2nd novel of the year...

.:The Cover:.

During my trip to Bario on 29 March 2011, I noticed 2 people were reading the same novel called The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest. The two people that were reading the novel were a Kelabit lady and another Swedish lady if not mistaken. 

Well, since according to available statistics, the population in Bario is of almost 1,000 people and 2 of them were reading the novel, it must be something good. It interest me to find out more about the book and why is it so special. I found the novel when I was going to Bali in LCCT (which was a continuos schedule after the highland trip) and bought it straight away even before I googled it.

I read random novels which are on recommended shelfs in bookstore or brought back by my siblings including Harry Potter and by writers I know such as John Grisham, Dean Koontz and Danielle Steel. I don't really have a single friend who read like crazy that will actually introduce good novels to me or even passionately conversing about books or writers. ZERO to be exact. I pickup reading when my sister's friend left a box of novels at our home when he left to his hometown. Even until now, I've not read more than 30 novels but am trying to add in the reading habit into my lifestyle instead of sitting in front of the computer and by the time in bed, i only managed to read 1 or 2 lines before I fall asleep...

Oh well, after some online research, I found out that The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest is actually the third book by Stieg Larsson and published posthumously after his death by heart-attack in 2004. This book is also preceded by The Girl Who Played With Fire. 

In Sweden, they even made movies out of his book and the poster of the latest one is shown below.

.:The Movie Poster:.

More info of this book in WIkipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_Who_Kicked_the_Hornets%27_Nest

Oh well, since I've bought the third book, I'll start backward instead!

My bathroom welcome you!

This is a backdated post as I was procrastinating when it came to showing off what have visited my bathroom through the seawage tank... Apparently, no one dares to use the toilet to 'bank-in' anymore. 

It all happened when I was on travelling to KL and my aunt found it strange that the bathroom was messy and some black marks everywhere (She thought it was a GHOST)... When I got back, I heard sound from the bathroom and asked my aunt to accompany me to check it out.. We had a shock of our lifes by mistakenly thought it was a snake since she only saw it's head poped out from the toilet bowl and screamed! I also screamed without seeing anything and both of us shut the bathroom door and ran for our lifes... Called 991 for help but they said they can't do anything if the reptile was not visible... =__________________=

With my somewhat briliant mind, I managed to trap it and let it out to the back of house the with  The Papa's manly act. 

The culprit was actually a MONITOR LIZARD that loves to play in my bathroom... 

The photos are as shown below

.:It can't go back into the toilet bowl so it tried to climb the wall:.

.:Trapped it and dragged the bucket out:.

Just yesterday, mom said she saw 'MY FRIEND' in the bush inside my neighbour's compound that resembles jungle...

Journey to the Heart of Borneo

For the past few weeks, my schedule had been packed with adventurous trips especially the journey to Long Bawan with my colleagues and the community leaders from the Heart of Borneo. I learnt alot from everybody and was really fortunate to be experiencing the whole journey.

.:The road from Lawas to Ba Kelalan was tough and it took us 12 hours:.

.:Followed by a 2.5 hours walk to Indonesia:.

.:I love the feel of this photo:.

.:Learnt that bicycle pump can do magic:.

.:Ate paddy husk mushroom which was totally rare:.

.:Visited Ba kelalan's apple farm:.

After the week long trip to the highland, I had a break in Bali and it was really helpful.. 

I actually felt like going home again since it was my 4th time in Bali...

.:at Batur Sari Cafe overseeing Mount Batur:.

.:Funny chicks in Legian Street:.

.:At the rice terrace:.

I am starting to feel the rhythm and the passion to be more involved in what I am doing. It's a motivation by nature I must say and it sent good vibes around and within me.