Tek Jee quoted something that went like this: "If you don't visit Niah, you haven't seen Miri!"
Niah - can you spot the cave?
And while trekking through the Niah forest reserve to get to Great Cave, he thought me how to enjoy the sceneries and observe nature instead of being too paranoid I'd fall down since it just rained and the trails were wet and slippery.. (Yes, I was looking at my feet the first 15 - 20 minutes! Think of how much I must have missed!)
So anyways, once I was sure I wouldn't fall flat on my face, I started to take pictures... Here are some of the many pics I started taking after I felt safe on my own two feet lols!
3km walk to Great Cave!
Probably a 1000 year old tree.. Can find those all around the forest!
Erosions on the cave walls due to high tide and strong currents during the stone ages.. Or something like that..
Definately a questionnable act! Currently humming "Can you see the love tonight~"
Some weird hammer head leech like thing.. Yeek!
Could also see snails all over.. And with different shell colours too!
Spiderweb after an afternoon shower
Ganas lil' fella this one.. Don't be fooled by it's innocent puppy dog eyes!! LOLS!
Me and my tour guide~!
Half way through~ Wee~!!
I know! Beautiful! And so is the background! *Grins*
Archeological site @ the entrance of Great Cave
"Welcome to Great Cave!" Too bad we didn't manage to go to Painted Cave coz it was getting really dark out..
Where the locals collect bird's nest.. They have to climb up those thin sticks to get to the roof of the cave where they would harvest the saliva
Hardened bat guano and this makes the ground you walk on!
La di da~~!
Like a speck of dust but I felt like I owned the world!
"Great success~!"
And finally... The scenery on the way back to Miri city.. Tell me it's not beautiful and I'll tell you that your eyesight is gone!
The next and last day of my stay in Miri, Tek Jee's mum brought me to Petroleum Museum. I loved the scenery atop the hill where the museum is situated! Breathtaking!
All-in-all, I had a marvelous time in Miri/Brunei! Thank you so very much Tek Jee and family! Thanks for making me feel at home and like one of the family! Looking forward to visiting Miri again in the near future! *Smiles*
Front: Tek Jee and Caleb, back (from left): Hiong Jie, Grace, Sonia, Aunty and me!
Spent two days and one night at Brunei with Tek Jee and Ernest upon touching down at Miri airport from KL.. Anyways, to make my story sweet, short and simple, just scroll over the pictures in the slide show to view my comments k? =)
BRUNEI - Day 1
BRUNEI - Day 2
Just to add... Bruneians are generally honest people! And whenever they converse in English, unlike we Malaysians, they'd compose their every sentence in perfect, grammatically correct English! Plus, drivers there, they stop for pedestrians! So much so, pedestrians need not look left and right UNLIKE in our country whereby even if you look left and right, there's no guarantee you won't get knocked down! LOLS!
And oh, besides dirt cheap luxury cars as I mentioned in one of the pictures in the slideshow (and by dirt cheap I mean a BMW that costs RM500K here, costs RM100K there!!!), their petrol is subsidised so much, they pay B$ 0.53/litre!!! (Even after conversion, it's still cheaper!!) But too bad they can only sell a max of B$10/day to Malaysians and only certain allocated petrol kiosk are allowed to sell their petrol to us.. Sigh..
All-in-all, I had great fun!! Yay!!!
And soon to come.. Pictures taken at Niah Rainforest and Great Cave as well as Miri itself!
Was recently tagged by Chia Ling so here's doing the tag thing..
The Rules
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules. 2. List eight (8) random facts about yourself. 3. Tag eight people at the end of this post and list their names. 4. Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving them a comment on their blogs.
I miss blogging sooo much!!! But I'm still not in the mood to blog..
Anyways, short update on how I'm doing.. with a picture..
You know what they say... A picture paints a thousand words!
This pic says:
"I'm stressed" / "I'm bored" / "I want my life back!" / "I want time to pass quickly"/ "But I also want it to slow down"/ And.... "I'm sick of studying! Please let me graduate already!!"
Wish me luck peeps.. Exam in 5 days!
Then Miri, Brunei, Hanoi, Singapore and GRADUATION~~~~!!
