LE TOUR DE KUCHING

Last weekend i accompanied my wife to her hematology conference in kuching serawak. The conference was held at pullman hotel but both of us stayed in hilton hotel due to discounted room rate  avail for airlines staff..;). The room we stayed was directly facing the river waterfront and the sunset can be viewed almost daily from our room window. While my wife busy attending her conference at pullman hotel ( which is about 50meters away from hilton) i was on another hand busy with my camera roaming around kuching town for interesting subject to zapp. There are a couple of pictures for your viewing below. another nice thing is eating in kuching. There are many specialties such as famously known laksa serawak, mee kolok, botok, ambal, umbai, teh see special and seafood selection...overall it was a good experience for myself as first timer in kuching. will definately comeback for more outskirt adventure in future.

 About to land in kuching....

 sunset view at river waterfront

 gambir serawak anyone? most of the seller start telling this gambir is use for sakit gigi or kena sengat, bisa xtra...then after that they start describing about ubat tahan lama for man...hehehe...i got some brought home...of course for sakit gigi larrr..hehehe

 luxury river cruise that we had never tried due to my wife hectic schedule. it cost rm60 per person for  1 hour ride.

 astana view at night.

 river waterfornt view at night.

 this is called Botok..it is a grilled mixture of fish,prawn and coconut..almost similar to our otak2 but a bit salty to my taste.

 this is ambal if not mistaken....taste like siput...

 the famous sayur midin..this is goreng belacan style

 crab masak sambal telor...drooling!

 kerapu 4 rasa....masam, manis, masin and pedas....

 river water front close up view at nite from hotel room

 panaromic view at nite from my room 

 panaromic view daylite from my room

 no more swimming folks!

 reflection..infront of river waterfront

 the oldest temple in serawak...heritage spot #1 in their tourist travel guide/map

 budget cruise...rm19 per person for 1 hour river cruise.

 dewan undangan negeri serawak

 astana.. raja brooke heritage

 DUN, sampan and croc....river waterfront

 pengkalan penambang...sampan used to cross the other side of the river

 jalan india...similar to masjed india street in kl...

 museum of serawak

 china town kuching....

TOP SPOT- this is the place where we had our dinner

 cats monument

 more catsss....

 one of the best shot during sunset from my hotel room

 lobster cooked with black pepper...price rm70 per kilo..i wish i can get this price in kl

 more catsss

 historical monument

 kuching state mosque

 gambir serawak in kampung boyan....

 a view from fort margherita

 a view from the highest point on the building

 the fort margherita

 kek lapis serawak. forget about sugar level! i had tasted almost all the flavours...

 we bought 6 each kek lapis from this shop... we also had a tour at the back kitchen to see how this cake lapis was made. 

 souvenir shopping...shops along river waterfront...

NIKON GEARS FOR SALE

In my previous post i have mentioned that my desire to go for FX has stalled due to unavoidable circumstances which directly affecting my budget on new gears. The closest option for me to be able to get my dream FX is to "lelong" all my current gears to get the required funding for the new purchase. I have even went to Jayone at Armcorp mall to evaluate my gears and as expected the price offered from uncle Jason was not that attractive and did not convience me to trade in directly my stuff with his new item. So i have advertised my gears in photomalaysia and FTZ. Below are the pics of my Nikon gears for sale.

All items are well kept in dry box 

 original receipt proof of purchase still available

 the three musketeers

17-35 f2.8 NIKON LENSE FOR SALE

I have decided to part away with this nikor lense because it is under utilized. Furthermore this lense won't provide me its full capability on my D90 body. Bought it hastily previously thinking of upgrading to FX body soon. Unfortunately due to unavoidable personal circumstances recently had taken back my desire to upgrade to FX body at this moment. Following is the pic of my beloved 17-35 lense and sample pics taken using this legendary lense.

Lense pics taken using nikor 18-200 vr2.

Other pics taken using 17-35mm with ambient lighting.