Five days have elapsed since I bade farewell to you. I have to be honest with you. It was with a sense of relief that I have finally parted way with you. You have not been good to me. In the beginning, you treated me well and I was beginning to think that you were a godsend. But you revealed ...

Birds are very inquisitive by nature, and they tend to explore everything with their beaks. For many birds, paper is a fun item with which to play. In Kuching this morning, I witnessed a bird playing with a strip of paper. My eldest brother Chin Tian, my third brother Ching Sien and I were on our way back to my ...

Su, a reader of my blog, made a comment that I have a good blog and that he appreciates what I do as a Mirian. However, he suggested that maybe buying a new camera will make my blog even better. And I replied that the problem is not the camera but the photographer.  Anyway, thank you for your comment, Su! ...

It has been a long time since I last saw her. About 3 decades ago, to be exact. I was driving along Medical Store Road in Miri in the early 1980s when I saw a roadside stall selling rambutans. I pulled over and parked my car. Alighting from my car, I realised that the woman selling rambutans was the hawker ...

If you are fed up with the usual kampua or kolomee or fried kuey tiao and looking for something different for a change, head to Chong & Law Restaurant located at 305, Jalan Merbau, directly across the road from Siamese Secrets. Inside this restaurant, there is this stall operated by a few ladies from China. No, I am not talking ...

I was invited to the welcoming dinner for Dato Vincent Yeo Siew Hee and Datin Ting Siew Ching in the Tai Pan Room at Grand Palace Hotel tonight. Dato Vincent was my boss slightly over thirty years ago before he migrated to Australia. Dato Vincent Yeo is a self-made multi-millionaire who started as a salesman and did newspaper delivery in ...

I am a lucky guy! Lucky to have been born in Sarawak, the Land of the Hornbills where there had never been a need for 1Malaysia to instill racial harmony among the people. Laidback, peaceful and beautiful. Lucky to have spent the first seventeen years of my life in Binatang (now Bintangor). Yes, the Animal Town where everybody seemed to ...

I was looking through the photos that I took at Taman Selera today when the one showing the dog really tickled my fancy and made me recall the old joke about who is the boss. So here it is….bear with me if you have read it. For those who have not read it before, I hope it will have you ...

Standing on the beach at Taman Selera at about 5pm today, I could see the sea rising up and down before crashing on the beach. As the waves approached the beach, they looked so angry and fearless. It immediately made me think of angry seas. Of course, compared to the really angry seas, the sea at Taman Selera today was ...

I would rank “Stairway To Heaven” by English rock band Led Zepellin as my No.1 favorite rock song. It was released in late 1971 when I was in Form 2 at Kai Chung Middle School in Binatang but I was not a fan of rock music at that time. The song became my favourite when I was in Canada as ...