~Another day in an insane mind~

As I’ve said in the previous post… back from KK. This trip was… rather exciting…. *grin* The day we drove over to KK started off as usual, rather a bit ahead of schedual, in fact. But just about 4 something 5 pm around 25km(?) from KK, the road was heavily flooded, as you can see from the photos…. What u see in the photo in which u might mistake as a river is actually the road towards KK, but was flooded around 1km from where we were. The cars had detoured towards the opposite road (were we were while I took this photo in the middle of another jam and pileup from accidents due to the terrible vision, flood and overall chaos) Saw lots of cars with dents and scrathes, some ‘died’ in the middle of the road because their engines were flooded by the water.It was quite unpassable by cars, even great big honking 4wheel drives like ours. A bit up front even this side was flooded, so all of us had to make a U turn, causing even more chaos and accidents. The police truck you see in the photo turned back as well, even THAT was no able to pass…. saw 1 car braving the water, and that was a safari 4 wheel drive, with the exhaust up on top of the front window, quite made for this kind of situations… so no worries for THEM… even though the water was up to the body of the car….. Apparently, that is a usual occurance when it rains heavily there….. It’s not just this spot, there were several other spots up front, as well as other places like Mengalung. The water wouldn’t reced for at least 3-4 hours, according to the locals. So we decided to try another road we’ve never been before (never in heard of before, but called around to ask for help from our relatives who happen to be in the road constructing field…) After much excitment and near accidents driving either up the road island or off it entirely and into a ditch (due to really really bad vision, darken sky, no street light, head on lights from other cars and still heavy rain) as well as a few dubious times of going off the wrong road and having to turn back and follow the crowd…. (no road signs, u see) We managed to get to familiar ground (Near Uni Malaysia Sabah) and thus semi safely (had to watch out for the half flooded roads still… even in town) ended up at my aunties house where we were to stay for the week. It was 9pm ++ when we arrived.

The days after that was relatively tame considering. Still rained pretty much everyday though.

Had a grand time there, specially since there are 2 fantastic dogs to play with…. Giant and Miko. I’m sure you can tell which is which from the photos~! *grin* Miko had the opportunity to go for a car ride to my cousin’s new apartment for a house warming party, I got to carry her there…. wriggly little thing~ *double grin* Licks your face whenever u get close enough to her tongue. Giant is very lick-a-ty as well…. He’s so big his licks wet your entire hand (and toes, which is in easy reach, as I tend to favour sandals….*sigh*) Giant is really playfull, possible THE most even tempered dog I have ever met!!!!! He’s only a pup still…. about 1 and a half years old (?) with the bushiest tail not on a squirrel…. *smirk* I like to play with THAT…. it’s like a waggly feather duster… Hehehehe….

Celebrated my birthday in KK as well. Had cake (very very nice cake~!! Thanks 5yee~!! ) Recieved some pressies as well… *grin* Hm… 24 year old now…

Oh well… 6 more years till I’m officially overaged for the working holiday program~! Hahahaha…..

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