Miri and my hotel

Today i have a business meeting in the city of Miri. Miri is one of the city in Sarawak. It is well known as oil city.  Once arrived at the airport , i decided to get a cab and drive me to the city and to  the hotel i have booked through online. Somehow i have changed my mind and rent a nice white cute Myvi car  as my transport for the day. A nice lady with good marketing n sales strategy has tempted me to their car rental service . Thanks to them as i have a lengthy destination to cover and spend my day here.
I took my car and heading to the hotel Grand Palace Hotel. I booked for 250.00 for a night and hey this is a good hotel , easy access to the areas of shopping, near the main road and you can find a lot of eating places near plus a good night outing if you are a night goer, you will find this hotel is a good choice.
I walked up the elevator to my room located at 4 th floor. And my room view is strategically facing the Canada Hill and front of main road. It was a rainy day and i couldnt walk outside and decided just spend the afternoon in the room.
I got my handphone and started texting my wife to letting her that i am safe and sound here. Hehe.
I started to grap my ipad and surf the email, internet and etc, only to find that the wifi is not free and charge for RM 12.for the day.  That was a set back and sad as the hotel should give a free wifi to the guest . This has been practiced by other hotel owner across the country and as an advantage and additional value to the guest.
Fortunately, my iphone can assist me with the personal hotspot and now i can blog and tell you my stories.
The rain just stopped and i can go down and walk to the nearest eating place and have my stomach filled.
I started the next day with the complimentary breakfast at the hotel. The food is served with varieties of east and west meal, light and kind a heavy for breakfast. I choose to take a slice of bread with jams and butter, hot tea and 2 half boiled eggs. I wanted to take some laksa siam which is also served but decided not to because it should spare for my next lunch meal.
I checked out from the hotel a little late about 1.35pm which is supposed to 12.00 noon. Somehow the front desk lady on duty allow me and help me to do the checking out without any hussle and smooth. One thing that i know from her was the rate for the hotel is cheaper if i do the booking my phone call or walk in compare by Agoda.
I left the lobby and heading to the airport to catch my flight to Labuan.
Catch you later. Bye.

Bahasa Serawak

Hi , today i would like to teach you a few words of bahasa Sarawak or Sarawak Malay language. It may help you  a little whenever you visit Sarawak.

1. Good Morning : Selamat Pagi.
2. How are you : Apa kabar kitak? ( Kitak means you)
3. Where are you going ? : Kitak nak ke siney? ( siney means where )
4. What is your name? : Sapa nama kitak ? ( sapa means who or what , nama means name, kitak means you)
5. You look beautiful today ! : Kacak kitak aritok or kitak kacak aritok . ( kacak means beautiful, aritok means today )
6. Do not worry : sik boh bingong ( sikboh means do not , bingong means worry)
7. I dont know : Kamek sik tauk ( sik means no , tauk means know)
8. How ? : Kedak ney?
9. There : Sinun
10. Here : Sitok 
11. Thank you : terimakasih.

Lets us try some simple conversation:

1. Hai,Selamat Pagi .Apa kabar kitak? Sapa nama kitak? Kacak kitak aritok ?
   Hai, Good morning, How are you? What is your name? You look beautiful today!

2. Kitak nak ke siney? Sik boh bingong , kamek di sitok ajak.
Where are you going ? Do not worry . I am here...

Ok thats all for today.

5 most useful things when it Rain in Kuching Sarawak

Okay, i wish to share to all of you who are planning to visit Kuching Sarawak. Since it is raining almost every day ( i mean really rainsss) here is the most useful things you must have n bring along.
1. UMBRELLA
Very useful to you thru night and day as you are experiencing rain most of the time. As much as possible find the big umbrella as the rain is heavy and often. Advice to you, bring 2 umbrellas as the second umbrella you can borrow to other people especially to the elder. They would really appreciate your kindness.

2. RAINCOAT

If you are not friendly with umbrella, get ready with the rain coat. Most men prefer raincoat. Raincoat will help you walk free with out worry to hold anything and gives you more time to spend with rains. Well you can ride bicycle, motorbikes, kayak or even just walking. You can get the disposable raincoat which made available at Watson, Guardian or 7Eleven. I think men looks cool with raincoat. I bought one black raincoat few days ago.Made in China with RM 9.90 plus cap. Try with yellow raincoat because it helps people to recognise you as a DIGI mascot.. hhaha,

3. Plastic Bag

You might ask why plastic bag? Simply because you might need to put your valuable items like wallet, cellphone to keep it dry. You may need them to put your handkerchief or small towel for you to dry yourself. Isn't it useful? My advice is do not throw your plastic bag away and please recycle. It is useful in other way. Try new fashion statement in which put on your head with the plastic bag to cover it.  Do not make the drain clog and full with plastic bag. You can create environmental disaster.


4. Slipper.

Slipper is not slippery! But slipper is better than shoes or leather boots. It is simple,amphibian and dry easily. Furthermore it is cheap and comfortable.

image from :sodahead

5. The last item is the most difficult that i can think of. Maybe you guys can think of what you may need to bring because one need is different to another. Ah Boon may need different item than Silva and Marcos may need different things than Mahathir. Mahathir may need baseball cap and Najib may bring paracetamol or Panadol to heal his headache. Samy Vellu may need boat rather than bicycle to move from one place to another. Well. it is for you guys to choose but please be reminded that Kuching is wet and slippery.  I have read one article and it says, anyone who thinks that sunshine is happiness has never danced in the rain.   Enjoy the wet days ..