Sharing is Caring: Miri Outing 27-28 Nov

Miri, the City of Oil. For those people who have not heard of Miri before, you might have heard of Lutong. So, that's what Miri is all about. Another fact is that, Miri has just upgraded its status to City several years back. Before that, it was just an oil town with no major development, BUT it is frequent by Bruneians every weekend. Why? It's the same theory why Singaporeans go to Johore during the weekend as well. If you still can't get it, perhaps you can do the same thing which happened in Kota Bharu Mall just recently - a car slam through the shopping complex's wall, and flew down all the way in between the escalator, and terminated TWO pitiful souls.

So, this trip was supposed to be fish-survey trip, which initially inclusive of Gerry and Amier. However, the closer it gets, more and more people joined the bandwagon. It was GREAT!!
Thus, there were 7 of us in total - Zhia Howe, Chen, Kenneth, Melissa, Gerry, Amier and Jalen. Later in the afternoon, 2 more joined the trip - Grace and Loo. Well, their participation were actually unexpected, as there were slight miscommunication between the housemates (Mel, Ken, Loo....n ...Grace). It's a long story, but just note that it was a funny yet hilarious moment.
So, Gerry drove his City Babe while Chen drove his X-Trail Cougar.

We departed at 8.00am, and had our breakfast at the famous Kolo Mee shop in Medan Jaya. There, we met Jeremy, and as common and as usual, sending his car for some inspection. I have to thank Jalen for the Kolo Mee treat. :)

At roughly 10pm, off we go to Miri. Our first destination was Bintang Mall. I guess the only thing we did there were : Surveying Fitness Equipments, Popular Book Fair, Mc Donalds, Trying out OSIM and OGAWA massage chair, Playing some toys in TOYS"Я"US meeting up Sim and Ying Ying. I bet the few kids did enjoy themselves at TOYS"Я"US.

Who stack those boxes up???? Guess~

Then, i left that place with Amier and Gerry to some Aquarium shops to hunt for, erm, i don't really know what they were looking for. But one thing for sure, they were just looking at small fishes like Guppies. As a person who's not so fond into small things, i chose to look at puppies and big fishes like Arowana, Kaloi and Flower Horn. We actually went to a few aquarium shops, just to survey the Guppies there. Quite interesting to know a few facts about Bettas too, such as Half Moon, Split tail and so forth. Amier is really the guy you should refer to when it comes to Guppies and Bettas Breeding.

So, there goes our day time activity. We went back to Bintang Mall to meet up with the rest, and, at the same time, tried to convince Chen to stay back. The story goes like this. Chen initially planned to go for a day trip, and hush hush hush back to Bintulu to do some laundry and some cleaning work. After much persuasion, he turned in, and agreed to stay to join us. So, he had to shop for the things he had to use that night - shirt, trousers, the "triangle", toothbrush, shower gel... I got myself a piece of Cocoaberry.

Cocoaberry

Our initial plan was to rent an apartment at Imperial Hotel. Unfortunately, it was fully booked that night. So, we have to proceed to Plan B. There were 3 cars, so each car was in-charge to look for any available rooms that night.

Platoon A - Gerry's Car : Hunt for Mega Hotel, and any Cheapo Hotel..
Platoon B - Loo's Car : Hunt for Dynasty Hotel..
Platoon C - Chen's Car : Hunt for any other Hotels we could think of..

And there we went, dropping off scouts all around Miri, looking for a shelter for the night. After roughly 45 minutes search, we had decided to stay at Gloria Hotel (forgot d actually). We took 2 rooms, One with 3 Beds, and another one with 4 Beds. Since there were 9 of us, we requested for another 2 extra beds to be placed in the room with 4 Beds.

Then, i asked James to come over, and then we could go for dinner together. So, at roughly 9pm, we departed to Rumah Asap in Pujut for some Pork Meal. That was my first time in life to eat so much Pork within a meal. Just Imagine, Roast Pork, Roast Pork, Pansuh Babi, BBQ Pork, and whatever Pork you could thought of. We were bloated with Porks that night. Surprisingly, there were this sigh board showing "Kedai Babi", and now i know why.

After that killer meal, which we has agreed to post in FB with the comment "This is the best Hari Rxxx Kxxxxx Ever", we went to some pubs nearly. If not mistaken, its called "Island".

There, all of us ordered some beer, and Jalen the ambitious, order "Around the World". I order KilKenny, highly recommended by James and Amier.

After that drinking session, we went back to the Hotel. Everyone was damn tired. So, we went to bed quite early. Nothing special happened that night. Fingers crossed.

The next day, we went to Ming's Cafe to have some breakfast. I think we sat there for nearly 2 hours don't we? Then. we went back to Bintang Mall again, coz Ken wanted to get himself a Bench + Dumbells. Amier went to GNCWell to get himself a new Protein. I guess in 3 months time, i am going to see the Muscular Pair - Ken & Amier.

Loo and Grace went back early in the morning. I don't know the reason, but perhaps they have something else that day la.

After buying all the things needed, we all departed in deep sadness. Chen went off early, while Gerry, Me and Amier went back to the Aquarium shop to buy fish, blood worm etc.
So, while waiting, i managed to snap some photo of the cutest thing in the world.