Kota Kinabalu, here i come!
July 18, 2006
Here I am waking up at 5 am in the morning coz Sam will take me to KTM train station at 6 am, my flight to Kota Kinabalu is at 9:20 am and the domestic airport is pretty far from Sam’s house, it took me about 20 minutes to wait for the KTM train and when I reached KL Central station I took a bus going to the domestic airport, the bus ride is almost 1 hour so when I reached the domestic airport its already 8:30 am.
When I was waiting for the boarding time, I heard an announcement saying that my flight to Kota Kinabalu is delayed for 30 minutes, so I waited on the lounge, sleepy because lack of sleep.
Finally after 3o minutes I’m now boarding Air Asia airplane, its quite small airbus, only 3 seats on each side, it took us 2 hours and 30 minutes going to Kota Kinabalu. When I arrived at the airport I was expecting someone from Borneo Global Backpackers Hostel waiting for me, but unfortunately there was none, so I called the hostel if they will send someone to fetch me in the airport, they said that I’ll just wait for their driver to pick me up after 25 minutes.
After almost 30 minutes I was fetched by the driver, I got my room already and after 10 minutes in my room an employee of the hostel knocked at my door asking if I wanted to join other guests coz they are going to the downtown with the service car of the hostel and they will pick us up on the same spot after 4 hours, so I decided to join coz I’m already starving and I wanted to look for some place to eat, on the van I met Sophia and Mikhaela, they are from Sweden and having their holidays here, they’ve been to other Asian countries such as China, Brunei, Thailand and Philippines, now they are here in Malaysia, they are still planning to go to 2 Asian countries and after that they will go back to their country. They said they stayed in Boracay for 1 week and they really liked it there. I joined them for lunch but after that they went back to the hostel coz Sophia is not feeling good, but I decided to take a look at a mall in downtown, it’s a small mall with only few shoppers inside, not unlike in Kuala Lumpur where there are so many shoppers. After strolling the mall I decided to wait at the pick up area for the service vehicle of the hostel coz I’m feeling tired already of walking and I wanted to rest at my room. When I get back in my room I rested for a while and after resting I went to the lobby to get some cool air coz I’m sweating in my room, on the lobby I met a couple from Scotland, the guys name is John and girl’s name is Kaye, they are also on holidays, they also visited Bali, they said they liked Bali so much that next year they will visit there again, after here in Kota Kinabalu they will go to Philippines, they will stay there for 2 ½ weeks so since I’m from Philippines I gave them some advices on where to go, actually they already have some places on their list, I only add some, like Baywalk, Rizal Monument, Greenhills, Mega Mall, Glorietta, and some popular Filipino dishes like Kare-Kare, Crispy Pata, Sisig, Sinigang na Baboy, San Miguel Beer, Jolibee, even the famous Balot. They said they will try to taste some of those foods, after Manila they will go to the northern Luzon provinces like Baguio, they will also visit Sagada in mountain province, after that they will go to Cebu. We had a great conversation and after that we went back to our own rooms to have some rest.
Here I am waking up at 5 am in the morning coz Sam will take me to KTM train station at 6 am, my flight to Kota Kinabalu is at 9:20 am and the domestic airport is pretty far from Sam’s house, it took me about 20 minutes to wait for the KTM train and when I reached KL Central station I took a bus going to the domestic airport, the bus ride is almost 1 hour so when I reached the domestic airport its already 8:30 am.
When I was waiting for the boarding time, I heard an announcement saying that my flight to Kota Kinabalu is delayed for 30 minutes, so I waited on the lounge, sleepy because lack of sleep.
Finally after 3o minutes I’m now boarding Air Asia airplane, its quite small airbus, only 3 seats on each side, it took us 2 hours and 30 minutes going to Kota Kinabalu. When I arrived at the airport I was expecting someone from Borneo Global Backpackers Hostel waiting for me, but unfortunately there was none, so I called the hostel if they will send someone to fetch me in the airport, they said that I’ll just wait for their driver to pick me up after 25 minutes.
After almost 30 minutes I was fetched by the driver, I got my room already and after 10 minutes in my room an employee of the hostel knocked at my door asking if I wanted to join other guests coz they are going to the downtown with the service car of the hostel and they will pick us up on the same spot after 4 hours, so I decided to join coz I’m already starving and I wanted to look for some place to eat, on the van I met Sophia and Mikhaela, they are from Sweden and having their holidays here, they’ve been to other Asian countries such as China, Brunei, Thailand and Philippines, now they are here in Malaysia, they are still planning to go to 2 Asian countries and after that they will go back to their country. They said they stayed in Boracay for 1 week and they really liked it there. I joined them for lunch but after that they went back to the hostel coz Sophia is not feeling good, but I decided to take a look at a mall in downtown, it’s a small mall with only few shoppers inside, not unlike in Kuala Lumpur where there are so many shoppers. After strolling the mall I decided to wait at the pick up area for the service vehicle of the hostel coz I’m feeling tired already of walking and I wanted to rest at my room. When I get back in my room I rested for a while and after resting I went to the lobby to get some cool air coz I’m sweating in my room, on the lobby I met a couple from Scotland, the guys name is John and girl’s name is Kaye, they are also on holidays, they also visited Bali, they said they liked Bali so much that next year they will visit there again, after here in Kota Kinabalu they will go to Philippines, they will stay there for 2 ½ weeks so since I’m from Philippines I gave them some advices on where to go, actually they already have some places on their list, I only add some, like Baywalk, Rizal Monument, Greenhills, Mega Mall, Glorietta, and some popular Filipino dishes like Kare-Kare, Crispy Pata, Sisig, Sinigang na Baboy, San Miguel Beer, Jolibee, even the famous Balot. They said they will try to taste some of those foods, after Manila they will go to the northern Luzon provinces like Baguio, they will also visit Sagada in mountain province, after that they will go to Cebu. We had a great conversation and after that we went back to our own rooms to have some rest.
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