In my last post "Lets eat to say bye bye" I wrote about how my friend and I decided to have dinner at a different place every night untill our last day in Miri. Well just now the plan has been hijacked. We had dinner in the same restaurant as the one on last Monday.
Reason being, the food there is not bad and I am tired of thinking for a new place to have dinner everyday. He will ask the same question everyday and I will feel pressured to give a good answer so that I dont pisses him off. Coz when he is pissed he will say that he is the only one having to make every decision. As a result, I will have to travel in the car with no conversation going on between us. Drama huh... By the way, Yes I am capable to be in total silence mode to avoid awkward moments where you talk to an unresponsive angry subject...weird huh to think that I am capable of keeping my mouth shut haha
Ok back to the subject of food, one of my non muslim friend once pointed out "Halal food in Miri sucks". Please read his remark in a jokingly tone. I am sure he did not intend to be insensitive.
Reality wise he is not entirely wrong. I wouldn't say that the food sucks though as I have had my share of good halal food in Miri, but if you are talking about variety of good halal food yes it does kind of dissapointing a bit. Listed below are some of the food that I like;
a) Lalapan Daging, Muara Restaurant near the waterfront
b) Nasi putih daging goreng kunyit, Suria Abadi near lutong
c) Mee Jawa, Kampung Pengkalan
d) Nasi Kerabu Daging Salai, IR-WAN restaurant in piasau
...and some others which I might list down in future.
So what's for dinner? 😉 I will have to put on my thinking cap early in the morning and start churning out ideas for dinner haha
Sunday, November 11, 2012
My Last Saturday in Miri
Hmm what's there for me to share today? Normal morning went for breakfast talk n talk n talk (as usual i am always the one who does the talking haha). After that went to help a friend move in his new house. Well I didnt know what to do and felt not useful haha so when the phone call came from another friend to help him go shopping I kind of jumping with joy. I am useful again wohoo
As I have been blogging about leaving miri for the past few weeks, this weekend is my last here. So when my friend decided to bring me along for souvenier shopping realised that I have not bought anything yet to bring back home. In my mind next week's trip is like my usual KUL-MYY trip where I will eventually be bc in miri. At first I did try to rake my brain for ideas but to no avail. I only managed to convince myself to buy 'terubuk masin'. I guess it should be enough to shut my conscience for the time being from keep on reminding me that I have not bought any souveniers yet.
Being a good friend I went around explaining to my friend about the things that he should be buying and acted as a mediator between the shopkeeper and him. At one point I told him that it is weird that I am explaining things to him as if I a local guy when in fact I am not. He did buy a lot of stuff which I do not know how is he going to fit everything in his luggage. Good luck to him.
Later in the evening I decided to become useful again and helped the friend who is moving into his new home to make up his room. Well I did not physically did much work but I consider my ideas for ID as my contribution to him haha
I dont think I want to continue on with this diary like entry. Sorry if I have taken up your time to read this entry. Will try to write something more meaningful and as always melodramatic 😜 tomorrow.
Good night...
As I have been blogging about leaving miri for the past few weeks, this weekend is my last here. So when my friend decided to bring me along for souvenier shopping realised that I have not bought anything yet to bring back home. In my mind next week's trip is like my usual KUL-MYY trip where I will eventually be bc in miri. At first I did try to rake my brain for ideas but to no avail. I only managed to convince myself to buy 'terubuk masin'. I guess it should be enough to shut my conscience for the time being from keep on reminding me that I have not bought any souveniers yet.
Being a good friend I went around explaining to my friend about the things that he should be buying and acted as a mediator between the shopkeeper and him. At one point I told him that it is weird that I am explaining things to him as if I a local guy when in fact I am not. He did buy a lot of stuff which I do not know how is he going to fit everything in his luggage. Good luck to him.
Later in the evening I decided to become useful again and helped the friend who is moving into his new home to make up his room. Well I did not physically did much work but I consider my ideas for ID as my contribution to him haha
I dont think I want to continue on with this diary like entry. Sorry if I have taken up your time to read this entry. Will try to write something more meaningful and as always melodramatic 😜 tomorrow.
Good night...
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Finally : Kampung Air
My trip around the Kampung Air was not planned and more of a spur of the moment kind of thing. After arriving in Bandar Seri Begawan we parked our car near the Secretariat Building and walked towards the waterfront.
When I was there a year ago, I only marvelled at the number of boats crossing through the waters. So for this trip I decided to take a better look at Brunei's famous Kampung Air.
My friend and I took a boat ride which goes around the Kampung Air. We were only charged 20 brunei dollars per boat for around 20-30minutes ride around the village. We were lucky that our guide was kind enough to point out interesting facts on Kampung Air.
Brunei's Kampung Air is not like the one in Kota Kinabalu Sabah. There are like more than 3 schools and mosques built by the government for the villagers. On top of that the village too is equipped with its own fire brigade and various petrol station.
A note of advice to future visitor, be sure to arrive earlier if you want to pay a visit to the Kampung Air's Visitor's Center and do ask your guide about the village's famous Nasi Katok.
When I was there a year ago, I only marvelled at the number of boats crossing through the waters. So for this trip I decided to take a better look at Brunei's famous Kampung Air.
My friend and I took a boat ride which goes around the Kampung Air. We were only charged 20 brunei dollars per boat for around 20-30minutes ride around the village. We were lucky that our guide was kind enough to point out interesting facts on Kampung Air.
Brunei's Kampung Air is not like the one in Kota Kinabalu Sabah. There are like more than 3 schools and mosques built by the government for the villagers. On top of that the village too is equipped with its own fire brigade and various petrol station.
A note of advice to future visitor, be sure to arrive earlier if you want to pay a visit to the Kampung Air's Visitor's Center and do ask your guide about the village's famous Nasi Katok.
Friday, November 9, 2012
Lets eat to say bye bye
I few days ago my friend and I decided to spend our last week together by having dinner in different places everyday until both of us leave for home. Sincerely, I was and still am thankful for the wonderful idea.
Being me, I was very much excited at the very beginning as I would be spending more time with people that matter before I leave this place. So much so that I cannot wait to end my day in the office and starts the food hunting journey.
Four days has passed and we have had equal share of good meals and less appealing ones. The problem with this place is, it is very difficult to find good restaurant which suits our palate. Not that we are such picky eaters but food here seems to be the same everywhere in terms of taste and style of cooking. So that was issue number one.
Now issue number two, I thought by having this food hunting activity I would be able to slowly soothe this ache in my heart everytime I think about my impending departure by spending more time with the people that I care about but this only makes me dread the idea of living. To think that after this all of us will move on with our own lives and slowly we would be strangers again makes is so not favourable to me.
"Change is the only constant" someone once said and I sort of agree to it. Therefore, i believe my fears are not entirely a paranoia on my side. Nevertheless, I cannot expect the world to stop for me or to think that everything revolves around me.
It is funny that nowadays from time to time I will bring up the issue of my leaving as a passing remark during our conversations. I did that to familiarise myself with the idea of leaving apart from trying to gauge the general sentiment on the subject. Dumb huh?
Well I'll just let this imperfection of mine slips away and not dwell to much in feeling ashamed about it. However, I must bear in mind that too much drama will reduce seriousness of the plot thus reducing the quality of the story.
So lets just concentrate on the plan at hand and try to close it successfully. Hmm whats the plant for tomorrow.Trip to the pasar malam perhaps! Haha
Signing off. Good ninght
Being me, I was very much excited at the very beginning as I would be spending more time with people that matter before I leave this place. So much so that I cannot wait to end my day in the office and starts the food hunting journey.
Four days has passed and we have had equal share of good meals and less appealing ones. The problem with this place is, it is very difficult to find good restaurant which suits our palate. Not that we are such picky eaters but food here seems to be the same everywhere in terms of taste and style of cooking. So that was issue number one.
Now issue number two, I thought by having this food hunting activity I would be able to slowly soothe this ache in my heart everytime I think about my impending departure by spending more time with the people that I care about but this only makes me dread the idea of living. To think that after this all of us will move on with our own lives and slowly we would be strangers again makes is so not favourable to me.
"Change is the only constant" someone once said and I sort of agree to it. Therefore, i believe my fears are not entirely a paranoia on my side. Nevertheless, I cannot expect the world to stop for me or to think that everything revolves around me.
It is funny that nowadays from time to time I will bring up the issue of my leaving as a passing remark during our conversations. I did that to familiarise myself with the idea of leaving apart from trying to gauge the general sentiment on the subject. Dumb huh?
Well I'll just let this imperfection of mine slips away and not dwell to much in feeling ashamed about it. However, I must bear in mind that too much drama will reduce seriousness of the plot thus reducing the quality of the story.
So lets just concentrate on the plan at hand and try to close it successfully. Hmm whats the plant for tomorrow.Trip to the pasar malam perhaps! Haha
Signing off. Good ninght
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