sabah#4: last days at kota kinabalu

-DAY 5-

This is my last post on Graduation Trip V (V as in roman number 5 wtf). Yes I have been keeping count of my frequent traveling this holidays. Four out of five of these trips required me to fly, which I am quite happy to do. I am bad when it comes to long distance ride on buses or trains, cars are still acceptable. 

Anyway, on our last day, we spend a long time in Sabah Museum and then shopped for a while in Filipino Market and another where Ai Li's mother works in. Finally, we ended our trip by the beach and having dinner at Tanjung Aru Beach. Oh, and one more place - Perdana Park, where we went after dinner to watch the fountain show. However, unfortunately, there were maintenance works so no show for us T.T 

There are exhibitions both inside the museum and outside. No photos allowed inside.

Outside, there were lots of train and railway tracks replica, which I think were great photography places

sabah#3: island-hopping day

-DAY 4-

On our 4th day, we had breakfast at one of the shops at Gaya Street before doing some shopping at the street itself. There were so many people at the market that day and you can find lots of weird stuff at Gaya Street like even pets, fishes, etc. Mostly great for those wanting to buy souvenirs, accessories, hats, food / snacks and also for stamp lovers, they sell not only stamps, but first day covers and also old coins. I bought some stamps that had pictures of movie posters circa 90s' and a vintage gramophone record. Lol, I know, when I saw it I just had to buy it. I love all things vintage. 

We walked from one end to the other end and back again.

After that, we went to Jesselton Point to buy tickets and get on the boat for island-hopping

We went to Manukan Island, Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park. There are other islands in the vicinity too.

sabah#2:cows, flowers, sunny and gong

-DAY 3-

We stayed one night at Ranau before moving on to Desa Cattle farm and Kundasang War Memorial in the morning. 

You can see Mt Kinabalu clearly from this farm

Buying freshly produced milk yum...

sabah #1: from kota kinabalu to kundasang

On July 6th, not too long ago, I went to Sabah, together with "7 dwarves", a group of Pharmacy friends that I always hang out with in UKM. We called ourselves that because there are 7 of us and yes, we are all quite the same height =P

Because I was the only one from KL, I had to fly on my own to KK. Although I traveled to places before, but believe it or not, this is the first time I am flying solo. To add to that, there were no cheaper flights so I had to reach KK one day before the rest of them flew in from Sarawak. Yes, 5 of them were visiting both Sabah and Sarawak but since myself and also Wei Wei had been to Kuching before, we decided to just join the others in KK. 

I was supposed to live in my coursemate Ai Li's house but since she was not in KK yet, I stayed for one night at Suzane's house. Yes, my former roommate is also from KK but now she is residing in KL since she is working here. Because of me, she took few days leave and go back to KK, but her flight arrived later than mine. Gomawo, Suzane =)

The next day, I had the chance to meet Suzane's family - her mom, her sis, her bro, and of course, her little niece. All of them were really friendly and nice, haha, just like her. After her family left for work, Suzane drove myself and her niece for lunch. 

-DAY 1-

Suzane's niece, Little Xin Yu who is just so adorable

Suzane's new phone - it's an imitation iPhone her sis got for her

The first place we went to is the Aquarium at Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS)