How I Found My Bodyguards – Part 3

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At night, we went for dinner at James Brooke Bistro at Waterfront. It’s my very first time there.


Left: Spring roll. Nothing special.

Right: Satay. Very sweet with strong lemongrass taste.


Left: Sarawak Laksa, hmm… It did taste okay but not Sarawak Laksa to me. It’s rather sweet to be Sarawak Laksa, there’s no lime and sambal given too. There’s bean curd in it some more, more like curry laksa to me.

Right: Vanilla ice cream with pear cake. Extremely sweet ice cream but good thing the pear cake wasn’t sweet at all, so it balanced it out. Too bad, I couldn’t finish it because I had been eating non-stop since noon. So stuffed!

Don’t ask me how much they were, I have no idea as I’m not the one paying.


Here you go, my bodyguards for the night! Imported all the way from the west and they’re all in black and bald hahaha… I’m so well-protected that night ;p Don’t mess with me! They’re smiling, imagine if they’re not, people would really think that they are some gangsters. *LOL* These bald guys supported the fund raising of SCCS by going bald in the afternoon at Sarawak Energy. Kudos to them!

This wrapped up the day for me.

*This post is sponsored by Sarawak Energy*

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How I Found My Bodyguards – Part 2

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In the afternoon, I went to Menara Sarawak Energy to attend the dialogue session, tour, and Go Bald event.


In the dialogue session, we were introduced to the CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) activities that Sarawak Energy engaged in as you can see in the photos.


Left: Another initiative to help the people in the interior of Sarawak. You can learn more here.

Right: After the dialogue session, we were brought on a building tour. This is the Visitor Galleria.


We also went to look at the office layout and how green the building is. This is the first green office building in Sarawak. Was caught by surprise to see that there’s a gym runs by Level-Up there.


Most windows are on the north and south sides of the building so that there won’t be direct sunlight to reduce excessive heat gain.


If you work here, you’ll definitely get views from your windows. The office switches will switch off on its own when there’s no human movement after 15 minutes.


Left: The atrium has got no air conditioning at all and it’s using cool AHU condensate water to cool the atrium, the water fountain you see in there is not your normal water fountain. The water came from the air conditioning system of the building.

Right: There’s also a museum.


You can learn more about the evolution of Sarawak Energy in this museum.


One last event of the afternoon, Go Bald for SCCS fund raising. Sarawak Energy staff took part in it.


There were more than 40 of them went bald that day. She’s the only woman who decided to go bald pretty last minute. It took us all by surprise. Good for her! I don’t dare… ;p If you want to support the cause, do visit gobald.my.


The baldies!

Where’s my bodyguards? They’re in there the group of baldies. You’ll know in the next post.

*This post is sponsored by Sarawak Energy*

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How I Found My Bodyguards – Part 1

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Hehehe… Yesterday morning, I went to Sarawak Museum for the soft launch of its redesigned longhouse gallery.

It’s a collaboration between Sarawak Museum with Sarawak Energy, the state energy provider.


Please be reminded that general public is not allowed to take photos in the museum especially with flash as it will affect the artefacts preservation. We were allowed to take photos of this section because we’re given permission to do so.



With the support from Sarawak Energy, the longhouse gallery is more modern now. There’s a theatrette for you to learn more about the longhouse in Sarawak. There wasn’t such thing last time. Other than that, there’s also touchscreen for visitors to interact with.

Since not many people got the chance to go into a longhouse, Sarawak Museum has it, a mini one for you to experience how it’s like in a longhouse. There’s real human skulls in there! At least more than 100 years old. It’s hanging on the ceiling of the longhouse (the picture on the top right).


These are the surrounding of the museum.


Left: A fountain not far behind the museum.
Right: The back view of Sarawak Museum.

Where’s my bodyguards? Coming soon in coming posts ;p

*This post is sponsored by Sarawak Energy*

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Swanky Sarah

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OK… Enough of GE-13 talk, don’t want to talk about it anymore. Nothing to talk also. It’s always the same thing over and over again. Better eat!

My first food preview in Kuching after a long time. This is Swanky Sarah, the new place in town. In fact it started its operation more than a month ago but I only post it now hehehe… If you know Simplicious then that’s where Swanky Sarah is. If you don’t know, just like me, then here’s the address: 39, Pisang Road off Green Road, 93400 Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. I’m hopeless with address, map, and direction hahaha… So don’t ask me extra details on the location, I circled the area 3 times to locate it hahaha… It’s somewhere opposite Furniture Expo and the church.


This post is no longer a preview ;p people open for business already, I’m late in posting. Hehehe… More than a month after the preview.

Left: Blue Lagoon and Soda Peach. Blue Lagoon tasted like blue coloured sprite provided you make use of the lemon in there while Soda Peach, I guess it’s just peach flavoured soda. No idea of the price though.

Right: Garden Salad With Dressing 1000 Island (RM8.90). The portion is rather huge. Just finishing this dish yourself will ruin the rest of your appetite becuase you are full from it hahaha… Don’t forget to share this so that you can still eat other stuffs.


Left: Grilled Calamari Ring (RM14.90), oh I so love this! Yummy!

Right: Charcoal BBQ Pork Belly (RM10), gosh! Love this too!


Left: Cincalok aka Nyonya Dip that comes with the pork belly. Heavenly to pair it with the pork belly. It’s good to have it on its own too. In fact, I prefer to have it on its own.

Right: Fabulous Chicken Wing (RM13.90), it’s BBQ-ed.

Here comes the main course, they all served with papadom, Salad & Potatoes of the Day, with choices of sauce namely Black Pepper, Mushroom or Garlic.

Charcoal BBQ Beef Sirloin (RM34.90). It’s not the usual type of steak, this is marinated and BBQ over the charcoal which explains why it’s so black. I really love it!


Charcoal BBQ Lamb Shoulder (RM27.90). I prefer my lamb to be well done, this is a bit too raw and chewy for me. It does taste good though.


Left: BBQ Half Quarter Chicken (RM39), the chicken was BBQ to perfection! MAN! Love it so much! So tender and juicy and the skin is the best part. However, I feel that it’s a bit pricey with that price -.-” Remember to share this, it’s hard to finish alone. Wait… Half? Quarter? Hmm… Might be wrongly printed in the menu. This is half chicken for sure.

Right: Charcoal BBQ Spare Ribs (RM8.90 per 100gm). This is yummy too! OH! How I wish I could enjoy this that night but we were all stuffed to the brink. So sad…


The sauce, mushroom and black pepper.

I know the photos don’t look nice, lousy composition. It’s been a long time not doing this anymore. Need to brush up the skill.

Overall, it’s a nice plce, environment was great too. No photo of it because it’s not completed yet when we were there. If you want to enjoy pork dish, then do visit Swanky Sarah.

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Result is Out, What’s Next?

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So, the result is out and so many people are angry with it. As for me, expected it from the beginning, didn’t even bother to wait for the final one. All I know I’ve done my part. Problem now is the angry people. Again, I’m not siding any side for this, it’s just my observation on how most people reacted to it. At the same, I’m very disappointed with how some people had reacted to the result. I’m not disappointed at all with the result, if you had observed the strategies used in campaigning and consider the geographical and socioeconomic situation of the state, it’s not a surprise at all to get this result.

Before I go on with the negatives, I will talk about the positive points which obviously not many people bother to look at because they are too sad or angry to think straight.

1. The turnout is extraordinary! KUDOS! It proves that you all care about the country’s well-being and you are making history for creating a high turnout. This is enough to shake their confidence. They were so afraid of all of you hence all those dramas unfold. Even though they are still governing but you had made an impact and they will definitely be extremely careful with what they are doing. From the outside, they seemed arrogant, in fact, in the inside, I can guarantee you that they are already so afraid and shitting in their pants because they are human. Even animal will be afraid too if it encounters such issue. Who wants to show their ugly/weak sides to you right? Yes! You had made an impact. Keep it up!

2. Opposition had won more seats compared to the previous election. Also, look at the number of votes, the margin between the competitors, it’s HUGE! This is something you should be happy about. It’s getting there, just hang in there. Rome was not built in a day. Remember that! There’s no such thing as instant win even though it seemed promising however at the end it didn’t turn out as you wished. I’m sure the opposition leaders will fight with all their might, so do you even have the rights to give up now?

3. The world is watching now. So you think those people are not afraid? They are so afraid that they had to resort to all sort of strategies to prove their innocence or secure the seats but why worry? The world is watching. You are not alone. Whatever you’ve been fighting for wasn’t wasted. In fact, this is just a start. It’s not easy, it’s never easy. Keep it up!

Now the negatives:

1. Again… Photoshop! Goodness you people!! For eg. Sharing photo of Obama holding Bersih t-shirt. It’s not true! The actual photo was taken in 2009 in MIT, that’s MIT’s blue t-shirt not Bersih yellow t-shirt. Another random photos in the Internet which people edited. I don’t know who did this but I’m sure it’s not the work of the official, just some immature supporter’s work. Still, by doing so, you can cause the cause that you are supporting to be targeted by people who really want to destroy you and also potential supporters will not want to support it as it doesn’t seem as clean as it claimed to be.

2. Getting all emotional, changing profile photo to black, encouraging people to wear black and taping their mouth when they go out, change the country’s flag into black and white or hold it upside down and so on just to name a few. You know… By doing so won’t do you any good. You will only cause more troubles and provide easy avenue for you-know-who to launch attack on you and also your beloved party. You are not helping but making things worst! They can say that you have plans to disrupt harmony and peace of the country and so on. Yes, you want to show your dissatisfaction but this is not the right way to do it. Instead, you must stay calm, go on with your life as usual, show them how strong and rationale you are, you are not easily defeated otherwise people will take advantage of your weaknesses and turn the sword against you. The opposition leaders know what to do with it. If you respect them, then do them a favour by not giving up and refrain from immature acts.

3. Calling Sarawakians names simply because BN is leading here. If you have not been to Sarawak before especially the rural areas, then shut your mouth up. Do you know how big Sarawak is? Some people need to be taught Geography, Sarawak land size can fit in many states from peninsular Malaysia ok?!?! The map you see mostly are not actual size, that’s why you are misled. Also, Kuching is not in Sabah, thank you very much.

You don’t know the the real situation here. Frankly, even I myself have never been deep into the rural area and I have no reason too. I don’t want to also because I don’t think I can stand living in such places. Do you know, just to go into most of the rural areas, those extremely interior ones will requires hours of driving with four-wheel drive, next need to take hours of boat ride, then hours of walking just to reach the village, and with very little development, no electricity or even proper piping or sanitary system? We have a lot here as our land is too big and the jungle is dense. Along the way, you might get attack by leeches, mosquitoes, and so on. These are the places that made up BN winning seats.

These people do not get the chance to be exposed to the outside world much and they are afraid of strangers. You know how lucky you are or not? All they know is who is the one that is helping them no matter how small. RM100 is HUGE in their eyes, they have no choice at all. How do you expect them to change when no one is there to guide them? Did PR go deep into the jungle to campaign? No! None! Nil! Zero! Kosong! They only did it in the urban areas simply because they don’t have the resources in terms of skills, manpower, money and so on. Even if they managed to go in, they will have problem convincing them because they are afraid of outsiders unless someone they trusted bring them in. Again, PR doesn’t have such resource. What’s more for only showing up near election. As for the BN, the representatives of those areas will visit them from time to time the whole year through, that’s why they trusted him/her. At the end of the day, they will vote for BN for sure. It’s not an easy task for PR to do that, maintenance is very important and it takes ages!

Narrow minded people started to call us names but they did not see the big picture at all. Do you know that PR had won more seats in Sarawak this time around especially in the urban areas than it was. It’s an improvement already. Those other areas, they still need time. Furthermore, me and you, we are Malaysians, why do the condemning among ourselves? Did we Sarawakians call you names when some of the states in West Malaysia had fallen into another party’s hand? If you are oh-so-smart, then why don’t you go into the interior to educate and help them? Remember, not just staying there for short term but long term as you need to gain their trust. How many of you dare to do so? You would rather sleep in your air-con room, drive your car, have your Starbucks, play with your iPhone/iPad and so on than going into the jungle. Just talking or hiding behind your computer making degrading statements will not improve anything.

4. Boycotting. YO! Malaysians sure like to boycott but after awhile they forgot what/why they boycotted something for and life is back to how it used to. Might as well resign from the companies belong to you-know-who and their cronies to show your dissatisfaction. Don’t do it halfheartedly or quarterheartedly (I know… No such word), might as well do it wholeheartedly. Oh! Can you sense my sarcasm?

5. Playing up the racial sentiment, blaming certain race for their losses and so on. *shake head* not relevant anymore! Out of date already. You are just going to dig your own grave with that.

6. Calling the candidates names or cursing them. Talking about democracy and freedom? They are also human, they do no deserved to be condemned like that. Even though you don’t like the party they represented, you have to know that they too are like you and I, have father and mother, and make mistakes too. Don’t tell me you never make any mistake. Don’t talk like as if you’re a saint. What’s more, it’s an election, of course there are more than one parties to vie for the spot. Else, why is there an election in the first place?

Too many, too many silly things to share but I better stop here.

Remember, you had made your voice heard, don’t be so naive to think that with just one election you can vote the governing party out. It will take decades! You have no rights to give up when the leaders are not giving up whether it’s the governing one or otherwise. Also, we are all Malaysians, we had showed them that we are able to stand united as one, we must respect each other no matter what. Don’t simply mess with us especially we are now connected to the world. This is just the beginning, not the end. If you really want to help the country then stop being so naive and narrow minded as you will only be the laughing stock of the world because the whole world is watching.

From My Angle