Horror of horrors… I forgot to write about my trip to KK!

OK, actually I didn’t forget. I meant to, but I just didn’t have the time.

Let’s see… where do I start? Let’s start at the very beginning…

The idea for the trip to KK first came about because one of the ladies in one of Bronya’s FIL2 classes* is originally from KK, and we found out that she owns a pub and bistro there.

[*I'm not actually part of this class, but I've gone to kepoh at that class so often that they have kind of accepted me as one of them. Sadly this class has disbanded due to the lack of numbers.]

Cheryl Quan, the lady who owns the pub, explained that every last Friday of the month, the pub organises a themed night where they will decorate their pub, and their patrons will dress up according to the theme. They have had themes like Hawaii and Michael Jackson (when MJ passed away); and it sounded so exciting that we all wanted to go. So Bronya (whose schedule is the most packed among all of us) took out her diary and found that the only time she could manage at all this year was in October. And mind you, we were discussing this in March. October was great timing – the last Friday of the month coincided with Halloween! (It’s actually Halloween Eve, but who cares about a one-day difference)

We didn’t really take the suggestion seriously until I-Vee looked up the airfares when it got closer to October, and even made the accomodation arrangements for us.

It wasn’t actually my first time to KK; I have been here before, on a school trip with Form 4 students back in 2007. The difference is, back then I had to run around babysitting a busful of 16-year-old teenaged girls (some with raging hormones, some with shopaholic tendencies, some with alcoholic tendencies, and many with a dreadful fascination for true ghost stories)… this time I had time for myself. Theoretically.

Oh, gosh, I’ve been looking through my blog archives and I’ve only JUST realised that I never did write about my KK trip with my students. No point writing about it now, really, because no one’s going to read it.

Kota Kinabalu trip 2007. I won't write about it, but you can see some of the photos I took during that trip by clicking on the photo above.

Anyway, this trip to KK was one that was quite, quite memorable. I think I’ll have to break it up into a few posts because otherwise, this post will be one gigantic post that no one will read because of its sheer monstrosity.

I went nuts with my Nikon D60, largely thanks to this photography workshop I joined a few weeks before then. I joined the workshop because I was frustrated with not being able to take pro-looking shots. Erm, I still can’t, but at least I’m getting a better understanding of the DSLR.

Anyway, with some new skills in hand, I documented this trip in photos almost every step of the way – from the departure at the airport to the arrival at KK airport to the lunches to the dinners to the arrival back at KLIA… in total, about 1800 photos, including the few I took with my waterproof Olympus. Yeah, it was only a 3-day trip.

Well, to keep you entertained until my next bite-sized post, here is the link to my online photo albums. Click on the photos to view the respective albums.

Kota Kinabalu trip 2009 : Album the first

Kota Kinabalu trip 2009 : Album the second

Don’t worry, I didn’t upload all 1800 photos here. The reason there are two albums is because I uploaded the selected shots to Facebook, and Facebook currently allows only up to 200 photos per album.

Until my next post!

It is time to update my blog.

Soon, soon. Haven’t had time of late…