It's been a week since I'd posted anything. That's because I WAS IN SABAH!! The trip with my two school besties started on July 8 =) and officially ended on July 14 when I reached Batu Pahat alone =(. This trip was filled with loads and loads of walking but what we got out of this trip made all our sweat and pain (back, legs and head) worth it.

July 8, 2009
Took the 6pm bus from Batu Pahat to Seremban with Li Qing where we arrived there at 9pm. Li Qing's cousin provided us with the accommodation and transportation that we needed to get to the airport the next day. We met her at the Nilai KTM station and went to pick Susan up from Inti. Then we talked, had a burger, washed up, did our last minute planning and went to sleep. We slept pretty late that night ... about 1 or 2 am?

Testing the camera before D-Day

July 9, 2009
Arrived in KLIA at about 6.30am for our 8.05am flight and we had to check-in ourselves because it was too early and there were not enough counters to perform the job.

Then we went to the ticket counter as we had to reissue our 'Sandakan to Kota Kinabalu' tickets. Spent quite a lot of time there which made my 'people' itch for the camera.

We went mask hunting after that (H1N1), just as a precaution, 'better safe than sorry!'.

We were kinda like the last to board the plane. Too much to do in such a small frame of time and our gate was right at the end (A11)! Adui.

We had a good breakfast on board. My eyes automatically went to the Fererro Rocher that was in the food box! Wow! It was worth it to be on the MAS!!

The air steward, Khairul, approached us after our breakfast with a very familiar line… ‘Have I seen you guys before?’ Haha. Apparently we were models from Stamford College =D. We chatted from then on until the end of our flight. He was a nice guy. Plus… he gave us loads of goodies like salted peanuts and candies.We reached there at 11am and we took a taxi to Mayfair Hotel. The journey to town cost us RM26.50 – standard price. We hired the taxi man, Haffizan, who brought us to Mayfair to bring us to Sepilok, Labuk Bay, Pu Ji Shih temple and the floating Malay village for RM150. It’s really not expensive at all.

*No pics here =P*

After we checked-in at Mayfair, we were soooooooo in the mood for photos (most probably is because of that HUGE TV we had in our room). We took some really ridiculous photos, but I’m not going to upload all of it here as most of them would probably be in Facebook.

After lunch, which was not very nice, we went to Sepilok to see one of our distant relatives. We were just in time to watch them eat. I’d probably won’t really recommend Sepilok as a place to go as the only interesting time is before and after the feeding time. When they eat, you’d probably be just staring at their butts. And the entire process will just last for … say 10, 15 minutes and that’s that.We moved on to Labuk Bay to see the proboscis monkeys. They only live in mangrove areas. Hence, the journey to that place takes about 1 hour or more. They have really bad roads here but I feel that the it is worth it when I compare it to what I see in Sepilok. It is here that we met Susan’s and Li Qing’s shorty, hottie with his shorty, loud mummy. Basically, there are two brothers. One’s hot, the other’s not so. We know their names, thanks to their really loud mum. But I’m not going to enclose it here in my blog. Their presence is vital to my next post.

By the time we finish with these two places, we were EXHAUSTED to the MAX! Mr. Haffizan was kind enough to allow us to extend our trip to the next day. We just had to pay him an extra RM40 for him to bring us to a restaurant for dinner and back to the airport. He then suggested that we can have an inexpensive dinner at Hawaii Restaurant. We then went to Gentingmas to buy some tidbits and went back to the hotel to watch some DVDs. We are allowed to borrow 5 DVDs at a time. Slept late again!

July 10, 2009
We checked out of the hotel and dumped our bags into the store room. Then we went town-browsing and for lunch. If you expect the food there to be priced like Batu Pahat… dream on. It’s expensive! I ended up eating roti telur and Li Qing and Su shared a RM7 special nasi goreng.

We found a strand of disgusting something in the food.

After lunch, we walked around some more snapped photos of our hotel.

This hotel caught my eye when we arrived at the city. I wished we stayed here! But, our budget only allowed us to stay …

Don’t be fooled by the front door. We had a really nice room with a nice uncle in-charged of the place.

Mr. Haffizan then met us down there and we zoomed off to Pu Ji Shih temple which was majestic. It looked like those Imperial Castles from China. Our taxi man took the role of a tour guide today.

It was off to the floating village afterwards which was interesting. The houses were built on sticks and some of the houses even had a speed boat in them. From the outside, their houses does not look that nice. HOWEVER, their interior decoration of the houses was nice, they had loads of clothes and shoes and we even came across a house with 6 Astro decoders!!

We then head off to Pasir Puteh Restaurant for dinner. Being a homebird, I personally prefer my Minyak Beku seafood dinner =). Then it was off to the airport with us where we are scheduled to depart at 9pm. Bye Bye Sandakan!!

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