Here I am again for a business trip. This time I make it all my way to Sarawak. My flight last night arrive at 9.05pm and a friend of mine take me and fetch me to the hotel (well we got go around the city after that).
I arrive at the Batik Boutique around 9.45pm and I check in at the hotel. When I first arrive a guy (I think he us an Ibanese) greet me and ask me to take a seat while he do all the checkin stuff for me. While waiting, I found out that this hotel is quite artistic. It have its own feeling nurtured to it and this makes me quite amaze with the environment.
For me this hotel is not like the other 5star hotel that I usually goes on my business trip. Batik Boutique has its own feeling to it and for me it was design by heart for us. Well, I think there is a lot of words to describe it but as usual let the pictures talk. Since pictures does show a thousand word.
Rainbow on Green
When I was checking my pictures, I realize there is still some pictures that I haven’t share with everyone. Well I will start to share it slowly and I hope you like it.
The picture below is taken not following the 3:2 rules since I am focusing more on the rainbow itself. The location of … Read More
Macro of the Big World
This picture was taken in Teluk Cempedak 2nd Beach Kuantan Pahang. I am focusing on the rope. The macro on the rope with the beach as the background is quite classical. Furthermore the blue background enhance the classical mood more. Editing is done only by adding more highlight in the picture plus a signature. Hope … Read More
Pelian Fish Massage Kg.Luanti Ranau
If you ever come to Sabah and interested to go to Kinabalu Park to see Mount Kinabalu with your own eyes, one of the thing that you should never miss is a visit to Pelian Fish Massage Kg.Luanti Ranau.
Pelian Fish Massage Kg.Luanti Ranau is located around 30minutes drive from Ranau Town and it is … Read More
Going for Short Hiking
Hiking is a good activity to do. But for me, it is not something that I really like to do now since for the past 2 years I prefer to sit in front of my PC or Laptop doing websites, online, playing games and lots of other things I can do with my PC and … Read More
Daya Hotel Kota Kinabalu
This is one of my new shot that i taken when I was going to Wisma Merdeka. Hope you like it.
The street in Kota Kinabalu also had been decorated as for the preparation for the coming chinese new year. One example is as follow;
The Batik Boutique – Hotel design by heart
Commercializing my Experience.
I’m back!! And always around. But this time, I just turn everything I know about net into a service that will be useful to you. The one I’m talking about is Technology Info. Previously it has been a small news portal which I use to spread the news from around the blog. But now, it has finally become a website that provides service for you to set up your own online business. I know out there, web set up service has been very expensive. So I’m making this so that you will be able to create an identity for your business at the lowest cost possible. If you are interested, check out my service and enjoy your day.
Ali Topan Accident 16th August 2012
Feeling Down..~~
Many must have known about the recent bus crash in Sandakan – Lahad Datu road early this morning. I was there not in the bus but was in the bus just behind the one that crashed.
This is the rest of the story..
I was on my way back to Tawau (after I missed my flight to Tawau earlier and no empty seats for the next flight) with Sairah Bus. The bus departed around 8.20pm from Inanam terminal and we reach Checkpoint around 1.40pm and stop at the usual Sairah Bus shop to fill our needs.
30 minutes after, we leave the place heading for Tawau and the bus was moving quite fast as usual. After a while we passed the Kota Kinabatangan area and I were still awake at that time. Feeling half asleep I was shocked when people around me making noise and the bus that (which I am on) slow down and stop just beside a flipped down Alitopan Bus. I was quite blur with what happened and couldn’t believe my eyes. My bus second driver and operator rush out of our bus and went to the Alitopan bus. At that time, there is still no one out of the flipped over bus and I still can see smokes coming out from the rear left tyre (And I believe other people around me can see it too but I am not sure whether it is from the bus tyre or from other part of the bus).
Shocked and not being able to analyze what to do next, the operator which goes down earlier came up and ask for phone with torchlight from the passengers and luckily the lady behind my seat (who sit at the 3rd row) own a phone which has a led light with her and give it to him. Then the guy rush out to the scene and before going down he still able to mentioned “Can Someone Try To Get Help from firefighter department, someone is stuck and cannot go out from the bus“. And someone from among the passenger (some who is blur, shocked and some was talking among themselves) shouted call 999.
The same lady using her other phone did call 999 and at that time I was thinking the fastest to get help is to call directly to Hospital in Kinabatangan (which we just passed and not far from the scene). And then I remembered my friend (I Call her Kiah) who is a nurse there and try to search for her phone number. But I was not able to find her phone number from my iPhone. Then I turn ON my Samsung phone (which run out of batteries earlier) hoping that it can at least work for a while and her number is there. And luckily God is on my side, the phone works fine (and shutdown after awhile) and her number is there. I was able to make a call to her and tell her about this and she were telling me she will try to get to her emergency department and asked me to call 999 for this matter.
While I was talking with her, I could hear the lady behind me connected to the 999 department and able to talk with them a while and after that (not being able to tell all the story) she was disconnected with them.
Realizing this, I make another call to 999 and at the same time I am a bit afraid I could not make the call since the iPhone battery is also nearly exhausted (less than 20%). Luckily things gone quite fast, I was connected to them and using the previous report they were able to get picture of what happening. Staying calm, I speak out everything I saw and they also connect me to the firefighter department and Hospital in Kinabatangan. Knowing the location was around Kampung Paris, I was able to inform them in less than 10 minutes and waiting for them to take action.
At the same time while making the call, I can see people were gathering around and helping the victims who can go out from the bus. Some of the victims, were sent to our bus and were asked to rest while the other good Samaritans try their best to give help. At that time, 1 of the male victims came up to the bus and I could see his head is bleeding quite a lot which makes the bus smell of bloods. Being uncomfortable and worried that some were also like that, I went down from the bus to see what I can do to help. But to my experience (since this is my first) I could not even do anything and until now I still regret, I am a Chemical Engineer and I could not even do anything to help those who need my help. I have 2 certificates (which I got last year) from PBSM which is to give help during emergency like this but I could not even do anything as to give help to those who need it.
The only help I remember I was able to give was to move a girl legs to the other side of the chair since she was not able to move it. Other than that, there is nothing much I could do. Besides my regrets of not being able to help them, I also feel quite shocked when some of the victims who were able to move is still putting their items to their first priority while leaving some of the victims who needs their help unattended. Luckily there is other people from my bus and 2 other Sairah bus who came to help them, carrying the victims to the bus so that they could be sent for treatment at Kinabatangan Hospital or Lahad Datu Hospital. Seeing this I started to think, human is just so selfish. Putting their needs over a life who really need their help. Putting their priority to an item that can be bought over a life which we could not get a spare even in the hospitals. Human is just so into themselves and this is what had been occurring nowadays.
After a while things become quite settle down with 5 victims were left over there since 3 of them were unconscious and the other 2 is stuck. The only choices that we have is to wait for the firefighter and ambulance to came. Since nothing more can be done, our driver signal for the bus to leave for Lahad Datu, feeling guilty for not being able to help until everything finish, our bus move on since if we stay there, the victims on our bus could not be sent for treatment. Then we move on heading for Tawau and stop over at Lahad Datu hospital when we were to pass it. Things settle down quite much but I still can see some of the victims is crying disbelieving what had happened. For me, this was my 1st experience and my feeling of guilt for not being able to do anything is quite strong. I hope next time I am more prepared and will be able to help more in this situation.
MAS OH MAS!!
It’s been a while I didn’t take flight to Kuala Lumpur since I am busy with work and got no business to do there. Today as I need to go to a meeting, I take flight to Kuala Lumpur with MAS and I realise that MAS today is not like MAS before.
I’ve been hearing rumours that MAS is having some conflict with Airasia and got some news telling that their business is not so good. Well its not something that I want to write here since I’m not an economist but I am a user. User that realize the changes that is happening and will sort of make it into a story. What I realize there is their service has been downgraded. Not much but just a little that people won’t realize it. But to those who were sensitive they could realize it as soon as they use the service.
Well making things short what I am saying is shown below.
Well you can see that the picture shows the tray for my lunch in the flight. If you remember, they did use a cute box to keep the food but now since there is quite a change in their organization, this little changes is necessary.
So in this article I actually pointing out that a company change and the changes is sometimes small and sometimes big and it is always depending on the situation that they face. Same like the company I work with lots of changes occur but well I won’t talk it here not today not tomorrow.
A better stopping place
Was on my way to Tawau. As usual I prefer taking a bus over a plane since I myself prefer to be on the road and land transportation is a lot more cheaper. 5 times going to tawau and back kk since this January, there had been 6 times I take flight (still taking plane is more than taking bus since I usually transit at KK before back to tawau from KL) and there had been 4 times I’ve been following bus.
The 4 times going with bus, I’ve been following 2 different company which is sairah and Tung Ma. This 2 company has different stop and for me this is what gonna make the 2 biggest difference between this bus company.
Sairah busses will usually take a stop at a nameless shop 100 metres away from the checkpoint while Tung Ma will usually stop at Sri Sentosa just at the junction of the checkpoint.
There is two big different between this place which is the toilet at sri sentosa is more comfortable even if it is not too clean and the surrounding around the sri sentosa had lots of shops available thus making it the best place to stop.
As for food, both places prepared almost the same food. The choices is not much but it is still a good place to eat. So by comparing both of this bus company, on my next journey with bus, i will prefer Tung Ma over sairah. By the way one good thing about Sairah is it has trip on 2pm, 8am and 8pm everyday. As for Tung ma it only had 7am and 8pm trip. So if I want to travel in the afternoon I would go with Sairah.
