Pix - finally!

This here's the church I attended on Sunday Morning.. the SIB church is truly Malaysian .. cos it's a church group started in Sarawak's interior.


yushan - this shot's for you.. a vintage MG in bright orange.. seen quite a few vintage cars here in Miri. Can bring your chequebook here next time too. there's a vintage volvo a few doors away from my friends' home!


Here's a "nodding donkey"..they're in people's backyards and gardens in Kuala Belait, Brunei! Amazing.. no wonder Brunei is so rich.. oil can still be pumped from the ground here. Even in some Arab countries, oil is now being pumped offshore.. not on. miri used to have its nodding donkeys too, but no more. It's offshore drilling nowadays


you know what.. the skies here are amazing. Saw a stunning sunset today but I didn't have my camera with me. I should take more pix of the skies at different times tomrw. The land is very flat in Miri, it's by the coast. But the skies seem a lot closer to the ground somehow and not so far away. makes u think the earth is flat!

book project

HI folks.. greetings from Miri.. have kicked off my legwork for my "book project" - for which I don't have a catchy title yet. :(

For those won't don't know.. it's a travelogue on Malaysia and I cover a topic in each state.. On leave to do this from May to July.. Do pray for open doors and favour for me, as well as inspiration when I write!

anyway.. dropping a note from Miri since I'm at the computer now. Staying with my friends from Penang who're working at Shell. Shell is the biggest employer here, btw, and we even drove over to Brunei yesterday.. where oil was being pumped at people's backyards! Imagine that.. these machines are called nodding donkeys and each pump movement is one barrel.

I'll put some pictures up when I figure out how. Anyone else with problems posting pictures? I don't know why I can't seem to get them uploaded..

Food in Shantou

Now THIS is the reason why the Tan siblings went to China -to feast! A beef dish



second dish: "ter kha" (pork trotters)

third dish: oyster omelette, hokkien style

last dish: steamed tofu

pictures of the tan siblings in China

There are 30 pictures that I've downloaded to flickr (tag - tan siblings china)
so since there are so many, I've posted a flickr badge on the side of the main page.

It's a bit slow though.. so if y'all want me to go ahead and post like 10 pictures on the blog itself, let me know!