2009 Chinese New Year Fireworks at Sarikei

Like previous years i get to celebrate Chinese New Year at my hometown again! So minutes before the tick of midnight for Chinese New Year, fireworks began to lit up the sky.. Scaring babies, cats and dogs and car alarms goes everywhere.
This year we are lucky because we have piko’s Canon EOS 450D to capture [...]

Largest fruit display on Sarikei Pineapple Festival

I missed out this earlier, there’s showcase of largest fruits on Sarikei Pineapple Festival 2008.
(Click image for larger view)
Largest durians.. 1,2 and 3. There’s “jangan sentuh” means “do not touch” in malay language. We proceed, and see..

Sarikei Pineapple Festival 2008: Regatta

06 and 07 December
The sixth and seventh day of Sarikei Pineapple Festival 2008 continues with the Sarikei Regatta 2008. It is held on the Nyelong River, at the same place where fishing competition is held on Friday.
Having no idea and luck on event schedule, i went there on Sunday, which is the last day of [...]

Fishing Competition at Sarikei Pineapple Festival

My coverage on Sarikei Pineapple Festival 2008 continues on the fifth day, where there’s a fishing competition!
5th December:
The competition took place at the Nyelong River Esplanade were the Pineapple Festival is held nearby.
It is scheduled at 2.30 pm, 5th December.
I arrived there at 3pm.

There is no smiley on Sarikei sky

The world is lucky again when currently the two brightest planet on the sky: Venus and Jupiter, and the crescent moon will appear very very near in the sky. The current crescent phase of moon will make this ‘gathering’ a smiley face in the sky.
What you need is just to view the western sky just [...]

séeput’s holiday (homecoming trip ver.)

There was joy and sorrow as the very last of the final examination is over. the exam is extremely hard to swallow and the holiday may give people time to forget it.
Holiday is not complete without homecoming. My hometown is a six hours’ away from my university using land transport. Usually i use express bus [...]

Sarikei new version

It’s one week holiday here in UNIMAS and i took this opportunity to travel back to Sarikei. It’s an usual trip: 6 hours of bus ride, sleep, cold, watch the scenery passing by and listening to music (although my phone is not a music-oriented phone; but can store up to 4GB’s worth of music)
Sarikei has [...]