Diary of an Internet Addict

Dinner was at Ipohtown across the road. We were going elsewhere but it it rained pretty hard, thus the change of plan.

Hmm. I wonder how this tastes like… Post-trip note: Like black tea.

Post-trip note: Mee Kolok here tastes like friend maggi / maggi goreng with soto soup. I tried mee kolok from another shop and it tasted like boiled chicken noodles. So I guess, we’ll never really know what Mee Kolok tastes like…

Apparently, one of the things that they push to tourists is the Sarawak pepper. There are pepper sweets and pepper butter biscuits… Post-trip note: And pepper tea, pepper coffee, pepper chocolate…

Looking for orang utan…

I was quite delighted when I opened the door to find a complimentary copy of the newspaper. Post-trip comment: Unfortunately, complimentary copies of the local newspapers are really random.

The Rambutans were awesome looking. Post-trip note:The 3G sort of failed me towards the border. And yes, we really went all the way out to the border. Serikin is physically really Borderlands. The driver actually entertained us with stories of how “Bau” (lit. smell) was given its name. I’ll try and appraise my memory. Somehow…

Caption: inspired by the charming rainforest in Sarawak, this sculpture uses round bronze plates to form the dense foliage of the rainforest. This “foliage” stretches into a shape like an eye. It signifies that Kuching will always be watched over by Mother Nature.

And thus the sun sets on my first night in Kuching, Sarawak. Dinner was fried prawn with rice at a coffeeshop around 10 minutes walk away from our lodgings. This was followed by a little shopping at Parkson beside Riverside Majestic Hotel. Note: Grand Margherita does NOT provide toothbrush. Note 2: Swimming pool is bloody…