Day +1238 : Sarawak holiday – a snake from sky

I am fine today.

I brought along a Celcom Mobile Broadband modem to Bintangor thinking that I could have fast internet connection over there. But I was disappointed to find out that mobile internet service there was in fact slower than the narrowband service. Apart from handling some emails, I couldn’t do much with this kind of speed.

I come to my 2nd sister house to do some work and also to update my blog today (Sat, 28 November 2009). However, I backdate the post to reflect the happenings on the day.

When we were in my 2nd sister house in Sibu the second day we reached Sarawak. A snake dropped from the ceiling and landed beside Aaron. At that time he was drawing in the bed room with other children. The snake was small and was about one foot long. It was very fortunate that the snake didn’t drop onto his body.

The maid came to the rescue bravely by hitting the snake with a broom stick but when the snake started to run after being hit, she was no longer brave. She ran away faster than the snake. I grabbed the broom stick from her and knocked the snake to death.

After having a nice mee sua for lunch at my sister's house, we went to Bintangor kampong using my my 2nd sister’s new Proton Saga 1.3.

The snake from the sky
Some more native olives

This one cost RM8/kg. It is really nice...
The olive seed
Langsat

Chicken
Mee Sua
See you next post :-)

Day +1237 : Back to Sarawak

I am fine today.

Our flight to Sibu is 6:35pm. I booked 2 taxis to transport 10 of us to LCCT; 6 from my family, 2 nieces, my mother-in-law and the maid.

I called the taxi driver, Mr. Yan, as listed in Day +1183 : Taxi fare to KLCC or KLIA. He normally charges RM60 for the trip but because each of the taxis has to carry 5 passengers this time, he demanded for an extra charge of RM10 for each taxi. I think this is reasonable. However, one thing I must remind you is that this taxi driver is always late. He came 15 minutes late this time :-(

We reached Sibu airport at 9:05pm. My second sister, Sieh Kiong and my brother-in-law came to fetch us.

My sister treated us with delicious chicken soup and native olive for dinner. The native olive is only available in Sarawak.

We will be going back to kampong, Sg. Mador , tomorrow.

Take a group photo while waiting for taxis to come
In the cabin
View from airplane - 2012 scene? Looks like everything is on fire...
I sat with Joseph. Daniel, my mother-in-law and the maid sat somewhere else.
These two gave my wife a hard time in the plane - don't want to fasten seat belt, kept standing up during take-off and landing :-(
Native olive of Sarawak

Chicken soup - this giant chicken weight 3.5kg - RM14/kg for the alive one
Giant drumstick for Daniel
Nutritious kampong chicken eggs - 1/3 the size of the AA size eggs but cost RM0.70 each
Soursop - ripe from the tree. Excellent quality :-) My sister's neighbor knows that I like this fruit very much, so he passed many to my sister after learning that I am coming back. Some claim that the fruit is 10000 times stronger than chemo drug. I did some research on that and found out that the claim is really very weak and misleading.
Making sousop drink
My third sister's durians. Not as good as the one in KL but this is "certified" organic :-) So they should be healthy.
See you next post :-)

Day +1236 : Setia Alam church outing

I am fine today.

Our church organized an outing to Setia Alam this afternoon. The purpose of the outing is to introduce the place to our church members as we are going to plant a church here next year.

There are 66 adult and children attended the event. We reached Setia Alam sales office first and then visited the Chinese primary school there. After that we had dinner at one of the many Chinese restaurants there.

We gathered at one of the street nearby after the dinner to pray before heading home.

Participants gathered at the church before starting our journey
Let's have some drink and food - help to clear leftover food for an activity organized by Setia Alam :-)
Which one should I buy?
A group photo
Leaving the sales office
A fleet of 13 vehicles
The Chinese primary school there
The restaurant that we had dinner
Waiting for food to arrive

The food - simple one as we pay RM80 only per table for 10 person





Rev. Lau's pumpkin cake
Rev. Lau's cake
I contributed fruits
Resort to finger-guessing game to clear off the balance food
Loser have to eat
Another "happy " loser
Praying

See you next post :-)

Day +1235 : Company Seminar

I am fine today.

My company (the company that I work, to be exact) is organizing a one day seminar at Cititel Mid Valley today. The topic of the seminar is “A one day intensive course on behavior, modeling and design of raft foundation and high rise wall-frame building from consulting engineer’s perspective using computer method (Esteem 8.0)”.

We invited a very experienced speaker, Ir. M C Hee, to talk on the topic. The seminar draw 200 structural engineers.

My brother, Richard, and our boss, Mr. John Tiong, also demonstrated some features of our flagship software, Esteem Integrated Total Solution version 8.0 in the seminar.

Looking at the good response, I should say that this is another successful seminar :-) Hopefully, this will in the end translated into more sales and of course, more profit :-)

Ir. MC Hee
His assistant
The audience

Morning tea break





Ir. MC Hee and boss Mr. John Tiong
My lunch :-)

This mussel is very nice - better than oyster :-)
Richard is demonstrating the software

Lucky draw
See you next post :-)