..leave the land under the wind...

it has almost been a week i was in KK. spending time and money needless to say. and having so much of fun. i manage to submit one report, the most complicated ones and important one just before i left for KK.

i was great from the start, thank God. Alhamdulillah...the weather was fantastic! and only raining at night and the evening before we left for KL. the civilizations.

how i'm so speechless to say that...everything was so nice, was so fairy, was so damn great while staying in KK. Alhamdulillah nothing bitter, nothing at all...just a slight uncomfortable-ness. but that, i tried not to remember. only the most amazing thing lingered in my mind.

we start our first day, when we touched down in KK. checked in, rushed to pickup runner's pack for the marathon where...i felt so half heartedly bout running 21k the next morning. well, i ran nevertheless but only 10k and i believe, i did well. i ran the course all the way...i was grateful nothing bad happen...well not that bad since i've forgotten to wear socks. how i was forgotten?

i wore shoes in the cab...then only i knew that i didn't bring my running socks. ah, great! i only lost one toe nail and slower run as i've to adjust my feet every now and then. or i'll have a bloody feet by time i reached finishing point.

after that, i took the bus at pick up point back to hostel just happened that the bus stucked, yes...stucked under the fly over which eventually made us all walked or took another mean of transport. me, i was so lost...literally...until i found a police post and asked for direction. they said it was near...and made me walked around 20 more minutes to hostel and that was near...can't say much eh.

reached hostel and around 10am, rudi asked us out jalan-jalan KK tour. and so we went to bukit bendera, the observatory tower to see the whole town. and then from there we went straight to kinabalu park. i didn't realized it was so far from KK town. or may be it was far because of the road. we stopped at tamparuli, the suspension bridge and the proceed to pekan nabalu, again up on top of the observatory tower and witnessed mount kinabalu...s very clear.

then we went to timpohon of around 2,000m from sea level where it was the starting point to climb to mountain. after that we went to poring hot spring and i sweat like...nobody's business! we end our trip at kinabalu park when we stopped at kundasang and ranau. it was indeed nice place, cool places.

the next day...first thing in the morning, we got ready to our most dangerous activities of all...yeah rite. like it really was. white water rafting! and only knew that shera didn't actually knew that raft is a modern raft! she thought it was bamboo...oh puhlezzzz...i laughed at her thought of ideas like hell...it became a joke! how she was so naive.

kiulu river or tuaran river as known to the locals was grade 1-2 and sometime 3 when it rained the night before. the course was 9k with 15 rapids. i had great time, eventhough it wasn't so great to find out that i can't float in white water! even with the life jacket...nuh...how comes? never mind...the river guide was really helpful...he helped me when i drank how much water i couldn't count...and he was laughing.

he took me to the raft after we did body rafting and i couldn't get myself in. hahaha...that was hilarious. no, i wasn't jumped out of the raft even though there were fierce rapid along the way and we did hit all the rocks we could find...because it was fun and there where the fun lied.

i was shivering when we reached the ending point. where again i body rafted. yes, i was scared because the guide scared me when he said there were creatures under water. hey, seriously i can't figure myself more scare than in the water without knowing what were inside it!

after about one hour, oh yes...i didn't feel like leaving but heck we had to. we took our ride back to town...tired. and yeah...it wasn't really a serious pedalling since it was rapids remember. it flowed, like elevator!

on the way back we stopped by and bought buah tarap...some kind of jackfruit, well a smaller version and a bambangan sort of bachang kind of fruit. smell so strong! which finally it was given to rudi and the bambangan brough to office...great momentos.

the third day was even fabulous...remarkably fantastic and unforgettable. i went to the island park which till now, i felt like going back to the island...it was so nice, so peaceful and so, so...argh speechless...no word better described. the weather again was great. the first island was mamutik...yes the fishes were damn friendly. and the life guard too...he...hmm...tall dark and handsome! oh, how i bite my own tougue when i said this...he was so nice too. i think all people of sabah were really soft spoken and polite and nice. at least, during my stay.

at second island manukan, i was tired and lost my breath already. i didn't so snorkelling. just resting and having good time jalan-jalan along the beach. nice view. after that to sapi. i didn't want to miss anything here...so, i jumped to the sea again. and this nice guy who talked to my friend was so nice to bring further to the diving spot and see more under water. excited i was...and my guide was diving instructor. nice but...hmm...i didn't feel comfortable with him...as i said earlier. and i wanted to forget it. period.

the diving spot was greatly amazing! fantacy! fairy...everything was damn nice...yes, i wanted to spend more time there in the future. never mind if i turn tan...10 shades darker than i am now. for what great thing offered...i would jump for it a thousand times over!

forth day, i was suppose to do KK fun quest but due to missunderstanding...changed to wild cruise along klias river. i was told that it was crocodiles habitats and was advised not to play with water...however so, i won't play with the water as it was so black like charred!

yes, we saw probosis monkey a.k.a. bayau like 12x zoomed...yes they were shy creatures and hardly welcome human. and we saw few fireflies before we headed back as it started to rain. yeah...it just water and i liked it but it was KK we were talking about and 6pm was really dark. not willing to wait for any possibilities of rain to stop. it was around 60km from the town of KK but took me 2hr or so to reach the place. again, it was the road and the traffic!

i'd good fight with the driver, the guide when we had to follow two cars...was so slowed that we had no idea of why! yes, we could see there were nothing in front of them...of course, we were in the big van, a mini bus. we bet that i said, it must be men drivers whom bercinta and he bet it was lady drivers. turned out to be true, it was men!!! we had good laugh...

the next day was the day to travel back to KL...where i started to miss everything. everthing i enjoyed in KK. the people, the places, the environment, the weather, the beaches...the mountains, the crocker range...argh...even the traffic! i really loved sabah, especially KK. i'm loving it...

looking forward to be in KK again in the future!