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Yesterday I had just been to this Cats Exhibition @ tHe Spring, Kuching. This event started from 6th Sept until 7th Sept, which is today, from roughly 11am until 8pm according to the schedule. It will be on the ‘North Court‘ @ tHe Spring.

It is rather a short event, but it is quite interesting. There are ton of different type of cats, such as exotic type and also wildcats, such as Persian. They are all kept inside a small little cage, what a pity. Ton of people taking pictures of the cute exotic cats. Not only that, you are allowed to carry those cats with a price (of course).

The activity not just for ‘showing off‘ those cats to the public but to bring public awareness that caring for the animals, not only for cats alone. There are some group of people giving some speech regarding how to care cats and etc. Sadly I only manage to take one shot of the wildcat. The wildcats are usually huge, can be said similar size like baby tiger (cub). This wildcat is called, Maine Coon, not Moon Maine. [Thanks to the commentor, HORATIO for the correcting the name]

Speaking about moon, moon cake festival or formally, ‘Mid-Autumn Festival‘ is just around the corner. There are few stall sell moon cake @ tHe Spring, on the center of it. By the way, they selling durian favor as well, the smell is darn strong.

Lastly, HAPPY MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL EVERYONE.

This afternoon, I just went to this so called Toy Fair, or in long, ‘Toy & Anime Convention‘ at tHe Spring. Toy Fair starts at today (21st August 2008) until 24th August (finale day for Kuching Festival 2008 and Beijing 2008 Olympic Games). This event is organised by Wonder Toys. There will have some rare and limited edition toys or figures display. Sadly, I didn’t spot any cosplay around. Probably this Saturday will have cosplay, such as Naruto.

This is a small happening event in tHe Spring. There is also a section which sells ton of soft toys. Be sure to bring your girlfriends around. And as for the guys, remember to bring more bucks. 

Some imported toys are selling as well, such as Mattel and Bandai products, big toy companies. Toy lovers must not miss it. 

There is a section that displaying some limited edition of figures such as Star Wars, and Storm Trooper .

Lastly, don’t forget about the popular Bandai Gundam(s) exhibition. It is located at the main entrance of tHe Spring. 

This Gundam figure is the most attractive (my opinion). Z.A.F.T GUNDAM (adapted from Gundam Seed anime).

Yesterday I had just went to Kuching Festival 2008. What is this Kuching Festival? It is the Kuching city celebration in Sarawak state of Malaysia on every month of August. It starts at first of August until the end of the month (24th). The first day will have a Kuching street parade at there. This year not much happening at there compare to the past years. The main event is always the food section, there sells ton of various of food. 

I went at there quite early due to less traffic. Late night will be pretty crowded as usual. Even at this early, there are still quite a number of people. I just went to ‘tapao’ or take away food. 

As you can see a lot of empty tables and chairs. But wait until you see at the other side.

Guess this side must be good ‘fengshui‘. Haha. Other than food section, there also has a garden show. This place is for sightseeing. Good for couples. Hehe.

Basically you will see this ‘thing’ as pretty scenery. Look below

Yea.. mini-fountain

Big fountains.. or waterfall this time.

Well you should be able get the idea. There is also a mini-stage at there for some night performers. Usually it will have some hip hop dancing at night. 

Lastly there has one section that selling some stuff, such as cars booth, household products and etc.

One more thing. I have encountered some odd incidents at the food section.

Eragon? Eragon the movie. gosh~ 

Dragon ball? Dragon ball the movie? Fyi, the movie will be out soon. 

Btw, today is a great day because of 080808 and also Olympic newly starts. Enjoy good life 

Last Wednesday ago, my friends and I went to quite a new cafe (in Kuching) after we had finished our movie marathon (Red Cliff and The Dark Knight). The sort of new cafe in town is located at Jalan Simpang Tiga. In simplicity, it is located next to Swinburne Sarawak (my current university) or opposite tHe Spring. It is 2-levels cafe, the ground floor is a Malay-like buffet with ala carte and the upper floor is a unique, upscale and trendy cafe which sells western food. By now, you should have know that this cafe is a malay cafe based on the spelling, ‘atmosfera‘.

We just went to the upper floor to have a drink. The environment was really trendy and a good place for chit-chatting. If I’m not mistaken, there had a total of 3 LCD TVs installed. 

We didn’t try out the food. The drinks at there were quite nice but a bit slow for waiting time. How about the price? Not so cheap by comparing to normal kopitiam. Haha. The price was similar like Starbucks. 

We sat at the nice area which could saw the outside environment, tHe Spring shopping mall (based on the above picture). We all enjoyed our drinks. I ordered tiramisu ice-blended, it was just simply nice and the creamy on top of it. It is well-blended, not like at Starbucks. At Starbucks (Kuching), you ate the ice instead of drinking. It costed RM11.50 

I had just went to this small mall not long ago. This small mall is called, Green Heights Mall, which is located in Green Heights Housing (not far from Kuching International Airport). GHM is official launch last month ago (June). It is rather small, only 2 floors (excluded basement). I have just noticed something odd, most people no idea what is the name of this small mall, but they only know ‘Cold Storage‘.

Cold Storage is a supermarket but with ton of imported goods. If you looking for rare imported food, Cold Storage is the only solution. But remember, the price tag is rather pretty handsome. It can be said that majority of the goods at there are rather pricey compare to our normal supermarket.

Do you know how much this 400ml coca cola cost? RM6.99 That’s a big ‘WOW‘. Besides Cold Storage, there is another very familiar outlet. It’s called ‘Desserts‘, selling overprice ice-cream. If I’m not mistaken, this outlet is the third branch of Desserts, firstly opened at Boulevard then tHe Spring. It is free to try the ice-cream, and of course you feel awkward if you no buy any after you’ve tried-out.

On the top floor, nothing much to see. It is rather ‘blank’. Only a few outlets at there. There’s one unique outlet, called ‘Got Gift?‘. It is a gift shop, but rather selling unique goods/toys.

ITFusion (my first part time job’s company) is at there, but rather small.  Hopeless. ITFusion is an authorized Apple reseller.

Fyi, the GHM site is now in html version (which is done by me) and i guess ITFusion boss might change abit himself, previously it was flash site.