Hi
everyone! It is a great honour for me to share my simple but
wonderful experience with you guys. I started working at Vision
College on December 2013 and I feel very happy to be one of the
Education Consultants in the Student’s Recruitment Team (SRT). I
love to
meet people and passionate to encourage the younger generation to
continue pursuing their higher education.
My
career as an Education Consultant gave me the opportunity to travel
to all corners of our country, starting from Perlis in the north;
down to Sabah on the Borneo Island just to encourage more young
people especially those SPM leavers continue their studies to a
higher level.
But
that is not the main story that I want to share here with you guys. I
know many of the article’s contributors in this blog will
definitely wrote about their job or responsibilities in our college,
or they experience throughout their submissive in our college; or
maybe some events which apply around the college for you gaze.
Today I want to take
another approach; I want to share with all of you about the
uniqueness of the Filipino Market that located in the city of Kota
Kinabalu, Sabah. I had the opportunity to go to Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
when I was sent by the college to involve with education roadshow in
Sabah and Sarawak on 27th May to 3rd June this
year. Like some of us from Peninsular Malaysia, before this I never
knew about the existing of Kota Kinabalu’s Filipino Market up until
one day I was taken there by Kak Suzie who is also an Education
Consultant but based in Sabah.
The
Kota Kinabalu’s Filipino Market is in Jalan Tun Fuad Stephens
opposite the Centre point Shopping Complex. Its location right in the
heart of Kota Kinabalu makes it an accessible place for visitors and
tourist. As the name implies, the Filipino market is run by Filipino
immigrants. Opened from 7:30am to 7:30pm, you can find a wide range
of stuff for you to browse through and buy.
The
diverse products you can find in the Filipino market ranges from
handicrafts, toiletries to traditional food and medicine. One of the
things that you ought to buy in the Filipino market is its famous
original pearl priced at around RM5 a piece.
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| View inside the Filipino Market |
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| You can bargain for the price at Filipino Market |
At night
time, you can find this Sabah market selling fresh poultry, fishes
and prawns. You will be delighted to see the variety of seafood and
meat being on offer here. You will also find stalls selling
vegetables and fruit here. One local fruit that you should really try
out is the Sabah red durian and the “tarap” fruit.
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| The “tarap” fruit that famous at Borneo |
If
you are feeling hungry, there are stalls in the Filipino market
selling local delicacies and barbequed seafood such as the juicy
succulent fish and tiger prawns. They even have lobsters here on
offer at a whopping RM100. You’re not only able to shop till you
drop here; you also can eat until you drop too!
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| View at night market |
The
wonderful Filipino Market will promise not to disappoint you in your
Sabah shopping excursion. If you come to Sabah especially Kota
Kinabalu, don’t missed a chance to go and experience the colours of
this magnificent markets.
Who
would have guessed that Kota Kinabalu’s own Filipino place is a
great place to find food and hang out? But
please beware of pickpockets and bag-snatchers when roaming around
this area.
BE
SOCIABLE!
By, Adam Baker Othman Education Consultant, Student's Recruitment Team
