Pimped by The Star!

Other posts can wait, this one cannot.

Blurred screenshot of my Twitter account

First time getting pimped by The Star, together with other Sarawakian bloggers like Kenny Sia, Dine with Annna – Anna Bella Wong ,  Mum-mum: Eat Eat – Rowena Tan, Sixthseal – Huai Bin and Lolly Raja, founder of Kelabit Wiki Project.

Although no mention of my blog name and address in the paper version, (The Star later includes it in the online version), I was quoted in few paragraphs (very politically correct one).  Let me quote one for you guys:

“I am a proud Sarawakian. Sarawak has so much to share with the people out there and I feel obliged to share all the good and bad things about this place so people can learn, gain or make something out of it.“

And they put up my handsome face HAHA! (Thank you Ras, gambar diambik ko juak dipake aku hahah!) Let’s hope #yorais doesn’t read today’s paper. Oh ya, I bought my The Star paper today, after not doing so for so long. Ehem, you know why I don’t buy The Star all this while hehehe

So, grab a copy of The Star today, because I am in it! Star Two pullout, pg 2 and pg. 3. Just don’t read too much on the news inside the Nation pullout eg. Umno’s doors ‘never shut’

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‘Makan duit rakyat’ is bad for your stomach…

I am not feeling well today. Went to the toilet a bit too many times yesterday and this morning. Down with fever last night. I slept the whole night, from 7.30pm till this morning.

Heat stroke? All the traveling and standing under the sun for the past two weeks. Food poisoning? Too much beer? Wait, I think I know  the source of my food poisoning. I came back from Bintulu last Thursday and RasMhd fetched me from airport using Sarah. I left Sarah with him and Luky before I went to Bintulu. “Oi, sapa makan aiskrim lam keta aku, dah ya tumpah kat tepi seat!!! Passenger seat. Cheebuy takorang yeeer..”

Went to Bintulu to see this o.O

We decided to eat at Borneo Convention Centre Kuching (BCKK) where Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) convention is held for the past one week. RasMhd needed to go back there to for some photo-shoot sessions. He’s one of the many photographers for the PBB convention. Of course, he is the best among all! “heh heh, promote boh sik!”

A peek inside a photog’s bag

Took this photo when I fetched RasMhd and Luky at their hotel the other day. Luky was distributing tags, bags, hotel keys.“Ney bag aku oii!”

Gotta love the theme for this year – Transformasi Rakyat untuk Mencapai Ekonomi Berpendapatan Tinggi (Transforming People Towards High-Income Economy), hope they understand what it really means, especially the ‘high-income economy part’. Since PM came out with this ‘high-income’ economy thing, everybody is talking about it. Just like the 1Malaysia hype. Islam Hadhari. Malaysia Boleh. Malaysians are suckers for slogans. One of our favourite past times is sloganeering, I guess.

The state relies heavily on palm oil plantations, logging and petroleum as its main sources of income. Apart from petroleum and its related industries, the other sectors are not exactly high-income sectors because those sectors depend a lot on cheap foreign labours with non existence of minimum wages. This article written by Dr. Fong Chan Onn is a good read, for us to understand the limitations and things we need to change before we embark on this mission to be a nation of ‘high-income’ economy – Caught in middle-income trap.

Back to the story, we had dinner at BCCK since meals were prepared for the PBB delegates and people related to the function. Er, I am also related, since I was the driver for my friends who were working for the event. Ha! Ha!

Awesome dishes. Especially love the Daging Masak Kicap. (Beef in Soy Sauce) It reminds me of the days I was a hostel student back in Kolej TDTH Bujang. One of the few dishes at the dining hall I looked forward to eat at that time. LOL!

Just both of us were sitting at the table, eating food prepared for 10 persons. I went home fully stuffed. The next morning (yesterday), I visited the toilets thrice. Few more visits to the loo during along the day. Also a bit stressed out because of the amount of emails I needed to reply, reports to write and meetings to attend.  After work, went to see Sai Wan of The Star for a little chat. He is here for the launch of The Star, Sarawak Edition. I have been tweet-chatting with him on Twitter for a while now. It is great to meet new people and I always look forward to do so to get to know the real persons apart from their online personas, or reputations.

I went back home, dozed off till this morning and visited the toilet few more times again. I need to see a doctor if I still religiously visit the toilet. Hmm… pretty sure this is due to the ‘free food’ I ate last Thursday night at BCCK. I have learned something from this and I wish to share it with my readers. 

1. ‘Makan duit rakyat’ (eating people’s money) is never good. Kthxbai.

2. Toilet affair is more fun now, with the invention of Twitter.

ps: High-income economy. No minimum wages. Message delivered by old farts, for old farts. Party full of old farts. Bunch of old farts run the country. How?

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Meet Larissa & Xin Nian Kuai Le!!

Ola world!

Heh!

Cibol was here during the weekend, attending a friend’s wedding. So we met up at Rasa Rasa. I was supposed to pick him up at the airport but somehow my Celcom line kaput-ed that Sunday morning. Up #yorais, Celcom! So, he couldn’t reach him, vice versa.

Another friend of ours, Celestine went to pick him up instead. He joined us.. er, wait, I joined them for breakfast. Celestine was with his wife and his very cute little girl, Larissa. I couldn’t resist to cuddle her. Wah.. the paternal instinct was kicking in! LOL!

Deymm, most of my friends are married with kids now. Or planning to get married soon. In fact, I am going to Miri few days after Chinese New Year for a friend’s wedding! I am thinking to drive back Sarikei tomorrow or Thursday for the Chinese New Year holiday. You guys out there, drive carefully and be safe!

A festive occasion,

YEAR OF THE TIGER,

happiness and goodness await..

ROOAWWRRR!!!

HUAT HUAT HUAT!!

ps: If you guys are around Sarikei during the Chinese New Year time, give me a call!

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Huarrggghhh!

It has been a week, me here in Kuching. Some of you may already know that I have moved from Miri to Kuching in pursue of my career as a modern slave. I have been moving from one place to another place quite a number of times I think I am so used to it, it is part of my life now.

I wish..

I was born in Kuching, then grew up in Miri. Then we moved to Sarikei when I was 9. I moved to Miri on my own to study at Kolej T.D.T.H Bujang when I was 13.  The after SPM, I continued my tertiary education in UTM Skudai, Johor Bahru. After I finished my degree, I went to KL to work.

First work place was in Puchong, Selangor and I was staying at Kelana Jaya with bunch of friends. After two and a half year, I changed company and worked at Phileo Damansara. After few months in the company, I was assigned to an office in Kuching to monitor a project in Limbang. I spent few months in Kuching before I was called back to Damansara. By then I already moved out from my previous place in Kelana Jaya, so I stayed at Ampang.

Another few months passed by and I received another job offer to work in a new company.This time, I was told that I would be stationed in Miri, Sarawak. Few months after working in Miri, I was sent to Lahad Datu on a frequent basis to monitor a project there. And by end of last year, I got a new offer to work here in Kuching. From the discussion with the management, it seems like nothing is going to change (on the moving part) because I a going to make frequent trips (or probably stayed there during the project duration) to these places – Bintulu, Bakun, Tinjar, Baram, Miri.

Good things about moving from one place to another place – you get to meet new people, make new friends, exploring new places, activities.. expanding your social circle.

What am I blabbering here? Actually, I am just bored and I have no idea what to write for this blog. Friends asked me why I do not want to write about myself and my life. Well, the truth is that,  there is nothing interesting about my life. I am a boring person. The ‘interesting’, juicy stories are not meant to be shared in public. That is why I choose to write about things happening around me. I can’t wait to get my hands on the Nokia Booklet 3G so I can have something to write about.

WOMWorld Nokia is sending me a Nokia Booklet 3G ‘mini laptop’ to play with. According to the DHL shipment tracker, it has arrived today, but I have yet to receive any call from DHL to collect it. They called me on Friday asking me about the shipment to confirm that it is a laptop of  ‘Nokia’ brand. Probably afraid the customs would think it is a mobile phone, since *cough cough* some people think Nokia is all about mobile phones only. Keep you guys updated!

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