Category: Uniquely Kuching

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Malaysia China Friendship Park(2)

July 2, 2006March 30, 2007 sweet surrender No Comments

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!-_*

Going Places, Retro, Uniquely Kuching

Damai Lagoon & Santubong Resort/Damai Golf & Country Club

June 3, 2006January 14, 2007 sweet surrender No Comments

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.

Going Places, Retro, Uniquely Kuching

Chinese Restaurants in Kuching

May 16, 2006 sweet surrender No Comments

These photos are courtesies of HonFui, Ken and my sis. HonFui provides the locations’ photos. Ken and my sis provides the food photos of Li Garden. Thanks.

For those of you that is hunting for Chinese restaurants for your wedding/birthday or whatever dinner/function. Here are some well-known ones in Kuching. I’m not commenting about their food. Just going to show you the photos.

I’m kinda fed up with all these restaurants’ food already especially for those chinese wedding/functions dinner. I need something "fresh" plssssssssss… been to heaps of dinner functions like this. Especially the Chinese ones that the waiters or waitresses will serve plate after plate of food. Usually it’s like 6-course, 8-course, 9-course or n-course dinner. Getting tired of it, imagine that you have to attend dinner functions at least once a month at these places for the past years. Not to mention, hotels too. Lucky not much to attend last year and this year. Hmm… less than 5 times a year now. Used to be like at least 12 times a year. Phew… Thank God!

Their food is just food when I’m there no matter how good it is, I just put into my mouth, chewed and swallowed, that’s it. No feeling LOL… So enjoy the the photos. I couldn’t give you full contact of these restaurants because I don’t have duh… ;p just feast your eyes.

Tsui Hua Lau, located along Ban Hock Road.

Left: Tsui Hua Lau
Right: Li Garden, inside Hock Lee building. Below are the food of Li Garden.

This is Joyous Shanghai, it’s part of Lok Thian Group. It’s situated in Lok Thian.

Lastly, I’m not sure of the english name for this. In Chinese, it’s "Dong Guan Jiu Lou" – Don Guan Restaurant(direct translation ;p). This is somewhere around Rock Road/Jalan Tun Ahmad Zaidi Adruce near Mc D. I’m not very sure how to describe the location hahaha…

So that’s all. Very busy lately. Will be a bit free after the election. Cheers!

Food Porn, Retro, Uniquely Kuching

Room @ Merdeka Palace

May 10, 2006June 23, 2022 sweet surrender No Comments

I was supposed to blog about this in March :p but lazy because too many pics to edit so decided to blog in parts. Summore, no camera now 🙁

This is the standard room on 3rd floor. I’m not sure about the pricing. Actually I got this free voucher for a 2-days-1-night-stay that comes with a complimentary breakfast for two last year and would expired in April this year. Not to waste it, so decided to use it and can show you guys around this hotel.

Hmmm… this should be one of our five-star hotel in Kuching but… you judge for yourself LOL… I didn’t stay overnight there. Was supposed to use their swimming pool but silly me, I brought my black panty instead of my swimming suit’s bottom that happened to be black too. The first day, coulnd’t swim because of heavy rain. Second day, could swim but I only realised that I brought the wrong thing. Wasted.

The snacks on the cupboard are not free of charge and anything in the fridge are not free too. Some hotel provide complimentary mineral water but not Merdeka Palace. By the way, the snacks on the cupboard seemed to be there for ages, it has been collecting dust. LOL…

The tables.

The bed and the sink.

The towel and the hair dryer. No bathtub for standard room, only shower. Oh… when I went into the bathroom to do my business, I saw urine on the seat of the toilet. I flushed it off with water from the sink. Hmm…

The TV and the closet.
The view of standard room. Don’t expect a nice view of Padang Merdeka or the city skyline. All you see is the multi-level parking lots.*LOL*

So that’s all about the room.

Retro, Uniquely Kuching

Damai Beach ~ Good Morning & Goodbye(1st MAY 2006)

May 1, 2006 sweet surrender No Comments

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.