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Sunsets in Sabah

Linora Low — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:38:03 +0000

I was trying to think how I could make this into a post. Sabah has beautiful scenery here and the one thing that I enjoy the most here are the gorgeous sunsets. The sun sets pretty early here like around 6 something or so, it’ll start to go down. Then night falls around 8 something. It would feel like 10pm at 8pm in Sabah.

A little warning, while i have shots of the sunset, but there is also a fair amount of me with those shots

Back to sunsets. I’ve taken a number of shots of sunsets at different areas, so i’m going to try and place them in order.

The first place i took sunset shots was at Sutera Harbour Resort. We were setting up a romantic dinner and the sunset was really giving the mood.

What you see like a train railway over there is the camera track. To be more precise these were taken at the Pacific Sutera, which is the first building of the Sutera Harbour Resort.

My next shots were taken at Jesselton Point. Which is also the place where you can take boats from the mainland, Kota Kinabalu to do some island hopping. Me and the boys go trigger happy here. You could see the sky turn from a nice blue, to orange and finally a shade of lemonade pink just before the sun hid itself from us.

Those different shades are more obvious in the next location.

My favourite sunsets right now are at Waterfront, Kota Kinabalu. That sunset was truly the most beautiful thing ever. I just wanted to bask in the glory of the sun setting. The following three images shows the stages of the sun setting.. hopefully it was in that order But i’m very certain that the sky turned pink just before the sun hid itself from us.

The first one shows the sky still in at its bluest.

This one shows the sun blazing hot, like a little fireball. Eat that Dragonball lovers

And this last one is just as the orange mixed with the clouds to turn a subtle pink. Btw shooting the pink clouds only happens for a little while, if you are shooting with flash. I usually prefer shooting my pictures without flash and just fiddling with the exposure on a camera. However i then learnt in order to also get the front object in sight, best to have some flash. Anyway, the flashes only work with the setting sun for a while. After a few minutes later, the flash will just capture your face and not the beautiful background .

This is Waterfront at Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. lol Promoting this place like nobody’s business.

It was very romantic too, and it didn’t help that the wind was really calm and that whole stretch by the sea had couples walking all over the place… It really made me miss Mister G.

The latest sunset is at Labuan, with a view taken from the Beta Apartment. Staying at the 15th floor at the Beta Apartment has wonderful perks! Giving us a great view of one portion of Labuan. The view stretches out from one end to another.

And this is why its fun playing with the settings on your camera

I just love sunsets… don’t you

Christmas Is Coming

Linora Low — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:30:27 +0000

It’s the season of the year which i enjoy the most. I just have this happy and light feeling whenever Christmas is about to come around. Listening to christmas carols, special collection of songs sung by our favourite pop artist, to see all the snowy decor hung on the walls. Ohh just little silly things that are ‘suppose’ to represent christmas. It’s not about the presents under the christmas tree. It’s not about the cookies or the stockings or the chestnuts roasting by the fire (well we don’t have a fire here anyway). It’s a time to share, love and give. Hence I spent some time to make for you guys a wallpaper. My gift to ya’ll and my second gift will be coming up soon. Wait for 25th Dec.

This wallpaper is 1280x 800. If it can’t fit on your desktop let me know and I’ll make another one.. I should actually..Anyways. Right click on this to download Aronil Xmas Wallpaper and save the link as a jpg.

And a more simpler one.Same thing, right click here to download Aronil Xmas Wallpaper 2. Have fun!

Happy Diwali!!

Linora Low — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:38:29 +0000

Before the light goes out of this day. This is me wishing everyone a happy celebration.

Singapore Mad Dash Part 2

Linora Low — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:11:04 +0000

… Following the story from Singapore Mad Dash Part 1 Getting there took about half an hour and thankfully no jam. I was hanging about at the Chorus hotel lounge to get my free coffee which came with the Aeroline ticket and grabbed meself a hotdog bun too, since I had zilch to eat that day. And was more worried about getting my documents right, my piano score right and getting my voice/head used to the lyrics for the audition the next day. Before I go on, i have to say the Cab Comfort line is so cool! All i need to do if i need transport is just call the cab line 65521111. They actually remember where was the last stop off and the usual place you always get picked up from. Omg! So cool! It was so ‘comforting’ to hear “Press 1 for Mount Emily” or “Press 2 to be picked up in front of 84, Coronation Road”. I wish for the day that Malaysia has a cab system like that. Now on to the story. Warning image heavy here, so please patience. ^_^ So on to find my way to 33 Kerbau Road, which I hadn’t realised was now called KK = Kendang Kerbau. That probably explained why went I said Kerbau Road to the taxi driver he was like huh? See that purple line connecting the dots? Those are some sorta pit stops on the gps. Very useful! Here we are on Kerbau Road. This is just opposite the Little India MRT. I was trying to find where was the Wild Rice audition. I think I walked around that area a good number of times just to find the place.

I nearly wanted to buy this one with Erin. We were going to split it and then we decided… nope… save money Erin and I had headed to Wisma Atria and over there at TopShop there was this section that sold these really really cool notepads. Yess she really wanted those shorts.. we spent a while in I tihnk MNG just for her to decide whether she wanted them. Very glad to say she didn’t cave Decoders is a small cafe in Balmaral Plaza (did i spell that right) and over there they had tons of game! Board games! They just didn’t have Cranium though which would’ve been fun to play with so many people. However I got to learn three new games that night. So after the audition which i will tell about later. Erin and I met up with the Singapore Bloggers, which was soo much fun! It just so happened that it was really good timing that SPI was having a meet and Valerie mentioned it to me a while back hehe. So cool!

First one was this weird up game where you have to place little man on this plastic tower that looked like the tower of pisa and make sure that it does not topple.

The next one was the craziest and nosiest game I have ever played. Called Jurassic Jumble. There were 7 of us playing and we were each given 9 cards. The nine cards had to be either the same dino or the same colour. So the only way to get cards that are the same (cause you obviously have all different cards) is barter trade with others. If say i want to trade two then another person will have to agree to trade two cards with me. SO it was a mad round of TWO TWO TWO TWO TWO…. THREE THREE THREE THREE …. ONE ONE ONE ONE ONE ONE…. and etc. Hahahha like Pasar Malam.

Then once you get all the nine cards quickly grab a bone off the table. There were only 6 bones and with 7 of us that meant one person won’t get it. Heeee….. James

I managed to get all the same and GRABBED a bone!!

The other game we played was Cahoots which I call the shorter and faster version of Cranium. You have four types of categories, Sound off, Second Hand, Tongue Tied and . Two groups and you have a dice that will show all the four categories and one more that will let the other team pick a category for you. The last game we played was Squibble. You have a bunch of cards with odd shapes on them and you are suppose to create whatever the word that is stated on the word card given to you. and whoever that guesses it gets points. Those are all the shapes. E.g. say i get 1) dog 2) lampshade 3) crying girl. If i pick 1 then i have to create a dog with the cards and if someone guesses correctly that person and i gets a point each. If i had picked 2 it would’ve been two points each.

BTW as much as the place was fun, I really was not jumping for joy by the food. Really….

I have no idea how someone thought this was a DOG!!!?? Hahaha

Me and part of the group. L-R : James, Hwei Yuen, Nadia, Glenn, Erin , Me and Wendy.

Erin and I with NS boy, Ji Ren who is probably the sweetest person I have ever met.

Nadia and Me. Once again this lil girl is so adorable.

Erin, Me and Sher. Sher is so funky and she had me blushing when i walked in. Actually they all had me blushing Since I had never met a number of them before, it was really funny to introduce myself and when you state which blog you are, everyone goes.. “Oooooooooo”.. Hahah so cute. The gathering was an all in one event. Blogger meet, together with celebrating mother’s days for the mommies and singing happy birthday for that adorable babe there.

We went crusing around Singapore for a bit, because we originally wanted to see Harold and Kumar. Which in the end we didn’t see…twice that day! Can you believe it. All the tickets – first one we check was at 3.30pm and the other at 11.45pm were all sold out.. SOLD OUT! For Harold and Kumar, was it really that good? Erin and Ji Ren couldn’t believe it. I was… on the fence, since the movie really didn’t ring a bell to me. But after all that, now I really do want to watch Harold and Kumar.

It was my first time sitting in a convertible and my hair was an absolute mess after that. Not to mention the fringe was not helping at all!

Since we had no movie… next best thing. Ice cream!!

Yeah I had a big craving for bubble tea, you know the one with the pearls. And i found an ice cream with pearls! Aghhhhhh i want another one.

One More on Sinagpore Mad Dash Part 3

Singapore Mad Dash Part 1

Linora Low — Wed, 14 May 2008 04:40:17 +0000

Splitting this in too a three part story. I’ll start off first with me getting to Singapore on Friday afternoon. I had bought a bus ticket from Aeroline online for RM164 for a return ticket from KL (Chorus Hotel) -> Singapore (Harbourfront Plaza). Mom and Nessa had sent me to Chorus Hotel which was the drop and pick up point for those heading down to Singapore. I have never been so happy to hear a traveling point that is close to home. ^_^ Getting there took about half an hour and thankfully no jam. I was hanging about at the Chorus hotel lounge to get my free coffee which came with the Aeroline ticket and grabbed meself a hotdog bun too, since I had zilch to eat that day. And was more worried about getting my documents right, my piano score right and getting my voice/head used to the lyrics for the audition the next day.Sitting around in the bus I decided to go ahead and pop open the laptop and get some maps shoved into my phone. Just in case anything happened. Or rather just to make sure I do NOT get lost. Yeap I was quite happy once again to see that the GPS on my phone worked. I’m using Google Maps here which i think is faster and a lot friendlier than the Nokia Maps installed on the phone. But hey I’m not complaining. Then the day started to get dark and here we are in the bus at around 8 plus. I had covered up the other side of the window since it was really distracting when I was watching my show on the laptop. The litted stairway to the drivers area and the top part of the bus, where I should actually be sitting but decided to be a smart alec and go on down to the lounge area. Yes I look terribly sleepy and drained. Oh and see the dude over there, he’s from Canada and who would’ve guessed that not only were we on the same bus to Singapore. We were also on the same bus to KL. Quite a nice dude and he mentioned that he was stopped three times already at Singapore immigration. Beats me on why. He was saying that everytime he placed his thumbprint on the scanner to be checked.. his face didn’t pop up but some other lady did. Hmmm.. ahh but interesting story no less. Hehe.. There is a very good reason why, the minute i stepped out of the bus in Singapore Harbourfront Plaza that I was not afraid of getting lost. Even though that could’ve been a possibility. Me and darling Erin who was kind enough to put up with me in her Uncle’s house. I feel terrible for now even saying hi to her uncle. It was like ok pop in the house and i’m gone the next day. Gotta make sure I at least say hello the next time round and thank him for hospitality.

Wei Chuen and Me.

These were among the people that I managed to take a pic with and they are fun! But boy can they party lol. From far left : Wei Chuen, Adam, Fernn and Me. More to come Look out for Singapore Mad Dash Part 2