Welcome back to UTM

Hey, new students or shall I say freshman? Welcome to UTM ( University Technology Malaysia). Hope that you've all been through the orientation week. 

          As for me myself, I  will start the new journey of second year. That's fast. I think that being a second year is a great challenge. There's a lot of things to catch up and we'll get better and better. Hope there is no problem this semester. I will try to update my blog as frequent as possible. 

Rainforest World Music Festival

Special event, only in Sarawak.

During the month of July, all ethnic' genre musician will gather at the heart of Santubong, Kampung Budaya Sarawak or known as Sarawak Cultural Village. Here's the details:

Date: 9 - 11 th July 2010.
Venue: Sarawak Cultural Village.
Fees; RM110 per adult
         RM 55 per child

Conquer Mt. Kinabalu

26th June - Kota Kinabalu, the land below the wind is a terrific place to go in Borneo island. With a spectacular blue beaches and islands scattered around the country, we are amazed. Our main reason to come here is not about blue beaches, but to conquer Mt. Kinabalu.

We took a plane from Kuching to Kota Kinabalu using Malaysian Airline. Weather in Kota Kinbalu was fine. We reached Kota Kinabalu airport around 1035. Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS)’ bus was ready to took us off to Kinabalu Park. Estimated time to reach Kinabalu Park was 2 hours. Although the 98 kilometres journey was not perfectly reached at the estimated time, but we have a safe journey. Safely aborded at 1400, we checked in to a hostel provided. We have our dinner at 1800. Dinner was nice. With freshly picked green brocolli, mouth watering lamb steak, big reddish prawn and lots more, our empty tummy was filled. After dinner, we went back to hostel and get ready for the next day.

As early as six in the morning, we wake up and have our breakfast. At eight, we started our journey to the starting point of the mountain. The journey was as far as six kilometers with six checkpoint. We reached Laban Rata, another lodges to stay before going to the peak of Mount Kinabalu around 1530. We have our breakfast at 1800. It was so tiring after the 7 hours journey to Laban Rata. I stayed with Menon, together with three big bro ( Aliff, Etong and Kamal). 

I have my dinner together with my friends at six. Then we go to bed at seven. The weather was cold and I hardly to breath. I can't really sleep at that time. My body feel so tired. Around 0100, I wake up.

I had my breakfast at that time. By 0230, we start our journey to Mt. Kinabalu. There were about 200 participants climb the mountain at that time, with every body took their steps to the peak. The journey took three kilometers from Laban Rata. 

I reached the peak at 0630. It was sunrise at that time. The chill air freeze my hand when I tried to take a shot of the beautiful scenery. I can't really stand the coldness. So, I went to the back of some rocks, waiting for my other friends to come.
After 30 minutes, all of us were there except Alrina. We took some pic with UTM banner.It was fun and enjoyable up there. Hope to go there next time.