Wednesday 16 December 2020

Saturday 12 December 2020

Tuesday 8 December 2020

Sunday 6 December 2020

Dewan Suarah Marudi


Dewan Suarah Marudi. Everybig ciry and town. in Sarawak have their own Dewan Suarah with each of the building have their own architecture. None of the building have the some pattern but all have the same purpose which is became place of meet and place for local having activities such as matrimonal ceremony, exhibition, meeting, concert and lots more. 

Kampung Bako.. Gateway to Bako national park


Kampung bako seen from across the river
The blue building on the hill is the Kampung Surau. There are other jetty use by local sampan peddlar here, not including a jetty for visitor to go to Bako National Park which is bigger than other jetty. Kampung Bako also known as their Belacan trademark as most of people here work as fisherman.

Saturday 5 December 2020

Friday 4 December 2020

Wednesday 2 December 2020

Satok suspension bridge

Satok suspension bridge, Circa early 1990's.The original bridge collapse in early 2000's,earlier than that the bridge has been closed for publics as for security issue.It is not safe because of the rusty part of the bridge.

Tuesday 1 December 2020

Monday 30 November 2020

Miri Town in 1939


Miri town in 1939 (based on handwriting on the photo), the building is Government office which is District and Resident office. We can see line of derrick behind at Canada Hill, before 1950's,Miri still produce oil onshore and only after 1950's, oil exploration at sea started. 

Sunday 29 November 2020

Saturday 28 November 2020

Old Odeon Cinema at Kuching


Odeon cinema, behind the Oriental Emporium and Supermarket. The building was demolished and replace with Tun Jugah Building. This Cinema known for showing chinese movies and sometime showing live performance, either Chinese Opera or Singing/Music concert.

Friday 27 November 2020

Old Tanah Putih Port authority


The Tanah Puteh Port built in 1961 was to remove shipping down river from the Sarawak Steamship Wharf and Ban Hock Wharf which had become inadequate for increased shiipping tonnage by that time. The Tanah Puteh Port with longer wharf space allowed up to 4 ships to berth at the same time and bigger godowns to store more cargoes and weigh-bridges to weigh lorries going in and out.

When Pending Port opened in the 1980's it was used simultaneously with Tanah Puteh Port so there was no waiting time for ships to berth. The bigger ships berthed at Pending and the smaller ones went to Tanah Puteh via the winding Sarawak river further away. The Senari Port was built to handle container ships especially (and cruise ships) and Pending could at last replace Tanah Puteh as its handling operation was quite similar.

This port totally demolished sometimes in 1998 to give way a new bridge which known as Tun Salahuddin Bridge today.. Only two jetty from this port can be seen until today ( November 2020). The jetty mostly use by angler, try their luck there.

Thursday 26 November 2020