My KK Story (Day 2)

My Borneo Story: Labuan & KK (Day 1), KK (Day 2), KK (Day 3), Sandakan (Day 4)

On Day 2, we decided to do some island hopping. However, we only stopped at Pulau Manukan.

Repeat photo? Nah....this jetty is also jetty to get to Pulau Manukan. So, we're back to Jesselton Point.
Tickets are sold in the building on your right at the entrance, just like bus tickets. All vendors will be shouting, it reminds me of Pudu. Haha!
Boat tickets to Manukan is RM17. You can opt for island hopping with an additional charge of few bucks for each island.
Additional charges: Life jacket and goggles RM15, Jetty charges RM7.20

A 5-to-10-minutes boat ride will bring you to Pulau Manukan! Woohoo...blue sea and white sand! Beautiful. From the jetty, you can actually see fishes in the water!

 Upon reaching at the jetty, you will first need to pass through this entrance where you will need to pay an RM3 entrance fee. According to local, this is because this place is now a preserved marine park and it is under the care of Sutera Harbour.

Manukan Island is claimed to be the dirtiest island around KK but has the most number of visitors. -.-"
We departed from Jesselton around 10 and requested our boat to come back at 1pm.

Fishes are everywhere in the water. Go near the jetty, you will find more fishes nearer to the shore. We were kind of swimming away from the fishes because some of them are really big. Whenever something touches any part of our body, we starts to get panic. Haha. Girls :P

Anyway, it is sad to see some of the corals are bleaching. You will still see colours, but you will see some white spots on them. Some have half of the white. It's sad to see that.

I promise, I'll love the earth more today. Preserve, Conserve and Reuse!

Before we leave, we had lunch at Manukan Island. We ordered Manukan Fried Rice. It's actually seafood fried rice. Sad to say, tasted awful! Seafood was not fresh! Kota Kinabalu is famous for its seafood and yet a 5-star resort selling this kind of food. Totally disappointed. BUT, the satay was GOOD! Probably because the chicken was marinated for a long long time, the satay was really tasty. Side dishes were so-so. And this plate costs RM22!!

 After leaving Jesselton Point, we traveled uphill to the Observatory Tower. Somehow a must-go when you go to KK. It's half way up the hill, you can walk there, locals jog there everyday though! The road is narrow there, cars need to be careful if you are not familiar with the area.

The view from Signal Hill Observatory Tower of Kota Kinabalu. A 5-minutes stop will do. :) Haha. Nothing much other than views. This is probably the second best place for sunset.
It was raining when we went there. So, dark clouds, not much pictures. :-/

We called it a day. We were totally exhausted after a half-day snorkeling at Manukan Island.

For more of My Borneo Story: Labuan & KK (Day 1), KK (Day 2), KK (Day 3), Sandakan (Day 4)

It's Earth Day

Well, I do feel that we must not reuse and recycle only on Earth Day.
Although I agree that this is part of the awareness effort to make earth more hospitality to living creatures.

My brunch today, in biodegradable box. Interesting. Previously, we used polystyrene boxes (the white coffin) which is very very unhealthy to the environment. Later, the cafeterias in the campus were forced to use plastic containers (those microwave friendly ones). It wasnt a good choice too since students do not reuse those containers. Now, the latest friend in the campus, biodegradable lunch boxes.

On the boxes "Made in Malaysia - Biodegradable Compostable".

Didn't have time for nice food recently, due to the overload assignments for the semester. Anyway, the fried chicken in the lunch box is considered one of best fried chicken in the campus.

As for my comments about the biodegradable boxes:

Very interesting. But it made my brunch slightly more expensive as users need to pay for the boxes. Sort of a fine for not being environment friendly. Sometimes, we are more willing to pay for those boxes rather than to eat in the cafeteria because the environment is not clean, cutleries are not clean and pest running around. Anyway, we do not have much choices. Back to the topic, the box absorbs oil quickly, which made my brunch less oily. However, it cannot carry liquid too long. After a while, it'll start to degrade.

Whatever it is, the best is still BRING-UR-OWN-TUPPERWARE!

I LOVE EARTH!

Signing off. Bye

Sleeping facts

This christmas holiday, Rachel spent most of them sleeping. zZZ I never know there're so much about sleep. So, here's something interesting about SLEEP.

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Now I know my sleep better. zzzZ