Respect is surely due to those who conscientiously keep their blogs going. Tough work! Or maybe I am just lazy. Which is probably (definitely) closer to the truth.
I have recently found myself in the region of East Malaysia. The Borneo side, the wilder side, the side that's like your beautifully exotic, barely related cousin twice removed on your father's side. Because that's what Sabah (and Sarawak) is, really - the distant relative of us Peninsularians, who, unlike the sister who has no choice but to let you crash as long as you want, only gives you 90 days before your bags hit the curb. Or in this case, sea.
I am absolutely enamoured with Sabah though. The city Kota Kinabalu is a box of assorted chocolates which include the ones filled with alcohol. Everything here is delightful; the people, the food, and man, the sky. The sky!
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| On the set of Gojira Returns |
Right outside the Arkitrek office/my temporary accommodation are the steps leading up to Signal Hill which is where the sunset above was taken. Nothing fancy, just 250m up the forest that connects to a 2 lane road where there is also a nice observatory deck by the side. Mostly tourists would take this path and this morning I had the wonderful luck of interacting with one such.
She was in pink shorts and matching platformy type slippers. Her choice of accessories were a floppy hat and a petite backpack, the kind that a toy poodle would not look out of place in. The ensemble was completed with a large DSLR with super zoom lens. This camera undoubtably serves its functions well as a photo taking device as well as a bicep builder. But alas, cameras are completely useless bricks if you can't take a #selfie duh.
Madam Tourist was faced with two options: the Hotel Makcik watering the plants outside or Hangover Face struggling to lock unlock the pesky office gate. Hotel Makcik responded to her shout "HI!" by smiling brightly, albeit inanely, back at her, so she shouted "HI!" in my specific direction to which I could not avoid.
Here I'm going to admit that I was a bit of a bastard. I could understand perfectly well what she was saying in Cantonese (my guess is that she was from Hong Kong) but guess what I PRETENDED NOT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT SHE WAS SAYING. I may or may not have even put on a European accent.
Anyway I spent the next 15 minutes taking pictures of 1. her posing in front of the info board 1.a) her posing in front of the info board close up 1.b) her posing in front of the info board full body 2. her at the steps sitting 2.a) her at the steps sitting full body, and so on etc. At one point we did a few variations of 9.d) her standing on the steps full body with a huge hanging leaf she pulled close to her face.
I guess there are worser ways to start a Labor Day morning.
