LGSS - Form 5 Arts - 1971

Friday, 16 June 2006
They were my teachers when I was in the secondary school. We were the first batch of Form 4 and 5 students in the school. Ms. Molly Liew was our class teacher as well as our English and Literature teacher in Form 5 Arts 1971. Mr. Jim Dallas was our General Science and Health Science teacher.

Between 1971 and 2006, I have only met Ms. Liew and Mr. Dallas once and when I looked back to my photos. It was in 1987. That was about 19 year ago! Time flies.

Another picture for the album. We have Mr. Kho Bee Chiang with us also. He was my class teacher as well Mathematics teacher in Form 3B 1969.

Our Miri missionaries

Sunday, 11 June 2006
A nice picture of the missionaries, who are currently serving in Miri: Elder/Sister Ott, Elder Quist, Elder Lamb, Elder Orgill, Elder Simons, Sister Chung, Sister Ong and Sister Rackham.

Visiting Mukah and Dalat

Friday, 2 June 2006
There were 24 of us in the group. The visit was organised by a Neighbourhood Committee. Sister Monica and myself were glad that they have invited us to join, even though we are not residents of that 'neighbourhood' area. 90 MRinggit that included (1) bus-fare (Miri/Mukah) (2) 1 night hotel accommodation (3) insurance (4) 3 meals: lunch/dinner/breakfast (5) river-cruise and (6) a visit to another town, Dalata was very very good.

Mukah, a place associated with the Melanau people and their staple food, sago - Sister Monica and myself have never been there before. So this was an oppportunity, even though this means a bus ride of 417 km to and 417 km back. This was only half the distance of bus ride from Miri to Kuching - 827 km, that we took on last week!

Our first visit was the Lamin Dana (a Melanau cultural site). In Melanau, 'Lamin' means house and 'Dana' means tall. We are impressed by the house and the rooms, which is opened to tourists to stay.


After a light refreshment at the Lamin Dana restaurant, we were taken on a cruise along the Tellian river. I was with 3 others in a speedboat while the rest were in other boats. Along the river, I saw quite a number of logs, tied together along the way. I think we asked the boatman quite a number of times whether they were sago trunks and somehow he didn't hear us or we didn't understood him until almost the end of the cruise that they were sago trunks! And so I missed taking a picture of them!



There were children playing in the water, on the bridges, verandahs. Our boatman brought us to this vertical tall structure - it was an old Melanau burial place!


Saturday, 3 May 2006
Sago is produced from Mukah. It is famous for it. Can't leave Mukah without getting some of the products made from it! I like the 'Terbaloi" (a kind of sago biscuits) especially.And so we went to the market to see what we can buy to take home.


Sago worms! Roasted ones! Life ones! Or choose them from the ones crawling in the pile of sago trunk dust! They said sago worms are delicious and good for the eyes! I am bespectacled - maybe they are trying to get me to buy them. True to not - I don't know, but they are too wriggly for my liking! The dead ones (roasted) - dark coloured ones, that are packed in the plastic, don't appeal to me either!

We still have time to explore elsewhere and the driver didn't mind to take us to Dalat, an hour drive from Mukah, for a minimal fee.

The river that flows along the town of Dalat. One could take the speed boat to Sibu, the capital of Sarawak's 3rd division.

Want to buy fish?

Wednesday, 31 May 2006
On our drive back from Piasau to Lutong, the big fishes hung at a stall caught our eyes! They were big! I know there are much more bigger fish than this, but those were big to me, because the ones that I usually saw at the market are small! Uncle Ni smiling away with the biggest catch there! The best part of that stop was discovering that they were my late father's friends from Lutong, and they were very happy to meet his younger brother! We had a good visit with them.

The Grand Old Lady

Wednesday, 31 May 2006
It has been a long time since I visited this historical site. It is situated on top of the Canada hill. This is where oil is first discovered in Malaysia. It is over a century old and is no longer producing - Miri Oil Well No.1. The old wooden structure with its 'donkey' has been facelifted but the location remained intact!

A picture of the Miri city from here. The tallest building in this pic is the Imperial Mall.

A picture of the eastern side of Miri, on the other side of the hill.

Public Park

Tuesday, 30 May 2006
A walk in a different park this morning - Public Park (locally known as Taman Awam), 3 km from the city centre, along the Miri-Bintulu road. This is the newest park in town, with observatory platform, jogging track, canopy walk, etc.


And a playground for the children

Asean Bridge

Monday, 29 May 2006
Don't have to use ferry to cross the Kuala Baram river to Brunei anymore. Even if you want, there isn't any ferries operating anymore! We have the Asean bridge now. Uncle Ni and Sister Monica did not have visa to enter Brunei but we could drive across the bridge to the other of the river and turn back at the border-immigration point. And that was exactly what we did, plus 20 MRinggit toll fee on the way.


Lian, Yean and myself have driven over this bridge once, when we moved back from Kota Kinabalu to Miri in February 2005. So this is my second time!

Ferry Points to Brunei

Monday, 29 May 2006

Let us visit the old ferry points to Brunei! First ferry point was near the mouth of the Kuala Baram river. Ferry services aross the river were stopped when the second ferry point, further down the river was built. First ferry point is now used for cargo ships to/from Marudi.


Picture of the driveway into the ferry. This is also closed now when the Asean bridge was built. The jetty is now used by express boats, speedboats to carry passengers to the towns along the Kuala Baram river.

Miri City Fan

Monday, 29 May 2006
Brought Mum, Uncle Ni and Sister Ni for morning walk at the award-winning Miri City Fan (named so because it is in a shape of a fan), a complex of various ethnic gardens, an amphitheater, a public library, a public swimming pool, an indoor stadium, musical fountain (which would be on in the evening).

A stage (which was called Garden of Vision) in the centre of the fan.


Beautiful garden for a good brisk walk.



Seahorse - the 'emblem' of Miri.

Walk the pebble walk for your feet reflexology?

Last, but not least the arch to the Chinese garden.

Brighton Beach

Saturday, 27 May 2006
It was hot at Brighton Beach (Taman Selera) so we didn't stayed long.


Wednesday, 31 May 2006
Had to visit Taman Selera. The last visit was too short and we had not explored enough! On arriving, there were 2 boys climbing the coconut trees and Uncle Ni got to drink coconut water for the first time!

And walked on the pier.

and viewed Miri coastline.