Borneo Cultural Festival Is Back!

The annual festival, the Borneo Cultural Festival which is held every year in Sibu town is back again! That was what I read... actually, I didn't realise it until a nephew mentioned of going although we know for sure it was going to be like, find our way in and out and the poor small nephews only get to see people's backside and butts as we dragged them along all the way, we made it there on Friday evening.

This time around, the BCF has added joyrides lit with colourful florescence lights at the festival. As soon as the dusk falls, people of all ages start crowding the area. As usual scene, crowd of people streaming in and jamming the aisles to the booths area for fun and entertainment.

Like last year (as this is my second time to the BCF in Sibu), we didn't stay long for stage events or any performance from various troupes although it was advertised on local newspapers of BCF event several cultural shows, concerts and stage shows.

Variety of ethnic foods of all culture are available to meet your taste buds, ranging from Chinese 'Siow Bak', 'Pancuh', 'Rendang' and .... etc

"Sup Ekorrrr!"
Sup ekor (oxtail soup) was selling at RM2 per-bowl. We didn't get the chance to try. Seeing the long queue of people waiting for their orders, we decided to give others the chance and we proceeded to the funfair area to watch the wheel joyride, 'eye on Town Square' spinning slowly and where people start screaming with excitement.

The famous Feng Shui ball in Sibu Town Square.

Hello July~

Look! Who's coming to the rescue! The firefighters on their red bikes.

On standby.

I've not seen red firefighter bikes anywhere in the state before, but stumbled upon two yesterday parked comfortably outside Teku's supermarket. I was amazed at how comfortable it looks like and thought, that's cool. The two guys were seen having their tea break at one of the coffeeshops nearby.

Hello, July!

Most days in the month of June were pretty calm, I was on my own most of the time (I looked rather like the cat in the pic, not sure if it's that famous fat cat, Garfield though) work is in progress...

and this is how the desk looks like at the moment.

Don't Miss The Rain

In February this year, according to the report, the massive amount of rainfall totaling an incredible 4196.5 mm for the whole of January is blamed for the recent flood in Sibu. Everyone was whining about, rain floods. For me who'd never drove through a flood before, I drove through the 2 feet high water for the first time early this year in Sibu and caused a little damage to the car.

Then it stopped raining. When rain hasn't come after a while everyone starts to whine about hot and dry weather. The pouring rain in Sibu all day on Sunday brought flash flood, the drainage water pour unto the road. Don't you miss the rain?

We stopped by Cuppa for a drink when a nephew saw Xiangqi 'elephant chess' or Chinese chess together with the other table games on the shelves, he decided we have one round of the game. It was a game I haven't touched for ages, for ages that sounds really long time ago. I used to play Chinese chess or the game of strategy during primary school days. It was famous then only in Chinese school.

When my nephew challenged me to a game, he was so determined that he'd beat me. I was like err... it has been a really LONG TIME already.

Farewell, June! July is coming.....