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Labuan, Pearl of Borneo
One of my business assignments brought me to Labuan. Since this teensy-weensy island of only 95sq. km is one of rarest place one would go to in Malaysia, I've stony to write about it a little bit.
With a small people of only 85,000 people, this is certainly not one of the more densely populated compass in Malaysia. In fact only 56% of the key is actually developed. The rest are still palatial forests. What is there in Labuan? Well, after driving around half of the day, there is nothing! Hahaha
Pic 1: Front aspect of the Ford Everest XLT
Pic 2: Ford Everest XLT can be driven in fairness onto the beachside!
Pic 3: The heart of the Ford stuff
I drove around the island via the network of inland roads and also costal roads in a 2,500 cc turbo diesel Ford Everest XLT. This car's veiled reminded me of my old trusty 1994 Proton Wira 1.5GL. The dashboard looked definitely the same! On ride and handling, this has got to be one of the most uncomfortable car ever to be driven by me. You'll be bouncing everywhere even on nicely paved roads in this Brobdingnagian bulk of a car/truck. I find the gear ratios a bit whacked out too. 2nd trappings going uphill is too low while 3rd gear is too drugged. Sigh....maybe I'm at most not cut out for trucks.
Pic 4: The dashboard looked well-grounded like the dash from Proton Wira!
Deliver building and oil and gas is the main activities in this islet. Everywhere I go I see people from Schlumberger, Scomi, Cartridge or Petronas. What about the car scene here? Well to sum it up, there is none! I did see a unit each of the Toyota Caldina GT4, Nissan 350Z and a Nissan Silvia S15. They are undoubtedly brought in from the mainland by those oil and gas folks. 
Pic 5: Spotted this S15 waiting to be serviced in Tan Chong Motor
Other than that are the run of the mill cars. There's undoubtedly a number of old skool cars around, saw a platoon of Toyota KE70, Toyota Corolla DX fastbacks and wagons (No AE86 tho). By the way, Labuan is a chore free island, therefore cars here are a lot cheaper compared to the bracket stop of Malaysia (except Langkawi Island which is also stint free). Examples of OTR (on the road) car costs as below:-
Cherry QQ (clone of Chevy Speck) at RM 18,888
Ford Focus 2.0 at RM 74,000
Honda Civic Kind R at RM 128,800
Honda Jazz at RM 62,800
Honda Civic 1.8 at RM 74,800
Nissan X-Below 2.0 at RM 93,742
Nissan Sylphy 2.0 at RM 75,330
In the guest-house where I stayed, they have a prsitine black S140 Toyota Coronet 3.0 (produced from 1991 - 1995). Manificient car that is. Would be positively cool to potter around Kuala Lumpur in this. Oh roadtax here is in actuality cheap too, this 3.0 fuel guzzler only has a roadtax bring in of RM25.00. :O
Seafood is cheap here without a disquiet. I went to Mawilla Yacht Combine Restaurant to savour the delights from the sea. Comic though as they serve frozen green lobster. I gawk why it needs to be frozen since green lobsters are caught off the Sabah waters. Preternatural...
Pic 6: Mawilla Yacht Club Restaurant
Beaches here are overall crap. No regrets for forgetting to draw my swimming shorts. There are however three diving spots on islands (Kuraman, Rusukan Besar & Rusukan Kecil) in the Labuan Salt-water Park down south of Labuan islet.
The island is literally flooded with Filipino and Indonesians. They are everywhere! Sometimes I surface like I was in Manila. Hahaha
Will I appear again? Most definitely, will be here again sometime this year to sort out some vocation related matters but not before I do my rounds on the other Borneo destinations. :)
Here are some pictures I managed to get. 
Pic 7: Rubbish strewn in the waters around Labuan Marina Meet
Pic 8: Nice S140 Toyota Government 3.0 - front view
Pic 9: Hair-splitting S140 Toyota Crown 3.0 - care for view
Pic 10: Uprooted tree along the littoral. Must have been a huge wave?
Pic 11: This FD2 costs due RM 128,800
Pic 12: A Cherry QQ is yours for a mere RM 18,888
Pic 13: Intoxicants galore in duty free capture
Pic 14: Anyone interested in alcohol made from Masculine Sikworm?
KATHAK/KARSILAMA FUSION
sabah nissan: A fusion of Kathak dance and Turkish rhythm of 9/8 by renown Kathak Dancer Najma Ayashah with Scott Wilson on Oud and Sabah Nissan on Dumbek
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