Would you believe it’s now already one week after the first day of Redang Island trip with fellow and friends and ShoutOuters. It was that long, it really is. Here am I sitting and pondering, what a wonderful time most of us had. Well, it was fun while it lasted, though I think I lost my cap to the bus, my shades to the sand, and my memories of the dive trip in my dive log book. Yes, REDANG ISLAND was fun.

The ones that went on this trip were ……

Guys : Aaron, Hugo, David, William, Satkuru, Lasker & Me
Girls : Wendy, Lee May, Lisa, Angeline & Elise

By the time we arrived, the sea was so blue from the reflections of the sky that such peacefulness could be felt within. Well, just looking at the above picture would tell you how clear the sea was. Yes, stayed in Redang Kalong, the same place I used to stay for the past 2 years. Seriously a good place for divers to visit.

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The title is just your normal average title. But what can I say, I am going for a diving break in one of the beautiful island of Peninsular Malaysia. Well, I think all of you have guessed it again, it’s another round of Redang Island. Though this time it will be more and more people. I am bringing a group of ShoutOuters (some people refer to them as Shouters) with me and this time let’s hope for an amazing time.

See!!! See!!! Jolin also misses me. How eh?? Hehehehe…. well, but with every adventure, there’s bound to be more photos right .

I will bring in a surprise every now and then during the days I am not here. Yes, I will only be back on Monday late night.

Miss me you will – Yoda

A backdated photo of Redang in year 2004. Those days the corals were magnificent. I missed the good old Redang Island days when there were not that many people.

ps: I created a function to close ShoutOut and Open Shoutout, mighty cool, actually there’s a reason to it

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Yes, after what seemed to be a long winded post about Sabah, I decided to end with a few shots and the last of it with the title of let’s go to the Beach. The only Jetty on the west side of Sabah, Jesselton Port. By the way in case you didn’t know, Jesselton was what Kota Kinabalu was called before you know it was changed to Kota Kinabalu for obvious reasons. Malaysianism.

Here is an excerpt how it became known as Jesselton.

In 1899, the site for setting up a base on the mainland was named Jesselton, after Sir Charles Jessel – the vice Chairman of the Chartered company. Soon after the administrative centre was moved from its location at Gantisan.

I’ve got to hand it over to the tourism industry there for preserving what seemed to be an old phone booth.

Done with HDR on a single JPEG file. Still don’t get what is HDR, you can refer to Wikipedia to know all about HDR imaging. But just before we leave for the island trips and beaches and sandy bars, have a look at their port.

Amazing isn’t it. Well, guessed it’s time to get your ass over to Sabah now.

Where to destination?? Pulau Sapi, one of the most beautiful island of the west coast of Sabah or rather Borneo. Hmmm… and I had enough of the HDR imaging that I didn’t do it for the following photos.

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Sabah, the beauty of it. East Malaysia where most of the islands and landscape remained untouched. The land of tranquility and the home of the biggest flower in the world, the Rafflesia.

Oh yeah, this was the only flower I found that was alive. Too bad, Rafflesia only lives like 1 or 2 weeks depending on how long it can last. So it’s a very rare flower to see when you’re in Sabah, if you’re unlucky, none to see. Well, I thought that when I descend down the trail from Mt Kinabalu, at least there would be one to see

If you think seeing a Rafflesia was rather worth it, wait till you see the super fruit, the Magic Pineapple. Yes, funny right, this is really an out of shape pineapple. Somehow those green thing above it makes it looks like it’s hair covering the balls grass. So bushy so errr..green?? SWAMP THING! O_o

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Oh my, I didn’t know I really had a lot to post up for the backdated Kinabalu trip. Well or rather the Sabah tour around. Of course if you’re still clueless and didn’t follow the previous posts, here’s some flashback.

Journey To Kota Kinabalu

Trekking Up Mount Kinabalu

It’s only wise that since the previous post was tracking up Mount Kinabalu, the next post would be descending from Mount Kinabalu (Gunung Kinabalu). Since it’s already daytime when most of the shots were taken, it’s bound to be clear.

Yup, there are people from all over the world. Some Russians, but mostly Americans. Well, I’ve met a few up there and I was at the least amazed, they flew all the way to the east from the States to England, then China and finally ended up in Sabah just to climb this peak. I just love those clouds. Yup, the offer is still up for grabs. I am going again next year, and looking for more people to join in.

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