I AM THE BORNEO EXPLORER 婆罗洲探险者

The green hill temple 青山岩

My previous visit to the temple is here

On the fifth day of Chinese New Year, the weather was cloudy. I bring my parent to The Green Hill Temple to pray. It is a temple that situated on top of a mountain; of course there is stairway for people to walk to the temple. My father told me that, during his time there where no road to the temple, they need to use a boat to reach to the temple. Today there are good tarmac road build for people from Kuching town all the way to the temple. And because of Chinese New Year, the place was crowded by people. Just we reach the temple, it starts to rain. All of a sudden, the temple was pack with people. My parent went to pray, while my brother and I went to take a couple of shots.

After my parent finish praying, we went to eat some vegetarian noodles that prepared by the temple. The noodle was nice, but I only manage to get a small portion of the noodle, cause there are too many people. The rain had stop after we finish our noodles, then I helped my mom and dad took a few shots, my dad was holding my mom’s hand…how sweet. I don’t usually see my dad do this in front of his kids, but I can tell the older my folks get, they love each other more. By the time we left the temple, again the rain start to pouring heavily. But there are still people keep on coming, all heading to the temple to pray. Dad was holding mom hand all the way to the car, aw~~I’m glad and happy to see that. 拜的神多，自有神保佑。

The temple, 青山岩

One of the pavilion in the middle of the mountain.

This is the place where we burn the “money” to wish for healthy and good luck.

I barely breath and open my eyes, as the joss stick smoke was everywhere.

A lot of people (善男信女) praying.

The doorknob

The orange candle, light this to wish for healthy for the whole family.

A joss tick-burner

Buddha

Light up the joss stick here.

What a great time to rain.

The Dragon sculpture

The 108 Buddha food steps, there is a story regarding this foot steps. I did wrote about it in here.

The wisdom mini waterfall.

This little kid, he keep on staring me when I took photos. I think he want to be On Air in my blog, so there you are kid...smile for the camera :)

The Euro Traveling Theme Park @ MJC Batu Kawa Kuching

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 that cause by the spin will keep you stick on your sit, and many more other rides. Two is a tent that let people win price like dolls, you just have to understand the rules to win, and if you hit the jackpot then a price will be given away.

My friends and I had tried the Destructor, I had record a movie clip on the ride. When it starts spinning, I was very exited and happy. But after a few minutes, I start to feel strange, my head start to get dizzy, and I can feel that the dinner that I ate half-an-hour ago is trying to get out from my stomach. The stupid thing just go round and round, it even goes upside-down, when it ends the rest of my friends had the same situation like me. So we all stop for a while, and went to the tent to win some stuff. When we wanted to start our next ride, the rains pour heavily. OMG!!! There goes my RM3.00, we all wait there for the rain to stop, but it didn’t. With no choice we all run back to our car, all wet. The next morning when I woke up, my head still feel a bit dizzy…

An adult entrance fees cost RM3.00

Token boot to purchase tokens

I bought a total of 6, which cost RM12.00, some ride require 3 tokens, where some require 6

To win a price, you need to throw the ball to hit the teeth of the clown

…then you can take away one of this little dog with a I love you bone on his mouth

The Tagada Spin

Phantom Chase, this is like a ghost house.

More dolls

My friend try this, 3 token and you can pick any five cards you like. There are number in the card, and if you card had an odd number then you win

But I don’t think the theme park management will put any odd numbers in, cause my friend had play two rounds and walk away with empty hand

The Destructor

The four of us waiting to be destruct

Let the fun begins baby!!!

The tallest, and most danger ride of all. The Xtream

Merry-go- round

yeah, just when we want to go for the next ride. It starts to rain.

The rain is not getting any smaller, so we all went home wet. But at least we win something home, two wet dolls

Sibu, Sarikei trip - I miss my bed

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 had book the last flight back to Kuching for me, and it was not good at all. The rain pour heavily, I worried that my flight might be cancel. Please let me go back, I miss my bed, and I don’t want to stay here another day. I start praying in the airport, until I hear the friendly announcement, *ding dong* calling for MH2719, from Sibu to Kuching. Please proceed to bla bla bla...*ding dong*. Oh thank god!!! I can go back.

While I was at Sibu airport, there are a lot of Malay people. Then I just remember that Hari Raya Qurban is just next month, and now most of them are going to Mekka for pilgrimage. I chat with the uncle sitting next to me, and he told me that he is a retire government servant. This is the first time he went to Mekka, and it cost him around 20k for the whole trip. The route is about 9 hours from Kuala Lumpur to Mekka. It will be good, cause when Raya Qurban it is a public holiday. Means I can zzzz at home =P

I was ordered to go to Sibu, and Sarikei

Need to board the ferry to cross the river, opposite is Sarikei.

So after the bridge is complete, will be more convenience, as no need to wait for the ferry.

Off duty for Christmas

My lunch, fried mee. The portion of large, but is cost very cheap.

my drink, white maize. My food and drink only cost me RM3.50, very cheap.

Perfect! At the back of the Inn I live, is a grave yard.

The next morning, search for “kan pua” noodle

The boss asked me “xia no miang?”, I reply “nu pung ngui kan pua shok wa.”

Hot Milo

and the boss had cook me a plate of “kan pua” just like what I ordered

The soup is free.

At Sibu airport was crowded with Malay friends.

All with the same destination, Mekka.

Finally I can go home.
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Good night guys, I’m very tired now, and I need to get some rest. See you all after Christmas…

Star Rainforest Movie Festival @ Sarawak Cultural Village. Let the show begins ;)

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. after the first part of the movie finish, we all clap hands. But that night the mosquito are very happy, cause all of a sudden so many fresh blood to drink. Until today I still feel a bit itch on the mosquito bites.

It is a very good experience on watching movie on such environment, but next time I hope that they will show new movies instead of the old one. LOTR 1 – 3 a total of 9 hours, is quite long.

Behold, the first ever cinema in a rainforest at Kuching

Spiderman and Wilson (Me)

Jing, Master Yoda, and Wilson (Me)

Various kind of movie merchandise. There is King Kong, Garfield, Fantastic Four, Kung Fu Hustle, Zoro 2, National Treasure, Pirate of the Caribbean, Lizzy Mc Guire, and etc.