Back to School Shopping.

 

Malaysian school begin this coming Monday .Parents seem doing last minute back to school shopping & bring their children for shopping for theirs schooling needs.

 

 

For parents, back-to-school shopping for the various school supplies that their children need, can be a challenging task. Children invariably want school supplies that are covered in the latest cartoon characters, and parents end up having to a pay a premium for such products. Many parents who finally tire of spending so much money on school supplies eventually have a change in attitude towards shopping for educational supplies – they learn to be thrifty.

One of the best ways to save money is to shop for school supplies is at back-to-school sales. Many stores have sales on school supplies during the week or so before the new school year begins. Many items on your child’s back-to-school supply list will be offered at discounted prices during these sales. You should take the opportunity to stock up on school supplies that you know your child will need more of over the school year such as pens, pencils, paper, and other items.

Urban Squatters in Kuching.

Squatting was also common in Kuching  City and many squatting occupied their unauthorized sites for a decade.Their generally located on open government land or on unused private land.The presence of foul odour  and other unpleasant features did not stop me from visiting a 40 years old Encik Ismail  who had lived in squatters for a decade.

Ismail house is built one small step at a time and he say sorry for the interior appearance of his kitchen in a typically ramshackle.

The unpleasant features at the squatters.

My World Tuesday-Borneo Highland.

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During the Christmas Holiday I decided to have a one day trip to Borneo Highland.The place is about 60 kilo meter from the city and it is about an hour drive using my small compact car .It's a zig zag  and single dual road so I have to drive carefully.I reached Borneo Highland  foothill,however I am not allowed to enter because I did not made an advance booking.I did not know that a day trip to the highland  need an advance booking unless we stay over night for a room booking.The rate for day trip is Rm100 per guest including drink & food.

 

The welcome gate at the foothill of the Borneo Highland.

The guard told me I have to make my booking at the city office in Kuching then they will arrange a 4WD lorry to guide us to tour the Borneo Highland.

By the way this is the powerful 4WD lorry or bus that they use to ferry their guest to tour the Highland.

This photo courtesy of Tourism Malaysia-Thank You.

Borneo Highlands is one of the most exciting and unique environmentally friendly resort.   Cocooned in a lush jungle and snuggled within the hills, it is a retreat one of its kind, offering an exclusive membership club and truly unique residential development by creating a sanctuary for you to retreat to in this region.

Located just an hour's drive (60km) southwest of Kuching city, the capital of Sarawak, the resort stands at the height of 1,000 metres above sea level on the Sarawak-Kalimantan border and is nestled amongst the oldest and second largest tropical rainforest in the world.

A resort created with emphasis to blend with nature, the resort offers boundless opportunities to experience numerous outdoors activities all year round in stylish comfort.

Take pleasure in the finest natural wonders and find luxury in the bare basics. At Borneo Highlands Resort, it all about getting “Back to Nature, Back to Basics”

Since my trip to Borneo Highland is failed,why not I go further about 10 minutes drive to go to another tourist attraction  the Annah Rais Village.The attraction is the oldest long house and the hot spring.Anyway I will do the posting about the village on my next My World Tuesday that is next year 2010.

Monochrome Maniacs-Butterfly

Monochrome weekend hosted by Aileni click HERE to view others from other part of the world-Thank You.

Black & White butterfly.......

Happy Christmas everyone.........

I wish Happy Christmas and Happy Holiday to my visitors.

To-day is Public Holiday & Christmas Day.I went out this morning,the city is so quiet and boring,the only thing that is fun is going out with my camera to experiment and practice.

It's so quiet...Lonely red mail box.

The owner taking a holiday break....decay & Loneliness.

Sky Watch Friday-Aerial Ladder.

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Aerial ladder raised for firefighter to fight the fire and smoke poured from the burning shop houses obscuring the SKY at time as firefighter battled the fire.

Street Photo Documentary-Gambier Street on Fire.

The above photo credit to The Borneo Post .

Last Sunday I saw local newspaper head line "Chef On Fire".The skill from Master Chef Amin has taken cooking shows to a whole new level with his fiery 'Don't Try this at Home' acts.

This morning at 06:30 am December 23,2009. "Shop Houses On Fire".After reading the morning paper I rush to the city to see what is happening ????

A section of the city’s historical heritage went up in smoke last night when a massive fire destroyed seven pre-war shophouses along Gambier Street.Miraculously, there were no reports of any injury in the 8.30pm incident, which continued on until midnight.

I snap the whole story this morning at 08:00am.(see below)

Last night’s incident was the second time that fire has destroyed the historical shop houses along Gambier Street, with four lots going up in smoke last year.

The shophouses, which front the Sarawak River and are located near the Kuching Waterfront, was built about 60 years ago.

Time 08:30 am...No closure of road by the authority & causing traffic congested .I see no traffic police around the scene until 09:30 am.The blaze, which was believed to have started from a textile shop at about 9pm(22/12/2009 Tuesday) razed at least four shophouses by about 11pm.

However, firemen were doing their best and they risked their lives in the line of duty.