Borneo!!

So, I managed to make it off the tiny island of Singapore for a few days last weekend on a trip to the much bigger island of Borneo - focusing mainly on the city of Kuching and Bako National Park in Malaysia.

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Overall the trip was amazing! There was a group of seven of us - I was the only non-lawyer in the group as most of the people were from the LLM program at NUS. There was Andrzej from Poland, Fitria and Toufiq from Indonesia, Holly from USA, Tina from Germany, and Erica from Australia.

To summarize the trip consisted of: Thai massages in Kuching, the Indonesians explaining (and a fully clothed demonstration) how to squat over the "hole toilets", crazy monkey trying to steal stuff, camping on the beach, and trekking through the jungle half the day and laying on the beach the other half.

Below are the highlights:

Fitria, Andrzej, me and Erica having our beach picnic before dark

Saltwater Crocs at the Crocodile farm

Most of the crew on the way to Bako National Park

Our wild orangatan friend and the lady in the background with the Orangatan-colored hair

Yummy chili crab in Kuching - cheap cheap!

Angry Polish Headhunter slaying his next victim

Finally the sea after a two hour jungle trek!!

AND HUNDREDS MORE pics can be found here

And last but not least - a video of my Polish friend Andrzej teaching me the most difficult polish phrase in the world - it means something about a "bug in the grass":