, but jasmine forced me to go supper with her as she was too hungry to go to slp
- She slip and fell halfway back. I guess her reflection of the day would be "I will look at where i'm walking in the future"
At:
- Went to Giant to buy watever necessities we have to buy
- Each group have to buy watever the list asked them to buy
- Our group was the luckiest, only 2 ppl and we have to buy 4 items, mainly comprising of soap and shampoo
- So we went to help other groups
- Wat was ridiculous happened afterwards
- Everyone began to buy their own stuff, comprising of a lot of biscuits, instant noodles and even canned food
- One group of ppl even bought pillows
- I was like, hello, we're going there to experience rural life in all aspects?
- Took us some time before we reached there
- Will use the time there to re-evaluate if i like rural or urban life more
- Reached there, unpack all the shit, repaired toilets(thankfully, i thought i had to wash them)
- Went for a little exploring and found some weird route upwards
- Found a mini farm there, with lettuce, leak and onion
Scenery was great. It felt rly gd to have the clouds juz beside u
- For the next few days, my shift comprises of going to the pri sch, do painting at the kindergarden and cook.
- The pri sch students were v.cute, v.innocent
- Though i have to admit, they're imbal at tao poking ppl
- When they see someone twice as big as them, they attempt to climb onto the person and bring the person down
- I was surrounded by 10++ kids trying to bring me down
- For the 1st and 2nd day, went to pri sch
- 3rd day, did painting.
- Quite fun la, painting
- But i cocked up 5 times and had paint all over my hands and legs
- Took me a while to remove them from my palms
- Though my legs and arms had remnants
- 4th day, went back to pri sch
- Honestly, if i dun have any family or frens left in sg, i might consider migrating to sabah to be a teacher
- Even if pay sux, u have to admit, all these fresh air, beautiful scenery, etc succeeded in making up for tt lack of salary
And we went to the waterfall on the 5th day. Let u see how the waterfall looks like

Shuang rite?
Will post a part 2 soon. Dun ask me why got so many spacing in between, ask www.blogger.com
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