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Collection of favourite travel and life photos
This is the last compilation of the favourite travel and life photos series. Actually there are more, but my patience is only up to this…It has been a fun ride using picasa to do the special effects of the three collages.
I am really capable of “wasting” my time doing all these… ha ha.
Collection of travel photos
The compilation series is meant to be as a milestone, to start something new (and more organized) and to end something old like this messy old blog.
Collection of travel photos
This is the first of the three random compilations of some of my favourite travel photos.
I snapped the bottom right photo in a Yamaha concert, if I remember correctly, at Petaling Jaya civic hall. I especially like this photo due to the right timing of flash. The flash was a fluke.
In early December we went to Sabah once more. This round, Karambunai, the beach. The stunning view of Mount Kinabalu is still fresh in mind. Beautiful waves at Karambunai added more memorable moments for time spent in Sabah. Malaysia is truly lucky to have this state as part of the country.
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There were 25 of us in the company wanted to climb Mt Kinabalu. So the Group Sports Club organizer had to split us in to 3 groups. The first group climbed the mountain in August. I joined the second group in September reaching the summit on 19 September 2010. This morning, 16 October, the third group reached the summit. They are probably reaching Kinabalu Park Head Quarter now and are arranging to come back to West Malaysia tonight. 5 out of 8 persons in the first group reached Low’s Peak, the summit. 7 out of 8 persons in our group made it to the peak too. For third group, I heard, 8 out of 9 of them made it to the top. The results are getting better as more information were provided by the earlier groups to the later group. Of course, the number of personal mountain guides, beside the 2 mountain guides assigned by the Park, had increase from 0 in first group, 1 in second group to 5 in third group. Mt Kinabalu, or Gunung Kinabalu as called by Malay Language, is (arguably) the highest peak of South East Asia, at 4,095.2M or 13,435 ft above sea level. |
For comparison, the highest mountain in United States, Mt Whitney in California is 4,418M or 14,494 feet, the highest mountain in Australia, Kosciusko is only 2,228M, and the highest mountain in Western Europe, Mont Blanc, is 4,807M. (Mt Everest is 8,850M) Click here for more info on highest mountains. For people like my mom, who went to some mountains in China and think those mountains are high, the highest peak of the famous Huangshan (Chinese: 黄山, Yellow Mountain) in China is only 1,864M, highest peak of Hua Shan (Mt Hua) is only 2,160M. Without Tibet, Chinese mountains can hardly be considered as high. So you get the idea, Mt Kinabalu is high, one of the very high in the world. I added a new blog on my trip of climbing Mt Kinabalu to this web site. The photo of Timpohon trail to base camp, Laban Rata, the photo of Summit trail from base camp to Low’s Peak, and the highlight of the climb to Low’s Peak, the highest point of summit. |
Beautiful Shanghai at night. It reminds me of the song “Shanghai night” (ye shang hai).
On probably 11 April 2010, our last night in Siem Reap, the town we stayed to visit Angkor Wat, I walked around the old market at night and taking photo of the restaurants.
I continue with my travelogue to Turkey in 2006…
The next morning, if I remember correctly (in November 2006), we woke up before 5am so that we could take the hot air balloon ride. My son got a free seat as he was only 6 year old. (Anything above 6 are chargeble)
The last few minutes in the ferry backed from Blue Mountain. Seagulls flied with sunset on Sydney Opera House.
Writing this blog I know I am running away from the preparation of next Tuesday’s negotiation and discussion on vendor tendering process. Pretty lousy, why people want finance people to deal with people? Can’t I just work with my computer?
And so now I am indulging in my memory. Even with important issues on coming Tuesday.
Let me worry that on Monday. These two photos are soothing.
More beautiful mansions along Parramatta River backed from Homebush Bay toward Sydney…
A seagull followed the ferry we took. At times landed at my friends’ heads. She just flew right above the ferry, like kite.
Beautiful yacht at Parramatta River.
