When we boarded the aircraft, there was a little girl sat right in front of us played hide-and-seek with us.  It was fun.  She hided herself and showed her face, hided and showed, again and again, and she laugh, until her mother stopped her.

Later, she only showed her cute Tom and Jerry shoes to us.  She was sleeping.

I kept my camera on all the time except when the aircraft taking off and landing.  I wanted to take the photo of another airplane passed by, but it didn’t appear.  As I mentioned before, I have seen twice another airplane flied in the opposite direction and my camera was too slow for me to capture it.  This time I switched on the camera all the way.  Part of the journey, the airplane was in the cloud, so I saw nothing.  That’s the reason I missed.

But I have taken the picture of this lovely island.  I am not sure is there anybody stay on the island.  Again, it was taken using high power 10X zoom camera.  The beach and the waves around the island can be clearly seen.  [This photo is not cropped].

We will visit this place again soon.  It is KL LCCT (Low Cost Carrier Terminal).  It was different from the last time we came here in December 2007.  Within 3 months, benches has been added in front of the taxi stand.

Usually, there will only be foreigners who sit there under the hot sun.  It’s too hot for Malaysian.  But we sat there while waiting our bus to Ipoh.  It’s better than inside the building, it was too crowded and have not enough seat inside the building.

We are back to Kuching now.

The pattern of this roof looks like the corn.  I guess they are ceramic roof tiles which had changed their colours over a long period of time.  Some of them may had been replaced by the house owner with the new roof tiles that’s why we can see the different colours for each tile where if we see them as a whole thing, it creates a corn seeds pattern. 

Some of their colour are lighter, some of them are darker, some are white colour, some reddish, and some of them are brown or black.  The darker colours roof tiles are actually the colours of the moss on it I believe.

The roof is very old already.  Do you notice that some of them are missing?

Actually they are many other things which is not nature by default, because it is human-made, but if we look carefully, it actually show its nature behavior or slowly changes its behaviour to adapt to the nature environment.

Who say human-made stuffs doesn’t look nature?  Tell me who says?  Who says?  … …  [This sounds similar to an advertisement on tv.]

From my point of view, human-made stuffs are also parts of the nature, because human itself is parts of the nature.  The only things that make the difference is that either the stuffs can make the nature become more nature or otherwise destroy it.

This is the truck that was pulling nothing. It look extremely short. Do you think that it looks cute? It looks like a huge big-headed cute worm moving on the highway. I like to see this type of vehicle especially without the trailer.

I did not noticed it until I viewed this photo in my computer. The rear wheels of this truck were actually not touching the road surface.

Not all of the big headed truck do this, but this one also same as the above. They must have some reasons for doing this. May be to make this vehicle more efficient and flexible.

This is another big headed truck in different pattern.

Usually SiewPeng and I call these big trucks dinosaurs when they carry trailer or big / multiple goods container, but when it carries nothing we may call it a worm because of its shape.

When a dinosaur is beside you and overtake you, you can feel that there is a strong wind and a hidden power that move you to the side or create a big vibration.I have this experience when I rode my bicycle last time. Therefore when a dinosaur appear or moving into your ways, you must be careful.

I took all of these photos on the Malaysia longest highway which is called North-South Expressway in Peninsular Malaysia. While I was taking these photos, I noticed that the traffic is always busy, and I can see a lot of small to huge vehicles rushing towards their destination. The things that came across my mind was that I hope everybody on this expressway (which is about 966KM) can safely reach their destination. And I prayed for them while I was on the bus.

We have heard too many bad stories happened here and I have seen some of them with my own eyes as well. I asked myself, “Are there any happy or good things ever happened here as well?” and I tried to think very hard and I have got one answer. Yes, may be there were friends who had lost each others contact but met up again at the rest area. What else? Tell me if you have some good stories on this highway.

This highway is the second home for the bus or truck drivers and other frequent users. Some of them travel only short distance, but some may travel from the North to the South that can be longer than 900KM. I tried to imagine what is the bus and truck driver’s feeling like when they are travelling for a long distance. Not only the distance is long, but they repeat the process 5 or 6 days a weeks and with countless of departure and return trips. Won’t they feel boring? For me, I have taken 200 photos on this highway in a single trip, and I have decided not to take any photos again until I see anything that’s new to me. I can’t imagine what happen if I become a driver. If a driver travel for a short distance it may be worse because he has to repeat the route up to 6 times or more in a day. These drivers will be able to name out all the exit names without having to memorise them.

If I have a chance, I want to be a dinosaur driver. But one time is enough.

Our seat was really high until we were able to see what was carried by a lorry. If you use a normal car I bet you can’t. Don’t be jealous. If you want to do what I have done, just take a bus and sit at the first row.

These are the different types of “Dinosaurs”. Some big fat dinosaurs are good at chasing you but when they climb up the hill, they will lose. Some of them won’t allow you to overtake them when they are cornering because they may use up your lane as well, you don’t know when.

Parts of this highway gives a warm and comfortable feeling brought by the different colours on the billboards, buildings, cute signboard, rest area and nice nature feature such as waterfall. But some of the features are not, they may bring negative feelings such as up and down of a hill that makes us dizzy, caught in the traffic jam but do not know what happen in front, the white colour soil on the hill beside the road which won’t tell you that when it is going to cause a landslide. However, it is useless for us to have these negative feelings. Just keep our mind positive and we will reach our destination.

This highway gives me a view on the journey in our life towards our destination, they may be something positive and negative that coming towards our direction. But we have to take the positive mindset and eliminate the negative ones. In this way, the positive thinking will move us further and the negative thinking won’t be able to slow us down. Another important thing is to keep ourselves awakened and becareful while taking each step in our journey. We will reach our destination.

Dear Dinosaur, please be careful while you are running, don’t hurt poeple around you on the highway, they are same as you having their own destination that they are going to reach.

Dear bus driver, you are the only person who can make sure that your dinosaur won’t eat people. Please remember.

Dear North South Expressway users, your beloved and your relatives, Lets forget what we should forget, and remember what we should remember. We should continue our journey.

The rain was only 100 - 200 meters away from our bus.

As usual we took an express bus from LCCT to Ipoh on our last trip. But this time we sat exactly above the driver seat. It was a semi double decker bus where only the driver sit at the lower level and all the passengers on the upper floor. I told myself that it’s a good time for me to take photographs. I could see everything the driver can see and saw even more things than the driver could because I sat higher than him. I have taken about 200+ photo along the journey from LCCT to Ipoh, just like what I have done in Toowoomba in July 2003. I sat on the front sit of the bus where there was nothing blocking me from taking all the pictures. I switched on my camera most of the time getting ready to capture every view until I have to change to my backup batteries.

After a few seconds, the rain poured on the bus as it moves towards the raining area. My camera was very intelligent and focused quickly on the water on the windscreen instead of the highway in front. That’s why you can see the water marks is sharp but the things in front is blur.

The rain started and stopped for at least 3 to 4 times. The first time was the heaviest rain. Even though it was raining, I still kept on taking photos and I have got this effect. The method I used was just taking the picture using auto focus, the camera will focus on the water on the glass.

The light of the cars from the opposite direction on the highway looked like fire because of the rain. This picture gives a horrible feeling. Something suddenly came accross my mind when I look at this picture - Although the first row seats on the bus is the best place for taking photographs, it is also the most dangerous seat if something happened to the bus.

The different directions of water flow on the bus windscreen created different patterns which distorted the light of cars’ headlight. The effect is similar to the “filters” in photoshop, but all of the photos here are not edited with photoshop. It was the water on the windscreen of the bus that made the “filters” happened.

After the bus got out from the highway toll and reached Ipoh city, It rained again, but this time was only drizzling. You can see there is a town, not as big as a big city like KL, behind the raindrops. From the picture you can see there are shophouses. It seems like a peaceful town. This picture and the picture below give a “Kampung” and peaceful feeling because of the green color. “Kampung” means village in Malay.

There was a rainbow welcoming us at Ipoh.

Can you see what are the two kids looking at? Do you know where they are? Let me zoom out a bit.

The kids are on top of a billboard !!! What a dangerous act would that be! They are smiling and not afraid of heights? What are they doing up there? How did they get to the top? … …

When SiewPeng asked me to look at this billboard, I was really surprised. Of course the two kids are also part of the billboard, but the designer makes them in 3D shape. I can’t imagine what will happen if they were real kids.

I won’t be cheated again, but who knows what will happen in the future. They might use a 3D human figure that looks so real which moves on top of the billboard and waves its hand to get your attention.

These are the pictures from the other direction.

Can you calculate how many billboards are there in the picture above?

There are really a lot of billboards along the highway somewhere between the toll plaza and the KLIA Airport. Further away from the toll plaza towards KL, the billboards are getting lesser until it reaches the KL area. Compare to Kuching, we can hardly see billboards like these. You should consider yourself lucky to spot one or two billboards in the city.

These large billboards give me a feeling that I am in a jungle of colourful world of steel. I think the people involved in designing these billboards must be creative enough so that the billboards can attract attention from everybody that passes the highway. At the same time, their design must not distract the driver’s attention. If there is a hot girl on the billboard, it’s actually creating a risk for the road users.

This is another 3D advertising structure along the highway somewhere very near to the KLIA.