Kuching:Day 4

Day4(17-4-2004,Saturday)

today....was our off day! Gerald and family and Ben weren't free to take us around coz they had some stuff to attend to. so we practically had the whole day to do whatever we wanted. so we took the liberty of waking up at 10am. nice sleep! so up we got......and decided to take a stroll around town...just to take in the sights...

imagine this, each of us dressed up as slack as we could....slippers, shorts...something chill...really selamba...coz we knew all that walking would make us hot......and we started walking.....and picture this....most of us had the map of Kuching in hand....so we looked like a bunch of tourist....keke! serious!

we took a stroll to town....and instead of looking for breakfast first, we were caught up with the souvenier shops along the way. we spent bout an hour in all those street-side shops shopping for all kinds of souveniers...bags, t-shirts, pens...and the whatnots!.... ok...during this time, boss was eating an ice-cream....after all that, we decided to look for Parkson...after being so out of touch with the city life, we wanted something we could relate to...so Parkson was the closest to that ideal. after some scouting, we found the place......had breakfast somewhere, Sugar Bun. i think it's the KFC of Kuching! Sugar Bun is like a fast food restaurant but they serve Nasi Lemak and Nasi Ayam and those kinda rice stuff.....you see more of Sugar Bun than KFC or Mc D. breakfast was okla....expansive though....then off we went to Giant Supermarket....to shop for other essentials, and this was where boss had another ice-cream...nut case! i had one too coz it was cheap:P

we decided to visit the Satok Sunday Market.....a weekend market in Satok, jsut a few blocks from where we were. it's like a Pasar Malam...but full scale, and it lasted one whole day...like 24 hours ++. the tramp that was gonna take us would be arriving around 1pm. so since we had soem time to kill....we took a walk along the Waterfront....the view during the day was different than when it was night....then we visited the Chinese History Museum....nothing much...jsut some history, of how the chinese came about:P boring.....*yawnz* after that, we decided to chill out at Coffee Bean! Kuching's first Coffee Bean Outlet............so here we are in the heart of town sipping coffee away, till time came for us to board the tramp..... in order to sit on the tramp, we had to get special tourist stickers...then only were we permitted to ride. most of the hotels provided those stickers....if u were guest. however, boss went over to Hilton Hotel and ask the receptionist for those stickers....and i think they freely gave thinking we were guest at their hotel. anyways, it was good enough to get us to where we wanted.

the tramp followed a predestined path....so in a few minutes, we were alongside the Satok Sunday Market. it was a huge area of stalls and mini shops. it was a sight to behold.....like a super huge 'pasar malam', only it was during the day.....like 50 times the size of the Bukit Beruang 'pasar malam'...maybe 50 is too big la.....23,30 maybe? there was stuff ranging from clothes to souveniers to food, fruits, vegetables to meat and fish, to hardware and textile...everything la........all buzzing with people! we got our hands on as many souveniers as we could.....just grab grab grab.....bargain bargain bargain......the usual....i didn't buy that many stuf....i was more of exploring the shops and see what's on sale.....saw those creepy crawly Sago Tree Worms....the ones u can fry and pluck out their heads and munch on them;) they were still alive and oozing around in the basket......looked pretty tasty....too bad i couldn't try any:( before leaving the place, i caught sight of some really huge watermelons,mien...the big mamas of watermelons......long and huge!

we saw the tramp and quickly hopped on.....we had to follow the time of the tramp...otherwise we had to walk all the way back. so we did our shopping all in a rush.pretty relaxed ride back,just talking about the stuff we all bought. then as usual, same thing, headed for home....and rested. however this time round, all the guys wanted to visit the cybercafe nearby in Kuching Plaza. the girls wanted to sleep, so let them la:p
at the cybercafe, we were told we had half an hour left to go online....the shop would close at 6.30! mien! how lame was that! anyways we made the best we could....that's when i dropped a lil note in my blog. so, after closing time...went to find the girls for dinner.

this time round, we were on our own again. so liek a bunch of tourist we were walking with maps and all that looking for a decent makan shop. came across one opposite the cineplex. so after dinner, we decided to catch a movie....i guess we still missed out city lifestyle. the cineplex is in this building....the lower ground is a food court...the ground is a disco....the floor 1-8 are car parks, and floor 9 is the cineplex. it looked pretty canggih....GSC...i think...not too sure.....they had alot of funky movie posters all over the place. the movie we decided to watch was 50 first dates! a nice romantic comedy....a bit unrealistic though....but it was a nice watch anyways. dun wanna burst the bubbles of those pitiful ppl who haven't watched it yet, but here is what i thought about the movie: if only we could wake up every morning and fall in love with Jesus all over again! the only setback to the movie was the pathetic sub-woofers they were using.....imagine taking a pen and driving it through the sub-woofer of ur altec lansing, and then blasting the volume up! that's our sound ordeal we had to go through for the whole movie:(

after the show, we still had the knack to supper....so we went to a corner store and tasted the chunnest beef noodles in Kuching! unfortunately only 2 bowls were available....so much for wanting to taste good stuff.

after all that....balik tidur la.....................without first having a group trip to the toilet;).........zzzzzzz