Bargaining (i.e. negotiating for the best price) is an interesting concept - a common practise here in Kuching! Everywhere you go, whether it's at a mall or a stall in a market, you negotiate vigorously for a price that is NOT on the price tag. It takes a lot of skill to know the fine line between pissing off the shop owner and getting the best price! Now that I've been away for so long, I have lost the skill I picked up growing up in Kuching. I am often q...

After spending a few days just with the family, I though it's about time I caught up with a couple of old friends of mine. Last night, I went out with Mei and her family for a seafood dinner. They ordered some yummy food, which included butter prawns, a chicken dish, oyster omelette thing, and a local vege which looks very much like a mini version of a koru. It's such a yummy meal! The restaurant is new but obviously popular, it was completely packed! I was...

My little Malaysian hometown continues to surprise me. Yesterday when we were driving home, I noticed a sign that said "Fresh Rabbit Meat / Pet Rabbits for Sale!" Imagine my shock! Jeez, I just don't get it - perhaps they don't see it from my point of view, to them it's probably a good business idea, as my dad explained perhaps when the bunnies get a bit too old to be a pet, they become food? Eww... Talking about food, dad took time off work th...

After an almost 24-hour expedition getting on and off planes, I am finally home! It's interesting that everytime I come home - the place always feels foreign! Crazy drivers, interweaving roads and intersections, new roads seem to come out of nowhere. The weather is as warm as I remembered it to be, and there are lots of new shopping areas, perhaps not such a good thing if I had not planned to shop. So my parents decided to initiate me to The Spring, a new mal...