I AM THE BORNEO EXPLORER 婆罗洲探险者

Just came back from Sibu, and Sarikei. Now there’s only one word to describe “TIRED” . I hate to go to small town, but what to do, I need to eat, I need to pay my bills, I need to pay my loan, and I need money. Is been raining since morning, and I was worried that my flight will delay on that morning. But luckily everything goes well, after 30 minutes later, I reach Sibu. And straight away follow my co-worker to Sarikei. There is no airport at Sarikei, so we go by land. In the car I had done my planning already, for tonight no choices as I need to had dinner with the management, but tomorrow morning, I can had my own meal. I want to eat the “kan pua” noodles, is too delicious. Most of the people at Sibu, and Sarikei they speak the “foo chou” dialect, I’m not very good at foo chou, but at lest I can understand what they’re saying. For me I think foo chou is the hardest dialect to learn among all the Chinese dialect. After a few days at Sarikei, finally my work is done. My company...

The two hours for visiting the culture village is really not enough for me. But the curtains goes up at 7pm, I don’t want to miss out the starting ceremony. The screen is been setup at the stage of culture village, in the middle of the forest. There is a booth that sells a lot of movie merchandise, not just that we can also took our photo with Speiderman, and Master Yoda. The Nokia booth are just beside the merchandise booth, we can have our photo been printed out free of charge. The Nokia model will use the Nokia N70 to shoot and print out for us. Talk about the Nokia models, they are really pretty, fluent in both Chinese and English, with long hair and fair skin. Ok, Ok, back to our movie. Beside that there are also food stalls that sell burger, French fried, wafer, noodles, rice, drinks, and many more. If it's rain, the organizer also setup a backup cinema at the hall near the open-air stage. But very lucky that night the weather is just fine, the respond was very good as well....

When visiting along houses by houses, there are also many sculpt work from various sculptor. Sculptor: Mathew Ngau Jau, Date: 12 April, 2003 – 10 May, 2003. Bali Intiang Sideng Sinan (Sand Stone). Mathew depicts his people’s traditional motifs, the acestors are the people who guards the community, in the stone. Born in Long Semiang, Baram Sarawak, Mathew is a wood carver and a musician. Mathew had gone solo and joint exhibitions in Australia, Germany, France, Japan, and Taiwan. Bbehind the two stone sculpture, there is this one tall trunk standing next to the lake. It didn’t have any sign on who the sculptor is. Here a close up on the tall trunk, it looks like a Ulu people traditional crafting A quiet lake at the culture village. Sculptor: Raj Thiagarajan, Date: 12 April, 2003 – 10 May, 003 Mask (Granite). This scholar-artist sees many features in common between the tribal masks of India, Africa and Borneo. “People out on their mask so others may not see their real selves”. Raj desig...

My last stop is the Chinese people. When the Chinese first come to Sarawak most of them are farmer, they grow white paper, coco, and vegetables. The Chinese are very hardworking, and very good in doing business. So that’s why until today Chinese are still very calculative. Chinese like red, red means good luck, and it can scare away the demons. Some of the Chinese did put antithetical couplet on both side of the main door, this is to hope to get a good fortune for the whole year. That day when I visit the cultural village, most of the door was lock. That includes this Chinese home, too bad. Information on the Chinese culture A very old style Chinese house Couplet written in red paper, and stick on both side of the door. And in the middle the word “Fu” means Good Fortune, Blessing, or Happiness. Shrine The side view of the Shrine This got nothing to do with the Chinese culture, I spot this when I’m on my way to the movie.