Sunday, 24 December 2017

Lagenda Batu Buaya di Santubong dan Misteri Batu berbentuk Kepala Donald Trump

  Di Muara Santubong,terdapat berpuluh batu-batuan lama yang mempunyai lagendanya tersendiri.Kawasan ini dinamakan sebagai batu buaya memandangkan terdapat satu batu yang menyerupai kepala buaya di antara ratusan batu lain yang turut mempunyai...

Friday, 28 July 2017

Bahagian,daerah dan daerah kecil di Sarawak

Source : Vernon Mullen (1967) The Story of Sarawak, Oxford University Press, Kuala Lumpur. Sekitar tahun 1960an (Pra dan Pasca Pembentukan Malaysia) Sarawak mempunyai bilangan Bahagian daerah yang kecil.Jika dirujuk kepada Peta di atas,sarawak hanya mempunyai sekitar Lima bahagian sahaja pada masa...

Monday, 10 July 2017

Kalan Tok Nan - Redevelopment of Gambier Street and Lebuh Jawa of Kuching Esplanade

Proposed Kalan Tok Nan (Pengkalan Tok Nan /Tok Nan Jetty ) Mix development of  Brooke Dockyard Muzeum Heritage, Apartment,Shopping Mall at Kuching Esplanade of Gambier Street and Lebuh Jawa. Floating Mosque can be seen on the first photo and on the second photo showing Masjid bahagian . ...

Friday, 7 July 2017

Mega Hotel Miri Construction

Mega Hotel Miri (during construction) Circa 1992. A few urban legend related to this Hotel during Construction.When we talk about urban legend,it maybe sound like true but definitely it just maybe a kedai kopi story that started by one person and then added value by another person,then one things...

Thursday, 29 June 2017

Thursday, 15 June 2017

Retro Photo of Ariel View of Kuching

Aerial View of Kuching Town circa 1920's.A few building and places we can recognized and still exist today,some are demolished and some have changes.Kuching Main Post Office on Jalan Tun Haji Openg only built on 1931,Completed in 1932 under Charles Vyner (the third Rajah). The site was once...

Friday, 9 June 2017

Thursday, 8 June 2017

Life in Long House

Dayak working on a platform attached to a long house, with left of them storage places for freshly harvested rice.Nowadays some Dayak Long House build with modern style and dont have this type of space anymore. (Circa 1931 :  Collectie Stichting Nationaal Museum van Wereldculture...

Sungai Sarawak circa 1981

Pemandangan di Sungai Sarawak sekitar tahun 1981.Jika dibandingkan dengan sekarang (June 2017).Terdapat banyak perubahan yang kita boleh lihat dan bezakan ,antaranya 1.Bentuk Perahu Tambang - Rata-ratanya pada ketika ini banyak yang masih menggunakan kayuhan sahaja membelah Sungai Sarawak.Berbanding...

Borneo woven basket for crops

Borneo Woven Basket for crops.Local people call it Tambok or Sedong.This basket usually for heavy duties items like putting Farm Produce like vegetables,fruits and sometime animals.Usually this basket made from rattan,but nowadays they make it from Plastic and nylon to make it more heavy duty and...

Kelabit Girls with Bead and Tattos

All Kalabit women are tattooed when they reach the age of sixteen. Bold zigzag bands are traced on the forearm, not completely encircling the limb, and strikingly decorative geometrical designs are tattooed on the thigh, the shin, and sometimes, on the knee-cap. They wear strings of large blue beads...

The Long Gallery Inside the Kayan Long House at Baram

The Long Gallery of the family house as a common residence for its occupants. A house in the average size takes up about two hundred inhabitants, it is built in a rectangle, about three hundred and fifty feet long, and sometimes in the middle of its length passing through a wall into halves, one of...

Tuesday, 6 June 2017

Thursday, 1 June 2017

Kalimantan Railway connecting to Kuching

I manage to dig some old photo showing Kalimantan Railway Project.One of the routes,connecting Sambas to Kuching.. So..use your imagination hehehe.. maybe the LRT part connect to this route,from what i heard few years back,probably Kalimantan Route will ended at Lundu as that town nearest to Sambas.....

Wednesday, 31 May 2017

Miri Petronas Museum

Miri Petronas Museum located at the top of Canada Hill Miri,facing Miri City Landscape and South China Sea.This museum located nearby Old Grand lady,or Oil well No.1,first oil well found on 1910 on Borneo Soil.It ceased temporarily during world War 2 (1941) and continue later . By the way this...

Monday, 22 May 2017

New Building in Masja

New Building at Masja Kuching as on May 2017.This building located behind Baitul Makmur building which hosting few State Government Agencies including office of Sarawak Chief Minister.This building will be ready approximately end of this year and will be occupied next year.Similar to the opposite...

Sunday, 7 May 2017

Wednesday, 3 May 2017