Jalan Gaya Sunday Market

These exquisite bowls made of coconut shells has a strong cinnamon smell. The pattern you see are embedded cinnamon chips.

Giant figs (can anyone help me find out what they really are?)

These sweet seedless lemons are a hybrid between lemon and bergamot

I love the mellow taste of rose apples

Orchids were sold like this

The Sunday Market was a blast. There was a lot of fruits, flowers, leaves, barks, roots, twigs from plants I do not know. The diversity of the bounties of the tropics was simply amazing...

Kaamatan

Gate of KDCA was guarded by Uncle KFC

Bamboo orchestra

Tug-of-war

I arrived in K.K. in time to run into the last two days of the month-long Tadau Kaamatan celebrations, which took place at the Kadazandusun Cultural Association (KDCA) complex. There were displays of traditional arts and crafts, local produce and specialties, music and dance shows of the ethnic groups and traditional sports competitions.

The festivities were interesting and the eye candies amongst the sportsmen were invigorating, however, the unrelenting sun and tropical heat made me feel languid. So I returned early in the afternoon not long after the bamboo orchestra kicked off...

To the officer who turned down my visa application

I sent this message to the US consulate in Chengdu.

To the officer who turned down my visa application:

It is absurd to make assumptions on the basis of the answers to a few ill-intended questions and judge every applicant with the same well-trained rigid mentality.

If having a "normal" job and a house are prerequisites for obtaining a visa to visit the US, that should have been explicitly stated in your visa application guide, in order to rule out possible accusation of scam.

Freedom of travel is a basic human right. Nothing will prevent me from proceeding to embark on my voyage.


P.S. Perhaps some people with a "normal" job and a house but is confined to a chair behind a tiny window having to repeat mechanical inquiries day after day (I believe some people do have fun doing that.) is just jealous of someone without a "normal" job and a house but still being able to freely trot the globe and sail to exotic islands...