I AM THE BORNEO EXPLORER 婆罗洲探险者

Now I’m sitting in front of my PC with a little dizzy on my head while writing my write-up on the Euro Traveling Theme Park that I visited last night. My friends and I was having drinks and satay at the Hui Sing open-air when I receive a call from Kuang asking me to join them to the Theme Park. So I quickly finish up my dinner and follow them to the theme park. When we reach, the place was pack with people. This Theme Park had arrived at Kuching since last year December, and it is open to the public until late midnight. I bought a RM3.00 entrance fees, and bought another 6 tokens which cost me RM12.00. Basically the park divided into two part, one is for thrill ride, like the Xtream where it let people sit in the both end, and keep on spinning and spinning until you vomit all your dinner out. Another one is the Tagada Spin is like a plate where it lets people sits on the edge, then it will start spinning, and spinning again, you are not require to hold the safety bar, as the force t...

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...