If you love steamed chicken rice, you would love the chicken at Xin Fu Li Yuan Cafe here in Bintulu.

Ever since the first time we tasted their chicken rice here about 6 months ago, we’ve been coming back time after time.

They even provide free delivery at lunch time every working day, straight to our premise!

The shop is located at Berjaya Commercial Centre, where the popular Li Hua Hotel is. In fact, the cafe is only one block away from the hotel.

The “cafe”, with some old, classic furnishings.

RM11 for 3x steamed chicken and 2x rice. RM2.80 for 2x Barley Ice. Reasonably priced.

Steamed chicken rice, best when served chilled. Secret to its tastiness is their sauce. It tastes like soy sauce plus sesame oil, but there’s a lil bit more to that and I’m still I’m figuring what they actually put in their sauce.

Mitsubishi Triton is the latest buzz here in Bintulu and I suspect the same goes to the whole of Malaysia. I was free enough to approach Mitsubishi Motors to take a closer look at the new car in town. Stevie, their sales rep. was kind enough to invite me to their promotion on the next day to have a go with Thailand’s 2006 Car of the Year.

As usual, the larger than life Mitsubishi logo, letting you know they’re always around. Stevie is on the left.

Triton’s backside.

Steering and dashboard.

Very clean interface.

Digital display of temperature, fuel consumption ratio, speedometer, etc.

Comes with Kenwood KDC-MP4033 CD/MP3/WMA player. Nice! Somemore, just in case you wanna change your player in the future, which I don’t think you’ll need to, it’ll fit nicely into the 1 DIN slot where the original player comes. Nowadays new cars comes with players that merge with the cockpit design, so if you wanna change your player to those on the market’s, you’ll have to buy a new cockpit panel.

Finally, word from the consumer’s point of view. I reckon the car is nicely built with outstanding aerodynamic design, the drive was comfortable and less shaky as compared to Toyota’s New Hilux Vigo over rough road condition. Worth buying, but all white colored Triton were all sold out as for now, and I had to wait till February next year for that color.

Sunday was quiet at Bintulu’s light industrial area. Business is slow during the Raya season.

So…

Fast forward to the end of business day.

I felt like going fishing for long time already and today seems like the perfect day to waste all the time fishing. This is my first time fishing out by the sea, so basically I’ve got nothing to fish with. So off we went to Farley to get some fishing materials.

Farley is LARGEST supermarket in Bintulu. Opened in September this year, they’re about 1/3 of Miri’s Boulevard in terms of shopping area. Sing Kwong‘s gonna be opened soon just opposite of Farley within a month or so. Shopping space is expected to be larger than Farley’s.

I spent about RM80 for all the fishing needs, including Seahawk’s fishing rod, hooks and stuffs, and then some junk foods, of course.

Then off we drove to the beach. We had to walk approximately 200m out to the rocks to find that perfect spot for fishing. On the way, there’s this really good hole for spa, but too bad it’s not hot water.

The spa hole, big enough for two.

We were planning to fish by the sea initially, but end up the waves were to big we had hardly any spot to stand on the rocks. So we dropped our fishing rods and started to fish inside in between the rocks.

Don’t play play, fishing between the rock canals is pretty fun and exciting too, even though the rewards are not as big as fishing off the seaside.

Small Barramundi on the hook. Small but satisfying catch.

My technician got a smaller version of my catch.

See or not? Must look the positive way in whatever you do. Even though the fish so small, he’s still able to laugh so happily, cause at the end of the day, small fish is better than no fish, right anot?

I’m currently a Celcom postpaid user and I’m not really a very heavy user. I only make calls to local (Sarawak) handphones, and sometimes landlines if it’s necessary. Every end of the month is my nightmare. The bills would come and usually Celcom’s envelope is the scariest to be opened. It’ll certain to be in the range of 200-300++. I had the RM80/month package, but despite conserving as much calls as possible, the amount still didn’t drop.

When I saw these ads distributing all over the channels; the newspapers, billboards, TV commercials, English Premier League broadcast sponsorship, it’s basically everywhere!!! I started to wonder, how much did Celcom allocate in my monthly bills to hire those stars?

What are you looking at? Just talk and pay lahh!!

And then during the Raya holidays, I decided to buy myself a DiGi Prepaid starter pack to give it a try. I bought a RM50 reload card but damn, the FREE 50% extra talk time promotion had gone expired. Gotta wait till my birthday for the next BIG reload. DiGi gives 50% Free when you reload on your birthday, but it’s for registered numbers only though.

I’ll see if I can save on DiGi.

Most of the population in Bintulu are labours and contractors to companies dealing with liquid natural gas, timber, palm oil, and petroleum, while most of the town’s other businesses revolves around these four major industries.

Many come from other cities and states. Ang mohs are plenty here, most of them engineers and executive officers. Sometimes you’ll see ang moh travellers too, I don’t think the town center nor the zoo attracts them here. It’s the Similajau National Park perhaps.

People here call it Simi Lanciao (Local dialect, Hokkien of ‘What Cock?/Dick?’) National Park. I heard of its Golden Beach is renowned with silky smooth sand, but to see that particular part of the beach, you’ll have to take a 20-30 minutes boat trip. I’ve only been to there once and I was only there to survey the ground for a company BBQ party. They even charge RM10/head as entrance fee. But a friendly ‘runding’ (discussion) with the guard saved me RM10 and I promised him that I’ll be out in 30 minutes. I decided not to have the BBQ there because RM10/head would equal money for our BBQ food.

Bintulu from the sky.

The old town centre, right by the side of the river, where you can find pubs, hotels, the local market. Well, most of the indigenous people hang out here.

The new ParkCity Mall.

ParkCity Mall

New World Mart @ Park City Mall

Park City Mall at the background.

Popular Bookstore inside Park City Mall.

Inside of Park City Mall, Bintulu.