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Recently I was on holidays to Malaysia for a few weeks visiting my friends, family and my girlfriend’s family too. Thought I’d share some pictures from my trip but I probably won’t upload everything because there’s a lot of photos (see bottom for gallery)!

My girlfriend also recently got a Nikon D90 which her dad secretly told me that she was meant to contribute half for it but her mum, Terri snuck her out to go shopping before poor uncle Wedge had a say in it hehe. So ever since that, she’s been taking photos of everything non-stop!

I’ll start off with my trip to Kota Kinabalu, Sabah where my girlfriend originally came from.

This is the view from the apartment I was living in. It is pretty much opposite Tanjung Aru beach. Hong Yi’s parents kindly and generously offered their apartment for me to live all by myself. Very nice and spacious 2 storey-apartment with three large bedrooms and as I can remember, 4 toilets and 2 bathrooms (toilet joined). Pretty cool ay?

I was even provided toothpaste, towels, soap, snacks, juice & water, a pen and even hotel slippers by auntie Terri! Wow, she really did impress me hehe.

This is Hong Yi’s cool outdoor table where they sometimes have meals because according to uncle Wedge, the temperature is around 2-3 degrees cooler outside. Also this is auntie Terri’s outdoor kitchen where she rules with an iron fist. Haha, just kidding. But she’s seriously good at cooking and I hope one day Hong Yi will surpass her mum’s cooking skills! You can check out auntie Terri’s food blog at hungerhunger.

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I’ve been on holidays for the past 4 weeks, travelling around West & East Malaysia as well as spending a couple of days in Perth.

It feels surreal going back to work and normal life after a fun filled 4 week adventure. No more staying up in the blackness of night with the bats and waking up hungering for breakfast but the time for it seems to have passed into lunch.

Yes, I will need to sleep and wake up early now to catch my daily 1 hour trip to work via bus and train. Not to mention back again.

Today it took me about 5 hours to go through 600+ emails. Yes, 600+ emails. Really shows how dependent we are on email as a form of communication, internally and externally.

I’m starting my new role now as a consulting team leader. A new year, a new role and fresh challenges lying ahead. Let’s hope it all goes well :)

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Finally after my 3 week holiday in Malaysia, I’m back in Australia. Perth to be exact.

Arrived 6am this morning to find my baggage damaged through the flight with Air Asia. Another fail point about Air Asia.

It feels weird to pay A$25 (RM60) for a taxi fare to my friend’s place after visiting Malaysia where everything is so cheap and the same taxi fare would’ve costed around A$5 there.

Guess my holidays is going to last for another couple of days before I head off to Sydney tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully I’ll snap some shots of my visit here and post it up later.

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Just got back from Kota Kinabalu, Sabah last night and back in Kuala Lumpur before I head off to Perth next.

For those that don’t know where Sabah is, it is located in East Malaysia, above Kalimantan. Yes, I didn’t know where it was as well. Haha, just kidding :P

Notice how the map of Sabah looks like a dog’s head?

Unfortunately for the 11 days that I stayed at Kota Kinabalu, it was raining every single day which limited the amount of outdoor activities I could do there since Sabah is famed for its islands, Mount Kinabalu climb, fishing and whitewater rafting. I’m sure there’s more stuff to do there.

But I guess it was sort of a good thing because I had the opportunity and time to get to know Hong Yi’s immediate and extended family a bit better and they were very hospitable to me which was great! I’ll post up more about it once I get back to Sydney and also pictures once I’ve used photoshop to adjust the colours and contrast. Unfortunately my Olympus camera isn’t very good :(

So next stop tomorrow would be Perth to visit my thambi friend for a couple of days before I head back to Sydney!

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