Journey to Sarawak

Mok, Akka and me - bridge infront of MOF

Mok, Elius, me and akka eating satay kajang when elius came down to KL

ME, akka at longest hangging bridge in Asia

ME at hangging bridge at Mulu Park

Leaf with natural hole

Spider man...

Group of Caterpillars looking like red flower ..more like cotton candy at Mulu Park

Stick Insect (like bugs life) at Mulu, Park

Me at Mulu HQ entrance after our climb

Pinnacles...so misty...about to rain

Mulu Pinnacles

Mulu Pinaccles

Our Group: Sara(US) , Rain(US), Elius(Spain), John(US), akka, me and cute italian guy..mr. Richard(UK) is taking the picture..

ME and aka at Pinnacles top...Finally its mine..mine..mine ha..ha..ha

ME and akka at Pinnacles top...

Akka climbing at Pinnacles..so misty..going to rain

Our trail to Pinnacles...very steap and sharp..10 times worst then Klang Gates

Me, aka and Mr Anand from India... he is 60, handsome, fit and have climbed Pinnacles, Mulu, Kinabalu and Tahan Fuyoh...aka's dream guy

Camp 5, our shelter at Mulu base...

Over two millions bats coming out of Dear Cave at Mulu aroud 6 oclock everday looking for food

Its a bird, its a plane no its millions of bat coming out of Deer Cave

Honey bee attacked aka's food within second ..yum...yum

Mulu cafe at Mulu Head quarters ..where small mineral bottle cost us RM3...

Our Hostel at Mulu another RM12 ringgit with attached bathroom

Our tinny focker plane that took us to Mulu..and back and almost killed us during the storm..what a journey..sigh

Entrance of Niah Cave..we had walk almost 2 km on wet plank path to reach there

Me and aka at Niah Cave

Me and Akka at Niah entrance

Aka at top of the hill top at one of Bako Trail..Actually could get celcome line there ...

Aka at one of Bako trail..Foyuh i am MGR

Pandan Kechil...even though its hot the water was amazingly cold and super to bathe...what a pitty aka have to miss it

Pandan Kechil, Bako..the formation of the famous snake head

Pitcher Plant at Bako


Silver square faced monkey at Bako...


Me doing stunt at Bako sea side..

Our hostel at Bako, Kuching

Me and Akka at boat ride to Bako, Kuching

Oldest Roman Churh at Kuching Town, All woody and triangle and so georgous

Our Yummy mouth watery mango lasi at Indian Restaurant in Kuching..yum..yum


Flowers at Satok Sunday Market, Kuching



China street at Kuching town..near our hostel..ver creepy at night

Park at Kuching town....its a pathway to undergrown..

Round about at Kuching town

Huge old tree at Kuching Sarawak town

Orang Utan Feeding time, Semenggoh Relihabitation Centre

Fat Orang Utan at Semenggoh Relihabitation..

Small Pond at Semeggoh OrangUtan Relihabitation

Beautifull flower at Semenggoh Orang Relehabitaion

Me and aka at entrance of Semenggoh Relihabitation Centre

Waterfall on the way to Abang Rais Long House

Local Sampan Near Abang Rais House

Local Liquor at Abang Rais House..so bitter ..Yuck!!

Cooking Place at Iban Long House

Abang Raiz Iban Long House at Kuching, it only looks like that, they have everything inside..even astro


Angelican Church: The hostel we stayed at Kuching..only cost us RM12 perday


This is the visitor center, our first unofficial home...we walk in and out so many time till the officer knew our name..he was so helpfull..

Operation Rescue Puppy

From From left to right: Nava a.k.a. Chief, Shuba a.k.a the Ultraman..ups Ultrawomen!, Guna a.k.a the Phocahantas and Rusty the Culprit



On the 11 of Mac 2007 at about 8.00 o’clock Akka (Nava), her friend Guna and me decided to rescue a suspect discovered hiding at house No.4, Jalan 14/1 J Taman Cheras Jaya, Balakong for the past one week and find a new home. Details of the suspects as follows:

Name : PUPPY

Age : About 3-4 months old

Color : Whitish brown with soft fur.

Height : Short

Sex : Female

Breed : Unknown


Details of the event:

8.15 : Found Puppy running around at house No2.

8.20 : Committee was set up to rescue Puppy from the neighbors house (who happen to be Malay). Committee was lead by akka a.k.a Chief. Chief asked us to call and send messages to various friends and family members to find new home for Puppy.

8.25 : Message was send and replied but unsuccessful … except for one call…from Linie. Her father wants the puppy only if it is male. Meanwhile, Chief gave me and Guna the task to capture Puppy to find out its sex as Linie's fathers friend preferred Male.

8.40 : Puppy was very smart. Refused to give in and plyed hide and seek. But finally after trying many different ways, he finally gave in to Rusty’s cookies. At last, Puppy was captured. Puppy was confirmed to be female. Sigh!

8.50 : Puppy need new home now. Linie called again to inform her father doesn’t want the Puppy. But instead Murali’s friend decided to take the Puppy. Thank god. Alas, Puppy found new home.

8.55 : Committee agreed to keep Puppy till tomorrow. Chief gave me the task to bathe Puppy. Unfortunately, one committee member was not happy with the decision made by the Chief. He decided to take matters on his own. While I was bathing Puppy, Rusty tried to attack Puppy. As matter was getting worse, Chief decided it was best for Puppy to be transferred ASAP. Tonight!

9.00 : Chief called Linie to inform Puppy will be transported tonight. Linie agreed. Chief decided it was best I drove and Guna accompany me, while she will stay behind to explain to appa and amma. She had better communication skills.

915 : Puppy was put in Kelisa and was driven away.

9.30 : Puppy was not use to travel by car as Rusty. Got car sick and vomited, and again and again. Had to stop in Brickfield to get tissue to wipe the car. The car was stinking with Rusty’s food. Yuck!

9.45 : Journey continued to Bukit Beruntung. Drove at 120 km per hour. If only appa knew I would be dead meat. Puppy was very quite.

10.15 : Reached Linie’s house. Gave Puppy, waved good-bye and left. I miss Puppy and only wish Puppy could have stayed at least another day….

10.30 : Chief called. Appa and amma reached home. They were so angry. Chief had to lie that we drove to Ampang and not Bukit Beruntung. Chiefs explanation was not accepted.

10.35 : Chief called to inform the situation. Ask us to carry on with the lie. Unfortunately appa slept before we reached home.

11.15 : Reached home safely. OPERATION RESCUE PUPPY accomplished.

Few days later, Murali called to inform Puppy and Rinesh (Murali's son) was best of friend. Unfortunately Puppy owner came to get her. Puppy has new home now.

Sarawak, Day10-11- "RIP!"

Tuesday 10th August 2006:
We woke up early again to continue our journey back to Kuala Berar. Another 8 km walk into deep jungle. However, after the Pinnacles, walking 8 km on flat ground didn’t matter at all. Uncle Richard and family left the camp much earlier then us. We waived good by to Uncle Annad and continued our walk. The place was so muddy and wet; we slowed down to avoid our shoes from getting stuck in mud hole. But finally when the rain started pouring heavily, we ignored everything, and walked as fast as we could to Kuala Berar. Upon reaching the hut did we realize that leached had attacked us while we were running away from rain…the real rain! Yuck!

10 minutes later the boat arrived and we jumped in with our bags feeling exhausted. We were now going downstream with the current, with lesser people on the boat. It was suppose to be a smooth ride. But unfortunately, the water level was still low, thus the boat struggled again and we ended up jumping out of the boat to push it, again! This time I was really tired and could not keep with the group. Finally, after jumping in and out of the boat continuously, I just gave up and remained in. Mean, but I can’t help it. After sometime, the water level was high and it was only Bagio and the assistant that jumped in and out to push. Finally, for a bout 15 minutes upon reaching the park headquarters, the boat went really smooth and we just laid back enjoying the wind with tinny dropped of rains falling on our faces.

As soon as we reached the jetty we headed to our hostel, bathed, washed our muddy clothes and then went for our lunch at the cafeteria. Then we headed back to our room, applied deep heat once again and rested till 5 o’clock.

Since we had nothing planned today, we decided to take a walk outside the park even with our penguin/moon walk. Rain and Sara mentioned that there was a grocery shop outside the park selling things cheaper then the cafeteria. Hence, we decided to check out by our self. After walking up and down the road for 30 minutes, we soon discovered that Mulu town was just a long stretch of endless road with one airport, a restaurant, a church and police station and a grocery shop that hardly had anything but sold things very cheap. Everyone that by passes us was staring really hard. Probably it was the first time they encountered Indians.

After walking for sometime, we headed back to our park for dinner. Too tired, we actually skipped it and headed straight to bed with our deep heat applied all over us.

Our last day…..
The next day, for the first time in 10 days, we actually woke up late. Our leg and arm were aching really bad despites the help of deep heat. We officially became the penguin that was doing the moonwalk. We hardly could walk, sit, climb up stairr or down without a little cry.

Feeling too exhaust, we took our breakfast at the cafeteria. Unlike the rest of the group, our flight was only at 3 o’clock so we decide to go for another activity, Canopy Skywalk, which was supposed to be the world longest tree based structure. We waived good-bye to our dear friend and headed to park office. I really miss their company especially Elius!

We went to the park office to go for the canopy walk. First we need a guide to go there and ours happen to be Philip. Next, we have to pay RM60 to to walk on the hanging bridge! It’s awfully expensive, yet we took the tour anyway. Along with us was another couple from Mulu resort. We had to use the same path that Jenny took us two days a go. The canopy walk in Mulu is a bit different as walk way hang 20 meters above the forest that has been connected with 15 trees to form a circular route with separate exit. It was indeed scary as we doing the moonwalk.

The canopy walk:

The walk did not take very long. At about 12 we headed back to our dorm, bathed, packed and left to the airport. The flight was supposed to depart at 3 o’clock. It was the tinny Twin Otter plane again. But this time there were more passengers in it. The flight took off pretty good. However, just couple of minutes on the air, as our plane was heading towards Miri airport, the clouds turned dark, and followed by thunder and lighting. The moment the pilot bypassed the dark clouds, the plane started to shake. In few second, the shaking become harder and harder till everyone on the plane got panicked and was holding on tight to their seat. The stewardess informed us to remain seated and buckled up. Seconds later, there was another hard shake. A lady next to me went hysteria and started to scream on top of her lungs. At that point, almost everyone on the plane would have thought about the plane crashing.

ME at hostel, all packed to go home

Plane that almost killed us

The pilot was either brave or may be cuckoo to continue the journey on that weather. Upon reaching Miri airport, the pilot tried several time to land but the plane could not prolong with the strong wind and fierce clouds. It only made the plane to shake harder then before. After several attempt, the pilot gave up and headed to the sea. Sea means crash! And with the lady screaming next to me, I actually thought we were going to crash, for real. Instead, he took a long turn and then headed back to the opposite side of Miri’s runway. There were absolutely no changes in the weather but he tried his best to land anyway. Finally after several attempt, he took a sudden sharp dive, roughly landed on the runway and furiously braked till we could smell the rubber from the burning tyre from inside. The landing was really terrifying; we were deliberately clutching the seat for the fear of getting thrown out of the plane. The plane landed on the ground safely. The moment the pilot announced we have safely landed in Miri’s airport, everyone on the plane cheered for the pilot. He did a good job. Upon us getting out of the plane, almost everyone at the airport rushed to the plane.

This was indeed the most bizarre experience I have ever gone through in life. Feeling so bad, we had no mood to do anything, anymore. We only managed to go to the market to buy local fruits and walked around. An hour later, we called Pak Cik to take us back to the airport early. Our flight was only at 10.45 p.m. but due to bad weather, it was delayed till 11.45 p.m. Hence, we only reached LCCT at about 1 o’clock in the morning. Lucky us, the last bus to Sentral was actually waiting for our flight. We took the bus and headed straight to Sentral where Pa was waiting for us worriedly. We reached home at about 3 o’clock; indicating our trip to Sarawak finally came to an end.

It’s strange how something that begin well turnout to be such bad ending. Anyway, there is a saying, at the end of the journey, if there are no happiness, sadness, tears, separation, anger and so on, hence, we have not completed our journey well. Indeed we did and it was the most amazing one and could not have been done without the help of our guardian angels that stood by us all the way. God bless them.