Category: Going Places

WARNING: Bandwidth sucker!!

I went to Malaysia China Friendship Park at Jalan Song in the afternoon of 29th June 2006 and took quite a number of photos of the place. I had went there before and it was at night. Took heaps of photots of the garden. Thought that there won’t be anyone there or at least only a few. It’s only 3pm++ in the afternoon, there’re already so many people there!!! Beating the scorching sun, they were there to rest/relax in those shades/huts but we were busy shooting photos. I’m sure they think that we are crazy enough to take photos at hour like this. Hahaahhaha…

Left: The globe opposite the entrance.
Right: The main entrance.

Left: The fountain.
Right: Hmmm… 6 huge coins in there. Some people treated it as wishing well. You can see coins that people thrown in there.

Left: You can learn about M’sia here.
Right: View from the garden. There are rows of shops opposite the garden.

View from the “boat” where the statue of Admiral Cheng Ho is standing.

Left: Tortoise!!! So cute, it was swimming towards our direction and good thing I have optical zoom and took its photo.
Right: The so called wishing well. Lots of fish in there. Actually there’re fishes everywhere. So long that there are water, there will be fishes.

Left: The bridge. The “wishing well” is in the middle of the bridge.
Right: Another entrance from the other side. Previously we went in via this entrance. This is the main entrance too I guess… *SHRUG* Where the actual main entrance? ;-P

Some views of the garden…

Left: The restaurant.
Right: The entrance view from the reflexology path.

Left: I’m walking on the reflexology path. Not that painful but when you stop… WOW… The pain came. It’s not supposed to be that hurt but because some skins below my feet was peeling off and it’s not heal yet and from the 3 inches heels I wore for my studio photoshoot that morning, then with my 2 inches heels I wore to this garden, it’s so painful ahhaha… Not only that, the sun was so strong that it heated the stones… Man… it’s hot when walked on it. Oh… must walked barefoot ok?
Right: Some plants next tot the restaurant.

Left: Fish… more fish!!
Right: The restaurant again.

Here’s the garden trademark! “LET THERE BE LIGHT!!! OPEN THE SKY!!” HAHAHAHH… The statue of admiral Cheng Ho. The picture is dark because I’m shooting against the sun.

Left: The view of the pond. Too bad the water lilies weren’t bearing flowers like previously.
Right: KUCHING!!! How can we missed this in Kuching. There’s “kucing”(in malay) everywhere in Kuching!-_*

Sigh… nothing much to do again… want to work but could’t work. Stuck!!! So decided to go to the beach to relax but… sigh… forget it! Thought of want to rant here but I think I better don’t waste my time ranting about it. Don’t want to spoilt the mood. See photos…
Damai Lagoon
Santubong Resort/Damai Golf & Country Club

Damai Lagoon

Left: Tanah Puteh Toll Bridge near my house. We went there using this bridge, the distant is much shorter. RM1.50 for normal car.
Right: Damai Lagoon entrance. The fountain with four dancing statues will greet you once you reach there.

Left: Visitors are restricted to the lobby area only. If you try to go in, the guard will stop you and ask for your room number.
Right: The beach view taken from the lobby balcony.

Left: Volley ball facility is available there, it’s on first come first serve basis. Bring your own ball and your own netting will do.
Right: You can go kayaking there too.

Left: The holiday makers.
Right: Japanese carps @ the lobby.

Since we couldn’t go in there, next stop was
Santubong Resort/Damai Golf & Country Club

Left: Resort rooms.
Right: Big kite.

A family enjoying their holiday and taking shoots of each others. How sweet…

Left: You can see lots of butterflies here!! So pretty.. it’s flipping its wings so the picture turned out like this.
Right: The beach.

Left: The holiday makers.
Right: The beach again…

Left: This is taken from the restaurant.
Right: The golf course.

To go to Santubong Resort and Damai Golf Club & Country Club, you can spot this(left) and both entrances are using the same entrance.

WARNING: Bandwidth sucker and lengthy post!

So… it rained… no sunrise to see. Khoon How, LeeLing, Audrey, Lee and Hui Yee braced the drizzly rain at around 6.30am to walk at the beach and then went to breakfast.

Slept till about 8am. Everyone left for breakfast.Jimmy and I was the last one to leave after Ann and Jee. We had our breakfast at the resort’s restaurant. It was packed!!! I have no further comment on the service. Well… I guess it’s too many people I think. I didn’t have the chance to properly tried out many of their food because there were too many people and not enough cutlery to accomodate the number of people, not very satisfying spending about RM20++ for such a breakfast 🙁 I regret that I should have wake up early and join them for early breakfast. I ended up with these(pic below), a cup of peach juice and a cup of tea. 🙁 If I knew that I will end up with these, I would rather stay back in the room for breakfast with my instant cream corn soup, noodle in cup, tea with creamer and chrysanthemum tea.

I wanted pancake and omelet from the Eegg Section(below, left) but sigh… the queue was too long and I have no such time to wait at all. 🙁

The picture on the right is Hilltop, it’s under the same resort but it’s located further up. Very expensive, RM700 per night for the up most accomodation, it has two storeys with kitchen, living and sleeping areas and washroom. It has very nice view too. It doens’t have its own restaurant there, you have to take the bus to go down for meals. The spa is located in this area too.

After breakfast, we went back to rearrange the beds into what they were supposed to be and cleared all the rubbish last night into the garbage bin outside the chalet. Then we went out for a walk since it’s still early before our 12pm check-out.

Some sceneries.



After the walk, we had some ice creams, it was so hot.

About 11.45am, we checked out and went to Expert and Jalan Song to calculate our expenditure so that we could all pay for our share. Each of us only pay RM54.60 quite affordable huh? Duh… of course! We wanted to save cost so we squeezed into a small room and sneakily cooked in our room else it wouldn’t be that cheap. If we went out for dinner, it will cost at least RM300-400.

Overall… the holiday is good… relaxed a bit but it’s not enough. I want more!! Eheheh… when is the next round? It was so fun.

We were grouped into two groups to prepare for our dinner. Khoon How, LeeLing, Audrey. Lee and Hui Yee went to buy some food from nearby seafood restaurants but who knows… too many people were dining at both restaurants. One would took the cook more than 1 hour to prepare our fried rice so they decided to try their luck somewhere else. They needed to wait for 30 minutes for our fried rice at the second restaurant. So at the end, they bought plain rice back.

Ann, Jee, Jimmy and I stayed back to prepare for the steamboat session. Actually only Jee and Jimmy did all the preparations. *BLEK* Not to mention, we wrapped the smoke detector with the shower cap!!! We thought of using condom to wrap it hehehe… but then why waste? Or no one bring any I think… and resorted to use shower cap.

Please note that we were not supposed to cook in there! Gosssh… I hope I’m not teaching you guys something bad here and I hope the resort won’t sue me. We are very considerate bunch, we cleaned up everything carefully after that.

After all of them came back, our session started. Out of curiosity, we checked the kettle to see how many electricity it used, we were worried that the power outlet in there couldn’t support our electrical steamboat and would blow the fuse… if this happened, we’re in big trouble! Upon checking, YAY! It’s 2000Watt! Our steamboat only uses 1500Watt! Phew…

We couldn’t finish our food! We had five rounds of cooking going on, each round with different ingredients but after the fourth round, everyone was full. So the last one was left there in the pot to cool and to be disposed in the morning.

Man… the leftovers really stinks!!! Lee opened the cover of the pot before we prepared to sleep after arranging the beds to accomodate 9 of us in a room that was meant for 4 people only. My first reaction… I accused Jimmy loudly of farting inside the blanket. LOL!!! Poor guy… coz it happened that I flipped the blanket the smell came out. He looked at me and said that he didn’t. Then I questioned him about the smell. Suddenly I heard the closing of the pot cover… YIKESSS… it’s the smell of the leftovers! *BLUSH* Sorry…

We all slept on and off except someone… wow… he really slept soundly! *GRIN* I couldn’t sleep well because my position was just right below the air-con and it kept blowing into my face.

We decided to wake up at 5.30am to view the sunrise but… it rained in the middle of the night heavily with thunders and lightnings too.