Archive for July 4th, 2008

15 minutes compliment access

Friday, July 4th, 2008

Yup, am in the Hilton Hotel Cino Restaurant using their free 15 minutes access , need to make this super fast.

Our plan later is to take the water taxi over to the other side of the river, get our Mee Galak and enjoy the night view from the other side of Kuching. A friend of ours from UNIMAS will be bringing us around, then will meet up with Anton’s brother-in-law there. Hope to have a great night and am sure to buy more Kuih Lapis to bring home. Colleagues at home will get to enjoy it for sure.

This PC that is being set with a timer will automatically disconnect me when 15 minutes is up. I don’t have a laptop, if only there is laptop for rent and maybe with a cheap laptop rentals comes with wireless internet connection, that would be good. But, oh well, dream on for me here, especially in this part of Malaysia but then it could be very expensive. Okay, time is almost up. Will write again if possible.

2nd day in Kuching

Friday, July 4th, 2008

 

This is to continue from the previous blog post and yet still no photos *sigh* So I’ll just keep this short.

We started the 2nd day with a rush, woke up at 6 something, got ready and went to have compliment buffet breakfast in the hotel, lots of choices but limited time and small stomach to enjoy them all. Then we were the last two getting on the University’s bus to UNIMAS resource center.

Started the course in a cold room for I forgot to bring my jacket along in this trip! Fortunately our friend is kind enough to borrow his G2000 jacket to me. But i only get to enjoyed the warm for a few hours as later he himself felt cold and was wearing it all through. However I was still fortunate to get another blazer for the afternoon session from a kind librarian here.

With the coldness like that, I think I need those body fat as protection layer to keep me warm and won’t be needing any of the nuphedrine (diet pill) to get rid of them.

After the course, we went back to Hilton with a 48 seater bus! Yup, no longer with a mini van. We straight headed to enjoy our body massage which come with free ear candling! That was a relief and pampering time for us, however, after that my neck is still stiff.

The following things we did was to have dinner in Barong Tinuk which according to our friend, this is where the West Malaysian will come to dine. Anton ordered Nasi Goreng Dabai (pronouced as “dabao”). Well, I don’t quite like the taste of it, but the Tom Yam soup is yummy! RM5 with two prawn and lots of crab sticks.

After that was to have a stroll in the northern part of Kuching where we get to see our hotel from the other side of the river. Too bad I didn’t take any photo.