While standing on top of a hill, while I can see the view of the town or the village or anything at the lower ground, I can’t stop taking photos.

The houses that are very far away become very small compared to nearer objects.

I needed to zoom in my camera in order to see the buildings from far far away, but they still look small and a bit blur because of the haze in the air. The atmosphere become the semi-transparent cloth that make the far object become blur.

The tallest building in this picture is called Saberkas.

This condominium is located about 10km away, can you believe it? I bet it’s true. Why? The answer is called perspective.

This is the road to go up Bukit Siol. I need to use lower gear and press the accelerator very hard in order to move my car to climb up this hill.

Many years ago, I came here with a friend. When I drove down this hill, I switched off my car engine, I found that my car brake was not functioning. My car went down quite fast and before it loss control I quickly shifted into lower gear and pull the handbrake, luckily it stopped. I have learned a lesson from this experiment. I think my friend was frightened.

This story tell us that we should not switch off the car engine even though we are going down hill, because the car brake will not work if the engine is off. You need to believe me for your safety.

The view from a higher place, such as a hill, a mountain or from a talk building can be an eye opener to us. It can open up our feeling, our heart and our mindset as well. Although this hill is not really high, but at least it is higher than other places surrounding it.

Not only every hill is unique, even on the same hill, every angle from different point of view is also unique.

Zoomed in again and I have found broccolis in this picture, can you find them?

SiewPeng and I have just visited a tall building in Kuching, and I have taken hundreds of photo from there. I need to select the best photos from hundreds of them before I post it here, otherwise most of them look similar and you will feel boring. However, every photos, every angle, every composition of photo are all unique.

I took this photo before walking down the staircase to the mini park.

When we were exploring the park, I cannot stop myself from taking photos at all the angles. Can you see the white colour bridge in the picture above? It is actually the road for cars or other vehicles to reach the DBKU building.

I shifted my camera horizontally to the right, this is how the scenery look like. The road is steep and I needed to press on my car brake on our way down the hill. There are a few parking lots on the half hill, but I don’t think anyone would park their cars there.

Then we walked down the staircase.

I still remember the last time I saw a human-made waterfall behind this hut. But this time it was not operating. May be they turn it off during the weekdays because of not many visitors. It was true, we were the only two visitors in the park (not the cat musuem). I have another guess, may be the waterfall had broken down? :p

We walked around and I kept taking photos.

There is a pond in the park. As you can see the water is very shallow, less than 1 foot. And there was reflection of the cloud in the pond.

Stones are used as border for grass and walking path and it was aligned in a zig-zag line. When I looked carefully from this picture, it seems like there is a missing coconut tree. But when we were there, I don’t have this feeling at all. Hmm… It is proven that when we were in a situation, we may not be able to see things clearly until we move one step back or left the place.

Red palm tree besides the pond.

Stones insides the pond.

Quite a distance away, I found another staircase and a drain.

Is the flower used as a lamp? look carefullybefore I tell you the answer.

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The left side of the lamp is actually behind the flower. I took this picture from the angle where I used the flower to hide the lamp. :p If you did not look carefully, you may thought that why one side is a lamp but the other side is a flower. You may also wonder how the flower emits the light since there is no bulb in the flower.

Another picture of stones.

When I look at this picture, I recall my brother used the picture of stones which I have taken in Janapese Garden as menu pages and cover for my Australia photo CD slides show. My brother know how to create slides show from photos which can be played on DVD player. He can also add music to it. But this picture… …

Ha… I am not satisfied with the angle I took the photo of stones, but I could not take too many pictures of the stones that day because I forgot to clear the camera’s memory card, and there was only left about 20+ or 30+ picture spaces in the  memory card which we need to reserve to take photos in the cat musuem after we have visited the park.

The water in the pond look dirty. :p I only want the tiny stones on the walking path and big stones in the pond, but it is not easy to crop the picture unless I jump into the pond to take the photo.

While we were in the cat musuem, we were interviewed by a student who was doing her survey asking us about what can be improved about the cat musuem. We told her that there is a parking problem for visitors. Visitors are only allowed to park their cars outside the building but not allow to take the staffs parking slots underneath the building, but when we passed by the parking space for staffs, we saw that there were many empty space there. We hope that they will allow visitors to park their cars underneath the building, so that next time, I don’t have to park my car so far away and have to walk under the sun and rain in order to enter the cat musuem.

We forgot to suggest her that DBKU should plant some lotus in the pond so that the mini park can look nicer. :p

SiewPeng wrote the first two parts for the cat musuem, now is my turn to write the rest of them because these are the photos that I have taken while we were exploring every part around the musuem.

There is a mini park in front of the DBKU building, with small huts, man made stream, stones, grass, decorating lamp, trees and a walking path. We went in the morning, and we actually walked around the building first before we enter the cat musuem, because the heat of the sun is getting stronger. If we were to enter the cat musuem first and then explore the park later, it would be around noon time, and that would be very hot.

Does it look like an UFO? Let’s have a closer look.

Once again I zoomed to the max to take the picture of its UFO roof. I found something… …

A man was cleaning the building’s windows glasses. He was hanging a staircase with ropes. Are you dare to do that? Hmm… For me I need a safety helmet and safety belt with me while I stand on a high place without things to support. I am not scare to stand there, I wish I have a chance to climb up there (with safety precaution) and with my camera, then I can take as many photo as I like. It’s enjoyable to stand at a very high place and view the scenery.

After we have parked our car, we walked around the building and took the photos from different angle. There is a staircase to allow the staffs to reach their office directly from outside to the middle part of the UFO.

I think I should called it a decorated drain. There are stones and woods in the drain as decoration, and the Japanese garden lamp beside the drain. It surrounds the DBKU UFO building.

I have taken the photo of our shadows again. SiewPeng and me stood beside the drain.

Later we walked down the staircase to the a mini park at half hill, not really far but just a few steps down the staircase. As we walked around I found that I can used a stone as my tripod, I have taken this picture with the DBKU building, SiewPeng and me inside the photo. I did not bring my tripod (again, bulkiness of the tripod was my excuse), nobody was around except few gardeners were working quite a distance away, luckily I have the stone to be used as my tripod. Haha… I am good in looking for things that can be ‘made’ into a tripod. :p The cat lovers couple statue in Part 1 with SiewPeng and me in the photo is another example.

Well, do you think that the above are all the pictures I have taken at the mini park? The answer is no. :p Stay tuned for part 4 and I will show you more pictures of the mini park.