Kuching Day 2 - 30.04.06

I had a bad sleep.
I couldn't sleep. The freaking fridge would suddenly make loud thumping noise in the middle of the night. By the time I could sleep, the fridge made that stupid noise again. It was so loud and sudden that it jolted me out of my sleep.
Kaoz!
Aunt could still sleep soundly...
I heard footsteps and someone trying to lift the door handle then left.
Went to the door area, make sure door latch was closed then I went back to sleep.

Woke up early, had breakfast at the hotel. Looking even more like a panda cause of the lack of sleep from 2 nights.
Anyway, their waffles are nice!! Especially when the holes are filled up with maple syrup.

Anyway, we set off for the first stop, Sarawak Cultural Village. Its not the real villages but tourist attraction where they constructed the various kinds of houses so that you see all kinds instead of just going to one. We got to see their traditional way of life, how they work, play and enjoy. Really simple lifestyle.

Off to the Cat Museum after that. Everything there was about cats. The different kinds, various cartoon characters and all that. Pretty interesting. There was a sign that said cameras allowed in but for a fee. Normal one would cost Rm3, Digital ones cost Rm4. Well, no one checked me, no one stopped me. So I brought in my camera and took shots for free. Wouldn't be so stupid to go to the counter there and say hi, I'm bringing my Digital camera in so here's 4 ringgit. But I did get weird stares from other people abided by the rules, deposited their bag and camera at the counter. BUT, I Don't care lalalaaa...

Next up, lunch at some small town area. I had kueh chap which is good. Soup was nice and tasty, not like stalls in SG which is rather diluted.

Then to the caves. Thank goodness I did my research on Kuching first, so I brought my sport shoes. I don't usually bring sport shoes on trips cause they're bulky. There were lots of steps to climb. Small, steep and slippery ones. Even if there was the railing to hold on, its covered in shit stains from bats and birds. Splats of it all over. So its like either you risk slipping and tumbling down or you grab shit-lined railings. I of course, chose the latter. But I use a few fingers, grab the clean spots and hope I won't fall. Climbing conditions were worst than the caves I've been to in Australia. Aussie ones I went to were cool, clean though wet but not muddy. This one was humid, shitty, wet and muddy. Get used to that and the view is simply spectacular!



4th and last stop of the chartered van to send us was the souvenir shop which sells birds' nest and other stuff. I bought a pack of pepper jelly. Never tried before. Its jelly sweet texture with pepper taste. Hot stuff, but good stuff.

Dinner was good. Especially for the fact that we ate cereal lobster, pepper crab, fish maw soup, bamboo shoots, 2 kinds of local vege. 2 were seafood and cost us only bout Sg$12 each!!!!
$12 leh... So many item somemore.
But the cereal lobster was totally different from Sg's version. Their cereal was like only a bit scattered around, but they were covered in bits of milk powder fried in butter to form clumpy stuff. More towards the soggy side.

Walked the night market only to find 1 in every 4 stalls selling pearls. Then there was another common sight, Gambir (not sure if I spelt it correctly) but they were only sold by men. It makes me wonder what it is. Walking past it, I tried to figure out what it is, but I don't know.