Day One
26 August 2010


-18th August 2010-

It's the day we set off to Sabah! Before this, I was reluctant to go and somehow feel left out but yeah, it turned out okay! I was feeling quite insecure because it’s the first time travelling without my family for a holiday. Yet, we had some reliable ones to lead the way! The group consisted of 8 people including myself.


These people are

Devilene (the host)

ExitZero (the girl’s accessory =P)

Rienne (the stand-in chief)

Ren Ren (the awesome model)

Hamster (the oh-so cute and blur one)

Dakeru (the mafia boss)

Phish (the fish that she is & awesome photographer)


P.S.

Actually everyone in the group became targets for my photography and EVERYONE is an awesome photographer with their very own style. Some of the pictures they took with their compact camera can beat those capturing pictures with their DSLR! YEAH, THE AWESOMENESS!


The members of the journey


Our journey started at Devilene’s place and we were supposedly to set out at 10 but we waited around 10 to 15 minutes till everyone gathered there, then we left in two cars. LOADS OF THANKS to the AWESOME DADS (my dad and Rienne’s dad) for driving us to the airport. [I’m not saying other dads are not awesome, everyone’s dad is awesome! =D]


We reached the airport and had time to spare. So we took a bite at McDonalds. Upon ordering and paying up, W00TS! The pricing for a McChicken set was mind blowing! I had to pay twice the amount I could get at the McDs at my place.


My doggie that came along. My friends named it Julian


We met up with our last member, Dakeru at the airport, finished eating our lunch and we’re off to the check-in counter! We found this machine that allowed us to check-in by ourselves just by inserting the booking code. How cool is that? This is to show how often I travel by airplanes.


After the check-in we found out where we’re seated at, mostly everyone were paired together expect ExitZero (I think). During, the security check thinggy, Hamster walked through the sensor thinggy with her bag still strapped on her and made the sensor go off. Why did it happen? The reason: She forgot she was carrying the bag cause it was too light. OMGGG the blurriness yet, it’s so cute! =D


We waited and waited (geez I hate to wait, its so booooring!) just to board the plane. The journey to Sabah took bout 2 hours! *dies* and I didn’t get the window seat, total SADNESS but I managed to sit beside RenRen and Dakeru, JOY! Dakeru was famished during the plane ride and she was overjoyed when AirAsia’s famous nasi lemak was served to her. She looked like she was in heaven while eating. SOO CUTE! =D


When the plane landed I was so happy I could die! But not yet! I still have a week ahead of me! BYE BYE BOREDOM and HELLO SABAH! OH YEAH! We were given one receipt-like paper at the airport. It acts as a permit to stay there for 1 week, if it goes missing, you have to stay in Sabah and you can’t go back to KL. I mean, just one piece of paper?! At least print it on something of art card material that has lower chance of going missing. SHOCKING!


Devilene’s parents and her ‘lil bro came to pick us up from the airport, they were cool! The bags went into mom’s car and the people went into dad’s car. D Dad’s car is so cool and spacious but 4 people had to share seats.

The lettering for the cars in Sabah is either SA or SAA. And during the car ride, everyone was going “SAA~~” (I don’t know in Japanese) because of what’s written on the car plates. It was funny when they did that and everyone had a good laugh. It didn’t take us long to reach Devilene’s home. The journey was about 20 minutes. (I think)


As soon as we reached Devilene’s home, we settled down and had a tour inside the house. It was so pretty and they built it themselves or is it designed it themselves (I’m not quite sure) BUT it’s a really nice place which accommodated us for most of the days in Sabah. NOTHING BUT AWESOMENESS!


The kitty which became Julian’s (the dog) companion for the week. They named it Charmaine.

City Mall


After settling down, we went to City Mall which is also nearby Devilene’s home. Actually the places we went were all nearby Devilene’s home. So convenient. We had dinner in the mall’s food court and only three stalls were opened. Most of us had Lemon Chicken Rice (I think) but I know it had lemon sauce and friend chicken with rice. Haha! It tasted really nice. Oh and as for drinks, I had ice lemon tea and it was like RM1.80. The most interesting part was the sizing and pricing we paid for the drinks.


Left – Coke RM 2.00 Middle – Ice Lemon Tea RM 1.80 Right – Milo Ice RM 1.80


You see! It’s so amusing. Soon after we had our dinner, we went to do some grocery shopping in Giant which is also in the mall. The group was spilt into two, the food group and the hygiene group. I was placed in the food group which is in charge of basically buying the ingredients we needed for breakfast and sandwiches for tomorrow’s outing. While the hygiene group is in charge of getting the shampoo, body wash, toothpaste etc.


It was quite hectic and difficult to get enough of food and also food that suits everyone’s taste. And another thing! We always forgot what we needed. We remembered one thing and forgot the other. It was funny at first but it got a little annoying after that because I was tired of walking round and round in the supermarket. But everything was cool in the end, we got all we needed, paid up and placed the stuff in D Mom’s car.


Then, we waited for D Dad’s to pick us up, while waiting, I had the perfect chance to capture some photographs of the members. Here are some of the targets:


Peek-a-boo!

Deep in thoughts

A DSLR never fails to put a smile on a person =D


Our ride arrived and we got on the car and bye bye City Mall! And we headed back to unload the stuff and to cool down. Next on the agenda was going to the bubble tea. YES! Bubble tea, they have a shop that sells bubble tea late at night till 2 am (I think but I know it opens till quite late).


While waiting for the others to cool down, D Dad’s taught us the ways of cutting! (Yes, I made it sound so epic) But really, he taught us valuable stuff we didn’t learn in college. He’s really cool and awesome in terms of someone working in the art field.


After that, we went to the awesome bubble tea some called Frenz Café. The pricing so cheap! It was RM 2.50 for one cup! We sat around, chatted and enjoyed our lovely bubble tea! The pearls were small just like those frog eggs but they are nice to chew! You can chew them till your jaw is tired.


The bubble tea we had

Smile for the camera

Kitty: I wurveeee bubble tea! <3>


After chillin’ out, we headed back straight home to get some shut eye. Some just dropped on the bed and slept like a log while the others had a really deep conversation which had something like the end of the world and stuff if I’m not mistaken. I had difficulty in sleeping due to the new environment and also the chattering. But that didn’t bother me much; it was mostly because being in a new environment. In the end I think I got 2 or 3 hours of shut eye till the next day arrives.


[I apologise for the excessive use of the word ‘awesome’ but there’s no other better word to describe stuff due to my shallow vocabulary] =P



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