Mervyn Hoe: My Daily Happenings

Hi everyone! I'm back and I'm really very glad to be back in Singapore! Miss the drinking water here and the hygiene and also my lovely home. During the trip, no one fed our dear goldfish and thank god that everything's fine!! Ha. We fed the goldfish the moment we came back. Well, I find that Sabah is a good get-away from Singapore life because it gives us a chance to live back to 70s of Singapore and also the nature walks!! Love them. Highlights 1. We went to the start point of Kota Kinabalu climb and it's so amazing because there is a climber who took 2hrs33min to climb to and fro of this 20th World's tallest mountain!! Can you believe it? Amazing because normally people take 2 days 1 night to climb it. Probably one day we will conquer it. But have to do ample physical training prior to that, of course!! 2. The hotel Stayed at Hotel Eden 54 and it's a homely hotel and the best thing there is free wireless for you to use! Ha. And the hotel staff are friendly an...

Hi! Today is the second day at Sabah and it's really a very fun and relaxing trip to go to!! In the day, we decided to go to handicraft centre and it is walkable distance from our hotel and when we reached there, someone approached us for a boat ride for 30 mins around the island opposite Sabah for 55 Rm. It's a good deal and we took it. We saw the zinc attap houses and apparently they are all Filipinos who are actually illegal immigrants living at the South China Sea. Really amazed to see the architecture there because they are able to build mosque there too! And the children there portray childlike and free to roam attitude! Amazing!! Then we went for a boat ride to see Promiscus monkey, a species of monkey only found in Sabah. They are amazing breed of animals because they eat poisonous leaves and having two stomachs, they are able to sieve out the poison from the food!! And we spotted so many of them. Sadly they are currently endangered. With over 20000 of them in 1980s, no...