Kuching Trip Anyone?

City Of Kuching (Cats) Famous Monument

Suddenly I feel like going to Kuching for a short vacation... Hmm.. October seems open for me.


First of all, I need a plan..

I need a budget.. around RM5oo maybe? (2 pax). I will be towing Well along of course.

Accomadation wise, Liwah Hotel seems nice (read: affordable) and is situated in strategic location.



Mode of transport?

The best thing about going to Kuching is that I can choose whether I want to travel by:


air (..Asia), which will take approximately 45 minutes (but it is the most EXPENSIVE way to travel)





land, 6 to 7 hours gruelling RM45 journey which I can't stand (need to pee often hehe)..




... or sea, also will set me back for RM45, which will take about 4-5 hours depending on the weather condition. But the pessengers can walk around the boat (plus... they have toilet)



Anybody wanna join my trip?

Monday, 31st August 2009, (10 Ramadhan) 2123

Happy 52nd Independence Day Malaysia!!


Today marks the 52nd year of Malaysia independence from British colonialism....

I LOVE MY COUNTRY.. Ummmmm Wahh!!

Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka!


Monday,31st August 2009 (10 Ramadhan), 1527

Where Is This Place?

Irfan anak buah aku baru discover yang aku ada blog and datang 'ziarah' petang tadi.. Mungkin entry aku yang sebelum ni menarik minat dia untuk bertanya.. Aku memang rapat dengan dia. Before this, anak buah aku ni beria-ia suh aku pindah Selangor so that boleh mengajar kat sekolah dia.. (lagi 2 tahun dia masuk secondary)... and aku selalu kata tengok dulu.. Just imagine his confusion bila aku mention aku nak pindah ke suatu tempat di bawah ini.. haha lawak..



Pipan: Paksu, so berbuka kat sana kalau ikut waktu sini pukul berapa?

Aku: 6:39 petang dah boleh makan.. best!!

Pipan: Kalau camtu Ifan sahur kat sini pastu naik flight gi Kapit berbuka kat sana.

Aku: Ye.. betol. Datangla Kapit. Nanti Paksu dah pindah Semenanjung tak merasa nak pi Sarawak.


Pipan: Semenanjung tu kat mana??

Gelak besar aku sorang-sorang... tak sampai hati nak balas mesej dia, actually tak tahu macam mana nak cakap.. haha.. Knowing him, aku tahu dia mesti akan tanya seseorang.. Lepas beberapa minit aku sms lagi.

Aku: Dah tau dah kat mana?

Pipan: DAH!

Aku: Hahahaha...

Sunday, 30th August 2009 (9th Ramadhan) 1809

Angan-angan Waktu Kecik.

Masa aku kecik dulu, sampai je time TV tunjuk waktu berbuka & imsak, mesti aku berangan nak dok kat Sabah @ Sarawak..

Reason: Diorang berbuka awal sejam banding ngan tempat aku (kat Melaka waktu tu)

Skang dah pun besar panjang & angan-angan pun dah jadi kenyataan. Masuk tahun ni dah 4 tahun aku puasa kat Kapit, Sarawak ni (and pernah sambut 1 Syawal kat sini.. Jangan tak caya)

Best ke?

Hmm.. Ntah.. Rindu plak aku kat Semenanjung... ;(

Betolla agaknya orang cakap.

Better be careful of what you are wishing for, sometimes dreams do come true


Sigh!

Thursday, 27th August 2009 (6th Ramadhan), 1530

Wedding Cake Topper

Thursday, 27th August 2009 (6th Ramadhan), 1520

Thinking of having this as my wedding cake topper...


Nice :)

Headache

Wednesday, 26th August (4th Ramadhan), 1221




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Ramadhan- Lesson To Be Learnt

Wednesday, 26th August 2009 (4th Ramadhan), 0944

I got this from a friend.. Really made me think hard... and grateful for what I have..

Lessons From The Son

One day a father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the firm purpose of showing his son how poor people can be.

They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family.

On their return from their trip, the father asked his son,
"How was the trip?"
"It was great, Dad."
"Did you see how poor people can be?" the father asked.
"Oh Yeah" said the son.


"So what did you learn from the trip?" asked the father.


We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden
but they have a creek that has no end.

We have imported lanterns in our garden
but they have the stars at night.

Our patio reaches to the front yard
but they have the whole horizon.

We have a small piece of land to live on
but they have fields that go beyond our sight.

We have servants who serve us,
but they serve others.

We buy our food,
but they grow theirs.

We have walls around our property to protect us,
they have friends to protect them.


With this the boy's father was speechless.

Then his son added, "Thanks dad for showing me how ungrateful we truly are"



You can't buy any of these things.


You can have all the material possessions you can imagine, provisions for the future, but if you are poor of spirit, you have nothing!
Too many times we forget what we have and concentrate on what we don't have.



If one is satisfied with small provision from Allah, Allah will be satisfied with a few good deeds from him

A Picture Worth A Thousand Thoughts

Tuesday, 25th August 2009 (4th Ramadhan), 0923



Sigh

Kapit Blogger Rakit Team

Monday, 24th August 2009 (3rd Ramadhan), 2200

As I found out there are currently 118 active bloggers here in Kapit. Maybe we can form a union?
Or maybe a gathering to know one another better??

Mana tau tahun depan boleh ada TEAM RAKIT SAFARAI BALLEH just for Kapit Bloggers..

;)

A Walk Around Kapit

Monday, 24th August 2009 (3rd Ramadhan), 1750

Since the wi-fi connection was down since yesterday, (kalau tak, bertapalah aku depan laptop ni dari pagi sampai nak berbuka) I managed to run a lot of important errands today.

Pagi-pagi lagi aku dah pergi sekolah, cari Kak Siti kat Opis, konon nak check whether gambar-gambar kek lapis Sarawak yang aku booking tu dah siap di print
(haha.. kemaruk betul, kek lom siap dapat tengok pics pun jadi ler).
Ye lah aku selamber katak je order 'hati pari' la, 'lapis kandos'la, 'lapis tembikai'la, 'ntah apa-apa lagi'la.. Nak gak tengok camane sebenarnya rupa menatang tu.. mana tau tak chantek.. leh tukar...
"Belum" senang je makcik ni jawab. Kempunan aku..

Then pegi Wisma Persekutuan, Jabatan Imigresen.. Settle hal Pasport aku yang tersilap chop.. Ni dah masuk kali ketiga aku pi.. asyik "pegawai berkenaan takde" je jawabnye. But today is my lucky day, pegawai berkenan ada...

Urus pasport jap then turun first floor, pi Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara nak tanya pasal bayaran replace I.C. yang chip rosak. Seploh hinggit je rupanya, takde la mahal. Rupa-rupanya kalu hilang baru kena bayar RM110..

Kebetulan jumpa ngan Haire tengah nak wat I.C. yang kena curik kat bilik guru. Aku tak tau citer pun coz aku quarantine waktu kes curik tu.. Wallet, kad atm, kad kredit, duit RM 300++ abis lenyap.. Sian kat mamat ni.. Dan tadi juga 1st time aku borak panjang ngan dia lepas kes gaduh tahun 2005, aku ngan dia penah jadi bestest friend (long story.. looong time ago). Rindu gak nak borak-borak panjang. Yelah.. dulu hari-hari borak merapu.. housemate la katakan.. Hmm... Peluang untuk berbaik-baik semula kot? Ramadhan.. Ramadhan......

Borak punya borak keluar macam-macam cerita sampaila cerita pasal tunang aku yang dia pun kenal.. pasal aku yang selamba katak tak amik kursus kahwin lagi, pasal problems aku yang berlambak dengan bakal mak mentua, pastu adala ngumpat sikit pasal wang hantaran yang mendapat respon ulamak-oih-ayoyo-jual-anak-ke-aper? dan jugak bila aku disclose harga upah jahit baju nikah yang mendapat respon pergh-srupa-ko-kawin-ngan-artis-la-ini-macam.
(this is one of the reasons blog ini tak diketahui oleh relatives, siblings mahupun fiance hahaha) dan bila pasal duit, tentulah timbul hal loan.. Aku dah lama pikir pasal loan ni, tapi asyik takde masa je coz Bank Rakyat kat Sibu ade la.. sini mana der.. So dia cadangkan Agro Bank yang katanya interestnya ok jugak and dengan poyo nyer suh aku berambus masa tu jugak. Dia kata dia tau perangai aku, kalu aku tak pi sekarang memang tak pi sampai bila-bilala jawabnya. (which is true dan membuatkan aku teringat kenangan aku lama-lama masa satu rumah ngan dia dulu .. sedey.. sedey.. sob! sob!)

So next destination... Agro Bank..
Pergi sana dah dekat pukul 1200 so aku terus citer bla bla bla then dia tanya soklan yang aku lupa nak pikir

'Incik nak buat loan berapa banyak n berapa tahun?'

Aiseh! Macammana aku bleh sembrono pegi bank tak buat perancangan ni? Aku pun kata nanti aku pikir.
(mesti brader ni ingat aku memain, dah la pakai baju paling hansap yang aku ada, makhluk paling selekeh kat Kapit la masa tu hahaha, dengan lencun peluhnyer lagi)
dia bagi borang and aku pi buat buku. Kebetulan plak yang kat kaunter tu mamat yang ikut Bengkel Pengacara Majlis itu hari, aiseh Jejak Kasih la sekejap, dah la aku terlupa nama dia.. Burn.. ha Burn nama dia.. Tapi dah kuar bank baru aku ingat la...
(tak aci memangla dia tau nama aku sapa, sah-sah la aku bagi I.C. (chip rosak) aku kat dia..)

Then pegi Andy Emporium, settle pasal billing barang-barang drama yang still belum dibuat bill.. Pergh bila dah kumpul-kumpul.. banyak la plak.. Harap Mr. Douglas will be okay with this..

Afterwards, pi CCK tempat jual frozen stuff (The one and only halal frozen food shop in Kapit).. Kempunan plak tengok Salmon fish-ball.. so belasah satu packet (pergh RM 10.00.. mahal giler dah la kecit)..


So pastu aku pun balik ngan rasa satisfiednyer.. Yelah aku buat tu semua dengan barjalan kaki di bulan Ramadhan.. dari satu tempat ke satu tempat.. Dalam hati dah berkobar-kobar dah.. On the way balik singgah stor Physical Ed. jap nak timbang. Sure kurang dari semalam..

Current Weight: 72.00kg...

What The Frog!!! Apasal bertambah plak!!!!???? Penat dah aku jalan satu Kapit arini!! Hua!!

Mission Impossible

Sunday, 23rd August 2009 (2nd Ramadhan), 1726

Selamat Berpuasa...

Misi Mustahil

Current weight: 71.80 kg (I am using a digital scale)

Target weight (before Syawal): 66.00 kg

Malaysia Boleh!!!!!!

Puasa, Niat dan Azam

21st August 2009, Friday, 2143

Alhamdullillah...Dah pun sehat sepenuhnya dan sembuh daripada sebarang selsema yang menakutkan. Keadaan kat tempat aku mengajar ni pun dah Ok sket. All the students pun dah di lepaskan dari quarantine.. Alhamdulillah..

Lama tak menulis... sebab start Isnin til Tuesday lepas (right after quarantine aku tamat) aku kena hadiri:


Bengkel Pemantapan Pengacara Majlis dan Pengucapan Awam..

(pergh!! Rasa macam pegi Toastmaster Club la bunyinyer).. banyak ilmu.. and banyak songeh hehe

Hmm.. Besok dah pun mula puasa.. Selamat berpuasa aku ucapkan kepada sesapa yang tersinggah ke blog aku ni... thanks kerana drop by..

Kembali kepada resolusi awal tahun dulu... dapatke aku nak develop six packs nih???

Hahhaaha.. sounds like another mission impossible to me... Eh Semangat-semangat...
Let's look at motivational pictures:






Eh!! six packs la.... Tapi taknak la macam ni.. haha..












Disclaimer: This is NOT me... (well done Captain Obvious)

.... Tapi harap-harap dapat jadi cenggini la.... (susahla.. sini takde fitness first, celebrity fitness... haha excuses)


















Hahaaha.. yang ni baru aku.. 2 tahun lepas... masa perasan hensem...


Harap-harap, waktu bulan Ramadhan ni selain tambah pahala, dapatla aku jaga kesihatan dan badan...

weight check...

today: 73kg
target weight before raya: around 65kg to 66kg .. (bleh ke??)

Harap-harap la ye.. Selamat Berpuasa...

7-DAY-suggested-HOUSE-QUARANTINE

Ini adalah hasil kompilasi blog-entri yang dibuat lepas beberapa hari aku menjadi jeruk kat rumah. skang aku kat foyer opis, breaking the suggested-7-Day-House-quarantine order. Skang dah okay sket. alhamdullilah... Posting aku pun bleh dilihat daripada serius giler (sebab takut), semi-serious (takut sket) kepada serious campur memain (dah sehat la tu)

(Suggested: cadangan saja (but better ikut kot?), didn't really made me signed the quarantine form yang membolehkan aku ditembak disaman)


Title:H1N1 - Chain Reaction

Tuesday, 11th August 2009, 1453

Last night, I had difficulty sleeping and was delusional. Diarrhoea and vomiting soon follows prompting me to go to Klinik Agas to have a check-up this morning. My body temperature rose to staggering 38.5 Degree Celcius

I told the Doctor the fact that a lot of boarders where I teach are down with flu and fever but haven’t been checked by any doctor. The Doctor didn’t look too concerned at that time so I thought the story ended there. I went home.

What follows next is a sign that care, concern and professionalism still exist in our community. 20 minutes later after reaching home, I received a phone call from work, asking me my whereabouts. 10 minutes later a team of doctor from the government hospital arrived at my house to do a more thorough check-up, advising me on the dos and don’ts.

(I also informed them that Well had been missing school since Friday because of fever, gave them his sister’s address and numbers and they made a promise to check on him later).

Apart from one free mask, I was also been served a 7-day-house-quarantine beginning last Monday (the first day the symptom develops) as a precaution to prevent further spread of the virus ailment.

Then at 1400, another team of doctor came to check on the boarders. As on 1900, 43 boarders (23 girls and 20 boys) were being quarantine, all with the symptoms.

At 1600 many colleagues, friends and students already knew about my case (bad news spread very very fast in this small community). A lot of phone calls and sms-es received, wishing me to get well and recover fast. One of my colleague coyly asked whether he can take my workstation (very funny).

At 1800, the doctor came again and took sample of my phlegm. My body temperature has dropped to 37.2 Degree but still considered as high.

I hope I didn’t have the deadly virus; hopefully it is just a normal flu. The most important thing is, whether the doctor came to prevent further spread of the potentially deadly virus or to save my live, I am glad that my visit to the clinic had created a chain reaction and prompted the authority to come and checked the situation in my school before the situation worsen.

As I am typing this, TV3 had just made an announcement that the death toll had rose to 44 (in Malaysia) due to AH1N1 pandemic. I really hoper none of us will be part of the statistic. Amin.

epidemic: the appearance of a particular disease in a large number of people at the same time.

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pandemic: (of a disease) existing in almost all of an area or in almost all of a group of people, animals or plants

P/S: I am a teacher, it s in my blood to educate hehe..


Title: Quarantine, kuarantin Argh!!

Wednesday, 12th august 2009, 1615

Today is my 3rd-day of quarantine. The fever has dropped but still feeling a little fatigue and bored. There is no internet connection (read: no life) at home, and no newspaper.

I can't really recall when was the last time I really take my medicine as religiously as now. If the prescription says 4 times, not only will I take it FOUR times, I even do a little calculation so that the time intervals will be perfect. (my Mom will be really proud of me). If I took one at 0830, another will be at 1430, then at 2030 and I even set my alarm to go off at 0230!!. It shows how scared I am of the virus. Hope tomorrow will be getting a lot better. Amin



Title: Escape Plan

Thursday, 13th August 2009, 2330

Feels a lot better. (you can see the way of my writing has also change from serious to semi-serious). Break my suggested quarantine order!!! Really have to. There is hardly nothing to eat in the house and I really need some fresh air.

Besides, I need to see Well. Somehow, rasa rindu la pulak.. (Nope! not a gay-ey mush-ey b-romance-y kind of rindu but more like fatherly@brotherly rindu). Call his sister whether he is feeling umh.. well (no pun intended). Asked whether I can bring him out for a walk (more like shopping). Turns out he IS NOT feeling 100 percent well YET (Argh!! but what to do? takkan nak suh masuk rumah balik?)

Well yang senget

It has been 4 days he is missing school, but told him there is nothing to worry since lotsa students also didn't attend classes. (an advice from a certified teacher.. wahlawai). Went to HomeMart, (and aku rasa cam semua orang tengok aku semacam, as if ada tulis "an escapee" kat dahi) bought some kuehs (in Iban's language.. everything edible is called Kueh and everything canned is called Sardin!! Go figure) for him and I. We talk about stuff we've been missing (hahaha syahdunya and its only been 6 days!!). Pastu tanya aku samada we can watch a badminton tournament on a big screen inside nearby chinese kopitiam (Datuk Chong Wei lawan sapa tah). As hard as it is to me (aku pernah janji nak tengok bola ngan dia kat kedai tu.. lama dah, sejak kedai tu baru bukak lagi) I had to say no (because I am actually still under suggested quarantine and he is also notin the pink of health).


Hantar dia balik. Then he asked me a question that I can't really answer..

Bila cikgu nak amik saya?

Soon... (sedey, sedey)


Title: Fever, The Return!!

Friday, 14th August 2009, 1940


Wahlawei!! What The Frog Man!! My temperature was up again (read; padan muka, sapa suh kuar malam tadi??) this morning.

Really need to do something fast. I clad myself with 3 layer of clothing, adding a sweater and the blankie (a present from my dearest fiance). Drank Milo panas and try to jog in one place to sweat it out. Boleh tak boleh, jalan tak jalan, miraculously my temperature plummetted back to 37 degree C (alhamdulillah)..

Hmmm.. bila la nak insaf.... You see, Aku buat nazar, kalau temperature turun and tak selsema atau pening, I will go to sembahyang Jumaat... (macam lah sembahyang Jumaat ni sunat, bleh pilih-pilih) Sebenarnya dalam hati mula-mula ada rasa macam tak nak pergi solat Jumaat (but I will still perform my Zuhur prayer, mind you) sebab alasan kuarantin. Memang jahat aku nih.

So pergi semayang tadi selalunya anak buah Kak ju tumpang, tapi tadi takde plak.. Takut la tu..

Turns out he went with someone else, as instructed by his makcik, (and aku pun paham jugak, tak kecit ati pun)..

Hmmm... Hopefully everything will be fine.. Amin.

No Title

Tuesday, 11th August 2009, 1138

Second day...

Down with flu, fever and already showing sign of sore throat.....

Body temperature: 38 degree C.

Sigh!

The Flu is Coming

Monday, 10th August 2009, 2042


Down with flu... That s why there was no entry for the past few days.

Can't go out...
Can't watch the Rakit Safari-Balleh (of course la can't participate). Member tak jadi turun dari Semenanjung..

Pic banner ni pun aku copy (a.k.a amik dulu baru tanya izin) dari blog lain. Tak dapat nak tengok kemeriahan Safari ni semalam.


Hopefully tahun depan aku bleh join untuk kali terakhir memandangkan aku pun nak transfer dah (kalau belum transfer la).


Can't Really blog today.. Hmmmmm....

Hope I will get well soon..
Amin

H1N1 Prevention -Every Man For Himself-

Thursday, 6th August 2009, 1325

(the original title was only Every Man For Himself.. but due to the current situation, I think the above title will drives more readers.. hahahaahahaha.. what the frog!!)


"What Should We Do When The Situation Becomes Critical? A.H1N1"

That was the title of the talk I -and the rest of my collegues- had to attend a few minutes ago.

Pretty scary as before this I only heard bout it in the news, someplace faraway from here but today during the talk, the speaker (from Kementerian Kesihatan) said that there were already a few (70 to be exact) suspected cases in Song; a mere 1 hour boat ride from Kapit.


Song's Wharf


That is close enough for me!!!

Hence, the purpose of the Talk today... so that everybody will not become panicky. I guess they want to get everything straight (information and prevention wise). Their (70 unlucky people) result are still pending though. Hopefully it was just another harmless flu.. not the pig-crossed-bird-crossed-human kinda flu.



After the Talk, we were allowed to go back..

so...

What am I doing here in front of my laptop you may asked??

Well,

I am trying to save my @$$...

My life to be exact..

Pretending to be busy.. busy.. busy...

You see a teacher want me to give her a ride home.. which I usually oblige (her house is near mine) but not today..

Today I am pretending to be submerged in lotsa lotsa works... so she has to "hitch-hike" with someone else...



---She has a fever, a runny nose, sore throat and pounding headache...---



Of course I won't tell (or scream to) her to "Bugg Off!! You re having all the H1N1 symptoms!!!


So maybe I AM a little paranoid.. but it is MY life.... and I still want to enjoy every minute of it ;)



My Heart

Tuesday, 4th August 2009, 2104



My Precious.... Ring

Tuesday, 4th August 09, 1239




Sengapa' jak cincin cikgu...

Meaning.....??

Hmmm.. can't really find an exact meaning in simple English...

Wait let me try..

"whatever you are wearing as a ring my teacher" (Is this correct?)


A question (or plenty of questions) asked by my students when they saw me wearing this in class..

Yup, it s a Nightmare Before X'mas ring.. Somebody give it to me as a present for my birthday. Totally clash with all my formal outfit (ya think?)

So why do I still wear it to class..

Dunno.... middle age crisis I guess hahaha




What's New in Kapit?

Monday, 3rd August 09, 1058



Nothing to post... Jalan-jalan (more like driving around aimlessly) yesterday, there was a buzz of activity near the new wharf, eventhough it has yet to open for business, orang dah ramai melepak kat sana (typical Kapit teens). Termasuk ngan aku sekali, bukan melepak tapi menjeguk-jenguk. It was reported that it will reopens in October, but based on the work done, maybe it will opens earlier than expected.

It looks like a Roman-inspired building at nite..


Lotsa works still need to be done.


The overall view. It is not as big as Sibu's.


Still inculcating Iban's rich traditional carving in its design.

The (maybe) ticketing counter




Finally!! Hurray for Friday!!

Saturday, 1st August 2009, 1855




Hurayyy!! My pic got selected and was published in "The Star" today (1st August 2009)...


Please click here and vote for it for the best pic of the year...


thanks!! (as if there is someone reading this blog haha!!)