By admin on February 15, 2013
Malaysia has always been proud of being one of the top producers of natural rubber and apparently that has affected the Malaysians to the extent that they have a rather laid-back “elastic” attitude towards time that is commonly termed as MRT (Malaysian Rubber Time). This is similiar to jam karet in Indonesia. MRT is “elastic” [...]
Posted in Malaysia, Ramblings | Tagged clock-obsessed world, interpretation of time, Malaysian Rubber Time, Malaysian time, MRT, rubber time, tardiness, time is money, ‘jam karet’ |
By admin on January 1, 2013
2012 is now history. It will be remembered as the year of Gangnam Style. I turned 55 in 2012. I survived the Mayan calendar. As I start the first blank page of my new 365-page book, I pray that the book will be filled with great memories. 2012 has been a very memorable year. For [...]
Posted in Down Memory Lane, Memories Are Made Of These, My Life Journey, Ramblings | Tagged 2012, 2013, 30th wedding anniversary, Bintangkian Lau Peng Yu reunion, book donation project for SM Kai Chung’s library, Gangnam Style, goodbye 2012 and hello 2013, Kai Chung classmates, Mayan calendar, mom’s 80th birthday celebration, “My Wrestling Matches With God On My Life Journey” |
By admin on December 30, 2012
Mom is such a special word To me mom is the greatest person in the world She brought me into this world And refused to let me go When dad wanted to give me away Because of mom, I am still a Lim I almost drowned when I was a little kid Because of mom, [...]
Posted in Memories Are Made Of These, My Life Journey, Ramblings | Tagged A poem for my mother's 80th birthday, Binatang, Happy Birthday Mom, Kuching, mom, mom is the greatest person in the world, mother, mum, mummy, 壽, 媽媽的80歲生日, 媽媽的80歲生日晚宴 |
By admin on September 9, 2012
Grass looks greener on the other side of the fence because it’s the grass that we don’t have. When we believe the myth that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, we are setting ourselves up for disappointments and unhappiness. Envy sets in when we believe that other people have [...]
Posted in Quote of the Day, Ramblings | Tagged All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, author Zing, Is green greener on the other side ofr the fence?, Robert Fulghum, stories.sg, “Letter to Singapore” |
By admin on September 1, 2012
During the sixties and early seventies, I was a kid living in Binatang. Life then seemed to move at a snail’s pace, compared to life now. There was definitely much less stress then. Traffic jam was totally unheard of in Binatang as there were so few cars. If a modern day teenager who grew up [...]
Posted in Bintangor, Down Memory Lane, Memories Are Made Of These, Ramblings, Sarawak | Tagged "Circle Game", "Day Is Done", "Devoted To You", "Nobody's Child", "Rose Garden", "Twelve of Never", "Whatever Will Be Will Be", "You 've Got A Friend", aeroplane board games, Agnes Chan, Au Yeung Fei Fei, bambo pop guns, Binatang, bing tang hu lu, Bobby, Bruce Lee, Brunei, catching guppies in the longkangs, Chelsia Chan, Eastern Theatre in Binatang, Enid Blyton Books, Escapade Sushi, Escapade Sushi in Kuala Belait, Escapade Sushi in Seria, Famous Five and Secret Seven novels, Fancy Gem Biscuits, five stones, Frances Yip, games of cops & robbers, games of hide & seek, Green Mountain Soft Drinks, Haathi Mere Saathi, Haw Flakes, Hong Kong cartoonist Alfonso Wong, hopscotch, Huángméidiào (黃梅調), Ice Ball, Japanese manga since the nineties, Jenny Tseng, Kantongs, Lady Precious Stream, Lam, Lao Fu Zhi, Liu Chia Charn, martial arts, novels by Chiung Yao, Old Master Q, Old Master Q and his buddy Big Potato, Paula Tsui, Pure Nourishing Vegetable Pomade, Rowena Cortes, Sam Fong Cosmetic Co. Ltd, Sam Fong Hoi Tong Powder, Sam Hui, Seria Plaza, snake & ladder board games, Tancho Pomade, Teresa Carpio, Teresa Teng, THe Big Boss, The Chopstick Sisters, the Sam Fong Powder, Tracy Huang, Wan Bao Chuan, White Rabbit Creamy Candy, Wynners, Yao Surong, Yu Yia, 冰糖葫芦, 王澤, 老夫子 |
By admin on August 30, 2012
Like Regina Brett in her book “God Never Blinks”, I sometimes felt that at the moment I was born, God must have blinked and thus missed the occasion, unaware of my birth at all. I felt like the poet who wrote that he was born on a day God called in sick. Shortly after my [...]
Posted in Bintangor, Down Memory Lane, God, My Life Journey, Ramblings, Sarawak | Tagged abyss of despair, ancestor veneration, Ancestor worship, Apostle Kong of FCBC, Bachelor of Commerce, backsliding, Bandar Seri Begawan, baptism by immersion, BC, Bible, Bible study, Bintangkians, Bintangor, blogging, born on a day God called in sick, Borneo Bulletin, broken fellowship with the Saviour, care group, cataract operations, CBMC, Christ the Saviour, Christian ideology, Christianity, Christians are not infallible, Christians in the work place, City Harvest, Concordia University, condemned to burn in hellforever, condescending attitudes, contrite heart, Cosmopolitan College in Toronto, Ebay Powerseller, Ebay Top Rated Seller, Ezekiel 3:20, Faith Community Baptist Church, FCBC, forgiveness, God, God’s grace., grace, Hebrews 10:25, holier than thou attitude, hopelessness, Hosea 14:4, I Kings 11:9, iniquity, Jeremiah 14:7, Jeremiah 15:6, Jeremiah 2:19, Jeremiah 3:22, JesusChrist, Kai Chung Middle School, Kolej Tun Datu Tuanku Haji Bujang in Miri, Kuala Belait, Pastor Kong Hee of City Harvest, purpose in life, Regina Brett, righteousness, RIPAS Hospital in Bandar Seri Begawan, Sarawak, Sarikei, scandal surrounding Kong Hee and City Harvest, Singapore, sinning against God, sins, Sir George Williams Campus of Concordia University Montreal, sons of Binatang, spiritual journey, spiritual wilderness, St Andrew’s Church in Bandar Seri Begawan, St Augustine’s Primary School in Binatang, St Mary’s University in Halifax, Taoist, Teck Guan Group in Brunei, temptations of our secular world, the black sheep of the family, the cry of a broken man, the existence of God, the Lord’s Prayer, the meaning of life, the power of Satan, The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren, the severance of the soul from God, wavering faith, when the student is ready the master will appear, wrestling matches with God, “Chariots of the Gods” by Erich Von Daniken, “God Never Blinks” |
By admin on July 28, 2012
I was born in Binatang, a small town with a predominantly Foochow population. Anyone growing up in Binatang would almost invariably be able to speak Foochow with an acceptable level of fluency. I am no exception. I am a Hokkien but I too can speak Foochow. My birth certificate and my Malaysian identity card carry [...]
Posted in Bintangor, Memories Are Made Of These, Ramblings, Sarawak, Sibu | Tagged Belle’s Bookshop in Miri, Binatang, Foochow, Foochow idioms, Foochow proverbs, Foochow song YouTube video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvZadErAMnE&feature=related, James Hii Mee Chiong, Sarawak, Sibu, St Francis Xavier Primary School in Kanowit, “160 Foochow Proverbs And Idioms” by Angela Yong, “colourful” and “foul” languages |
By admin on July 25, 2012
“Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.” – Richard Bach Friendship is something we should treasure in our lives but often due to the increased demands of the ‘real world’, friendship often wanes and [...]
Posted in Bintangor, Down Memory Lane, Memories Are Made Of These, My Life Journey, Ramblings, Sarawak | Tagged Bintangkian Lau Peng Yu reunion, Friendship, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7RPCFfudmU, James Taylor & Carole King - You've Got a Friend, nostalgic times, rekindling of friendship., Reunion, reunion in Bintangor |
By admin on July 16, 2012
It was after reading “The Devotion of Suspect X” by Keigo Higashino that I decided to check out the late Swedish author Stieg Larsson. Having enjoyed the Japanese thriller, I was fascinated by the comparison of Keigo Higashino to Stieg Larsson. I did a Google search for Stieg Larsson and was amazed at the hype [...]
Posted in Ramblings | Tagged Alfred A. Knopf, Avril Lavigne, Christopher Maclehose, Daniel Craig, Eva Gabrielsson, Fadime Şahindal, Flickan som lekte med elden, Karl Stig-Erland "Stieg" Larsson, Khaled Hosseini, Lisbeth Salander, Luftslottet som sprängdes, Män som hatar kvinnor, Melissa Nordell, Men who hate women, Quercus, Reg Keeland, Rooney Mara, Steve Murray, Stieg Larsson, Stieg Larsson's longtime partner, Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, The air castle that blew up, the first author to sell a million electronic copies on the Amazon Kindle, the most sold book in the United States in 2010 according to Publishers Weekly, the second best-selling author in the world for 2008, victims of honor crime, “The Devotion of Suspect X” by Keigo Higashino, “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest”, “The Girl Who Played with Fire”, “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” |
By admin on July 12, 2012
July 7 was D-Day for the Bintangkian Lau Peng Yu Reunion. Though I went to bed at almost 1.30 am, I was wide awake by about 6.30 am, after about 5 hours of sleep. As it was still early, I read “The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest” for about 15 minutes before taking a [...]
Posted in Bintangor, Down Memory Lane, Memories Are Made Of These, My Life Journey, Sarawak | Tagged "The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest", 'petara', 'tuak', bamboo rice, Bintangkian Lau Peng Yu reunion, Bintangor, Bintangor Basketball Court, Bintangor oranges, Bintangor rojak, Bintulu, ex-Kai Chung Students, express boats, From Bintangor With LOve, Gawai Antu, Gawai Dayak, harvest festival, headhunting days, Iban beauties dressed in traditional Iban attire, Iban Harvest Festival, Iban longhouse, Iban music, indigenous dance, Kai Chung School, Kim Hock Lin Restaurant Bintangor, Malay dance, Ming Kiong Hotel Bintangor, miring ceremony, ngajat, Rejang River, reunion dinner, rice wine, Rumah Panjang Lubok Putan, Sibu, Sin Hai Ching, Sin Hua Ming, SM Kai Chung, SM Kai Chung Alumni Association, the epitome of Iban tradition, the ‘blood and bones’ of the people, Wharf Road Bintangor, wish lanterns, wushu demonstration |
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