Above:  Orang Ulu mural at the Sarawak Cultural Village. Today, I took my guest to Sarawak Cultural Village for a taste of Borneo culture.  It’s a place I always try to take my overseas visitors.  Ivan, with peninsular Malaysian origins, would be quite new to most things Borneo as well. We started with a walk […]

A friend Ivan arrived last night.  Due to my upcoming departure to Singkawang, he stayed at a hotel rather than with me. I picked him up for a breakfast of Sarawak Laksa at Lauya Keng, a Teochew temple in old town. He was unsure if his empty stomach would handle the spice, so we tried […]

The hotel restaurant ran out of all but two breakfast choices this morning.  But they had exactly what I wanted, the Vietnamese sandwich.  It was light but enough to tide me over till the lounge at the airport. I got to the airport by Ojek this time for a bit less than the ride in […]

Above:  Some of my dental bills. Coronation Day Today was my Coronation 👑 Day.  Sometimes bad things strike at the best times.  During my two stays in Kuching this trip, I learnt that I had a tooth decay that had killed the tooth and needed a root canal and then a crown 👑. I had […]

Above:  Inking is a relatively recent measure to minimise allegations of individuals voting more than once. Having lived outside of Malaysia since attaining adulthood, I’ve never voted here.  Today, I exercise my constitutional rights by voting for the very first time in the Malaysian General Elections. My brother and I arrived at the nearby polling […]

I spent about 1h30 in the Kathmandu airport lounge but ate little since we had eaten just before.  As our flight had a 40 min delay, I headed to the gate around midnight and cleared security to enter the departure hall. We boarded the Malaysia Airlines B737-800 to Kuala Lumpur and pushed back around 0050.  […]

Tomorrow I will attempt to fly from Kuching to Baku in Azerbaijan.  I start with a confirmed 1045 Malaysia Airlines flight to Kuala Lumpur booked a long time ago partially using points that were expiring. All other arrangements were built around this but plans took multiple turns as most options for the remainder of the […]

Unexpected dental work I had eleven nights in hometown Kuching, not all of which was pleasant.  I had fewer catch-up with friends than normal but more family get-togethers because my nephew Julian (and wife) were visiting from Los Angeles.  And there’s also an early birthday dinner with family for my brother’s 60th. The bad part […]