Hanging out in KL one last time

I am now in Chi-Chi-Chi CHINA!!! WHEEE!!!



The getting back my passport thing was complicated but I shall not bother to repeat the story anymore. Think about it also damn sien to the point I want to burn down the British Embassy.



Moving on... Beijing is absolutely fantastic!! My family and I are now staying with family friends so free food + lodgings for us *all smiles*. They are damn sweet people, and uncle purposely took 1 week off work to be our tour guide around Beijing! I am sooooo glad I'm staying with them instead of following some stupid tour group.





Taking a break now using my uncle's laptop. They are now off to buy fruits at the market. Today I tripped and fell at the Temple of Heaven. Yeah, it sounds much better than saying 'I tripped over a marble slab'. So my knees and elbows are scraped badly which explains why I'm not shopping with my parents.



Just giving a slight update about KL on the photos I had uploaded on Photobucket before coming to Beijing.


When I was in KL I stayed over with:

Jamie

She is so adorable and smelly. Every morning at precisely 8 am she dosen't give a damn I only slept 4 hours the night before and will scratch at the door non-stop till I let her in. Only to lie on my mattress, taking away my sleeping spot.

Kidding la. This is Jamie and David

Had lunch with Mel & Zhen too at SanFrancisco SteakHouse

I know, sometimes my fans can be a little over-exited when taking photos with me


Damn cilka lor the place. Everyone at the table ordered lamb chops with fries. I felt like having something healthy so I ordered 'salmon'.

Lamb Chop

Salmon.

Kanasai loh. 2 more thinly sliced lemons can block my pathetic salmon meat out of the picture.

Then we went over to Mel's condo to swim.

Does this pool remind you of something?

Ok I know there are tons of other KL pics but I can't be bothered to post them up anymore. I am going to see the Great Wall of China tmr. Bye bye!

*Sccreeaaaminngg*

Literally. I already screamed just now.


Yep. Its about the stupid passport. I am supposed to fly off to Beijing this Friday. Today is Wednesday. And its not done. I had sent my passport to the UK Visa application centre to approve it. Those ang moh pigs are probably taking their sweet sweet time drinking english rose tea and tossing peanuts through their nostrils. Yeah I can see they have perfectly good reason to delay the application of my UK Visa for so many days.

*panics*


Prayed to God last night to have my passport ready by today.


I think it never got through.


*panics*


My mom just applied to British Embassy to give my passport back to me.

But in doing so, they will cancel out my original appliction and I will have to re-submit my application to the UK embassy again.


The only time I can do this is on the 21st of September.


I am flying off to UK on the 25th of September.



*panics*

She has already written this email to them.
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Please kill me now.



UPDATED!!! (11/05/2008)


Wooo hooo!!!! British Embassy just called me 2 hours ago after I sent them one dozen emails explaining my situation yesterday in which they choose to ignore until tonight for some God Knows Why reason.


They have agreed to release my passport to me, but I need not re-submit my application. Woo hooo!! I just have to return my passport to them on the 21st of September, on the day I come back from China.


To British Embassy staff, all I can say is: Fuck You Very Very Much :)

Mulu Caves (II)

Day 2 of our Mulu Trip....

We woke up early the next day for breakfast & boat ride to Clearwater caves + Wind Caves....

Some of the local villagers that live along the riverside

According to Aaron he took this photo while there was a half-naked man bathing in the river =_=

The scenery from the boat was gorgeous!

We stopped by first at the Penan Long-house market. I haven't been to a kampung in a looong time.

Baby chickens!

They were trying to sell us stuff like these but we Sarawakians already see until sien. lol.

This lady damn cool. She played the flute through her nose -literally.

Went back on the boat again to head to one of the caves.

According to the tour guide this huge hole appeard in the Cave because the roof fell in..

Damn lousy signboard that ask more questions instead of answering them. rubbish.

HAHAHA!!! Day 2 also he wore a clean new silk shirt! how many does he have????

Rock formation inside the cave

Took a picture from our boat from above

Rolf is HUGE

We headed for the next cave Clearwater caves. It has a river running through it, which is apparently drinkable right on the spot. But I didn't dare try any water that is not bottled up or filtered. I am so chinese.

Phebe playing with cold river water

Taking the boat ride back to the airport

Must pose with my fav uncle one last time

Bye Bye to Mulu!

I digress...

Feeling kinda fidgety right now so the post was done with a rush. Still haven't gotten back my visa yet... *sigh*

Mulu Caves (I)

I just came back from KL and will be doing travelling again real soon to Beijing. I can't believe I'm saying this but I'm getting pretty annoyed with having too much stuff to do.... ESPECIALLY WITH TRAVELLING!!!

I think its mostly cost its taking a wee bit too long for the British Embassy to approve my visa to the UK. Its making me panicky coz I'm flying off to Beijing in another 1 week and I DON'T FREAKING HAVE MY PASSPORT WITH ME COZ ITS STUCK AT THE EMBASSY RIGHT NOW.

So chill... chilll............................. *takes deep breath*



Gonna blog a bit to calm me unsettled nerves...

Reversing back to a week ago I went to visit Mulu Caves for the first time. I went there with my Miri peeps Aaron & Phebe. (Initially there was gonna be a huge group of 8 but because of individual reasons the other 5 ffk. So very ko lian only got 3 ppl in the end!)


Mulu Caves is only 30 mins away from Miri by plane. Its soo....well... jungle-ish. Which is a good thing!! I need to exercise more and get away from my Astro.

Entrance to Mulu National Park.

We opted for budget travel when we were there so we bunked at a hostel with 20 beds at a mere rm25/night. Surprisingly the beds are rather clean and so were the bathrooms. Neeways, later got story to tell about some perv that was staying in the hostel too with us.

Our bunk beds

Overall we visited four different caves within the span for 2 days.

Some wildlife that our guide pointed to us along the way....

Lizard thingy

Stick Insect thingy

Flower Thingy

Yeah, bimbo blogs label unexplainable items as 'thingies' .

Bat Observatory - more on that later.

Our guide brought us to see bats from cameras placed inside the cave.

I never knew bats could be sooo adorable!! Damn furry loh!!

Our first cave was Gua Lang. Unfortunately I forgot every single story the guide was going on about this cave. So nothing to blog about for this cave. Hohohoho!

Entrance of Gua Lang

The inside of the cave:

Swiflets!

Some really cool rock formation that somehow reminds me of my fringe

This aunty in the pic damn annoying keep shining her flashlight right at my eye while taking this photo.

We met this ang moh guy called Rofl who is Dutch. My first ang moh peng yao who is not related to me!

The second cave was:

One of the rare few times I'm dripping in sweat

HAHAAHAHA! Ohmygawd, Aaron & I super love this uncle. Go Mulu Caves trekking wearing a silk flowery shirt and shorts. Nyahahahaahahahaha!!! He reminded us of a kopitiam uncle who wants to take your order ;P. If this is your father/uncle/family friend I am sorry for making fun of him.

The most famous shot in Deer Cave - Abraham Lincoln's outline

This cave had a lot of tiny tiny cockroaches like these running around everywhere. Luckily Zhen didn't come, he sure scream like a girl.

One of the main attractions of Mulu are the bats that come out from the caves every evening to look for food - unless it happened to be raining they would prefer to starve themselves.

It was raining the day we were there. T_T.


Eventually though the rain did stop, but not many bats came out.




This is a video of what we should have seen but we never exactly got to see the bats come out this way.... *sad*

Entrance at the Bat Observatory

We had been waiting for an hour!

Bats in real-life are only this tiny

We headed back to the main camp around 6pm and the walkway back was pitch black. Super scary loh only got 2 good torch lights coz Aaron's batteries went out.

Silk shirt flower uncle again!

That night when we went back to the hostel to sleep the perv kept trying to approach Phebe & I and even had to nerve to come and sit down right next to Phebe on her bed!! Talk about disgusting creep. It was some dark-skinned uncle (not silk shirt flower uncle ok? He is a damn nice family guy) who was a tour guide to a group of ang mohs.

It was so disgusting to see him constantly inch his way closer and closer to Phebe. But luckily he walked away later. I know I should have said something to shoo him off but I didn't coz I didn't want to be rude. Now I'm regretting it like crazy. Thank God we at least had Aaron there, who was making sure the perv didn't make any weird moves.

So my advice to girls is when staying in hostel places like these - make sure you have a lot of your male friends around you coz there's bound to be a perv. Especially if he's Malaysian. I know its prejudice but the same thing happened to a friend who also stayed there and a Malaysian tour guide (a totally different one) tried to hit on her. Yucks. It was the ang moh men who left us alone.

Damn sa soi loh Malaysia.



Neeways, I'll be updating on Part II soon!