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 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 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 December 28, 2011
I remember there is a Christmas song by Agnes Chan that goes something like this: All I want for my Christmas is my two front teeth. Oh yeah, I want my front teeth too. I have lost so many of my upper teeth that it reminds me of some of Sarawak’s forests…barren with only a [...]
Posted in My Life Journey, Ramblings | Tagged Agnes Chan, All I want for my Christmas is my two front teeth, Binatang, Bintangor, Kai Chung Middle School in Bintangor, root canal treatment, Sarawak’s forests, teeth crowning |
By admin on May 29, 2011
It was towards the third quarter of 1980 when I was offered a job as audit senior with Lau Hoi Chew & Co. in Sibu after graduating with a Bachelor of Commerce (majoring in Accountancy) from Canada. I had returned from Canada in early August and had been staying with my second brother and my [...]
Posted in Bintangor, Ramblings, Sarawak, Sibu | Tagged "Bathing the Baby" by Lim Poh, a pictorial account of life as it once was in the jungles of Sarawak, a pictorial record of indigenous cultures, art and crafts, Belaga, Binatang, Bintangor, Ching Ming festival, cockfighting, daily life in the longhouses, Do what you love, elongated earlobes, express boat, Fifth International Photographic Exhibition held in Sydney in 1962, handicraft business, headhunters, High Street Sibu, hornbills, Hua Kiew Road Sibu, hunting with blowpipes, Iban longhouse, Iban warriors, Iban woman weaving pua, indigenous cultures, indigenous people of Sarawak, Just do it!, Kapit, Kayan, Kuching, Lau Hoi Chew & Co., Life is meant to be lived, Lim Poh Chiang, Longhouse Arts & Crafts, Miring ritual, ngajat, one of the most appealing human interest pictures at the Fifth International Photographic Exhibition, orchid enthusiast, Our life is too short for regrets, padi pounding, Pelagus Rapids, Penan woman dancing, Penans, photography, pua, Pursue your heart’s desires and dreams, RIP, sapeh, Sibu, skulls from headhunting days, stretched earlobes, Take time off to smell the roses, threshold of change, tribal tattoos, valuable life lessons, “Among The Dayaks” |
By admin on January 7, 2011
Welcome to my world where a Lim is also a Ling. My surname is actually Lim but it was registered as Ling in my birth certificate. I was born in a very small town in Sarawak called Binatang which means animal in Malay. This is a predominantly Foochow town. So when I was born, my [...]
Posted in All Things Chinese, Chinese surnames | Tagged Bi Gan, Binatang, Chen, China, Chinese dialects, Chinese family names, Chinese surnames, Foochow, forest, Fujian, Fujian Chinese, Hayashi, Hokkien, Hong Kong, immoral king, infoUSA, Lam, Liem, Lim, Lin, Ling, Lum, Lynn, Nee, overseas Chinese, Pi Kan, pinyin, Qi Zi, Sarawak, Shang Dynasty, Shang Zhou, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, The Three Kindhearted Men of Shang, treason, Vietnam, Wei Zi, woods, Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Wu Wang |
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