it is new year's eve today. it is 11.48pm back in sibu. my family should be sleeping right now. they are going to wake up in roughly 6 hours time to prepare to go to church. my grandparents will wake up in 4-5 hours time to cook "mee sua" for our huge family. and the kids will be out in 6 hours time to play "huo cai pao" or (matches stick cracker...whatever), or dragon's egg. if they dare to play "ta di lei kong (big land lei is....??what is lei? lightning? then...thunder? whatever...)..or chai lei", they will be skinned alive. everyone is gona wear their new clothes soon. usually, i should be at my father's home place called Machan. and..be heading to Kanowit to go to church. usually service starts at 9? or 830? it changes. then we will go to my maternal grandparents house with lots of relatives back too. this year is more special because james, alex and ah hong yi yi and uncle david are back from aus. havent seen uncle daavid in ages!! like 10 years?? he is busy working...anyway, miss the things that i have been doing routinely for time immemorial. since i have memory. and all the food. and all the compliments u will get...like, "eric, grow tall liao oo", "eric, now thinner oo", "eric, now got pimples liao oo", "eric, OLD liao la...dont play that". some how the feeling has changed since last year...maybe because there is no childhood feeling anymore. i dont join the kids for fire crackers time. i used to lead the charge to our armament storage. LOL..wait, have i ever? hmm... anyway, enjoy ur time wherever you are. here i am studying. i have to write 4 essays next week...and hand in at the end of the week. not started yet. busy week ahead...
some pictures of the places i mentioned. taken from some iban blog and newspaper.
Machan
the ferry carrying the car prior to the completion of the Durin bridge
the bridge before completion. it is now completed. i drove over it before!! li hai le!
the new built shade. the white building on the right beside the shade is my grandpa's. aiya, you cant see my room. my room is the second window.
the Machan jetty, the very conspicuous jetty on the right is my grandma's sister family's. while the one beside (at the middle of the picture, if you can see like some sort of walking path) is my grandfather's. do you see that shop house? my grandpa's shop house is the first one the left on that row.
this is the other side of Machan. my grandfather's shop house is on the 2nd row the first shop house. it is white in colour.Kanowit
entrance of kanowit
the...sth of kanowit..it is the roundabout at the temple...I THINK.
according to my limited bahasa iban understanding, this is taken in dec. during the flood. do u see the yellow building with blue colour window. that is my maternal grandparents' shop house. the building behind , yellow in colour is the kanowit jetty lor...
**all pictures taken from blogs, internet and newspaper. sorry for the some low quality pictures. amazing i can even find machan's pic in internet. wow...google is the best! no wonder yahoo inc! is gona combine la...
**not paid for the adversetisement.
miss my family....
