Swordie Bloggie

Over here, we don’t have RV or motorhome… but we do have big trucks pulling trailer carrying goods container or logs. Four wheel drives are everywhere… pick-up or cabin type. The 4WD pick-up like Toyota Hilux sometimes can be seen pulling small trailer carrying boat, jet-ski or ATV.

When we see these pick-ups or trucks pulling their trailer, we never thought of anything about safety. That’s probably because most of the times we see them near town on flat roads and looks harmless. But how about those climbing hills with winding roads like Tambunan Road and Kimanis Road?… It does look scary… especially when they are speeding. Then there are trucks in the interior and east coast roads like Keningau, Sook, Tawau and Lahad Datu… they are speeding while carrying logs or palm oil fruits… which looks overload!

Do you know that there is only one device fastening the truck and trailer together?… Yes, only one device called trailer hitches put the truck and trailer together. This device is very critical… if it fail while the truck and trailer are on the move with loads, it’s gonna be big trouble and that’s what exactly happen in Gulf coast state of Veracruz Mexico today. A trailer broke loose from the cargo truck and slammed into a passenger bus killing at least 43 people.

So, if you plan to install trailer hitches onto your truck or pick-up, make sure it is rated with high safety standard coz you don’t want your trailer to break loose from you.

Our meteor hunting last Thursday on13 August, was not a successful one… well more to myself…

I was expecting a real meteor shower that night… you know, stream of meteors lighting up the sky like star wars… but only my 3 other friends manage to see small meteors… as for myself, I did not see a single meteor on that night… probably it was not my time to see meteor yet 🙁 Like I said in my previous posting, I did see meteor before… but that was when I was only 15 years old.

I was really not prepared that night… I did read the news about the meteor shower on the net a few days before but did not bother about it because I thought it will not be visible here. Just before midnight, around 11.30pm on 12 August, Rachel SMS me… to take photos of the meteor shower… I was shocked, I immediately run out the house to scan the sky… the sky was clear with moon.

I could not see any meteors… went back inside to continue with my FB. Then Ahaz message me on the FB to take photos and videos of the meteors. I search the net for the meteor showers news… and at the same time checking my digital camera and video camera… dang… both runs out of battery… I charge both of them immediately…

According to the news, the meteor showers will be visible from 1.30am to 4.00am on the 13 August 2009… I was hoping my cameras will get enough charge within one hour… well they did get enough charge after one hour.

Then Ahaz, Rachel, Dony and me converse through YM conference… and ‘fight’ where the best place to watch the meteors… we decided to meet at Tanjung Aru beach… I fetch Dony and Ahaz. But we change our direction once we met Rachel at Tanjung Aru beach because we can’t view the northern sky from there… so we decided to go to Tanjung Lipat… near the KK port… it was a good location… unfortunately there was no spectacular meteor shower that morning…

We were getting tired and Ahaz was getting sleepy… he actually slept while sitting… he was a bit sick with flu… H1N1?… I asked him to sleep inside my car… I was also very sleepy, but tried to hold… I really want to see the meteors. How nice if I have the recreational vehicle or rv for camping… we were actually like camping on the road side next to the sea. With the rv camping, at least I can get a proper rest or even sleep inside the rv while waiting for the meteors.

Well, I do hope there will be meteor shower in the near future… again… and hopefully I can capture them… and hopefully I’m with an rv so that I don’t have to rush out and back home for the tiring meteor hunting… I can just sleep inside my rv 😀 Went back around 4.00am 😛

Back home after getting a short sleep, on my way out to office from the house, my sister in-law from Slovak greeted me and I told her about my meteor hunting… and she said she also read about it on the net… and her mother who is next to her, was saying something, and they talked… they talk in foreign language 😀 … and said, in their country the meteors usually appears in May and August every year… and I said… HUH?… 😛

Is there any demand for motor home here?.. I guess with the good road network and a wide state, it should be fine… if I can get one motor home, I would like to use it not only for vacation or travelling but during my official outstation works too 😀

Motor home is also called RV… short for Recreational Vehicle.

With RV, I don’t have to worry about accommodation… all I have to worry are water and electric supply… but I don’t think that as big problem, I’m sure it’s not hard to get those.

But how much is rv cost?… any financing company here ready and willing to provide rv financing?…

If rv is affordable and rv finance is available, I would like the own this rv!!!

Or maybe this one…