Ah-Yen: March 2008

Mount Kinabalu : Join ?

We are organizing a trip to Mount Kinabalu, anyone interest to join us?

Myy - KK : 30.9.08 ( Tuesday ) - 2.45pm

KK - Myy : 3.10.08 ( Friday ) - 6.55am

Air Asia tickets only RM 108.98 now open for booking. Tour package estimate between 500-800, depends package, to be further discuss.

Currently i have 3 persons confirm going, if you wish to go, please join us. Group travel will be more fun !

Let's do it~ at the height of 4095m, shake our body and sing loudly...haha

The sunrise is more beautiful than Alishan, the mount is higher, the scenery shall be better oh~

Amazing~ Have you see this in your life? The beauty of the nature...

Mount Kinabalu is split down the middle by a 1 1/2 kilometer deep gorge. The result is a "U" shape, with the two sides Kinabalu East and Kinabalu West, stretching over a kilometer apart. This led people to assume that the mountain was an old volcano. However, recent evidence proves differently. It reveals Mount Kinabalu as the youngest granite pluton in the world.

Magnificent view on the summit plateau of Kinabalu. Notice the rope?

In order to understand the geology of this mountain, we must go back 35 million years when Borneo was submerged beneath the sea. Marine sediments began accumulating where Mount Kinabalu now stands. Powerful forces of pressure and temperature transformed the ocean mud into layers of rocky sandstone and shale. These were uplifted to form a range of mountains, now the Crocker Range which runs through East Malaysia.
In the Pliocene period, about 15 million years ago, a huge ball of molten rock was forced beneath the Crocker Range. As this rock hardened it formed a granite mound, called a pluton, deep beneath the earth's crust. Only a million years ago this pluton was forced upward through the Crocker Range.

Donkey's Ear (left) and St. John's (right) peak, two out of seven major peaks of Kinabalu.

Jagged peaks of Kinabalu.

Flaking rocks on the summit.

The process continues and Mount Kinabalu, presently 4095 meters (13,435 feet), is still growing half a centimeter (1/4 inch) every year. The sandstone and shale which once covered the granite have eroded away to reveal the underlying rock.
As you climb the mountain you can see that the geological story does not end here. During the Pleistocene glaciers covered the summit, altering the topography still more. Glaciation ended only a few thousand years ago and left its mark on the mountain. At 3,300 meters (10,800 feet), particularly behind Paka Cave, you can see where the tip of glacier pushed many different sized rocks before it, forming a moraine. The jagged peaks of the summit remained above the glacier but ice sheets smoothed over the remainder of this area.

Since then, the effects of chemical weathering, heating, and cooling have also transformed the mountain's surface. The outer shell of granite has split along weak points formed when molten granite solidified next to the old layered rock. Water freezing and melting in the rock cracks has helped to break the outer face down even more. The tiled appearence of the summit results from thin layers of rock flaking off.

The varied forces at work on the mountain have left a summit of bare rock eroded into fantastic chasms and pinnacles. The stark beauty and strength of the peak emanate from the force of its creation.

March 30, 2008 in Announcement | Permalink | Comments (0)

Accident

I broke my spec yesterday, how was it happened?

I played badminton yesterday, mingkang hit the ball to hard, and it "chun chun" hit my spec...and i can't play anymore without my spec. A small scarl below my left eye. After rest for 1 game, i intended to keep playing even without my spec. Suprisingly the result is better than while i playing with my spec. Maybe i should not wear spec next time..haha..

March 27, 2008 in Experience | Permalink | Comments (0)

Taiwan Trip - Day 0 - Day 3( still updating )

I'm back from taiwan trip.

My friends were asking , how was your trip, i answered is good.

My bos also asking, how was your trip, i answered is fun. and he said : "I'm glad that you are back.."

Seems during my absence, a lot of things happened, well, i dont wish to know...haha..

So how was my trip ? we took too many photos and most of it still with Mary. So unable to upload first.

We departed from Miri Airport to JB on 5.3.08, I met up Mary at JB airport because only two of us taking the "Private car" to SG. Ah Ling & Ryan stayed at her cousin's place, desmond, rachel, ivy will going to sg by themselves. Mary was one hour later than our flight, so me and Mr & Mrs Chua having our light dinner at MarryBrown.

We spent about one hour to arrived SG, overnight at Mary's brother house. Fong, Lauwai, Siang & Soothing already arrived before we did. Only me and mary not having dinner by that time. So Mary called up KingKee for a meet. lastly, Kingkee delivery tasty hooker food to our place, we had it together. Meeting up with KingKee details & Photo

The next morning, we took 2 cab for 6 persons to airport. spent us about SG4 per person.

Finally, all 14 group members meet up. Introducing each other. Hi there and hi here. From left. Desmond, Ah Siang, Fong, Lauwai, Jasmine, Rachel, Lynn, Yen, Mary, Soothing, Elsie, Ryan, Ivy and LeeLing.

I bought simcard once i arrived taiwan, it's only NT300, value also 300. I dont on my digi at all, so dont try to call me...haha..

This is the group that joined tour, inclusive me. We are waiting for the tour agent to send us to hotel in taipei. Taken this photo at Taoyuan Airport. From left: Desmond, Rachel, Ivy, Lynn, Mary & Elsie. Photograher: Ayen.

The tour agent representative brought us to a fruit stall, introduce some special fruits to us, for eg: Big but green tomato, small but red tomato, white color apple ( milky ), big red apple, etc.

Me, Lynn and Mary shared one big white apple. But it lost after few days. It was accident, not desmond's fault as he said. I knew it cost one person RM7!!!

Besides the fruit stall, tour guide uncle also brought us to buy " 大肠包小肠 ”at the roadside.

The car stopped in front of Family Mart, some sort like 7-11. Elsie bought the little black egg. We tasted it, quite nice.

Then we rushed to our hotel, check-in. Our hotel - Kilin hotel, taipei is an old, small, not famous hotel in taipei. Most of taiwanese dont know the place until they found me there. Well, 3 star hotel ? i give 2 star only. Nearby the MRT station ? yes, the exists was always clear, and need to walk about 10 minutes to reach our hotel. The best thing is , 7-11 just next to the hotel.

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Shihlin Night Market: Great place of local handicrafts, clothes, toys, tasty local snacks and souvenirs

MRT to JINTAN station, luckily we have mr Raymond ( ivy's friend ) lead us to Shilin night market, we accidently meet up Lynn's group at the station. See the motorcycle are so beautiful. Their helment also very special, anyhow i dont really see special helment on the road, is it approval to be use on road?

What happened? Poor Desmond...Lynn and Mary tried to kill him using the gun shaped cake...haha...humor huh ?

Each of us bought a mask, how was it? dont it looks cool ?? We noticed only us wearing the mask on the road, why? because only motorcyclist will wear, not the walkers...hahaa..

Shilin is very big, we only able to eat, drink and buy...haha...but time is too little, we shopping till 11pm, most of the stall are closing, so we met up ivy them again to go home. We dont even know we are in hurry because raymond dint tell us 11.40pm is the last train...OMG!!

Haha...we met lynn's group again accidently...wow..amazing. Seems they bought a lots of things also huh...

Lauwai also bought a mask, in her favour pig look..haha..dont know she will use o not..haha.

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Day 2 - YehLiu /Jiufen / Hualian

Early in the morning we departed from hotel to our first destiny, YehLiu. YehLiu is a beach which formed by various shaped rocks. The guy in the photo is our tour guide.

Yehliu also a fishing village, there are various kind of fish product, some are special, such as wasabi taste, bbq taste, spicy etc. All of us bought some as souvenir, Desmond and I shared, bought for office staff. one little pack costs us about NT100, buy 5 free one, so spent about NT500 for 6 favour.

Yehliu: The natural rock formations of Yehliu.(wild willows) are an amazing array of artistic shapes created by erosion and other natural forces

Next, we went to JiuFen. JiuFen is an old street which the people there selling "oleh-oleh" and arts were also found there. Let's see...

This is the view while we having our "Ice-Kacang" type of food, called "YuYuan". JiuFen is a very beautiful place. There are a lot of "minshu", you can always stay there for few days, it's really relax and enjoy.

Jiufen: To see the old fashioned way of life that still exists. With the aura of an old mining that still apparent, Chiufen radiates a variety of emotions.

After JiuFen, we went to a temple called " MaZhu", "MaZhu" temple located at a port named " SuAo Port". The "Mazhu" made of jade or gold. The Scenary from the temple is very beautiful. We took some photos and went to the "WC"..

There is a stall selling "IceCream Kacang", and we tasted "Gas drink" which only can bought from Taiwan oh~ Very special. "Guli Soda Gas Drink " only selling for NT20. Good try.

Taroko: The gorge was formed by rushing river waters which have cut straight through the marble and granite to create a beautiful, narrow ravine with waterfalls and patches of mist clinging to the mountains, surrounded by subtropical forests. There are several notable scenic spots in and near the gorge.

The journey continued, we went to Taroko Park. The scenery is very very nice but we only spent about half an hour there, took some photos, then rushed to " Ami Aborginal Cultural Village" for the dancing show. Our members also participated in the dancing oh...but....learn very slow lo..Desmond, you not suitable to dance...tat's the only word for you after the show...

Ami

Aboriginal

Cultural

Village
: A-Mei is an aboriginal tribe in Hualien. In this cultural center, you can see A-Mei people’s unique life style and enjoy delicious A-Mei cuisines.