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Supp Pujut Krokop cooked delicious home-cooked meal for the residents of the Miri Home for the Aged. Many elderly persons said that they had enjoyed the good home-cooked meal. The Supp members also gave the elders ‘angpows’ as we entered the traditional Chinese New Year celebration season. Well done all of you who have volunteered!

The Miri Home for the Aged is run by the Chinese Charitable Trust Board. It takes in elderly persons who dont have any children to look after them. As we left one room, a 90’s year old said..’thank you all for caring for old people”

An appropriate slogan on the wall reads, “thank you for coming with a caring heart”.

Hash House Harriers getting ready for Tuesday Run at Taman Awam, Miri

Do you know that the government has allocated to the Miri City Council a piece of land next to Taman Awam which is suitable for ‘hill climbers’? The Hash House Harriers had volunteered to set up the trails for the Council. Picture shows Datuk Wee Han Wen witnessing the handling over of ropes to Hash leader, Dr John Yeo, for use at steeper parts of the trails. As it is next to Taman Awam, toilet and other facilities are available for climbers. Have fun!

Members of Dayak.com hand over food, stationery, beds etc to fire victims

In response to our postings recently about the Miri Pujut 8 fire victims, the members of Dayak-dot-com had come forward to provide assistance the young family of 7 including 5 children of two years old to twelve years old. Well done, good samaritans!! Miri is blessed with many people with kind hearts like all of you. We wish also to say a very big ‘thank you’ to many others who have come forward to help.  We have decided to help this big family because it is young and the sole breadwinner , who was injured during the fire,  is unable to work for the moment, and therefore does not have income to support the young family.

assistance to Pujut fire victims

There was a midnight fire at Pujut 8 on 16th November. 3 wooden houses were burnt. One house was owned by an Iban family of seven including 5 children aged 2 to 12 years old. The breadwinner was slightly injured while saving the children and wife from the burning house. He is a daily paid construction worker. It is expected that he will be out of work, and therefore will have no income, for around 2 months. Together with the Welfare Dept, Supp will render assistance to the family during this difficult time. There are also many generous people who have come forward to help this family. Hopefully, the breadwinner will recover soon enough to go back to work. Meanwhile, thank you all to Mirians who have come forward to render assistance.

Meeting at Dewan

The Dewan Undangan Negeri [DUN] Sarawak is sitting right now in Kuching. Photo shows YB for Semariang [ Puan Sharifah Hasidah], YB Batu Kawa [Tan Joo Phoi], YB Pelawan [Vincent Goh] and yours truly, YB Pujut.

Photo is taken inside the Dewan during tea break.

Freshly homemade Hari Raya food

Hari Raya Puasa is a festive celebration and also the time for muslim families to prepare some delicious traditional food. I took this photo at one house showing family members involved in making goodies with red Bario rice etc wrapped with leaves. Anyone knows what we call this?  Unfortunately I didnt have a chance to try one as they were not ready yet when I left. Looks like good natural delicacy full of nutritions.

Now, as witnessed by YB Datuk Peter Chin, & explained by the Handicraft shop owners, on the left is Orang Ulu hat & on the right is Melanau hat. Now we all know. The shop is at the Saberkas commercial centre when we said ‘hello’ to the Ramadan store operators on Saturday evening. Aren’t they simply beautiful?

I took this picture in a KL complex recently. I think this is a beautiful piece of art for an eatery. Didnt have time to try the food, so cant comment on the stabdard of food here.

Nice arrangement  and layout indeed. My congrats to the designers.

Anyone of you know this place?

This beautiful hand made hat of our Orang Ulu really impressed me. There was once a TV program on religious arts etc, and they highlighted this particular design which showed ‘figures living in harmony etc’. Our local handicrafts are not only beautiful but also carry many designs that were inherited from ancestors who had designed these with a lot of meanings depicting culture and feelings of those olden days. Needless to say, I couldn’t resist buying one.

For the fashionable, I think you can start a new trend by wearing the hat which gives you good shade from the hot sun.