Life in Bintulu
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October
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.
One thing I know about Bintulu is that, there’s not much people going online here. There’s not many who blogs. If you’re one of the few who blogs, please identify yourself so I could do a headcount. So far, I’ve only found one blogger who blogs about Bintulu and he’s not even a Bintulu-ian. dSaint has plenty of nice photos of Bintulu. kthxbai.
1. Dancing Queen | October 21st, 2006 at 11:16 am
Bintulu is a dead place. Was living there for 2 1/2 years before moving to Miri. It was so boring and depressing. Miri is different. Glad we made the move.
2. wuching | October 22nd, 2006 at 5:04 pm
sien now issit? so boring! come back to melbourne!
3. eN | October 23rd, 2006 at 3:05 am
haha… Create a new gang in bintulu then.
Post your newly installed HID headlights.
4. Alexallied | October 23rd, 2006 at 1:36 pm
Dancing Queen: Yeah, kinda. But if it’s for the job, then you’ve no choice. Miri’s a good place to live in though.
Wuching: Yeah, I wish I could. Gotta accumulate $$ first.
eN: Processing my pics. Soon to be up!
5. pink panther | October 24th, 2006 at 8:14 pm
really a boring life in bintulu la…sometimes really cant stand for everyday do the same things,not like miri…FxxK!!!haha,know who am i??
6. dsaint | February 27th, 2007 at 9:54 am
lol…. dude, i can’t even remember taking those pics. cool shitz….
7. Calvin | March 21st, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Yeah you’re right - not many people in Bintulu knows about blogs or online biz.
I’m from Bintulu and just came out with news site about Bintulu. You can see some of the photos I took at flickr.
here is my site - http://www.bintulu.org. It’s pretty news and still need a lot of redesign?
8. Shirley | May 30th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Hi Alex,
Well actually I want to come and work in Bintulu for three months sometime soon, say form September to December. Any suggestions? I was looking for a UK company, with a branch in Bintulu - that will be ideal, but any suggestions welcome! You seem to know a lot about Bintulu, can you send me some suggestions please? BTW, I am experienced in sales and training and love customer service- and I am english speaking, but not British.
Shirley
9. Alexallied | May 30th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Shirley,
I ran a business in Bintulu circa 2006-07, but I’ve since moved back to Miri. I wasn’t sure if there’s any company who would take someone to work for three months, but I think MLNG dealing with Liquid Natural Gas might need some contract workers.
As per your skills though, I think you should try out looking for jobs in Body Shop, a UK based company in Bintulu’s ParkCity Mall.
For more information on Bintulu, you can visit http://www.bda.gov.my
10. Shirley | June 4th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Thanks Alex
That is a great suggestion!
Ill try that.
Is Miri far from Bintulu? Could I live in Bintulu and drive everyday to Miri for work? the maps do not give a good idea of distances. Miri would also be ok for me.
BTW, what does the Body Shop do? Sounds like cosmetics and stuff, or bath pamper goodies. I really am determined, and could go for a month or two longer I guess. And what does the M stand for in MLNG? Thanks again, I wish it was not so difficult to get work over there! I really want the experience!
Shirley
11. Shirley | June 4th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Silly or me! of course the M stands for Malaysia! I looked it up! Viva the net!
12. Tera | June 4th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Shirley,
Bintulu-Miri is 3 hours drive. Nothing is in Bintulu if you don’t have family. It’s a place for people to settle down and go on the slowest life pace, seriously.
But it’s my home town, I’m glad to return day once a year.
Good luck with the new job!
P/s Why Bintulu?
13. shirley | June 6th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Hi Tera
thank you for your response! I am feeling really down, because I was so excited to go to Bintulu, in Borneo, but I cannot get anything- it seems impossible to get legal work unless oyu have a very fancy Uni degree! why Bintulu? well, i have experience as a technical sales rep in a valve company - steam and process engineering, and there are oil and gas companies there, so it was suggested by an ex-colleague that that may be a good place to go to, and tehn it took my fancy. quite frankly I need a bit of quiet,boring and slow pace in my life! i am a South African, and have a bee in my bonnet! I always used to tease my husband and say I am the wild woman from Borneo when i woke up in the morning and my hair was all over the place! so its also for a bit iof fun, so I can sign my mail:’love form the wild woman IN Borneo!’ Sigh!