Fun family Get-Together at the 'Kampung' home (14-15 Feb 2010)

I was too busy to post this up last Feb. My dad came back from Penang for the CNY holidays and we siblings decided to celebrate his belated 60th birthday on 14 Feb 2010 (1st day of CNY & V-day) at our village home in Kg. Rani, Tenghilan (where our real home sweet home is). Each of us siblings contributed what food/drinks to buy/prepare/cook. It was really fun - of course besides taking photos together, the best part is when it comes to eating time. We had cakes, steamboat, ice-creams & etc. The next day we family did a short trekking through the jungle to a mini waterfall at Dondomon River.

These photos tells.....

Lovely shots by Jerry Kennedy (Debbie's fiancee) - love it!





And photos from my digicam....




My little nephew...Chrissie's Arwen



Carmen and Delbert playing the old antique organ at our grandparents old & abandoned house





The next day...

Early morning mist and the beautiful view of Mt. Kinabalu in front of our kampung lawn


It's Carmen's 1st jungle trekking and she enjoyed it (good exposure)


Pregnant and still able to do jungle trekking...lucky I didn't slip crossing the little rocky brook. Really missed those old adventuring days.

Carmen with her aunty Debbie



Swimming at the river...the water was icy cold...Carmen was shivering but she didn't want to get out of the water.

Looking forward to more family together-ness like these this year:)

Kotobian Tadau Kaamatan (Happy Harvest Festival)

If you didn't hear from me...bla-bla-ing here for a few days that means I'm off for the Kaamatan holidays. It will be a long weekend. It's Harvest Festival for the Kadazandusun and Murut Community here in Sabah on May 30 & 31 (this is an info for the non-Sabahan & you may click here to know more about our 'Tadau Kaamatan' & here on how we dance the Sumazau). I'm a dusun and still thinking what are my plans for the Kaamatan weekend.

Anyways, would like to wish all Sabahans...especially the Kadazandusuns & Murut a BIG KOTOBIAN TADAU KAAMATAN KUMAA DOKOYU TOINSANAN! HAPPY HARVEST FESTIVAL! Remember don't moginum and drive.


Me doing the Unduk Ngadau wannabe pose and in my younger & slimmer days (at 17 & of course still single at that time) with my traditional Kadazandusun costume.

My sister Debbie and I harvesting paddy at the back of our Kampung home in Kg. Rani, Tenghilan.

I'm SO proud of my roots and being a Sabahan is cool! Aramaitiiiiii....

Another kampung trip

Carmen was excited when we reached our kampung home at Kg. Rani, Tenghilan yesterday. She played too hard and too much with Chrissie's (younger sis) new kittens, coming in and out from all the four rooms and running around the living room....that she slept so well and soundly last night without having her dinner and milk. I think I should bring her more often to the kampung, Carmen would have lot's of fun there and grandma is happy! Another new experience for her today...walking along the pathways in the paddy fields nearby. But today was damn humid.

A view of Mt. Kinabalu in the distance before reaching our kampung home

CJ loves animals especially cats or little kitties which is good and healthy

Sitting at Grandma's chair

My Kampung - Rani, Tenghilan

Visited my grandma at my kampung (village) at Rani, Tenghilan (before Kota Belud) during the last CNY holidays...I missed to pulang kampung and eat traditional kampung food like the 'bosou' but most of all I love the beautiful landscape surrounding our family's kampung home like the paddy fields, the mini stream and there's even a little view of Mt. Kinabalu at the background as if like hiding behind the hills. Carmen enjoys running around the front yard.


Looking at the view through the window. 'No Fear Just Faith'...I think that's my younger sis, Diane Chrissie's vandalism act when she was still a minor...I think she's pretty naughty at that time. By the way, she lives with my grandma since she was 4 or 6 months old and she grew up in this kampung. She's a tough girl..am proud of her.

A bridge made of bamboos..the villagers still used them even to this modern day to get to the paddy fields to plant paddy and harvest. This bridge is built on our land to our paddy fields.


This is how the paddy fields looked like after the harvest in last Dec 07 and soon the villagers will start to plant paddy again after using buffalos to crush the soils.

Dad and Zorab with Carmen looking at our abandoned fish ponds

Carmen enjoyed her visit to the Kampung