October 10, 2008

Basketball.. Body ache... Autumn...

Hi, more update for today on Wednesday, 9th of October 2008. Remember to click on the picture to have a zoomed in picture!

Class as usual, started at 9.30 am. I am using tram bus, so I have to leave my hostel 1 hour before the class because the journey takes me 30 to 45 minutes.


Today’s morning was thickly covered by the ‘wu’.
My groupmates said according to their parents, if in the morning, ‘wu’ was very thick, then in the afternoon, the weather will be very warm and shinny. I never know about this before.
Mum, you know? Did you tell me before? Or I forgot about it? Or you forgot to tell me?? Hahaha…
Anyway, it was not too late to know about it now…..


On my way back to hostel… around 12 pm… shinny… so … the old people teaching about the ‘wu’ really happened….


The bread I bought from hyper supermarket! Haha… I heard teo said very nice… so I wanted to try it…
Very long bread… length, from my shoulder joint to my wrist…..









This is the advertisement board here… all the above is the same advertisement board. Notice how it shift from one advertisement to another advertisement….
Its like a row of woods, rotating together from time to time…haha…


Another specialty here… breads seller… selling small pizza, hotdog bread and etc with the metal container which can keep the breads warm…. We can always see this around the market, and also near hospitals….




Some part of the shops around the market… took all these pictures in the tram bus….


Shop selling hardware… such as screw drivers and screws, nails, toilet bowl, woods, and you can see, the grass cutting machine…. And also the doors advertised there…


Bicycles for sale…. New bicycles… so many… from small to big….


Tram bus was quite empty after passed by the central market…..


The nice scenery part along the way back to hostel…. All the orange and reddish leaves …..
Quite blur cause taken from tram bus…


Shop near the tram bus stop …. Guess what is it selling? What can you think of with the 2 words there?
Anyway, it is a shop selling hot fresh breads….. never enter before… maybe I will go in and have a look soon…

Took me around 45 minutes to reach my hostel… just when I wanted to start my lunch, Josephine asked me to go play basketball with her…it was 1.15pm..we planned to go out at 1.30pm…. So I quickly finished up my lunch, bread with a cup of milo… changed to sporting clothes… packed my bag and leave for the basketball court at the kursk gate (a place’s name). Why kursk gate? Hmm.. I think maybe it is an invisible gate entering the kursk … because it is the same road going to Moscow…..

We walk there, around 30 minutes walk if I am not wrong… or 45 minutes…
Some pictures taken along the walk path to the kursk gate….






You can see…it is autumn now…






Goats trying to cross the road… very smelly la… Josephine kept on warning me not to go near, scared they will attack with their ‘tanduk’ [arghh..my English vocab getting lesser! Tell what it called in English please!]


Here we were! The combination of football and basketball court, with 4 baskets… and also, 2 football gates… you can see it is fenced, public and it is FREE! Usually, Josephine goes to the university sports hall for basketball, and she has to share the cost of the renting with other players….


Who is that fellow jumping there? haha…ok.. is me….. trying to throw the ball into the basket!
The other red t-shirt girl is Joyce, Josephine’s groupmate…



The 3 guys on the left are also Josephine’s groupmates… the basketball court were dominated by her groupmates at that time… nobody else but her groupmates plus me…




You can see outside the court, there were lots of parents with their children sitting on the chair enjoying the shinny and breezy evening…. There is also small playground outside the court…

There are 4 baskets in the court… and 3 basketballs… one ball is spoilt so only 2 balls are usable.
Josephine and her groupmates started their match… and me, not wanting to join them, practice my basic basket aiming ball at the other baskets… good thing the court has 4 baskets.. you can use any of them..hahaha…

A little while, there were many children showing up in the court… not many also, only 4 or 5… haha..
They were playing football….


Me with the 2 russian children…. Hehehe…


Small playground outside the court, there is another sliding one … forgot to take the picture of the sliding one..

Around 4.30pm, we finally wanted to go back to hostel.. cant believe we came out since 1.30 till 4.30! the good thing here is you can come out for sport early in the evening… and it is not hot!
But this good thing wont last long.. because, winter is coming~ when winter takes over, outdoor sport activities are limited… and so, we have to pay for the indoor sport hall if you want to have sports..

So, 4.30 pm, we planned to walk back, but before that, lets play with our camera outside the court cause it is nice to take the picture with the orange leaves all around….
First, let me show the pictures of my camera….
Please notice the blur pictures were taken by Josephine, and the clear one, of course taken by me…
Maybe because she shake too much..heheheh…


Me and Tze Yong (Josephine’s group leader, very friendly, responsible, mature)


Josephine and Tze Yong







This is a furniture shop along our way back to hostel…. We went in to have a look…




Weird design of sofas…


Took a picture in front of the mirror..


With roommate again…


Joyce (Josephine’s groupmate too), me and Tze yong… picture is very blur.. you know who took la..
Hahahaa… Never mind la… maybe my camera too light, so hard to control…
Lets see the picture I took for Josephine…


Clearer? Haha…


Agriculture university…


The memorial part in autumn…. Took my winter memorial part before… let me post about it next time..


Did you notice my out-flying hairs ? do you think it is a style or a messy hair or a bird nest??
I have to put moisturizer on my hair later on….lets see the changes…


Okay, now the hairs are nicely behaved. Hahhaa…
Which one is nicer? Before or after? Nowadays, I have to put moisturizer at least once a week, if not, the hairs won’t behave.

Okay, lets see the pictures in Tze Yong’s camera, to replace the blur pictures in my camera…


Me throwing the ball…. Hehe..so funny,,,




"We are not ready yet la!!"














Big face photos.. hahaha…






The way back to hostel…




Walking….. you can see lots of Russian behind us… they like to bring their small children out for a walk in the evening…




More ‘walking’ picture…


Me again… and my legs are so not straight…..


One part of the Agriculture university..you can see there is some nice pretty tree inside…gonna take a few picture inside there…. Now, we were too tired to go inside…


The walk path back to hostel… covered with the orange leaves….

Okay… that’s all for this post…
Have I feed you guys enough with all these photos?? Hahahha…
My whole body is aching now, even the chest muscles! because of the basketball!
But still a bit better than the mountain climbing in kuching…
More post coming up next…..