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Sibu – Day Two

Day One is HERE

I woke up in the a.m finding myself full of energy after few hours of sleeping. With nothing to do, I grab my camera and went down to the street to get something to eat and for a walk. The street is quiet, and cold. There’s a big open air park. This is a new park, cause I never seen this few years ago, yet is a.m but there are still people hanging around in the park.

There’s a big statue of a goose standing in the middle of the park. Surrounding it are the statues of twelve Chinese zodiacs. Not sure what it means, but I guess the goose must be symbolized of Sibu. It has a “S” shape on the goose, and Sibu starts with “S”…logic, agree? I went back to the hotel after my digicam went on low batt, it needs to recharge, and so am I.

The Goose Statue

Windows Of Sibu

The pavilion roof.

Wet & Dry Market

A wide open-air use to host most of the street event.

Sibu – Day One

Last week when I arrive at Sibu, we were to go to Sarikei for work immediately. So I didn’t have time to take photo at Sarikei *sorry to chen not be able to take photos of Sarikei :( *. After finish work that night we head back to Sibu by car, when we reach Sibu our co-worker brings us for dinner. It is very generous of them to drive their way all the way from Sarikei to Sibu, and bring us dinner again.

My co-worker told me that this is a very famous place for seefood, the food is tasty, and the price is reasonable. I’m not much of a seafood lover, but I can eat almost anything now. I haven’t had a proper meal since 5.00a.m.

While waiting for our dish to come, I went around the restaurant to see if have anything interesting. There is a corner where they kept the fish, and prawns. Just when I walk closer, I heard noise made by frog. I open one of the box cover and discover there are many frogs hiding in there. And some of them are FAT!!! In Chinese we don’t called this frog, we called it “田鸡” translate to English “farm chicken”. I ate this before, if cook with ginger and Soya sauce, it will become a very delicious dish.

After our dinner, they send us to our hotel, my co-worker and I live at the Premier Hotel. After I grab my room key, immediately I rush into my room. Bath and zzzzz….

The seafood restaurant situated after the ferry service from Sarikei to Sibu

Prawns: “Don’t even think about eating us!”
Fish: “Yall’re dead meat.”

The “田鸡” a.k.a “Farm Chicken”

Sibu Premier Hotel

A very late check-in

The view from my room window

New Ice-Kacang Stall

Hi guys…I’m back.

Yesterday evening went to the new ice-kacang stall, last time it was like this. After that the government had take up their place to build a beautiful park, and the Sarawak Government had also build a new food stall for them to operate their business.

This building had it own unique design, is not like any other food stall that build in a strait line, this one is a circle. So before you choose which stall to sit down, you can walk around the stall then make the decision.

My friends and I had chosen this “Ah Yeo Ais Kacang” I guess that the boss uses his sure name as the sign board. I’m craving for ice-kacang now….just when we had finished our drinks, the sky starts to pouring rains. This is still ok for me, what worse is that I forgot to close my car windows, and my car seat are all wet!!!

A part of the new ice-kacang building

Ah Yeo Ice Kacang

Is a family business, while the husband do the marketing, then the wife do the production this is a very good coordination between husband and wife.

My ice-kacang (red bean drinks)

This is how it looks like when you dig the red bean that hidden inside the ice. RM1.20

Raining, and I had forgot completely about my car windows…I am getting old

Hui Sing Garden Hawker centre

The Hui Sing hawker canter is also known as Hui Sing open-air food center. It had more than 20 shop lots, each selling different kind of food, and drinks. I skip my lunch yesterday, and I was very hungry and after reaching home immediately I went to Hui Sing to have my dinner.
The food business is very good at Hui Sing open-air, though there also quiet a numbers of coffee shops in the same area, but this didn’t affect the food business at Hui Sing. I should get a shop lot and start selling Chicken Rice if I tired of doing my current job. Each month with a fix income, and everyday have to deal with management, and give answer to the end-user.
How can I survive…?

Most of the people had their dinner there.

This is our drink, the name is very special is called the “Marlboro” RM1.20

But not recommended, cause is taste just like an ordinary ang tau chanlut (ABC).

Our Cantonese Kuih Tiao RM3.50

and our Satay RM3.50

A poor little kitten is waiting for someone to feed him/her.

Visit to Fisherman Village @ Muara Tebas

Before we plan to go home, the sky became dark and the sun was cover by clouds. So I change my mind and decided to have a walk on the jetty, I was very frustrated because my digicam is on low batt mode. I still have a lot of view to be capture into my digicam.

As my friend and I walk on the jetty, we can feel the warm breeze blowing at us. Wei Shian look at me and laugh, he told me that my face looks red. I look at my own hand, it is very red as well. Just when we reach the end of the jetty, the digicam batt finally runs off. Oh man! I hate it, with all of this great view, but can’t capture them. I must come back again to take more photos, if not I will not be satisfy.

I start to chat with the people at the jetty. One of them told me that this is the first time he fish here, and hopes that he could catch a big fish to barbeque. The tide is very low, is hard to catch a fish with low tide. One of them had caught one very strange fish, its throat grows big like a ball, and there are tinny thorns. That guy use a lighter to burn its ball shape throat, what a fucker. I look back from the jetty, and I can see The Green Mountain Rock Temple became very small. I hurry switch on my digicam, and use the last power to shot that view.

When we walk back, two kids were sitting in front of their house. I look closer, and saw a round shape species with a long tail. Is a horseshoe crab, it had live since the time before the dinosaur age. The kid said he caught it, and plan to barbeque it with his girlfriend tonight.

The jetty, there’s a seafood restaurant on the left site

This is Wei Shian on a smaller jetty.

Low tide, most of the boats is park here and tie up at the stick to prevent their bots floating away when high tide.

Two fisher man is painting their boat, and a lot of fishing nets can be seen here.

Me on the jetty

Fishing boat.

When I look back I was wondering how do they build this jetty, how they build the foundation? How can the cement dry on wet land?

The Green Mountain Rock Temple. Actually I have a few panoramas shot on the temple and the fisherman village, but the output is not very good so I didn’t post it up. When I shoots, the batt is almost ran out so I didn’t pay much attention when I shoot it.

青山岩 The Green Mountain Rock Temple @ Muara Tebas

A temple situated half way up the mountain, bellow the temple is a Malay village, and most of them are fisher man. It took more than half and hour car ride from Kuching town to reach there. That place is called the Muara Tebas, for Chinese we called it 青山 (Green Mountain).

The weather was very hot when we start our journey, when I look at the time it was one o’clock. The road to Green Mountain is not in a very good condition, it was a bumpy ride. There are a number of industrial factories along the road, so some parts of the road are badly damage by heavy vehicles. When Wei Shian and I reach our destination, I was surprise that there are no Malay kids asking for entrance fees. Usually there will be kids asking for entrance fees, and parking fees.

I love this place; it was very beautiful and has a very magnificent view. Slowly we walk up the steps one by one, I also capture every image into my camera one by one. I don’t have a spare battery and I didn’t recharge the batt last night, hope my camera won’t die on me now *worried*.

Though that day was not either the first or the fifteen of Chinese lunar calendar, but yet there are still a lot of people praying at the temple. I bought my self a set of joss stick, red candles, and paper money for RM2.00. I don’t really know the sequence of worshipping each god, so I just follow my instinct. Just like I predicted, my instinct was not 100% correct cause in the end I still left a few extra joss stick, I must miss out a few spot. After worshiping all the gods, I start to walk around the temple. At the left site of the temple there is a giant Buddha footprint, a shot story on the Buddha footprint.

The foot print of Load Buddha was left behind when he descended from the Tavatimsa Heaven after preaching the Abbidhamma to his mother. The imprint symbolizes the one hundred and eight auspicious sign of his soles. The food print is one of the sacred in Buddhism and is commonly found in Burmese temple.

There is also a very beautiful and large water fountain near the 108 Buddha foot print. Then Wei Shian said that there is a path that lead into the forest, because of curiosity we follow the path into the forest. As we go deeper Wei Shian said that maybe he knows what this place is for, I asked him to keep quite first and keep on walking. Yes He is right, it is a graveyard, and it is for Malay people, I hurry took a shot and went away.

My camera shuttle keeps on open and close, until I realize the annoying low batt symbol start to display at the top left corner of my camera. OMG, what a perfect time to ran out of batt please don’t die on me now. I still have a lot of thing to shoot at.

At then is about 2:00pm, there is no doubt I’ll get sunburn. I have to get really to be laugh by my co-worker tomorrow. I wanted to stay longer, but it was too hot and dry so we left. We did visit the Malay village, and I will post it up in my next blog after I have finish compiling it.