2. There's a railroad track right in front of the
gate. I wanted to lie down on it and have a photo taken, but ... my
superiorly-evolved instinct for self-preservation prevented my doing
so.
3. Special thanks to Haji Asrie Omar...
4. Fast forward, we are now on Pulau Tiga, the
island used for the first season of survivor.
There after, a resort sprouted up on the shore of
this island. Quite pleasant though, still a bit 'rough', not those obscenely
overdeveloped ones.
This is a pix of the clear waters just below the
jetty.
5. The pix of the resort.
6,7. I wish to relax there again...
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And so after the Klias River tour, we adjourned to
the sleepy little hamlet of Beaufort.
...resist the temptation to pronounce it 'properly',
it's pronounced 'BOH'-FOURTh. (With a silent 'h') ...
Gallery1 - Beaufort
1. view from our hotel windows reveals a picturesque ...
backlane. The type of place that one could retire in, quiet, quaint
surroundings...
2,3. Kheng Keat is the model for our hotel room.
4. Bathroom is generously big and clean...
5,6. Front view of Jasaria Hotel. The rightmost van was
our transport for our tour.
7. CNF Supermarket - a typical small town supermarket,
where the hypermarkets have not extended their tendrils to. (Yet.)
8. UMNO HQ Local Chapter...
9,10. Is this the "town square" of this little hamlet? A
big parking lot actually.
11. Welcome to ComWel restaurant. FREE Internet access
available here.
12. The air is fresher than many places during the early
morning walk here in BOHFOURTh.
13. Super Computer.
14. Doggies watching life go on.
15. Don't blink now, but that bitch (the brown one)
actually mounted the black (male) one soon after this photo. I
couldn't believe my eyes, but I guess times are a-changing...
16. Pleasant familiarity! KL prices in Sabah!
17. Milo O Ping = RM1.80.
18. After that we went sightseeing at one temple.. this is
Melvin. Say hello, Melvin!
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Interview With The UltraBeast has Matured!
(comparatively, somewhat ..)
Well then respected folks.. It is almost two months
since this site's creation/birth/launch/unleashing on White Day2008 ...
Before this, there was a series of wanderings in
wilderness of the online content management system scene in search of the most convenient and
powerful, versatile way of posting and managing easily-formatted content online.. both text
and photos - as in both thumbnails, and the full-size high-res original images - at the same time intelligently preloading in an invisible, non-intrusive manner.. ohoho... on this count especially am I most happy...
And as (the venerable ancient Chinese sage)
Mencius' mother (bless her good self) moved three (3) times to settle for the
most conducive environment for the development of her offspring... the same
number of times I have moved* (bless my good self)
And, isn't it coincidental, that I
notice, right now, that it is Mother's
Day today! So, all good folks, please express your utmost
gratitude to your mother for her bringing you into this world ... regardless
that it was without your consent.
( and in that same way was Interview With The UltraBeast brought to you... so does that make me a mother... of sorts? So, commend me today ~! :D )
*with some sojourns into not a few loose standalone
web pages somewhere along the way... that I'm glad that everything has come
together now here at I,UltraBeast.
But when the top post was changed to "Escape from
Mount Kinabalu!" that problem went away on its own. I suspect the root cause to
be Firefox LB's parsing of the .xml feed file to be too 'sensitive' to
punctuation characters ..
Site downtime
Also, some Linux CHMOD privilege problem that
caused the site to be down for almost a day was solved. So, I,UltraBeast is back in business as usual! :D
Back from Sabah - Mount Kinabalu,
Pulau Tiga and all around - and back to training
again!
Well, esteemed friends ..
Thanks goes to VampireM for his
herculean effort in arranging all the photos, and videos.. so many memory cards,
almost one full DVD's worth of visual memories .. plus a classic
video which could very well be used for the promotion of
unique Malaysian tourism activities.
Now, typing out this after an hour and a little more of non-stop walking.. It seems just a little bit
easier to express oneself after some physical activity. (Alcohol also having the
same effect.)
So my friends - did I not say that I would go
back to training again on this Friday? Hehe.. then again .. I also did say
that I would go up to the peak, take off my shirt and have photos taken there.
Which elicited an alarmed admonishment from one of my friends to "not do
crazy things up there" ... LOL ...! As it turned out, even taking off
just one glove in the freezing cold up there proved to be an arduous undertaking
.. So he really needn't have worried! :D
Anyway - `Nuff talk. More
pictures!
Day001. Featuring the Klias River Tour - nothing
too earthshaking yet, apart from proboscis monkey (locally a.k.a. the
'Dutchman'), firefly colony and wildlife sightings. And a picturesque sunset
away from all the air pollution (and PCs, emails and Internet.)
Stay tuned for the following days ..
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A gentle reminder, before proceeding further - make sure that you are using
Mozilla Firefox, the ONLY browser, before you
click on 'Read More'. The slideshow crashes IE. Have fun children ~! :D
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The webmaster of Divine Ayu, one of the
most influential sites (as proven by Google) on the Japanese diva Ayumi Hamasaki (featured in this earlier
post) has now launched his new site -
What better to call it, then, than
JAMming with Japanimania .. and this
new site looks to better enable you to do exactly that!
Currently featuring collectible figurines and anime
popculture, soon to include features on Japanese language...
I expect it to feature heads-up on the latest
products too .. hardware and software systems, which you never even knew existed
... or knew even needed to exist .. before this.
In addition to that, some seriously
technologically-advanced video game systems and games.. and also some rare
news from time to time .. hehe..
And don't ever underestimate all these trends .. as
even more unlikely stuff, such as cafes with pretty boys dressed in
school uniforms to give today's mature ladies the pleasurable opportunity for faithful recreation of nostalgic schoolyard
romances are proving to be mighty popular in the Land of Many
Innovations.. what then cannot happen ..
(To get a visual idea, go here to this post at BelindaC's Xanga Site.)
Technically speaking, Shin-Otaku is remarkable in its use of
its own coded content management system in an era where everything is presented
by open-source Content Management Systems and blogging engines.
Eventually this site could grow into place where
people with interest in Japanimania can get together, contribute, exchange
ideas ..
