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It’s not easy to marry a foreigner

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My girlfriend and I planned to spend a good 2 weeks in Sibu, the main objective to be here is to get our marriage certificate, at least on “ready” stage. It turned out it wasn’t as easy as we thought.

My girlfriend has almost every document ready. Letter from the governmet stating she is still in single status, a permission letter from both parent and a family heritage document from the government as well. Thinking it were all ready to go.
Contract
We went to JPN (Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara) the other day, took the number and waited for 3 hours. Since it is August in lunar calendar, many couple tend to register on the day (well, only 3 couple and it took 3 hours of our time you see).

The officer lady says “You must also get this document. Either at Indonesia or in Kuching”. So we thought it shouldn’t be that hard. Of course, we called the Kuching consulate to ask about the document we have to bring. First time she (the representative of Kuching Indonesia consulate) asked was “What is your both religion?”. Both of us holds a different religion, so she says it isn’t possible to make the document here.
Documents
Then again, we head to FooChow Association, they can’t help, and we went to Wong’s Association, they recommend us a person in Sibu lawyer firm, we went there, he insist we get all the document ready and go to Kuching, they will/should provide us the document. Happily we leave and thinking to get the document.

Correct! No document can be sign unless we get a marriage certificate from Indonesia before hand. Time to fly again! Dammit! All we need was this little document, or a letter. That’s why both brothers (Malaysia and Indonesia) just like to fool their nation instead of helping. Some more, now want to start war? Go ahead and start it idiot!

P/S: Research telling us, different religion can’t be registered in Indonesia as well. Sigh…

Where to go now

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Sibu sky way
Back to Sibu, second day – Sunday. I never expect that Sunday could be that much of traffic in Sibu. There are reasons we came back Sibu this time, so I thought just to settle those legal thingy first before heading to have some fun, and it was Sunday, so… Fun first then :)
Sibu lattern
Since Saturday was mooncake festival, we stayed at home for a while and called Alex to have a drink, then Will came too. They brought me around Sibu and told me about the 7,000 lattern decoration somewhere at Sibu Gateway. So I thought I should bring my girlfriend to have a look as well. Since it is (I think) million ringgit decoration, why not? After that, I really don’t know where to go…
Ubuntu 9.04
It’s been few months I’m working on Ubuntu system, once I came back home, I saw the CD of 9.04 version were here :) Still don’t need any antivirus software yet, until, well, maybe one day that I need to work on something special :)

Seriously though, where can I bring a foreigner to have some eye opening thing/scene/view in Sibu? Anyone can give me a good list???

Full house at home

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Sibu
Back to Sibu this morning. Spent only a few hour sleep last night, so has been sleeping the whole afternoon once I stepped home. Again, I check around the whole house before went to sleep this afternoon, near evening. Some good changes…

I bought some electronic cigarette

Electronic cigarette
Thought I should give more priority for myself as well, so I head off to get a electronic cigarette. Works well this few days, No more Acid cigars. Waiting for more to come :P

This house finally plugged with a water heater

Never did I expect to have a water heater, as everyone here is so used to cold water bath, even morning. So now I don’t have to worry about water too cold, though I also used to the cold water.

More doggy dogs

Doggy dogs
Although some sad news on a few dogs, I didn’t know that more dogs were coming to the house. Now we have a total of 8 of them barking at the same time when somebody spend on our gate. Hmmm…. Noise.

Younger sister involved in e-Commerce

Seriously, this is the most shocking one. I thought she is the laziest one, but turned out she still moved by money :lol: Great, now we have some internet maniac at home :)

Then I shall sleep now. Tomorrow going to be a full schedule day.

Visit Sibu 2009

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I bet nobody knows about it if you’re not from Sibu. This tourism in Sibu really suck when it comes to marketing their town. I don’t even know it until a friend of mine tells me about it then only I start thinking about where to go if I were to travel to Sibu…

Eat

Eat
Famous food will be Kampua, Kompia, Ting Bian Hu and Char Hung Gan. With the super duper competitive price there, I’m sure one will get a few kilo in weight with a 3 days 2 nights tour.

Pork

I’m glad that Sibu citizen aren’t that sensitive with pork. Everywhere you can see people selling pork. Even super store also allow pork to be sold with others halal goods, not like those super store here, where they separate halal and non-halal goods.

Garden

Million ringgit garden
I think Sibu has the most garden/park around the town. I’m not talking about the small park with a children playground. I’m talking about million ringgit garden maintain by certain organisation. Wong Nai Siong garden, Gu Tian Park and etc.

Law

In Sibu, everybody is a law maker :) That’s a good thing, but not a harmony thing though. I can’t reckon anything that happen in Sibu is illegal though. Believe it or not, when police blocking a certain road, 100 meters away there will be an illegal racing. Try Jalan Pedada ;)

House

Go ahead, impress yourself with the size of the house there. A bungalow built with underground parking? You get it here. A bungalow with a helicopter landing space, you get it here. Shit you not, I bet Taiwanese will be regret for not coming here to film their rich-guy-poor-girl-drama here.

Toilet

Most toilet here built with huge budget, new concept and innovative. The Toilet King is from Sibu, so you can expect the best toilet in Malaysia here as well :)

And on and on… Speaking of Sibu. It’s been 4 months I didn’t go back. Hmmm… Let’s see when I can have a cheap flight.

P/S: Do you know that only Sibu’s McDonald’s has chinese name on it?

Driving

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Today, I wanna write about driving in KL. I never drive around the town until I got my car here back in February. Which is just a day before I start work though, so didn’t really drive the car around. Well, obviously the experience is far too different than driving in Sibu where 60km per hour is the legal speed and 120km per hour is a thing that you can keep your nose up on the sky (Like it is possible). Here are list you cannot do in Sibu while you can freely do here:

Horn!

It’s a signal, it’s a respect, it is the only way to notice another driver. That is the way it works here in KL. In Sibu, you try at your own risk :)

Signal on high lighting!

Once you give a high light signal, the car in front you know what they should do, so they will back off and give you a way. In Sibu, you do that you’ll get a opposite respond instead.

Yes, on a typical stereotype mindset that’s Sibu. I cannot recall how many time my mom warn me when I horn somebody on the road. Well, did you notice just how hot these few weeks are? Argh~!!! I need a relaxing icy sweet pea baby bath!!!