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Kuching Festival 2008 – Part 2

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Went to Kuching Festival again last night. This time, we managed to visit the garden and I got to test out my camera with all the flowers hehehe…

Let’s see the food first, didn’t have much last night, no idea what to eat *LOL* Not nice one… We spent RM14 for these:

Left: The crowd before 6pm
Right: Curry lamb leg(RM7), very tough -.-” So hard to eat.


Nasi Briyani and Pineappple Rice (RM3.50 each), very dry, very hard to swallow.

Enough about the food. Here’s the photos of the Garden Show. I tested my camera with it. I quite like the macro, easy to use. However, I know the pics are not good hahaha… the framing and everything are just not right. I just simple shoot without composing. No editting done, just resized.

Let’s just let the photo do the talking. Nothing really interesting to see ;P






Food Porn, Public Events, Uniquely Kuching

Kuching Festival 2008 – Part 1

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Been there? I went there on Saturday and just now. The photos you see here were taken yesterday and today using my mobile phone and some of the food pictures with my new camera hehehe… I didn’t go on the first day, I missed the parade else you would see tonnes of colourful floats and people in my post. However I managed to watch the fireworks display from my bedroom window. Here’s the video:


This was taken today with my phone.


There are about 80 stalls at the fair. This was taken yesterday before 5.30pm, it was raining when I was there after my exam.


This was taken just now at almost 7pm, lots of people, taken with my phone also.


Taken today with my phone.
Left: The balloons stall that definitely will be there. Last time when we were young, my dad had to buy balloons from here everytime we went to the fair. He had to do this for more than 10 years. Imagine how many balloon he had bought for us, we got at least one balloon during every trip there. Now we’re all grown up and we don’t need to buy any balloon anymore but we will surely buy food.
Right: The stage is sponsored by Isuzu this year, I think…


The trade fair inside the hall. Lots of bridal studio taking part, it looked more like a bridal fair than a trade fair *LOL*


These two were taken with my new camera at home. I played with the macro mode. Will review about this camera later.
Left: Don’t know what it’s called, it’s RM5 for this one “ball” of rice. So many people bought it and it took more than half hour to get ours. -.-”
Right: Sambal stingray! Don’t know how much but not nice… The sambal was pretty bitter.


Ò€œO JienÒ€ aka Oyster Omelette(RM7), the wet type from a new stall, not so nice. Too “eggy” *LOL* Photo on the left taken with my phone and the right taken with my new camera.

The following all taken with my phone yesterday:

Left: The sio bee stall that you will defintely see every year.
Right: From some restaurant. Bought the 3-layer pork meat with salted veggies, the one in black. Very expensive and very small in portion, not nice at all.


Left: “Chui kueh”, a type of Teochew cuisine if I’m not mistaken since it’s from a Teochew restaurant. My dad will definitely buy this when he’s there.
Right: Yam basket from the same restaurant. Didn’t buy this though.

That’s all for the time being, I’ll be visiting this fair quite often hehehe… So you will see more post coming your way.

Food Porn, Public Events, Uniquely Kuching

Sarawak ICT Expo 2008

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Went to Sarawak ICT Expo 2008 just few hours ago. Good thing I went today because I could take my sweet sweet time browsed tru’ all the booths that had the things that I needed. If I go tomorrow or Sunday, I don’t think we could even move fast and go back and forth of different booths many many times! πŸ˜› Bargained and bargained, thanks to my sis and Jimmy else I’m hopeless in bargaining. I bought something!!! Tell you later about it hehehe…


They changed the way how you enter the hall which it’s better because it can reduce the congestion. One side in, one side out.


There are more space to move now compare to previously. But at the end of the hall, there is no way to make u-turn, they block it.


No show girls hahaha… πŸ˜› However you can see many colours this year, I mean the uniforms hahaha…

TADA! SEE THIS?!?!

Will blog about it after my exam πŸ˜› You can’t really bargain much for Canon cameras but you can ask them to give more free gifts. Good thing we went today, we could take our sweet sweet time making decision and bargain with them. No installment for cameras below RM1000.

I spent more than RM1K(camera-RM999 and dined out-RM10+) today -.-” I’m RM1K+ poorer now, then tomorrow I have to pay my next semester entrolment fee, which is RM300. After that, on Sunday, I need to go hunt for Cooler Master that costs RM100+ at PC Fair also because I didn’t bring enough cash today and many people told me to wait until Sunday to get cheaper price. *LOL* We’ll see by then, after exam maybe… OMG! Spend almost RM2K in just 3 days -.-“

Public Events, Tech Stuffs, Uniquely Kuching

Kuching Bloggers’ Meet 2008 Report

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SO BUSY!!! Finally I got to update this. Everyone so kiasu and try to be the first to update it πŸ˜› Hehehe… Usually I’m the kiasu one hahaha… OK… I didn’t take many photos last night because I was busy. I only got some photos in my camera and most photos you see here are from Jimmy and Edwin.


I sponsored two prizes for the King and Queen of the night, it was a last minute decision πŸ˜› I’m not the one who judged though, I had my spies that did the work for me and it’s their decision πŸ˜› You know who they were? They were Gette, Edwin, Jf, Rose, and Paul. Both King and Queen were judged on how they stood out from the rest. For the King and Queen, I’m not sure whether you did notice the special thing with the tins and the mugs or not πŸ˜› Hehehe…


The section reserved for us. I didn’t know this area is accessible πŸ˜› Hahaha…

By the way, pictures are all in random order.

Left: Rambo trying to woe the girls πŸ˜›
Right: This is the only group photo I have with the table of bloggers, shame on me πŸ˜› The rest I just took their photos without me with them.


Left: Effa, the Queen of the night because she’s so RED πŸ˜› hahaha… Also she camwhored a lot! Also she made the effort went around mixing with other bloggers though she didn’t know anyone, it’s her first bloggers’ meet and she came alone. She really deserved the prize.
Right: Darth Vader aka Wombok aka Gordon. Came with his mask, this poor guy… When he’s with his mask, everyone wanted to have photo taken with him but once the mask was removed, no one bothered to ask him for photos *LOL* He could actually wear his mask for such long hours hahaha… At the end he had to take it off because it’s too hot hahaha… That make him stood out and he’s the King of the night. Notice Tim at the back? He got so frustrated because Wombok got all the girls πŸ˜›


Left: Me with the King and Queen. I’m so tiny πŸ˜›
Right: Hehehe… Me in action during the lucky draw.



More of me giving out the luck draw prizes to the lucky bloggers. They are(clockwise) Damien, Justin, Andy, Micheal(this naughty boy kept showing off saying that he’s young and I’m old, even called me ah ma!! πŸ˜› Hahaha… You know what, while I was trying to finish up my food and ate my lamb chops with my fingers, he kept looking and smilling at me, made me so shy *LOL*), Ivan, and lastly, I drew a number hahaha…


Most turned out wearing black, no plan for it, quite a surprise *LOL* See how black were we πŸ˜› Hehehe… Should have ask everyone to come in black and black is the worst colour to wear to Sharing Planet because the mosquitoes would be targetting you! πŸ˜›


Only got these in my camera. (L-R) My sis, Rose, Sharon, Paul, and Jimmy.


Before we called it a night, group photo was a must! I think some left earlier.


The KB team, one for the album, almost everyone in black. Some of the team members couldn’t go last night.

Thanks to everyone that helped out last night and thanks to those that came.

That’s all. So tired and I skipped church this morning ;p

Personal Events, Specials, Uniquely Kuching

Green Heights Mall

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Sigh… There you go… My nightmare begins… I was invited for a food tasting this afternoon but because of my class I can’t go πŸ™


I didn’t want to loss out so I went to Green Heights Mall yesterday. This is the latest mall in Kuching. If you are expecting it to be another big one, you’re so wrong, it’s so small. Very small that meant to be for those staying nearby instead of huge mall like tHe Spring or Boulevard. When everyone is trying to build the biggest mall, this one stands out by just being the smallest one.


The opening ceremony was over when I reached there. Coffee Bean isn’t open for business yet. So do other shops, you can even count with your 5 fingers.


Left: Cold Storage is finally here in Kuching. I had surveyed some of the stuffs there. Some of them are slightly expensive compare to other places. They have lots of imported food that I don’t think I’ve seen it anywhere in Kuching before. They aren’t cheap of course. There’s a cheese section, wow… See the stock of cheese, I’ve never seen so many different types of cheese before. At the meat section, they have meats that are marinated and nicely presented, don’t be fool by the cheap prices you see, it’s actually displayed based on per gram instead of kilo hahaha…

Right: Desserts, the third branch in Kuching, it’s expanding really fast.


Left: The only escalator you can find.

Right: Second floor has nothing yet. Only 4 stalls are opened. The rest still not open for business.


Left: They try to bring in the natural light with this.

Right: Random shoot of the decorations hanging from the ceiling.


Left: View of a section of Cold Storage taken from the second floor.

Right: Guardian is having special offers now. If you buy more than RM80 worth of products, you get a goodie bags! I got it and there’re lots of samples in there. Great for my trip to Penang this October. If you buy more than RM50, you can get RM5 discount with the voucher available on the flyer they’re giving out.

It seemed like most people went there and ended up with bags and bags of stuffs. Business seemed pretty good hahaha…

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