Please don't cross the line...

Bites Tale : Can't believe my last blog here is still dated 2nd Jan. This new job is sure eating my time up, will be completing my 1st year this coming month end. Am lovin' this job... though there are times someone is making us feeling like we want to put super glue on their lips!

How will you react on this?

The bible of customer service tells us : "Customer is always right!"

How true? I wonder...

We met a very difficult customer -- one who accepted our quote, one who changed the itinerary after accepting it and requested no change in the price, one who simply instruct the driver and tour guide and adding more places to go etc...

Still, we accommodate all the requests, but i lost my cool when i was informed that during one of the pre-booked dinner, the customer went up to the restaurant cashier counter, claimed himself as one of our company staff and asked to see the cost of the dinner.

That really crossed the line... and i was "banned" from confronting the customer... :(

Now, tell me... is customer always right?

Proboscis Monkey River Cruise at Bilit, Kinabatangan River

Bites Tale : Had a quiet New Year eve... dinner and watching DVD at home... thanks to my flu and fever... But it does feel good to be able to "escape" from crowded restaurants and traffic jams. Wishing everyone a happy new year 2009 and may this new year brings you abundant joy, love, health and prosperity!

We arrived Bilit Adventure Lodge and was welcomed by something we least expected at the jetty... a freaking leech... that was my 1st time seeing the little blood sucking creature... it looks so excited.. non-stop twisting and "extending" its body so it could somehow "stick" on us. I was too scared to take picture... and i can't even dare to move a step forward... me and my friends were being "blocked" by this creature while our 2 guides and driver just stepped passed it carrying our bags. One of the staff / boatman came and asked what's wrong... felt so ashamed when we told him we were afraid of the little leech... and his next reaction was laughing at us and then stepped on the leech.

Next, we were invited to go to the communal dining area overlooking the kinabatangan river while waiting for the boat to be ready for our river cruise. It felt as if i was in Klias, only this time the proboscis monkeys are more and bigger in size. Apart from searching for Proboscis Monkeys, our lead guide was very excited and was hoping that we could have the opportunity to see Pygmy Elephant.

Pic : Off we go for our river cruise

We were in good luck but not great that day... we saw alot of birds and proboscis monkeys. However, most of the photos i snapped do no justice... most of them were blurred, if not, too tiny to see what i was trying to snap. We were all mumbling to ourselves that we can't zoom in too much with all our digital cameras. (Sigh... i missed my camera!!! Was lucky enough that the memory card can survived until we transferred all the photos on this road trip to our computers..)

Pic : Can see kah?

Pic : Proboscis monkey sighted

We return to the lodge at around 6pm for dinner. Dinner was good and we were told by the guests and staff there that there's so much to see and to do at the lodge itself. We could either join the night walk in search of wild animals or we could also join the tree planting for RM10. They kept telling us that we missed out on something great... turns out that they caught a big phyton crawling in search of food near the dining area 1 night before our arrival. Everyone keep snapping picture with it before it was released back to the wild. (I was actually thanking god while they were talking... luckily we arrived 1 day later... but i need to act cool in front of them.. the last thing i want is to meet with leech and don't talk to me about snakes ... muahahaha)

Pic : What i had for dinner

I refused to join the night walk as my guts automatically disappeared once darkness sets in. This happens even when i'm in KK... so i wouldn't put myself into any possibility that i might get a heart attack or even went crazy for not knowing what will i meet next in the jungle. So we went to bath early and enjoy chit chatting and supper (cup noodles, junk food and hot drinks).

We had to wake up at 5am and get ready by 5.30am to go for a morning river cruise experiencing how the wild wakes up... The sound of birds chirping, monkeys yawning, fishermen throwing his net and etc turns into music to our ears.

Pic : Everything looks so dark, we had to use the torchlights

Pic : So quiet, so calm

Pic : I love this pic!!!

Pic : Fisherman at work

Pic : See clearly.... it's birds!

Pic : Part of Kinabatangan River

Pic : I forgot what is this... Eagle?? Big Bird?? Monkey?? Don't know oh...

Pic : Lizard

We were approached by a fisherman on our journey back to the lodge.... because of this...

Pic : He wanted to sell this to us

Pic : Look at what he caught that morning

Pic : Yerr.... i love to eat unagi bah...

I've forgotten how much he charged... but anyway, i'm allergy to prawns... luckily... if not, i might be one of them who was forced to finish all the prawns that night.

Will tell you more ya!

Pic : Breakfast is a must for everyone

Up Next!

Bites Tale : Am back from KL... it's a nice trip with great food and nice companion -- family. Meet up with some friends and it felt so great to catch up with each other. Most importantly, NO more 90 degree hair style.. no more helmet like head... now i look oh so neat and girly... And YES... in case you still can't figure out... meatball is a girl.

Remember my road trip?

I've stopped blogging it since THIS post

Gotta pick up my heavy butt and upload those pics up!

Psssst... i think i am too old to claim myself as a girl... and pssst... pssst... attention to all "you know who you are"... u know why i am saying this lah kan?

KL, KL ... Lama tak Jumpa!

Bites Tale : Something bad has happened at home... this is a long waited holiday together although to me, it may involved some work... I hope we'll still be able to enjoy as what we have always hope to.

Last visit to KL was in end of March...

Ahh... miss all my friends in KL...

Wanna fix my 90 degree hairstyle too...

Hope this trusted hairstylist of my dear friend can play his magic hand on my hair...

And i wish... his magic works...

Will be off for a week...

Till then, see ya!

Itchy Itchy Lah.... Beh Tahan...

Bites Tale : Got to know some new friends in Klias... Life's good... (A note here for all gals out there : Don't travel long distance when you are having your period especially when you need to be sitted for long hours... it feels so..o... uncomfortable when you get off the car...yucks!)

Pic : Taken by SLSY

Tried fish spa for the 1st time last sat...

Felt like kena electric shock when the fish start "biting"...

But damn syoklah after a while... the only thing that put me off is the mosquitoes bites...

And my feet starts feeling itchy today...

It's either the fish or the mosquitoes bites...

Or may be both? O_0

P/S : Looking at the pic, it look so scary pula makes me i wanna puke pula...

A new and great experience...

Bites Tale : I've been so busy now a days... i have so much to blog, to reply to tags, but so little time...

How's your Deepavali holiday?

I've had a great day... one that is full of joy, happiness and love...

This is my 1st time as a bridesmaid...

And i think i did a great job afterall... except that i might be the 1st bridesmaid who has the most pimples on her face...

But who cares.... i had a great time.

Now i hope some other friends will ask me to be their bridesmaid again!

Guess i got addicted... ;)

Hard work

Bites Tale : Love is hard work... and hard work can be a pain in the ass...

It hurts... and could be really mad sometimes

But

If both are willing to understand each other...to hold on together... to be strong... to have faith...

And be devoted to each other to achieve something that we believe will give us purpose and meaning now...

Then it's worth the fights... all the fights previously...

I'm glad he came and we managed to talk things out...

Communication didn't break down this time...

Now i have higher hopes and i can't wait for it to come true.

Of course, there will still be a lot of hard work needed from both...

But i believe when there's a will, there's a way... and now both are not alone.

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. --- Saint Exupery"