Welcome to Sabah

Day 2
7th Jan 2008

"Dummchhh dummchhh dummchh dumhh ...."
"Snooooooorrrrr.......snooooorrrr....."
"Crock! Crockkk! Crock! croc..."


5.30am in the morning. Do you think we could sleep well under such noises? Well the only one slept well was Jun, and he has proudly contributed to one of these annoying noises.

Everyone was awaken at 5.30 in the morning, including Jun. Went toilet together to brush our milky white teeth and wash our even milk-ier face. Checked in our luggage to the cargo, we went MarryBrown for breakfast. For a person who doesn't eat breakfast at all like me, I ordered just a cup of milo. We sat at one corner of MB where the 'chairs' are actually swings. 4 of them occupied a full table and left me and Lynn in another table beside them.

7am, time to check in.

Whoalaa...I bet this was the first time I travelled with AirAsia. Was surprise that the plane actually looks good and seat and all. Each row of seats consisting only 6 seats, what a huge bus. Well, we couldn't walk into the plane directly but have to walk a short distance on the plateform. The bus was comfortable, there was so many empty seat that some of us spreaded out to get a better view outside the windows.

Ops, did I say bus? It was a plane.

Reached our destination at around 10am. Wooikuan took 1 hour to reach the Kota Kinabalu Airport and took another half an hour to fetch us to the town, Kota Kinabalu.

Now that we know why Wooikuan love to get home. The mountain and the seaside scenic was just so marvelous. It made us felt like we are in a different place, like the Hawaii Island. Looking up we couldn't see the peak of the mountains as the cloud covered it like a white-chocalote-coated-doughnut. Looking sideway we met the colourful sea, like a paint drawn by just pouring deep blue, light blue and greenish blue or bluish green colour on it. Above the sealevel was the bright sun, forcing himself to shine so brightly to make sure every single inches of the Earth's surface has its colour. It was hot, just hot. As hot as any girl I have seen before.

We went shopping in Centre Point. I felt stupid to be so prepared for this trip as almost all of my friends, didn't even has a proper climbing shoes. Finally, they found some local made rubber climbing shoes with just RM5.50.

After shopping and lunch, Wooikuan's parents fetched us to the Kota Kinabalu Park where the entrance to Mount kinabalu is. Yi Yueng, Wooikuan and Jun have to take bus there themselves as the Unser cannot fit all 9 people with all our luggage.

Kota Kinabalu Park is actually 1800meters above sealevel. It is the entrance to climb Mount Kinabalu. The weather there is almost like the weather in Genting, cold and windy. However to suit myself with the even cold-er weather later, I just wore a thin jersey and sport shorts to walk around there. We went dinner, then bought some food from the nearby supermarket, and went back to our hotel.

Nothing much to talk about Kota Kinabalu Park beside cold and colder. All of us are forced to sleep at 10pm to prepare for the climb the next morning.

Light off at 10pm.


Shit
Jun's snoring again.

View from the Airbus: Sungai Rajang, longest river in Asia? or SEA?