First of all, I would like to take this opportunity to wish all my Muslim friends:
“Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Maaf Zahir Batin.”
Me wishing 1Malaysia -- Selamat 1HariRaya, Ketupat Didahulukan, Rendang Diutamakan. Erk, stammered a bit at the first part because, I’m a bit allergic to this ‘1′ thing *chuckles*
I’m sorry I didn’t extend my Raya greeting earlier but Raya is for the whole month of Syawal and today is only the 4th day of Raya, right? I just came back from a long weekend at my hometown, Sarikei. I went back on Thursday morning with Goolooloo tagging along. She was dropping by Sibu to see her beloved boyfriend.
We started our ‘balik kampung’ journey at 6am, reached Sibu around 11am. The road was pretty clear so I had the road all for myself, all the way up. That explained the 5 hours drive from Miri-Sibu. I stopped for lunch in Sibu before continuing my journey to Sarikei.
I spent my time in Sarikei like how I normally do it when I’m back home. Pigging on food, (my puasa effort during the fasting month went down the drain), watching tv and meeting some friends.
Oh, I met up with Alice’s bro in Sarikei. It was kinda funny. I was having my kampua at Hiek Lik Cafe when I saw a familiar looking guy came in with a red helmet on his hand, sat down across me and ordered what else but kampua.
Infamous kampua at Hiek Lik Cafe. Arguable the best kampua in Sarikei No, kampua is not kolo mee. Kampua > Kolo Mee. HAHA! (Image source: S-blog)
I didn’t go and greet the guy because I was unsure and there wasn’t any telling sign that the guy would know me. So, I gobbled down my tasty kampua and went back home. When I checked my Facebook status:
“Bongkersz Bong is having kampua at Hiek Lik cafe. Yum Yum.” 19 September at 11:31 via Selective Twitter Status
I saw a comment:
“Jimmy Ling oi taukeh!!!!!i think i saw u this morning but i wasn’t sure if it was u! are u still in sarikei? pergi lim teh?” 19 September at 12:05
He gave me his phone number and we met for breakfast cum lunch at Glory Cafe the next day. Hey nice meeting you mate! All the best for your future undertakings! *wink!*
I’ll just end this post with some photos of food only available in Sarikei!
Roti Kahwin at Aik Seng Cafe. Your tiny puny Roti Kahwin is a no match against our awesome Roti Kahwin *smugs* Even our burgers are bigger than yours! Bwahahahahahahaha! (image source: S-blog)
ps: I just realised that, instead of putting up ketupat or rendang photos, I put up a photo of kampua with char siew (barbecued pork meat). *sweats*. Please don’t get offended. Photos are for illustration purpose only hehe.
pss: I was busy visiting houses with my partners in crime. Let’s see if there are awesome photos for me to put up on this blog later.
What a historic moment happened last Saturday on August 1, 2009. Once again, Malaysians of different colours, religions and shapes flooding the streets to make their voice heard, and this time it’s about Internal Security Act – ISA.
I didn’t manage to join the rally, me being across the ocean and penniless to actually fly there but I followed closely the activities on the ground that day on Twitter and Facebook. Definitely a new form of media, with traditional playing catch up to the news on the ground. I kept myself updated with tweets from friends like Zul and Vijay, bloggers, media editors, activists and politicians like Wong Chun Wai, Elizabeth Wong, Tian Chua, Lim Kit Siang and many more here and here.
It felt like being there at the battle scenes together with them reading the messages coming in non-stop describing the situations on the ground. Minus the chemical water and tear gas of course. Well, I’ve done too much postings on Facebook and Twitter and I’m a bit tired to repeat it here. Maybe I’ll update with more coherent points later when I’m a bit free. For now, I’ll share just some of my tweets and few links for you to read.
Trust the two nephews to work together to create indiscriminate roadblocks to frustrate the public and put blame on the protesters.1:34 PM Aug 1stfrom Tweets60
Why all detained are from anti ISA side. Where are those from pro ISA? Pewaris? Perkasa? Raja Katak? Chickened out?1:46 PM Aug 1stfrom Tweets60
@kwangchen that’s bad. wish the gov knows it’s better 4people 2express themselves in a peaceful way than keep frustrating them w/ arrests1:58 PM Aug 1stfrom Tweets60
Gov said it’s pointless to demo since ISA is under review. Then let them do a ‘pointless’ demo peacefully, why need to be so paranoid?2:33 PM Aug 1stfrom Tweets60
RT @msiakini Currents of change in the river of history: As you read this, tens of thousands of Malaysians are marching the streets against.. 3:10 PM Aug 1stfrom Tweets60
RT @chunwai09 ISA demo: Running street battles. Water cannon and tear gas used at Jalan Kinabalu. Many have water to wash off tear gas irrit 3:10 PM Aug 1stfrom Tweets60
@jedyoong peaceful demos are not irritating. without demo there’s no independence for malaya. maybe still a malayan union. please 3:41 PM Aug 1stfrom Tweets60
Get it right. Rally participants are peace loving people, not hooligans. Those who fired tear gases and water cannons are the hooligans.3:46 PM Aug 1stfrom Tweets60
Rally participants are not armed, how can be dangerous? Those who use force unnecessarily against defenseless people are the dangerous one3:48 PM Aug 1stfrom Tweets60
@jedyoong isa affect less than 1% malaysians? you must be joking. abuse of isa is a form of injustice and all malaysians suffer from that.3:54 PM Aug 1stfrom Tweets60
Can’t believe that there exist retarded human beings who would actually fight for more restrictions on civil freedom. – VKM. Pathetic retards.4:26 PM Aug 1stfrom Tweets60
News keep spinning ‘this ISA demo not necessary as govt is making reviews’, so why waste time reacting unnecessarily to the demo? Funny9:15 PM Aug 1stfrom Tweets60
The rest of my tweets reside at here. Please read the articles written at the given links below.
You have the type of personality that people either love or hate.
You’re opinionated, dramatic, intense, and very outspoken.
And some people can’t get enough of you – they’re totally addicted.
Others, well, they wish you were a little more reserved.
Your strength: Your flair
Your weakness: If you think it, you say it
Your power color: Scarlet red
Your power symbol: Inverted triangle
Your power month: March
Oh! bongkersz got flair.. and if he thinks it, he says it… that explained a lot of things muahahahaha! So, any of you addicted to me? Or do you wish that I am a little more reserved?
Hmm.. the world population is around 6.7 billion (July 2008 estimation), and out of that how many people share the same birthday as mine? So many ‘troublemakers’ out there. LOL!
ps: “If your birthday is any day except February 29, you share your birthday with approximately 1/365 of any population (0.274%).”
Rodz: Hey man, nice blog u got here. Enjoy reading your post, like the way u wrote it all. I juz started entering the blogging world so i think i need to read more from... on About
Eyes Wide open: Thanks for the heads up, Bong! Would really appreciate if you could campaign for the EM voices to BANGKIT as we really want to hear from... on Bangkitlah Malaysia!
drumsticks: my mum asked me if it was you who appeared in the newspaper. lol. she knew i have a friend name bongkersz. : ) you’re famous! on Pimped by The Star!
No, kampua is not kolo mee. Kampua > Kolo Mee. HAHA! (Image source: S-blog)
As the time of writing, still short 471 votes to be No. 1 HAHAHAHA!
