I have a nickname where my US roommate,Tim called me as Ms.Reserve.
The picture below is self-explained for my new nickname.
One thing that amazes me was the simple breakfast that was served.
2 slices of toasted bread and a cup of tea or coffee for breakfast.
They serve Sabah tea and the famous amos local Tenom coffee.I definitely would say that the coffee is such an addiction.
This is where my habit of having breakfast fonded.
The uniqueness of Borneo Backpackers is the location. It is situated on top of Borneo Cafe along Australia Street.
It is an antique-liked cafe and whenever I came down from the backpackers lodge, I smell coffee fragrance.
The ‘Ah Pek’ who makes coffee in the kitchen every morning.
My itinerary of the day was meet up with the juniors and lecturers from my uni.
Couz came to pick me up and brought me to reminiscence my uni life.
Was excited like a kid!
Had roti telur just outside of my uni for our brunch.
Mind you, the price is double of the price in West Malaysia.
This is because the ingredients ‘sail’ to Sabah. *lame*

I joined my juniors for a field trip to Sailor Cafe in Kota Kinabalu. This restaurant is founded by a former sailor who was motivated to own his restaurant.He gathered the recipes through his experiences sailing all over the world. I’ve been there but never knew the founder of the restaurant till the field trip.
My super happy-go-lucky and young in heart lecturer.
The friendly and kind lecturer who shares his opinion with his students. He loves ‘lepaking’ with us for yam-cha or supper session.

Next, the infamous hanging bear in Sailor Cafe.
I was searching for this bear once I stepped into the restaurant. It’s like a signature for the restaurant.
We explored the beach in our campus after returning from the field trip.
I’m always proud of my university as we can haz beach. No one else can have it except our uni!

Couzies!

Went to pick my sis up from her faculty and we went for a simple dinner. It was the 1st day I met her since my arrival in Sabah.

Pork-yyy dinner for us! My all time favorite Hongkie style restaurant in One Borneo. FML for not recalling the name of the restaurant.

Oh ya, I managed to meet up with my coursemate, Francis on my 1st night in KK. We grabbed a drink at Party Play @ Gaya Street.

I love how creative and westernised of the interior design in the restaurants in KK. The food and drinks are quite pricey if you’re to travel in a budgeted way.
A backpacker like me of course.
It was nothing much for the 2nd day.
Go with the flow baybeh!
Gonna blog about my adventurous journey in my next post!

I am blogging about my 1st backpacking experience!

Submitted my resignation letter.
Booked a flight spontaneously.
Decided to do it the backpacker way.

A familiar place to travel back in time. I made this decision to experience things that I have missed out in my 3 years of studies.
Kota Kinabalu, Sabah is the best destination as my first experience.
Couz picked me up from the airport and we went for Sang Yok Mee.No where except KK serves the best Sang yoke Mee.

It sounds weird but as a backpacker, must always know to cut down ‘expenses’ larh.
Moreover, couz was so desperate to see me. *thick face*

I did everything spontaneously, in a way, last minute.
My first time staying in a backpacker lodge and I was quite nervous before checking-in as I did not know how does it look like and who am I gonna sleep with for the 1st night.
I chose Borneo Backpacker Lodge for my stay during the trip.It is absolutely the best choice ever!
I have good instinct for making accomadation choice.
When I stepped into the dorm which can accomadate 10 people, no one was there.
So, I had no clue who would be speding the night with me.

FYI, while I was checking-in, I asked many question to Nani (the person-in-charge) regarding the people who have checked into the room.
Gender is the main question.
I had to wait till night and find out are my roomates!
The first day was something free and easy, alone.
Strolling around the town.
My main love to the sea.
Deep breathe, baby!

A must check out at the night market that sells seafood.
Dirt cheap that it can burn your pocket!

Philippines market has its uniqueness.
The men sew and alter clothes. It is something that impressed me and there’s no difference of the gender to use a sewing machine.




While walking along the night market, I reached a point where it led me to the wet market.At this moment, Hilda came into my mind.
She’s my coursemate and we spent uni as well as internship moments together.
We did not attend to the same company but we stayed under-one-roof. More accurate to be under-one-room.
We both have the aunty personality to spend some time at the wet market.
Whenever you are in any corner of Sabah, you can find friendly people.

The hospitality of the Sabahan cannot be compared to people in West Malaysia. It is totally undeniable.
The fishmongers are happy to pose for you even though you don’t buy even a fish head from them.
The friendliness and incalculativeness that cheer people up.


It was evening and the sun was going to set. I still have this habit since uni life of reminding myself to have my dinner before 5.30p.m. since am out and about all by myself.
I was afraid that the sky was getting darker.
Got myself to the night market and after surveying the stalls that sell seafood, I decided to choose a stall whereby there was only a customer there.
The reason is that I don’t need to wait for a long time for my food to be served and to stay away from the stuffiness that created by atmosphere as the hawkers were bbq-ing the seafood everywhere.
I chose a stick of mini squid and prawns.
Instead of having too much meat for dinner, I ordered a small chunk of raw seaweed.
OMG, my 1st time eating a raw seaweed!!!!
It is chewy and it took me sometime to chew just a small portion of it.
The locals always have its ‘secret’ recipe chilli gravy to match with any food. The chilli for the seaweed taste spicy and sour at the same time as it add with lime.
Ohai to my dinner! Looks yummy!
It was quite struggling to take a self-shot of the food and I. First world problem whenever am travelling alone.
The previous was my trip to Taiwan.
I was struggling to finish my food too although the portion looks small.
I could only finish the prawns and only 2 of the squids.Another first world problem!
Although I have spent my 3 years there but it was my first time to try out the barbequed seafood at the night market.
All the stalls would display their bbq-ed food to attract their customers.
The environment is a little bit uncomfortable but this is where you can search for the satisfaction as your experience to have a close-up feeling with the locals.
I was so impressed and glad that they purposely served me a glass of ward=m water which they don’t serve.
Done with dinner. The night has arrived.
I was having this anticipating feelings while walking back to the lodge and was thinking who were my roomates.

When I was back to my room, there were 2 guys, Tim from U.S. and another Japanese guy who is a timber researcher and he is fluent in Bahasa Malaysia.

Around 12midnight, there were 2 guys checked into the room.
I was like: “OMG! 4 guys and a girl in the room.”
My first time sleeping with 4 strangers and moreover they are guys!
I was kinda insecured but I was brave enough to get rid of it.

Next morning, I had a small chit-chat with the 2 guys from Hong Kong and they thought I’m from Cambodia as I was wearing a “I love Cambodia” T-shirt.
FML.
My Japanese roomate disappeared early in the morning and left for his research.

Nice people I met.

All I can see is colors in my Instagram. I have been taking colorful working outfit of mine since I have accepted this job.
Geezz, finally some colors for my working attire!

Neon fuschia is my preferred choice for a neon color outfit.
Printed pants goes well with a monotone top.
Nine-West green wedges is a steal!
Pantyhose is still a yay for me. No nay for pantyhose, sometimes!
My ‘duck-liked’ shoes from H&M is such a best buddy. Brought it along for my 1st backpacking trip.

Glitter in pink with my ballerina flats.
Retro silver legging toned down by the white knitted GIANT sweater.

No more depression for my working attire!!!!!!!

My blog was expired and I didn’t pay it on time, everything’s gone!
And i have moved it to a Malaysia hosting which took a thousand years to settle it down. ONLY 2 months larh!
The last blog post was my 1st post for my solo back-packing trip!
Totally FML max!
I forgot my old blog’s log in username and password as well after it was hacked.

Thinking on a positive side, I should blog more. Yes, blog more.
My 1st blog post for my new domain.

Still squeezing my brain’s juice for a new header.

Ok larh, I still can syiok-sendiri to nread my old blogs, or maybe you wana read it here www.styleclash.blogspot.com

That’s all for my 1st boring post.

Adios.