The Beauty of Love - Tibetan's Kids, Lhasa, Tibet.

If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

¹³ And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. - 1 Corinthians 13 NIV.

Kartika

CNY 2015 - Girls Love to Look Elegant and Beautiful.

A short three days trip to Mt. Mulu, Sarawak.

It has been a while since I put up anything on my blog. This one were some pictures of Mulu I had with my sister Hilda and her husband, Michael from Canada. As a Sarawakian who has live in Miri since my childhood and only a short distance flight from Miri to there while people around the world came over thousand of miles to see and experience it. It really a shame if I have not visit it. So much wonderful talks have been said about the world's biggest cave but I have put it off until last February my sister asked me whether I would want to go with them. Yea, why not! So much have been heard about the unique amazing cave so I went straight to it to planning and got everything arranged for the three of us to fly from Miri over to Mulu.
Not only did we experience to see the World heritage tropical rainforest and caves. Gunung Mulu is amongst the world's most extensive cave system, the world's largest chamber and passage. I truly love and appreciate the quality time I had with my sister.

 Deer Cave

Abraham Lincoln's Silhouette

Bats hanging up in the cave.

 

Tourists waiting patiently for the bats to fly out of the cave in formation.

Penan woman

 An old woman washing and bathing by the stream.

 A bat resting inside a leaf.

Looking afar from a hilltop, bats flew in formations. 

Festive Mood - CNY 2014

A Casual Portrait Shoot at a Ladies Farewell 2013 Party

A trek to Mount Kinabalu, Sabah

I have actually planned a trip to scale Mount Kinabalu together with my two sons a few years back. But      things did not turn up as it is as both were busy with their studies and cannot fix an appropriate time we can do it together as father and sons affair. Maybe some day I might be able to do it with them as I love to spend some time with them before they are married.

The ascent to Mount Kinabalu is not that hard actually. You just need to be at least fit, no altitude sickness and able to trek 8-9 hours coming back all the way from the mountain's peak then back to the starting trail from the park where we started. Going up is easiest as one need to walk 4-5 hours to the mid mountain where we can rest the night before continuing to the peak early in the morning around 2:30am.

Awesome, amazingly interesting to see how nature and creation formed itself. The formation of the mountain's rocks, the twisting ascending rocks that formed the mountain, the peace, tranquility, the waterfalls, the early morning mist, freshness of the air and the natural floral beauties at the base of the trails to the mountain. A natural beauty!

Laban Rata rest house

From right: With Jack, a lecturer from US and Joseph.

The ascent.

The peak

The guide who leads us.