At Telupid

aku di sini duduk di lobby IPS, stands for insitut perhutanan sabah here in telupid. Got out from the project site at 7pm this evening, feeling very hungry, tired, and smelly. Our department (forestry) head a field visit for the UNDP and national reporters for special feature of our social forestry project. ainah boss, panas ari ni mcm tebakar tu kawan sa dr UNDP, ckit lagi menyerupai lobster..but the visit went well. the reporters were professional, spt besa the famous Jaswinder, Suzie and Edmund @ Mundu.

masa kami p kg. alitang, ngam2 ada wedding party sana jadi kami pun plan2 la ni mo pigi sbb kana jemput sudah...tp the big boss blang balik telupid trus.nahhh pa lagi mengikut la smua entourage dia ni..kapunan c richard tdk dpt minum tapai..wakakau wakakau! koto. but glad to reached telupid, with a nice quite hot shower, good dinner (tp talampau masin ikan dia), tea in my hands now, astro and internet connection from my broadband celcom.

im tired now...i think i have to stop and go inside my room. The reporters are still outside here chit chatting and tv-ing... what r u doing now?

Niteeeeeee......

men bola di pulau mamutik

Ini la ni acara men bola di mamutik. 7 org men i.e. 6 premps n 1 lalake. Ini la sesi men bola yg paaaaaling penat sa pernah ikut sbb campur ktawa2 dan men buyuk. Mari sa cuba sedaya upaya tuk kasi crita kamurang.

Dlm ni gmbr, masa ni tu bola sudah kena tendang oleh c jane (yg teduduk tu) masuk dlm pagar (sila note kedudukan pagar dlm gmbr). Dan dlm pagar tu kalau kamurang pernah p mamutik adalah kuburan ahhh.... Rata2 smua urg men buyuk masa ni game temasuk sa. C bibie (yg premps bra sedang bediri) adalah seorang yg gemar men futsal dan bercita2 menjadi pemain futsal yg serius nahhhh.. Manakala c lyn pula (yg baju merah) kekuatan nya terletak pd block tangan dan teriakan suara masa membawa bola.... hahaha lawak2. c mel (baju biru lembut) juga serius membawa bola dan sampat juga belari2 bawa kamera mo video shoot masa men...hahahah juga lawak2. yg lelaki tu no further comment la mmg esmart men mcm lalake2 lain juga. Jadi nda la lawak sgt tp mati juga dia ktawa2 esperiensing men bula sama premps! ada saturang lg ni tp ndada dlm gmbr c titi. Yg itu, masa urg mo gol bola, dia tarik tu pintu gol yg kecik molek tu lari jauh2...yg tmbh kin ktawa...dia tarik bawa lari telimpas lagi kaki c bibie smpi bedarah ahhhh hahaha lawak2 juga. saya? mmm...sa photographer masa ni...sa pun endada comment psl diri sa sbb tampau ktawa2 ja sa spanjang game..... ok itu ja..wakakau wakakau...

TRAVELLING

This is my most favourite word and most favourite thing to do. This started when i travel for work back in 2004, quite recently. I travel for meetings, conferences, workshops and what not. That was during my previous employment but now i only travel to hutan, kampung urang and other districts in sabah for this 1-year old job of mine. Back then, I enjoyed the travelling but quite bored with the meetings etc etc. I enjoy travel back n forth within sabah now cos the travel and the work click with me. Back then i felt like a robot. But it did give me new experiences especially in terms of working ethique and travelling.

Now i always encourage people to go outside the contry at least once a year. It really is a mind opener. Start with Asian countries. There are lots of varieties out there and we can see that culture and development build a nation's identity. The people's belief build its nation. That's why there are lots of varieties and its so much fun to see these varieties. I aim to travel around Asian countries first before going outside Asia. After that......Latin America here i comee....!

Among the things i like to do n see when im out there are -

- talk to taxi drivers...crita panjang ni tp upon arrival seja
- mkn street food and their famous food termasuk exotic food...ada temakan kumbang di bangkok dulu, mcm rasa almari ahh
Selingan: ok mama sa sedang nyanyi lagu beatles d ruang tamu...
- beli barangan local-made, yg ala2 petaling street gitu
- minum beer local made...local made beer paling burok adalah Lao beer, mcm rasa muntah
- tingu live bands especially acoustic n unplugged
- tingu trans punya performance
- naik local made punya transportation
- masuk supermarket durang
- bli local made t-shirt
- becerita sama bar owners, waitress nya, urg2 yg tinggal di guesthouse
- tinggal di guesthouse sbb obviously murah
- pigi tingu tiger muahahha...
- nature punya tempats
- cek out interior deco bars, cafes, restaurants durang
- pigi tmpt yg teda di negeri sendiri dan buat things yg teda di negeri sendiri....

ok banyak lagi..tp penat sudah sa... sa mo pi mkn dulu sbb lapir...babai

Things we would do in Maynilad in May

Yiiiiihaooo! how do you do mate? Ok im going to Manila again in May...and oh my leaves approved! thanks to my boss. i've been talking about things to do in manila with 4d, he got a friend there who's going to accompany us. This time Grace cannot be with us cos she's working in Oman oredy...sob..sob. But, we figured out what we want to do and dik this is for ur info also.

1st day - will arrive malate about 10-ish pm, hang out in malate for dinner n drinks n acoustic bands
2nd day - Baclaran for shopping and I-Max muahaha..the 3-D cinema, so we're going to watch movie n akan kebaru-baruan nanti.. and Indios bar (cos there r 2 hot acoustic bands playing every friday)
3rd day - Laguna beach! this beach is divided into 2 parts, 1 part is for straight ppl and the other part is for the queers! so we're going to hang out at both place and perhaps a little longer in the queer part
4th, 5th, 6th day - Baguio for the parks, to enjoy the nature, waterfalls etc etc
7th day - Quezon city, manila bay, hobbit house, etc etc
8th day - just going around before back to KK

There you go the sneak preview, will showcase the real pictures in middle May. Coming soon to you.....

Mirror mirror on the wall

who's the prettiest of em all? Phoop! Datin Siti Hasmah.... muahhaha. Datin Siti Hasmah ni pandai joking juga org nya, baru2 ada kuar dia di TV n buat joke masa kena interview. Dia blang 'ah kalau Siti Nurhaliza nda da dtg menyanyi, ni ha Siti Hasmah ada' adoooiiii... mana satu lebih cantik Siti Hasmah ka Jean Abdullah? ching....soalan ni.

ya itu lah fikiran pertama yg kuar dr kpala sa masa sa decide mo tulis blog. its 4.43 pm now. Tonight i have to do 3 things before i retire to bed i.e. do a 11 minute workout, then go to guitar class then come back home and pack for a week away from home (outstation to Lokawi, my home in Tmn Delima haha and Telupid and lastly to the forests). So i will be away from home in sdkn for a week. Im pretty sure when i come back home, the first things that will greet me are the dusts on the floor & spiderwebs on the ceiling. Nasib baik ada Adik Dalma datang membersihkan rumah sekali seminggu. No worries department juga la....

Ok mcm sakit mata sa ni skrang..,jd sampai cni dulu la...babai

Hola hola!

Ok tadi sa ada type cket2.....tapi font nya tertukar p bahasa thai...mengapa kah? heran2. hi hi to you reading this.... im here at my hse in sandakan....on the internet and tadi ada minum stout... hahaha.. ya bikin pusing2 begia..baru lancar darah dan tangan ini menulis.... ching ching... but i must get ready cos at 7pm i got a bday party to attend. My friend is holding a bday party for her daughter....so sa n kawan sa pun budu2 juga semaa membeli gift sbb nda tau pa mo bli.. last2 kami bli dia mailto:patung@ (<--- duiiii) chain sponge bob dan kawan nya c starfish tu... harap2 nda kena kasi malu oleh budak2 yg lain nanti. ok mlm ni sa plan mo minum2 sama kawan sa, ntah napa sa ada planning begini tonight. To you oh fellow friends in KK, kalau sanggup turun SDK turun la....kita minum ramai2 ahahahha! main2 ja pun....serius. But seriously i dont drink much these days, only tonight i have the mood to drink...hopefully tidak kena tangkap pulis d tangah jalan yg spotcek2 seja tu..sengaja durang tu kadang2.

Kamu tau suda ka, polis2 yg d checkpoint Sandakan a.k.a simpang 3 tu teda sudah. Koto! Sbb ari tu ada BPR p bertugas sana, menyamar la ni jadi pilipin (with due respect) yg teda IC. Nah tekena sama polis yg minta 'ong' trus kana sambar tangan sama gari BPR. Ramai2 durang kena soal siasat sama BPR ari tu. Sampai sekarang teda lagi polis2 d cekpoint tu. Ok juga tuk org2 yg inosen cam sa ni tp tuk org2 yang samprang lepas cam tu seja lah. Tapi klu sistem pertahanan kita kuat, dr KK atau dr boundary negeri lagi pun, org samprang ni sudah kena tangkap. Nda payah tunggu sampai simpang 3 sandakan bulih gari sudah....but if i'm not mistaken, Malaysia is the 50th sumting2 dlm list 'Most Corrupt Country'. Opppsss...

Bah k la..mo get ready dulu....mo mandi, pakai baju, cari kuci krita - oh ckp psl kunci krita...td tengahari sa tetinggal kunci krita sa dlm krita...tp sa nda panic sbb jiran sa pandai buka krita pki dawai sbb lori dia slalu tekunci dr dalam hahaha koto dia. Ok chow lo....

Unwell

I woke up this morning with a blocked nostril sebelah kanan. Sa bilang mesti pasal kipas ni. But later this morning, i felt something stupid (mcm lagu itu) in my throat, masa bercakap sakit, kalau diam2 gatal sampai telinga....what on earth happening inside? Jadi sa pun tefikir mesti flu n sore throat ni...well well hello mr.flu you're back.

Ok ada seorang calon Parti Bersekutu di office cni, yg ari tu masa mengundi dia dicalonkan untuk bertanding di Libaran, Sandakan dan opponentnya jeng jeng jeng Musa Aman! Urg ni slalu dtg office kamek dan suaranya cukup kuat untuk menggegarkan jantungs kamek.

Ok back to mr. flu, sa nda tau btul knapa dia dtg tiba2...but i realized yg sa kurang minum air selama 2 hari sudah. jadi itu la tu punca nya! Ya moral of the story oh fellow feaders, drink enough water, it is recommended 8 glasses a day maka 8 glasses la tu...klu nda dtg penyakit tiba2...pas tu mula la befikir negatif contohnya:

- napa lah sa slalu malang dpt illness?
- superstitious yg kunun ada urg ckp2 d blakang nya smpi dia sakit
- penat bah
- banyak kerja owh

kalau befikir positif tp tone nya negatif psl illness, contohnya gini:

- kutur ba rumah sa, jadi byk dust, itu la tu flu
- kurang minum air ba, misti sa minum air cukup lpas ni (telambat sudah lohh)

ba, k lah sa ni menepati masa punya org...jadi sa mo balik rumah dah...baiiiiiii...

20 minutes to go

20 minutes to go to 5....my eyes are tired and my face is oily (ish burok), my stomach is grumbling minta kena isi ayam, that's what im goin to have tonight muahaha! i haven't find any song to minta ajar from my guitar teacher tonite, mmmm....mari aku kurik2 my music punya folder nanti... haynaku *sigh* i'm procrastinating again today, if i dont i have to sit down with not so favourite colleague of mine and discuss about work. But my in-habit of procrastination mind said i must stay in my room and dont discuss today. I really dont like this habit, i must change it. I want to change it. Palan-palan lama-lama jadi bukits kan dik.. oh mel ni blog utk somua org bukan utk my so-called twin only... i was on friendster today and tried to see comments for my photos, but couldn't do so..hampas padi butul. sumting wrong with the website. and i also think that i am not really friendly or try to initiate conversations with some of my colleagues, not that i have anything against them, but i just dont have any topic. It seems that i dont talk if the topics are un-interesting... sometimes i wonder if i'm in my own world or if im too self centred. Or if i think too much. And i also think that my face projects a serious and dont-disturb-me look that people rarely come to my room.... i cant change my face but i can change my thinking... Well3, i am thinking too much nampaknya.... muahhaha!

It's 5pm, can you tell me whether im a good writer with the para i just wrote in 20 minutes... or am i just lame and boring...?

Babai...

Back to Sandakan

morning everyone....im ready to go back home to sandakan. Didn't get to meet the kampung folks cos' jalan dorang lumpur sampai pinggang..ok bye...Supposed to move out of here at 8am tapi punyalah the driver baru bangun at 8am. He can be irritating sometimes cos' of his ignorance over small details. Working in a men's environment, can really be upsetting sometimes when they choose to ignore what women say. The drivers are 'good' examples, here are some of their remarks;

Woman: kita jalan jam 10am.
"jam 10? jam 11 la jalan. bukan mo cepat juga"

Woman: si A tidak ikut tu.
"napa c A (c A adalah lelaki) tidak ikut ini outstation, kalau dia ikut ada juga kawan saya d sini" (due to his inability to converse with women)

Woman: Ok, hantar saya balik, c B belum mau jalan. Saya jalan duluan..
"ko mo jalan sekarang? JAM tu d luar sana, saya tunggu c B, baru saya jalan" (c B adalah lelaki)

Woman: bsuk kita jalan jam 8am..
(Bisuk nya jam 8am sa call dia) "sa baru bangun"

And many more. Everytime this happens, the first thing i want to do is get angry and nag. But a strong part of me said if you can handle this then you can survive. But another part of me said -kumpul2 dulu, nanti klu ada yg telampau bikin panas baru ko bomb semua- hahahaha....! Another part of me said im being sensitive, well cos' im a woman. Most of the time, i see it in a moral angle. Respect is the word. But maybe these people i've encountered, they don't have the eyes to see respect, they just see the superiority of gender. Or maybe i'm just being critical. No matter how i interpret it, the bottomline is these incidents are not right. Am i sure im not just being sensitive? Yes, cos' the heart never lies.

Ok got to go....bye

2nd fieldwork for this year

In Marudu again, i's staying overnite here but i will be working in Pitas tomorrow. Here i am sitting in my room, having orange juice, watching a weird movie in cinemax and fulfiling Mandy's wish for me to write up my blog. It seems that i dont know what to say these days. But for my so called twin, here you are dik...apa tu 'palan2, lama2 pandai penuh juga kan'.... ok ini psycho guy in the movie about to kill someone...........aiiyaaaa...he just did! budus.

tomorrow im going to go to some villages in Bengkoka forest reserve, hopefully we can pass the bad roads. sometimes i wonder who is supposed to maintain these roads, the YBs or the other gov. authority. If you go to the central of Sabah in Tongod sub-district, i think it's the worst road i've been so far. part of it is of course the weather but still alibis that we cannot avoid such as "bad weather" is not supposed to permit us to just stay out of the situation. Roads play a major factor of development in rural areas, in fact in anywhere! no roads no development..

*sigh*...critical. i dont want to be critical tonite...i just want to relax and just write my heart out. but my heart is critical about that topic..maybe that's why i chose to work in this field, community forestry. The big guns will normally say 'you can't fulfill every person's wish'.... whatever.

dik...is this a good start?

Oh the psycho guy in the movie died, stabbed by the woman he obsessively, secretly and psycholy loved...kasian...