I just got back to Miri this afternoon after spending the last two days in Kuching, savouring Kuching’s good food and meeting up with a few old friends whom I have not seen for decades. My eldest brother Tian and I flew to Kuching on Friday afternoon by Air Asia and we put up at the house of my second ...
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Breaking News – Huge Monster At Curtin University Miri Campus Lake
This has just hit the news and droves of people are flocking to the Miri campus of Curtin University today hoping to catch a view of the Curtin monster. The buzz started at about 7.00 am today when a few students saw a weird looking monster in the lake within the campus. The students were walking near the lake when ...
Read More »Two-Year-Old Tot Dancing The Jive To Elvis Presley’s Jailhouse Rock
An YouTube video of two-year-old William Stokkebroe dancing to the jive to Elvis Presley’s Jailhouse Rock has gone viral, garnering almost 4 million views, almost 16,000 likes and over 1,700 comments since it was uploaded about a week ago on March 15. Dressed in a checked shirt and jeans, William wows over the crowd by gyrating his hips, clapping, tapping ...
Read More »Joe Hill’s Amazing 3D Artwork
We often jump to conclusions based on our observations. What we see may not be the truth so it is really wrong to jump to conclusions based on just what we see. As bystanders look on in horror, an artist appears to leap off a building. He was actually just leaping on to one of his amazing 3D artwork. The ...
Read More »Linsanity: The Jeremy Lin Phenomenon That Is Driving The World Linsane
A phenomenon is sweeping through the US, China, Taiwan and many other parts of the world. It is called Linsanity. It all started with Jeremy Lin. He now boasts more than 1.5 million followers on on Weibo and hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter and other social media sites.
Read More »Honorary Doctorate Arouses Widespread Controversy In Malaysia
An honorary doctorate is a high level academic honorary degree that an university confers to a recipient and exempts them from the normal requirements for that academic degree. The degree is given to honor the recipient and also benefits the university or degree-giving institution by association. Recipients’ qualifications may range greatly. They can have no relationship to the school, no ...
Read More »Reunion With My Teacher And Classmates
Facebook is a great tool for social networking and I’ve enjoyed catching up with old friends. Many people who have had near-death experiences say that they saw their lives flash right before their eyes. Well, this is a bit like how I’ve felt when it comes to my Facebook encounters. Thanks to this site, I’ve reconnected with people whom I ...
Read More »Hakka “Sexy And I Know It” Goes Viral
A Hakka Chinese New Year video has gone viral on YouTube, attracting more than 370,000 views since it was uploaded on January 22. The Sabah-made video was directed by photographer-cum-artistic dance assistant Skyler Liew, 30. It was shot using a Pentax DLSR camera at various locations around Kota Kinabalu a day before Chinese New Year and featured dancers from the ...
Read More »Thank You Lord For Answering My Prayers
Thank you Lord for answering my prayers. I left Miri at about 9.30 am this morning, arriving at Empire Country Club & Hotel at about 11.15 a.m. As I do not know the way to Jerudong Park Medical Centre (JPMC), I had made arrangement with Ken Cho, my best buddy in Brunei, to pick me up at Empire and send ...
Read More »Goodbye, My Friend And Rest In Peace!
The death of a close friend is a bitter sweet experience. The loss is bitter. Sadness also is sweet because of memories of shared joys and of sticking together in tough times. It is only because our connections with our friends are meaningful that sadness envelops loss. We make attachments and experience sadness when a friend dies. It is part ...
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