I have dedicate a website for us all.

http://www.starian94.com

Check it out!

Just to share how were we looks like 17 years ago…

Click on the photo to enlarge. Can anybody spot me?

Bon call aku minggu lepas. Dia kata nak datang Sabah sebab adik dia kawin orang Sabah. Oklah tu… bini aku pun orang Sabah jugak apa.

Anyway, after that I did ask him for few phone numbers of my long lost friends. Bon kasi aku HP Bobo dan Aeriza. walaupun baru dua nombor, at least it’s a good start. Korang ingat lagi si Arip Faizal? Alah, budak Black tuh. Yang tak berpeluang menghabiskan masa kat STAR sampai SPM. Dia punye no hp pun aku dah dapat.

So, kalu korang ada apa2 perkembangan, jangan segan silu email or contact aku. 019-8210224.

Chiow!

It’s going to be STAR’s Golden Jubilee this year. I wonder what happened to my friends after about 15 years since we start to take our different path in life. After browsing the internet for “staroba, starian, and star ipoh”, I was really dissappointed on Google’s and Yahoo result. Not because they are not good, but it seems that none of us care to make our batch present on the net. I found few familiar names from the “Liga Alumni Malaysia”, but that was also very limited. Could not get the email or even the latest photo from 2006’s tournament.

At last, I found Asroll’s very old free web page by lycos. It’s just have list of our names, but I think that was a good start. His email has also obsolete.

I think, I can rejuvenate what he did by honoring our names in a new fresh page. Check out your names on the related page from the nevigation bar above.

By doing this, I hope STARIANs batch 90/94 can gather around and tighten the family ties that has lost all these years.

I can still remember Suswan did mentioning to me about 2007 STAROBA weekend, 15 years ago. Isn’t it this year that we are suppose to be together?

For adventure travelers who is looking for a good map on Kota Kinabalu city, I have made it easy for you to get it – from Google earth. So, you can plan where you want to go and what you are going to do while you wait for the climb of your life.

You can see the map from my official Mount Kinabalu Borneo.com Blog.

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Thanks for Mr Ganesh from Singapore for his excellent photos on Mount Kinabalu – mostly the dark side of it. He went there with his wife a week ago and managed to reach the summit with difficulties – the wheater was quite bad.

Anyway, thank you again for the photos. The 6 photos that he emailed me was at Layang-Layang, where the abandoned project of Mount Kinabalu situated. I will show you one of it here, and you can check out my official website for more pics.

My heart crushed when I saw this pics…

Check out other photos:

http://mount-kinabalu-borneo.com/blog/2006/08/14/eyesore-views-at-mount-kinabalu/

Sabah sits at the tip of Borneo, the world’s third largest island. Its coastline of 1,440 km (900 miles), washed by the South China Sea on the West and the Sulu Sea and Celebes Sea on the East, that encloses an inland area of 74,500 sq. km. (29,399 sq. miles).

Lying just north of the equator, Sabah enjoys a sunny tropical climate where it’s summer all year round. Daily temperatures range from 74 to 90 degree Farenheit (23 to 33 degree Centigrade), with cooler wheather up in the mountains.
A land blessed with nature’s most bountiful treasures, Sabah is also known by the famed romantic name of “The Land Below The Wind”.

Sabah presents the traveler with the highest challange in Borneo – Mount Kinabalu, rising majestically into the sky at 4,095.2 m (13,432.26 ft). With its granite massif dominating the surrounding landscape at the peak, ofteh shrouded in mists and clouds, Mount Kinabalu has an awesome mystique all its own. No wonder that, long ago, the Kadazandusun named it “Aki Nabalu” or “home of the spirits of the dead”.

Good thing is, no climbing experience is required to conquer the peak of Borneo, if you take the main route to the summit. Watching sunrise at the top has been described by travelers everywhere as a life-enriching experience.

Mount Kinabalu is the main attraction in Kinabalu Park, which is less than 2 hours’ drive from Kota Kinabalu. The road cuts and winds through lush countryside dotted with traditional village houses to give you an unforgettable scenic journey. Once in the Park, rejuvenate your body and mind at the Poring Hot Springs, a natural health spa where you can relax in open-air Japanese-style baths amidst a tropical rainforest seting.

Mt Kinabalu, the majestic summit of Borneo is the focal point of the park and the whole Sabah. Such is the importance of this mountain that the state capital Jesselton was renamed Kota Kinabalu in 1964. The highest mountain between the Himalayas and the Snow Mountains of papua Barat (New Guinea Island) this magnificent granite massif stands at 4,095.2m (13,435 ft) tall.

Kinabalu Park is Malaysia’s first World Heritage designated by UNESCO in December 2000 for its ‘outstanding universal values’ and role as one of the world’s most important biological sites.

The Kinabalu Park and the Kundasang War Memorial situated just on the fringe of the Park were both established in 1962 as commemorative symbols for the 2,428 Australian and British prisoners of war who suffered and died at Sandakan and the 3 people who risked their lives to help the prisoners. It was the inspiration of Major G.S. Carter D.S.O. (Toby Carter) a New Zealander employed with Shell Oil Co. (Borneo) and enlisted with the Royal Australian Engineers and parachuted into Borneo in 1945.

The Kinabalu Park covers a staggering area of 754 sq. km (300 sq. miles), from the Park Headquarters area all the way to Poring Hot Springs 40 km (25 miles) away and northwards to Mandalon, almost reaching the Kudat Highway. It is bigger than Singapore island! Established as a state park in 1964, this botanical paradise is blessed with an astonishing variety of flora and fauna that ranges over 4 climates zones, from the rich lowland dipterocarp forest through the montane oak, rhododendron: the corniferous forests, to the alpine meadow plants… and to the stunted bushes of the summit zone. Kinabalu Park has probably one of the richest flora collections in the world.

Highways and sealed roads have made the Park easily accessible. It’s an easy two (2) hour scenis drive from Kota Kinabalu and is popular gateway from the hustle and bustle of the city where the visitors can enjoy the cool invigorating air. In 2004, more than 415,360 visited the Park with more than 43,430 climbers. While the focus of the Park is the mountain, about 80% of visitors don’t climb all the wayto the peak but come simply to enjoy the serenity of this place.

Kinabalu Park Headquarters is situated on the southern boundry, at an elevation of 1,563m (5,000 ft) above sea level. Most of the Park facilities are located here including visitors’ accommodations, restaurants, exihibits centres, Park offices where overnight visitors and climbers must register.