Graceful

A Dusun Tindal Dancer in traditional costume performing at the Kaamatan (Harvest Festival in Sabah) open house on 7th June 2009 at Padang Merdeka, Kota Kinabalu. (pix by Gordon)

Sweet Thoughts

Walking along the Gaya Sunday Market this morning, I spotted a group of young children queuing up for the candy!

I remember my daughter Rachel who loved to have this huge candy, many times bigger than her little face. Now, she should have outgrown that!

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Coffee High

Coffee does give a kick. Coffee does give a high!

I was searching all over the place for Nescafe last night in a supermarket. Finally, I asked for "direction".

I was given a "high". See how high are Nescafe being placed in this supermarket? With my 170cm, I could only reach the lower shelf of Nescafe packed in packets. The cashier (she was doing the job because the shelf is hung right above her cash counter) had to stand on a stool to bring down the Nescafe I wanted.

Shoplifters here need a coffee kick and high, I reason!

The Window

Watching out from my window, I have this scene!

Love this quote -

Better keep yourself clean and bright.
You are the window through which you must see the world.”

George Bernard Shaw

Is my window clean and bright?

Miracles

“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle.
But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air,
but to walk on earth.
Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize:
a blue sky,
white clouds,
green leaves,
the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes.
All is a miracle.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Fruity Experience it was

Strolling along Kota Kinabalu's Gaya Street Sunday Market, I was drawn to this stall. The man, Hii Chang Ling, framed the newspaper reports featuring his "fruity experience". It must be his pride and joy. When I told him I am with the newspaper that reported him, he insisted to give me three seedless lemons cultivated by him!

The Scarecrow

Pix taken during the KK Gaya Sunday Market walk

“We must not make a scarecrow of the law,
Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
And let it keep one shape till custom make it
Their perch, and not their terror.”
William Shakespeare

Spare the rod?

Spare the rod and spoil the child.
So, I am choosing one, that hits hard yet not painful!
Do you keep one to discipline your children?

Spotted this at Gaya Sunday Market this morning.
Strangely, the patrons are all women!

Hospital Stories

This is Wisma Khidmat which will be turned into a private hospital. Sabah Credit Corporation, a State Government agency which owns the building is entrusted to turn the building into a private hospital.

Cost? RM100 million.

Why? Chief Minister said the hospital would provide an alternative to the people of Sabah who preferred to seek medical care at private hospitals.

Earlier, Sabah Medical Centre was bought over by the Federal Government and turned into a government hospital at RM245 million.

I like the set-up of this picture. It tells stories -
From a vacant building into a private hospital.
From a private hospital into a government hospital.
But the tree stand tall!

(Thanks to Aniq for the photograph)

Homeless

In Labuan

270 houses

3000 people homeless

Keys

Keys, keys, keys to my new place of stay.

Keys to open new doors for improvements!

Keys to learning of new things....

Filling the shoes

I love this quote by Henry Courtney:

The bigger a man's head gets,
the easier it is to fill his shoes.

What size are you wearing?
Does the size change everyday?

The answer is blowing in the wind

There! Is Rev David also a food blogger?

One for remembrance

What's so interesting that Rev David MacDonald would like to take a snap?
(check out tomorrow here in this blog)

R & R

Take time to Rest and Relax
Just because you are not on the road
doesn't mean you've gotten lost!

Be inspired!

Calm on the surface,
paddling like the dickens underneath!

Journey's End

It is good to have an end to journey toward;
but it is the journey that matters, in the end ~

Emptiness

Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
- Kahlil Gibran

Believe

Shake hard enough and something might just fall out!
Just believe!

Helping hand

A little help from my brother.