Looks familiar? After the vegetarian fried pasta, here comes the vegetarian fried rice with…chips and half of a ‘panggang’, one of the local food here. It was meant to be our breakfast but we kept it till lunch and so here it is. Well, I was the cook for the ahem…fried rice though And the chips too.

The recipe this time is not much different from the pasta’s but I’ve added a special type of mushroom bought in the supermarket. It smells great when fried. The mushrooms come in a properly sealed bag with air extracted from the bag in order to preserve their freshness.

What I did was fried some mix vegetables, pieces of corn shoots and mushroom pieces together. Add some salt, pepper and soy sauce. After that, I fried the rice together with these and it’s done.

I think fried noodles and rices have a lot of room for different flavours. As long as it suits your taste buds, you can have a variety of them such as adding chilli powder to make it a bit hot, add Tom Yam to make it a bit spicy and sour or barbeque sauce and so on. But no meat (including seafood) for vegetarians of course.

I am not a very good cook but the colours look attractive, the smell is great (thanks to the mushroom)…should be mouth-watering Ermm…we’ll talk about the taste some other time.

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