Selamat Hari Gawai - Gayu Guru Gerai Nyamai

Gawai Dayak is a festival celebrate only in Sarawak on 1 and 2 June every year and it a public holiday for Sarawakians. It celebrates the end of the rice harvest and is traditionally a time for the community to come together after the hard work is over.

Tuak (rice wine) are brewed and traditional delicacies like penganan and glutinous rice is roasted in bamboo (cakes from rice flour, sugar and coconut milk) prepared (ngelulun pulut).

During the celebration Ngajat dance is preform and it is believed to celebrate the return of the worriors save return from battels and as the year gone by now the dance is also preformed to welcome important guests (VIPs) to the longhouses and so on.

Here I would like to wish all my Iban friends “Selamat Ari Gawai" Gayu Guru Gerai Nyamai.”

It means “Happy Gawai" may everyone be healthy and live a long life.”

Cheers everyone, I can wake up late tomolo.... ah.. finally some rest.

Sunset High Above The Cloud

You all seen the sunset from the ground beautiful isn't,but have you ever seen sunset from high above the sky on the plane.This is my first time ever seen sunset from high above the sky and compare taking sunset from the ground it has different feel about it.

Mountains Of Guilin

One thing that fascinate me the most in Guilin is the mountains there come in all shape and sizes. There is even names given to every mountains. If you happen to see a weird shape looking mountain and it not been name yet speak out and that mountain is name after you. I get to know from our tour guild that photographers from around the world does come here often spend at least a year to capture the wounder full sight of the mountains.


Yeah it was rather nice to be in the countryside breath the fresh mountain air. For some of the place even it already morning you can still see the moon still shining.

Guilin Moon Caves

We now at Guilin Moon Caves

On Top Of Moon Caves and the pagoda I have forgotten what is the name already.


Below Moon Caves


This place is nice but sadly that day is little fogey if there is no fog the picture taking is much better.

Rice Dumpling or Bak Chang

With Duan Wu Festival is around the corner, most of us will be making rice meat dumplings or just buy from the local market.
Rice dumpling festival 端午节 falls on the fifth day of the fifth moon of the Chinese lunar calendar. This year fall on 28 May 2009.


Do you know there is a interesting story behind the dumplings. It commemorates the death of Qu Yuan 屈原, a poet from the kingdom of Chu who lived during the Warring States period. Qu Yuan tried unsuccessfully to warn his emperor against the threat of their Qin neighbors. When the Qin Dynasty overtook Yingdu, the Chu capital, in 278 BC, the patriotic Qu Yuan drowned himself in the Miluo River. According to legend, bak chang (in Hokkien) or rice dumplings 粽子 were thrown by his countrymen into the river to prevent fish from eating the poet's body.

The Sculpture OF Five Ram

When we at Guangzhou we visit The Sculpture of Five Ram. There is a interesting story behind the Five Ram Sculpture.

The Story


The Five Ram Sculpture

Ying Zhi Yuan Guilin

Well this is the second caves we went to, it way better than the first one. This place is call Ying Zhi Yuan or Silver Caves.



I'll let the picture do the talking enjoy....


I couldn't upload most of the photos because it very blur but I do found a youtube video about the place.





The outside scenery is very nice.

It very hard taking photos inside the caves either you need be to very skill or use a better camera with better lighting. Oh... yeah inside the caves it very hot be sure not to wear extra clothes inside or you will sweat a lot.