November 26, 2009
What has the world become? Upside-down Christmas tree deco?
Aaahhh… I see it… a chandelier wannabe… 
Alright alright, it’s all in the name of creativity this Christmas! I’ll be nice coz santa said all good little girls will get a big present on Christmas. Now let’s see what I want for a BIG Christmas present…
Dear Santa, hint hint…Perodua has just launched their newest model, ALZA! 
November 25, 2009
What a day this has been! It was one of those days when ‘feeling down’ is an understatement. Nothing seems to work. I mean you tried hard, tried your best and yet achieve no positive results. It’s frustrating. It’s demoralising. It’s demotivating. It’s discouraging.
Then I went to Kenyalang – my childhood little wonderland for a ‘cheap’ retail therapy – CDs, magazines, s’ng boi (sour plums), keropok (crackers), kuah ji (sunflower seeds) etc etc.
As I was walking to my car I saw this beautiful sunset that seemed to tell me my bad day has ended… tomorrow is a fresh start.
We’ll see… 
November 24, 2009
Feeling a bit under the weather today – the rain and dampness have finally got the better of me. Doc’s prescription is to eat one of her sleeping flu medication, drink plenty of fluid and rest. But I always have the side effect from the pink flu medication. It usually knocked me out cold then waking up with every body parts aching. Well at least I have a nice dry nose after that.
Well, after a restful afternoon, I decided to look through my collection of pictures which I haven’t put up.
These are from a trip to Muara Tebas 2 weeks ago. The same place my family and I had the crispy oyster omelette.
Fishing boats, fishermen in a small village like this is a common sight along the coastal areas of Sarawak. It is how some villagers make a living and putting meals on the table, roof over their head and cloth on their back.
Pictures taken by: Miss Su Tienyi
November 24, 2009
For two visiting martial art exponents, conventional tourism attractions like leisurely boat rides and the Iban warrior dancing are not the best selling points. They propose making Sarawak a destination synonymous with classical martial art and adventure racing.
IT’S become commercial legend that all you need to explore Sarawak with is an Iban warrior, a wooden prahu and Sungai Rajang.
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From as early as the 80’s, we’ve been selling tourists the idea of a place where you can find peace in the wilderness, get the chance to go native and experience authenticity that can’t be found anywhere else.
That was then.
Today, the tourism market has diversified — modern day travellers are no longer well-off pensioners looking for an exotic cruise with the local headhunters or looking for local trinkets, they want to volunteer at a local charity, live with the locals and get down in the dirt and smell the sweat.
In short, they’re straying off the path we’ve carved for them over the years and they want what we’re not selling — not if Eric Ling, a Singaporean working here and Chas Fisher, a visitor from Seattle, USA, have anything to do with it.
Bonded through the martial art, both master and pupil see a different side to Sarawak.
“As two foreigners, we look at Sarawak and see so much more — the conventional tourism attractions like the leisurely boat rides and the Iban warrior dancing are not the best selling points,” said Ling, calling them out-dated.
What Ling and Fisher propose is making Sarawak a destination synonymous with classical martial art and adventure racing.
Fisher has been an outdoorsman pretty much all his life. With the great Alpine outdoors in his backyard, he’s climbed its rocky faces, raced its rapids and tumbled through its underbrush but it still hasn’t prepared him for Sarawak’s wild outdoors.
And he reckons it’s going to be challenging enough for other elites who come to join their adventure racing programme here in 2011.
“For those exposed to the North American terrain, Sarawak provides a unique and natural beauty that people in the west have not seen before,” noted Fisher who had returned home after a short trip.
On his second visit to Sarawak, he was working towards making the adventure racing programme a reality.
Read more at Borneo Post Online
Chas and Eric were interviewed by Borneo Post recently for their ‘inside’ stories of what makes Chas come back to Sarawak once a year (beside the love-hate-relationship between him and the durians ) and what makes Eric choose to work here. Well, these two foreigners see the potential that we Sarawakians often take for granted.
Our ‘conventional tourism attractions are out-dated’? My word, indeed! We shouldn’t only be selling Sarawak as a destination of longhouses, Iban warriors and sape music! Sarawak has so much more to offer to the world. We have the pristine jungle, the mountains, the rivers, the rapids, the caves, etc, etc – these are our advantage points along side our rich culture.
So be it kung fu or adventure racing, the influx of visitors will definitely boost our domestic economy – if not all the industries, at least the durian industry will prosper
November 16, 2009
By Peter Boon
SIBU: Several low-lying places here were flooded yesterday following incessant rain the past few days.Near Jalan Aman roundabout, several stretches along Jalan Lanang were partly submerged, and as a result vehicles formed a long line on the right side of the road.
The bus-stand near Jalan Aman had become inaccessible to the public by 7.50am yesterday.
“I am very worried that with the continuous rain fuelled by the king tide, Sibu may experience another round of serious flooding,” a resident said to The Borneo Post.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, he recalled that earlier this year, the whole stretch of Jalan Lanang was closed to vehicles except heavy trucks and that he was stranded at home for several days.
He said he it was his hope that the flood mitigation measures now being undertaken could be completed soonest to reduce the frequent occurrence of flood here.
“I have been staying here for the past 20 years since I moved from my home town in Daro, and believe me, every time it rains continuously for a few days, I need to roll up my pants again and wade across the flood water to get to work,” he said.
He said what worried him most was that the flood could force his children to skip school.
Extracted from Borneo Post Online
