Kota Kinabalu - Day 1

The very first day.... speechless. Because it felt like we were rushing for the time of our life the whole day.

our flight : 6.50am
we woke up: 4.10am
we missed the kl sentral bus at 4.30am
we pay through our nose for taxi to rush for our flight.

Despite of everything was in a mess, i thank God for letting us board and depart the plane safely!

God is awesome for such view!

and this boy only cares too much to sleep. ;(

Depart 9.20am, full of luggages.. of course go hotel first right?

And we hopped on to this money sucker arranged by the airport to the town's bus-stop to grab the free shuttle bus to tune hotel. The city is like 15 minutes away from airport? (everyone in KK is a money sucker -_- in fact, quite an extreme one.)

However, this taxi is definitely the most "high-class" wannabe taxi i have ever seen, with the concept of limousine and look at those blings! I'm most fascinated :p

We reached the hotel around 10.30am and we can only check-in by 2pm. Its impossible for us to get back to the city because its quite far and we have to cooperate with the timing the shuttle bus provided, sides with our luggage..? *GLUM* !@#$!% In the end, we paid Rm2 each for the luggage for tune hotel to look after... see, like i said! everyone in KK are all money suckers. Luggage also need to charge! We then decided to spend our 3 and the half hour walking in one of few famous malls below in KK. Nothing eye-catching, just like our shopping malls here but of course, ours is BETTER :D

Roaming around for an hour almost killed me already! We had our lunch, we walked like snail, we bitch stared everyone that passed by us... haha jk! 1pm we went back to the hotel and negotiated the time to check in, and the earliest we could get is 1.45pm. -_-" better than nothing. After we checked in, we readied up and made our way to visit Green Connection. less than 10 minutes taxi ride in the city = RM20. -_-

Green Connection is like an aquarium but in their very unique way. Lets put it this way, green connection is nothing luxury like seaword in australia. Personally, i didn't like it from the beginning i stepped into the place. (maybe i'm so used to visiting nice aquariums like singapore, aus and even klcc is better). But is definitely a whole new experience.

and WHY is it so bad?

The water is filthy where you sometimes can't even spot anything; Its muddy everywhere because it was raining; The aquarium is like a big fish tank where ppl rear their fishes at home. We're practically feeding the mosquitoes. The worst thing is that they charges Rm20 pp, a bit pricey for such place. (probably cheap for the foreigners) The place is quite small and we felt foolish rushing for everything because we fear that we couldn't managed to see everything in time since we arrived so late. But apart from that, being positively, at least there were still a few things that caught our attention. [btw! don't get deceive by the brochure around advertising green connection, is never as nice as what it stated inside! the pictures look truly deceiving too!]

I still prefer mantra ray in australia. :)

guitar shark.
Combination of shark and stingray.
They gave his a name "GANGSTER".
Because every feeding time, he never fails to snatch other fishes food.
Even the sharks never go near.

cool eh!

The feeding shark session started around 4.30pm:

More like feeding turtle to me. lol.

Look at the greedy fella.

one of my favorite!
Dancing with the turtle!

and stingray!

My boy doesn't have the balls to touch it. ><

Stonefish, extremely poisonous.
Credited to Steve Irvin for the knowledge when we were watching his video in tangalooma, australia.
fuck, i miss australia so much. :(

cute :)

"science" centre:

Went for a slow walk along the restaurant side where is close to the beach:

Felt a tug at the heart when viewing the sunset. ;)






seafood dinner!
We had definitely underestimate the price of a mantis prawn where they quoted 100gm=rm9. We ordered one and it came out around rm40! FOR ONE. GASP :(

kk's coconut water is awesome though.

we finished our dinner and we practically walked as fast as we could to the bus-stop, hopefully to catch the next one. And only to find out that the shuttle bus was full, have to wait an hour for the next one. urgh, FOL. Well, brisk walk after dinner is always good, isn't it? ;)

Favorite pic of the day. ♥

rush rush rush.
second day. :)