Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo

Some days ago still in Siem Reap in Cambodia, I had a very nice last evening. In my favorit French restaurant Le Tigre de Papier I met a young Finnish couple Ville-Veikko and Liisa Pitkanen both 28 with their son Luukas 2, living in Phnon Penh for time being. They invited me to join them next morning to some excursion,but unfortunately I by then was on my fligth to the South.Later that evening I routineously went to Angkor What? bar, and met Jeff 38,from Alaska. I just now forgot from where he originally was in U.S., but he anyhow has an interesting style of life. He is working in hard conditions for four months a year, and then travelling for 8 months especially in Southeast Asia and South America, where he can get a good value for his earned dollars. We had several drinks and a good chat together.
The following very early morning I was on my way via Kuala Lumpur to Kota Kinabalu in Sabah, Borneo. I did not have a slightest idea in which kind of jungle village I am going to arrive. My surprise could not have been bigger, when I found myself in a modern and very pleasant city of maybe 100,000 inhabitants. I got a very good hotel Radius International in the heart of the city, next to Le Meridien.
I soon also found my favorit places to visit at the water front. And of course with my good luck I yesterday ( by the way the first day of the Chinese New Year, the Rat's year ) was invited as a first guest to arrive to an opening of new Pirate's Bar with some benefits. This is a quite large seafood restaurant with a long bar table and very elegantly decorated, owned by an Englishman Nick 51.
In the evening I went to Le Meridien to have a dinner there, and to listen in Rumba night club beautiful Latin American music performed by Fuego (Fire), an international band of five,three ladies and 2 gentlemen. I got the best table, and enjoyed their music 100%, and talked later with most of the members a lot in English but Spanish too.
Now today I start to explore the jungle of Borneo, and shall report of that later.