Sarawak

Smart Bookshop Miri & The Vision of Paradise

Smart Bookshop Miri

Being an avid reader, I was pleased that Smart Bookshop Sdn Bhd has recently opened a branch on Level 1 Permaisuri Imperial Mall. With a lot of free time on my hands today, I dropped in the bookstore to browse around the store. The store carries a wide range of books and stationery but it is unlikely that you will ...

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A Gastronomic Trip And A Trip Down Memory Lane To Bintangor & Sarikei

Coconut Tom Yam Freshwater Prawn Noodle

June 6, 2015 After taking our complimentary breakfast at Bamboo House in Premier Hotel, my wife and I waited for my mother-in-law and our niece Wan Ying who were staying with my wife’s cousin. We left Sibu by taxi at about 8.40 am and arrived in Bintangor at 9.30 am. Before this trip, I had googled to see if there ...

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Brekkie At Ming Xin Coffee House Miri

Fried kueh tiaw

I dropped by HSBC this morning to do some personal banking via their ATM machine. Realising that it has been quite a while since we last visited the Ming Xin Coffee House located in the front portion of the building, my wife and I decided to have breakfast there. During our previous visits, we have enjoyed their fried kueh tiaw ...

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A Wedding Photo Shoot Site Off The Beaten Path In Miri

Are you hunting down a place for your wedding photo shoot location but have no idea where to go? You want a location that is not so commonly used for wedding photo shoot in Miri. You are looking for something different. You don’t even want to consider the well-known parks in Miri like the City Fan, Taman Awan and Bulatan ...

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A Burst of Yellow Flames

The yellow flame (Peltophorum pterocarpum ) tree behind the Hong Leong Bank

I was walking from my office near Wang Tze Tai Café to the Hong Leong Bank opposite Mega Hotel this afternoon when I saw that the yellow flame (Peltophorum pterocarpum ) tree behind the bank was bursting with yellow flowers. After work, I took my compact Canon S100 and went to take photos of the tree and its flowers. These ...

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The Most Beautiful Golden Shower Trees In Miri

The golden showers of the Cassia fistula

Every time the golden shower (Cassia Fistula) trees along Jalan Krokop across the road from UMW Toyota Service Centre are in full bloom, I feel enthralled by their beauty. For the past couple of weeks, two of the trees have been profusely covered with yellow flowers and are almost devoid of leaves. Bunches of flowers hang in long pendulous racemes ...

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My Form One Class At Kai Chung 1970

It was 1970.  Thirty seven students from St Augustine’s Primary School and Council Town School were placed in Form One B at Kai Chung Middle School with Ms Constance Yii Mei Ho as the form teacher. The class was as a mirthful bunch, earning the dubious reputation as the noisiest class in the school that year. There were of course ...

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916 Malaysia Day Countdown 2014 In Miri

916 Malaysia Day Countdown 2014

What a countdown it was! Thousands thronged Jalan Post and North Yu Seng Road from early yesterday evening till 2am this morning to celebrate the 916 Malaysia Day Countdown 2014, making it a most memorable night for all.

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Good News For Waffle Fans….Wafflehaus Miri Is Open For Business

The Interior of Wafflehaus

Lazy Sunday. We ended up at the newly opened Waffleshaus for breakfast. The outlet with waffle concept is the first of its kind in Miri and is located at Centre Point 1 behind Lorenzo. The outlet offers specially homemade waffles with many variations on the menu. The classic series offers Classic Waffle, Sweet Milk Waffle, Ice-cream Waffle, Nuttella Waffle, Peanut ...

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The Best Laksa In Miri

CNN Travel ranked Penang Assam Laksa 7th out of the 50 most delicious food in the world. And I think that is because CNN hasn’t tried Sarawak laksa! Sarawak laksa is a unique Sarawakian dish of beehoon (rice vermicelli) in a fragrant soup made from a base of chicken soup, sambal belacan, sour tamarind, garlic, galangal, lemon grass and coconut ...

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