Tanjung Aru, KK

Assalamualaikum dan Selamat Sejahtera

Pantai Perkelahan Terkenal di Sabah

Pantai Tanjung Aru terletak di penghujung Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman sejauh kira-kira 6 kilometer dari Kota Kinabalu ibu negeri Sabah. 

Nama pantai Tanjung Aru terilham daripada banyaknya pohon ru (casuarina) yang tumbuh subur di sepanjang pantai itu. 

Pantai berpasir bersih ini menjadi salah satu tempat peranginan, perkelahan atau kerehatan yang popular di kalangan penduduk setempat atau para pelancong ke Kota Kinabalu. 

Difahamkan, di sinilah lokasi terbaik bagi mereka yang gemar menikmati keindahan alam . . . khasnya menjelang waktu terbenam mata hari di ufuk barat (kaki langit).     

Penulis dan rombongan sempat ke pantai Tanjung Aru pada Isnin 10 November 2014 bersamaan 17 Muharam 1436H. 

Rombongan penulis (yang termasuk Hj Ghazali, Hjh Faizah, Hjh Alimah, Lyana) dibawa ke sana oleh sahabat penulis Hj Salleh Rahim dan isteri beliau Hjh Juliah Partono serta anak mereka Dewi Suriya Salleh. 

Walau bagaimanapun, kami tidak berkesempatan melihat keindahan suasana alam ketika mata hari terbenam di situ. 

Kami terpaksa berada di airport untuk pulang ke KL pada petang hari yang sama . . . setelah enam hari di daerah ini. In sha Allah . . . ada rezeki lain kali saja.    

Terima kasih Tuan Hj Salleh Rahim sekeluarga yang telah sudi menemani kami serombongan . . . ke sana ke mari . . . dan memberikan banyak sumbangan fizikal, mental dan material demi keselesaan kami. 

Budi baik anda sekeluarga amat kami hargai dan akan terpahat dalam ingatan kami sebagai kenangan yang mesra dan tidak akan terlupakan. Allah SWT jua yang dapat membalasnya. 

bamuda
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Intrigued by Locomotives

Assalamualaikum 

U Go Loco 
or 
Have U Gone Loco?

I have always been intrigued by locomotives especially those breed of 'steam' engines of yesteryears. However both 'diesel' and 'electric' locos are my favourites too.

As a child I used to take train rides from KL to my parents home up North Peninsula Malaysia.

These rides will usually occur during school holidays or term breaks. Time and again I will fantasize being a loco driver managing / manoeuvring a loco engine.

The pride and satisfaction of being skilful with big engines such as locomotives . . . I believed would be beyond my imagination.

One of my many childhood fantasies was to have a true to life loco system set at home.

The tracks, the station, the railway gadgets n gimmicks . . . including images of anything that has a bearing to locomotives.

And . . . all these in the proximity of my very own playroom!

Yours sincerely was so used to seeing such influential luxurious ads being spread on panoramic screens during my younger days when I frequented cinema shows.

Imagine what all those watching did or was capable of doing to a young mind then!

I was so intent on acquiring the skills of a locomotive engine driver / loco engineer. My simple reasoning then was that I could be travelling places manoeuvring a loco engine. And, I love to imagine being able to do that in style.

But as fate would have it, all the above were not bound to happen. Nothing of that sort ever materialized! My childhood fantasies nevertheless remained.

My make-believe craze recurred very late in life! Incidentally it also happened on a make-believe railway track.

Saturday 19 April 2014. I visited the Malaysian Army Museum at Port Dickson."I came, I saw and I conquered".

The locomotive was there at the head of the coach at my very disposal.

I have never had the opportunity of really sitting on one all this while! So here goes.

Everybody on board. Time to move on. Let's not waste any more precious moments.

Have fun everyone. Let's enjoy the ride even if it's just make-believe.

'Locos' are really capable of driving my mind 'loco'. Undoubtedly, the mind of many others too!

Have a nice day,

STOP PRESS

[Thank you Marlyana. Appreciate your contribution of photos.]

bamuda
dsuarang.blogspot