Pesta Ketam in Sematan

So we woke up early in the morning last Saturday and made it back to campus at about 6.30am. Amazing how Kuching roads get so empty early in the morning. A trip that was supposed to take 20 minutes took only about half the time. Anyways, we reached there to find that the bus has gone back to the depot upon seeing no one at the information centre (we were supposed to be waiting for the bus there). The driver was half way washing his car depot when our Ketua Program spotted him and asked him come and get us. Well that all happen from the time we arrived til about 7.30am. Yup we were late…Definitely!

The trip to Sematan took about 2 hours. Brings back old memories of when I was there for a totally different reason. My dive site about 2 years ago was Talang-talang islands; about an hours ride off the shores of Sematan. The sea there had good visibility with very, very beautiful corals and countless lobsters. Anyways, I was here this time for the crabs.

It was a sunny afternoon, perfect for a carnival like this. The pier was inviting and beautiful. Reminds me of St. Kilda’s when I was in Melbourne visiting Danny. So like I said, we were late so we missed most of the opening ceremony. Not like we were interested at all. The ceremony was officiated by Datuk George Chan who came with his faithful cowboy hat. But heck, we were starving so we ate whether or not the ceremony was opened! First thing I ate was crab sandwich. Delicious! That wasn’t the only of crab there. There was pie tee, burgers with soft shell crab (they actually put the whole crab in!) and fried rice with crab meat. Wow were we feasting me and my girl friends (Ah Mau, this includes you). We enjoyed ourselves so much this trip. Seriously, the most enjoyable part is we didn’t have to write a report when we go back heheheh. I could only wish we had carnivals like these in the West.

Soft shell crab burgers... Anyone?

Dr. George Chan... looking for some free food after the officiation of the Carnival hehe

Number 3: Engagement Party Part II

This time it was held in my own hometown, Penang. We had some close friends over...or at least the ones we could gather at that time. Had a really an enjoyable time. Preparation of the big day took about a week to plan but i'm glad it turn out just fine...except for the fire hehe. It was accidental.

Anyways, we had a few of our church friends over and a few of my school friends too. Chern, Sien and Su Yee from secondary school was there. Was really so thankful that they could make it. My best friends of all time. Hong and Win Sen from Form 6 was also there. Couple of my best guy friends. You guys are crazy man and keep that frazy spirit going strong! I love y'all!

We had barbe babi, chicken and hotdogs. Danny cooked his speciality: Spaggheti red sauce and i did the white one... i felt the red sauce was really good. Kudos to the chef! Had fruit punch for drinks which Sien could not take because of the pineapples i added in. I'm so sorry Sien. I didn't know you were allergic to them. Besides that we had garden salad too.

Guys, we couldn't have enjoyed ourselves so much without your company... Thanks for making it there and i hope we'll see you all at our wedding which would be in two years time. Thanks for your presents as well. God bless you all!

Whoops... a bit blur...but thanks Ken and Xe Hui for consistently lighting the tea lights heheh

Number 2: Pedu Lake

During my trip back to Penang, I did have some time off to spend some time with my fiance. I came up with the idea of going to Pedu lake. This lake was featured in the papers a few weeks ago saying it's a beautiful place and all that. Well, while we were there it was not quite what i thought it would be.

First let me share with you what i expected. I read from the net that it was a place full of activities like water jet skiing, swimming, and forest trekking. So i went there actually expecting that. Well we got nothing of that. The water level of the lake was so low that we could see a fair bit of the undergrowth under it. My goodness...how can anyone jet ski in that? oh well, then we decided to take a look at the swimming pool. It had dirt at the bottom of it and the 3-tiered swimming pool which was supposed to have water flowing down from level to another didn't do what it was supposed to do but instead had some dirt at the bottom of it. well i guess we couldn't expect so much from a hotel that only had 5 ppl accomodating it at the time i was there.

But thank God it wasn't all that bad. Danny and i did get the time we wanted together just focusing on each other. The nature was good. Very scenic. all naturale hehe. I enjoyed myself watching the swans, monitor lizards, praying mantises and 7 baby wild boars running wild considering that i carried my law notes around with me while i was there but danny didn't mind. Who else would i marry if not him?

The view...it's like from one of those prairie movies...beautiful combination of earth and sky :-)

sorry...thay're not swans...i think they were more like geese hehe

my baby and i...

The blogs i owe: Number 1

Since i have been inactive for quite some time, i need to update this... first blog that i have left til now to write is on the lab that we did on the ecotoxity of a pesticide towards some snails... the interesting thing about this lab was the snails look good enough to eat. To me they looked like escargots! Check this out...

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I know the last time i wrote in here and that was a long time ago. hehe. After my engagement party in Kuching i came back to Penang and it was a hell of a whirlwind 2 weeks. Went to Pedu Lake, 3 parties (one birthday, one wedding and one deepavali - indeed it was a season to be jolly out of christmas period). Came back to Kuching and then my exams started. Still hasn't ended. Will be 2 more days before it actually does. And then i can foresee that i will be bz moving house. Will not be staying in campus for the hols so i've decided to rent a room outside to make it easier for me to feed my prawns everyday.

Exams are ok so far. Hopefully i don't fail any paper and have to go for a resit. I so want to graduate soon. A bit tired of studying already. I can read something for the knowledge but i don't like the idea of aitting for an exam after that. Sometimes i wish that the UNIMAS system woulde be like some other university's system where students have a lot of talks to go for and a lot of practical other that the Latihan Industry we have. Find that they learn so much more outside class. Well, i can only wish....

Anyways, got to go now. Would love to share the pics from my 2nd engagement party but that will be some other time. Maybe after my exams. Adieu!