by FH2o on February 14, 2007
In the
kampungs or remote areas outside Kuching town, you don’t go to the supermarket, the supermarket comes to you! In the form of a van packed to the hilt with all the food stuffs you expect to find in a supermarket.
I spotted this van at Bengoh where we went kayaking on Saturday. This is the first time I had seen a van with this much variety of fresh food and vegetables.
Even in the housing estates in Kuching, you still get these vans selling dry goods, vegetables, meat, fish and all kinds of food stuffs; going around and from the numbers of them that I had spotted, they must be quite popular with the residents. They had been around since I was a little kid.
The prices are higher than those at the normal shops or markets but you sure can’t beat the convenience. That’s why I call them convenience vans! And now everyone can shop! How I wished Chinese New Year shopping would be that convenient! Off to face the traffic jams later in the evening! *sigh*
by FH2o on February 13, 2007
My kids made this birthday’s valentine card for their mother today. I think it’s beautiful, sweet, thoughtful and most loving of them; and would like to share it here with you all. Actually my daughter alone made the card but let her younger and elder brothers
(who are too busy playing computer games) share it!
Here’s Wishing You All a Happy Valentine’s Day. And Happy Birthday too if it happens to be your birthday as well!
by FH2o on February 13, 2007
Although I must have seen these graceful structures dozens if not hundreds of times on my numerous river trips, I’m still in awe of these amazing single-pole bamboo foot bridges built by the bidayuhs to get across rivers or ravines on the way from one longhouse to another or to the nearest road access. An amazing feat of engineering considering the heights and spans of some of these bridges and they all made out of bamboo commonly available from the rainforest jungles. Functional, economical, eco-friendly, honest and beautiful - qualities we could well emulate in our modern designs and structures.
I wished I could say the same about the fugly footbridges and flyovers I see daily on the drive to the office.
by FH2o on February 11, 2007
Kuching is a relatively safe city by Malaysian standards; but somehow some people are just not convinced by the statistics that car thefts are on the decline and would rather take their own home-made preventive measures in securing their prized vehicle regardless of its vintage or condition. It may be prudent to do likewise especially those of you living in big cities and major towns.
by FH2o on February 10, 2007
Perhaps I should be more prudent to ‘behave my age’ less the antics and fun I have taking people out on kayaking trips be construed as senile or silly. Especially when there are trigger happy people like
Wendy on the trip who would not let such silliness to go uncaptured nor unposted!
*sigh*
In the kampungs or remote areas outside Kuching town, you don’t go to the supermarket, the supermarket comes to you! In the form of a van packed to the hilt with all the food stuffs you expect to find in a supermarket.
