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 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 |
By admin on July 10, 2012
The Bintangkian Lau Peng Yu Reunion is now history but it has been etched into the memory of those who made it to the function. Hats off to the organizing committee for pulling off the best reunion ever. They outdid themselves, creating great memories for all of those who attended the function. I wish to [...]
Posted in Down Memory Lane, Memories Are Made Of These, My Life Journey | Tagged Barbara Streisand’s “The Way We Were”, Bennett Cerf, Bintangor, middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you, SM Kai Chung, the best reunion ever, The Bintangkian Lau Peng Yu Reunion |
By admin on July 4, 2012
Pint-sized and endlessly musical Malaysian singer-songwriter, guitarist and ukulele player Zee Avi will be performing a special homecoming concert on July 7 at the Miri Indoor Stadium courtesy of the Sarawak State Government. I am a fan of hers and I would love to attend the concert. Unfortunately I will be in Bintangor on July [...]
Posted in Malaysia, Miri, Music, Sarawak | Tagged Bintangkians Lau Peng You Reunion, Bintangor, Brushfire Records, Brushfire Records's 2008 Christmas album This Warm December: A Brushfire Holiday, Emmett Malloy, Gossip Girl, http://zeeavi.com/home/, Ian Montone, Ian Montone's Monotone Records, Izyan Alirahman, Jack Johnson, KokoKaina, Malaysian singer-songwriter Zee Avi, Patrick Keeler of The Raconteurs, Pete Yorn, Private Practice, The Raconteurs, The Shins, The White Stripes, US iTunes store, Visitors Information Centre Miri, www.redtix.airasia.com, Zee Avi's"Monte", Zee Avi’s "Bitter Heart", Zee Avi’s "No Christmas For Me", Zee Avi’s debut EP “One More Time With Colors”, Zee Avi’s homecoming concert in Miri, Zee Avi’s July 7 2012 concert at the Miri Indoor Stadium, Zee Avi’s self-titled debut album, Zee Avi’s website, Zee Avi’s YouTube videos, Zee Avi’s “I Wish I Never”, Zee Avi’s"Concrete Wall" |
By admin on June 20, 2012
It has been said that the best antiques to collect are old friends. The trap of busyness causes us to move with such mindless speed that we’re like the proverbial chicken running around with his head cut off. And as we get caught up in our busyness, we often slowly lose contact with old friends. [...]
Posted in Down Memory Lane, Ramblings | Tagged Bintangor, Bintangor oranges, Heng Chiong Bookstore, kompians, Ming Kiong Hotel, Rejang River, reminisce about the past, Reunion, reunion of Bintangkian “Lau Peng Yu”, SM Kai Chung |
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 November 19, 2011
Childhood is a wonderful time. It is often one of the happiest periods in the life of any person. As I look back at my childhood in Binatang (now known as Bintangor), I am overwhelmed by nostalgia and fond reminiscence of those almost care-free days. And I feel myself being transported back in time to [...]
Posted in Down Memory Lane, My Life Journey, Ramblings | Tagged 4-wheel carts, Binatang oranges, Bintangor, Bintangor oranges, Borneo Bulletin, both front and back somersaults, Childhood is one of the happiest periods in the life of any person, Chinese romance novels, communist movement in Sarawak, communists in Sarawak, cops-and-robbers, Dolphin magazine, Eastern Theatre in Binatang, Enid Blyton, express boats plying the Rejang River, Famous Five and Secret Seven novels, fun childhood, Gameboy, government curfews, helicopters dropping government propaganda leaflets, Heng Chiong Bookstore, hide-and-seek, hopscotch, ice kacang, Kai Chung Middle School, kompians, Kuching, life as a kid in the 1960s and 1970s, life in the 1960s and early 1970s, Ming Kwong Café in Binatang, MV Pulau Kijang, MV Rajah Mas, MV Soon Bee, my childhood in Binatang, playing with marbles, Playstation, Rejang River, somersaults, St Augustine Primary School in Binatang, swimming in the Rejang River, Wharf Road in Binatang, wooden sampans, yearning for a daughter |
By admin on June 2, 2011
“Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.” — Nikos Kazantzakis It has been said that a teacher is the flame that lights the path of a child. Teachers shoulder a [...]
Posted in Down Memory Lane | Tagged a teacher is the flame that lights the path of a child, Australian comedian Rolf Harris, Bintangor, Cosmopolitan College Toronto Canada, English Literature, favorite teacher, Horace Mann, Kai Chung Middle School, Kolej Tun Datuk Patinggi Tuanku Haji Bujang, Nikos Kazantzakis, Roman Catholic mission school, St Augustine’s Primary School Binatang, Tanjong Lobang College, teaching is like cultivating a garden, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tribute to Teachers |
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” |
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