Category Archives: Sibu

2012 Chinese New Year

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Well, new year again. Can’t believe I’ve already spent my another year in Puchong again. Good thing is, I started to really like Puchong than Sibu :P Not for the shopping and etc. Just for I can live my own life with only my wife and I.

Fireworks

Went back Sibu quite early this time, and shorten the time spending here, so I’ve been rushing for cleaning home stuff. Changing colours or upholstery fabric, hanging all those red thingy stuff… And whatever it is to show that this house belongs to a Chinese folks. Surprisingly it seems that fireworks was legalized this year.

Will be at Puchong tomorrow evening and then head off to Medan. Tight schedule for a new year trip. But work is along side with me 24/7 :D

This is home, again

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Flight

Due to some urgent personal matter, I scheduled a light travel back home for a few days.

Small matter, but as Malaysian like to put it, it is so huge that I ended up need to come back just for the sake of talk through it when a phone call can pretty much settle 90% of the issue, unlike Texas semi accidents needing all those lawyers and stuff.

So in Travel 360, it seems that we are in June, the green month, that everything should be keep green. It suggested that:

  • Use less paper as possible
  • Use both side of the paper
  • Keep old furniture creatively used instead of throw away
  • Keep electrical item off when not needed

Some I have forgotten. But let’s get back to home and green stuff.

Sibu

When I was having dinner with family, the electric shut off, we keep trying but it just doesn’t want to turn on. We all run around the house in total darkness to fine switch to switch off all unnecessary plug. To my surprise, it seems that all plug was turned on!!!

Speaking of keep thing green on furniture part, you really need to truthly be amazed by how most Sibuan keep their furniture or recycle. Most family tend to keep everything in the house, even a broken furniture!

Home is still green.

P/S: The weather at night is freaking cold!

Time to go home…?

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While I was wandering with a friend in a pool center about his billiard supplies, the supplier came to me and asked “So, are you going to go home this mid-April?”.

At first I don’t know why he asked me to go home, until he said the word “State Election”.

Sibu

To be honest, I haven’t register as a voter yet, and haven’t have the desire to do. Maybe the affection of all those political thing haven’t really reach me yet; maybe I will not be getting anything from voting yet, I don’t know.

But I like the term “Go home” though. Because I would love to see some improvement made in Sibu. But that remind me of… The Sibu drivers skill… When a horn is a deadly thing to press; when their father owned the road. The word “What’s the point?” came in… So… Yeah, I’ll be still sitting here doing the same thing I do everyday – Work!

That is called stingy

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Sound to me like SMC (Sibu Municipal Council) is getting more stingy, or overly corrupted nowadays.

A few days ago, they carried a road upgrade work on my resident area without notice, without help.

Bridge

A lot of residents here are shock paniced with the surprise work SMC brought in, and did not called to extend our bridge. We all here have to spend money building a new one, which SMC just whipping their arse and leave.

But the story doesn’t end there. Today they came again to apply tar onto it, after almost a week! However, due to their overly clever engineer and accountant, that is all they can “afford”

Road upgrading work

The rest are on our own, again! Means, we resident here is going to need to spend our money for their upgrading work again.

Yes, local election is needed!

Toilet King

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Here in Sibu, you can find the most ridiculous incident of all Malaysia. Not because the people are under educated, but because people has the mindset of they are the one who paying for… Everything. Every single thing, as long as they paid the entrance fee, they are the one in charge and it is up to them on how to use/abuse the environment.

Once they was this bus driver (long journey) tells me “Ini orang, bayar 70 sen, duduk macam raja. Macam lah 70 sen sebesar tayar bus ni.“. Yes, all their money is bigger than yours in any amount, they are.

Toilet graffiti

Toilet graffiti, a common problem in all Malaysia. But Toilet King was started from Sibu, the 20 sen seems so big for everyone.

Did you ever heard of a joke “Nowadays everything need money, even borrowing a toilet need to pay 20 sen“? But the context did not say graffiti is to beautify the toilet too.

Sibu has some of the best public toilet in Malaysia. Toilet King, Robert Lau created a few conceptual toilet in Sibu, all those are wasted due to the graffiti.

If you not knowing already, the Toilet King just pass away yesterday. Sibu MP and Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Robert Lau Hoi Chew, died Friday after battling liver cancer. Who is taking his seat, I mean on the other side of politician :P Long distance movers are going to bring back his body to Sibu, and some even expect a holiday in Sibu :?

Anyway, expect a huge toto and magnum number of 1110 or 6767 :)