A WOMAN'S DIARY

The Fork

In Baram area, the Penan community can be categorized into 2 big groups – Penan Silat and Penan Selungo. The Penan Silat are originally from Silat river, some of them are still residing there and some had migrated to the lower area of Baram river and settled at Long Lewe (formerly known as Long Beku), [...]

A gift from Jordan

Charles just got back from his Amman, Jordan trip and he brought each of the team member a present – Dead Sea Mineral Salts. Based on the product description, you have to get the salts dissolved and get yourself soaked in it for at least 15 minutes. I don’t have a bath tub at home so [...]

Wallaby Failed :(

Registration start at 8am and as expected many of us turned up late despite of early notification on requesting to turn up early. Plus the EastWood Valley Golf & Country Club staff were just started to clear October Fest 09 mess held at the musical corridor last night. A typical Malaysian attitude. Always get things [...]

Latest Sport Ranking

The CRC (Curtin Recreational Club) organised its annual sport activities and the highlight of it is the Family Day. Like last year, it is again going to be held at Eastwood Valley Golf & Country Club  this Saturday. Remember this? For the record, the Amazing Relay was won by the Wallaby team. It was a fun [...]

Going Down The Memory Lane

It was 28 years ago since I left the place and never came back. I’ve updated myself with the development from friends and family member until recently, I had the opportunity to leave my footprint there again. For that I’m grateful to the current research project that I’m involved in which eventually welcoming me back to my past. [...]

A Form of Sabotage?

An invitation to attend an archaelogical findings talk was extended to me. We (the Penan research project team) were pretty excited about it and decided to attend the talk. I found out that University of Cambridge acted as the leader of the research team working along with the University of Oxford, University of Sussex, UNIMAS, Sarawak Muzeum, [...]

Friendster or FaceBook

Gone were the era of Friendster and now the ‘in-thing’ trend of friend network platform is FaceBook. Everybody seems to have a FaceBook profile nowadays (including my boss and the team except me) and I can’t stop myself from not hearing the feedback on FaceBook practically every single day. At times, I felt like I’m left [...]