Photo below was taken by me perhaps 1 or 2 hours later – one of the car (rumors a Toyota Proton Saga and it’s a new car) is belong to Kho which is already under the water.

The mother later inform Kho to walk to the nearest Batu Lintang shell station to wait for her and so she did…

The high level of water makes it hard to defferentiate between road and big drain – at this point the one person that do not know how to swim Herman Sinas, 29 who work at the shell station saw Kho was struggling in the water – jump to her rescue. He had her hair but that was not enough to pull Kho up and eventually he jump right in and both MIA at the scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LktUystHF4

07 Jan 2012 Herman Sinas, 29, was found in a drain that leads to Sungai Maong at about 8.30am Saturday some 2km from where he tried to save Kho Ying Qi. Search for Kho is on going.

photo taken by https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000966472826

According to the person who taken the photo above – The mother and family of Kho when to the bridge calling for Kho to come home. Hearing the mother’s calling out for Kho – I lost words to describe how sad it has been.

photo http://www.nst.com.my/galleries/kuching-flood-victim-body-found-1.29067

#Updates – it is learned that the victim and the rescuer (form Six student Kho Yong Qi and petrol station cashier Herman Sihas, 29) their body has been found, although there’s no confirmation of this we shall know when we have the official news.

06 Jan 2012 the news this morning reported – since 11pm last night it was not found.
07 Jan 2012 Body Found – Herman Sinas, 29
08 Jan 2012 Still no news of the body of Kho Yong Qi
09 Jan 2012 Finally the body of Kho found at Jalan Keratapi. false alarm
10, 11, 12… Jan 2012 No news of Kho found.
20 Jan 2012 Body of Kho was found at river near Sejingkat Kuching. That’s at least more than 10KM from the place where she was drown and subsequently wash away by monsoon drain.

Some said the head was missing, the mom blame her self for the death of her own daughter etc… Whatever is it – may her soul rest in peace.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LktUystHF4

Borneo Post, NST and TheStar online has the report.

I was at the area this morning the flood from 3rd miles to Batu Lintang is bad. The changing pattern of tide trigger the higher level of water and worse – the heavy rains since last night making the situation even harder for our Kuching sewer to handle.

Photo below – credit https://www.facebook.com/francisho

Here a great photo taken from 9 floor of Naim building showing how bad the flash flood in between 3rd miles and Batu Lintang. Photo credit https://www.facebook.com/avoon

Which photo went viral at the worse time of the day? I have to give it up to this one family. share by https://www.facebook.com/irenelim89

Please share your story and photos here… email to me at jong.fui.fa(att)gmail.com

Originally to be open during Christmas it was delay to January and now rushing for February opening.

Kuching Sentral was developed by shoes seller boss & friends and was designed by Akimedia. This development immediately put 7 miles (Penrissen and Kota Sentosa) a hot destination, development and investment.

For many years Kuching was never seen in the position as a priority for development and if I may add we have the worse public transport in the country.

The next question is what the government will do with the transportation in the city?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWDG_4pb5zA

We have been staying here for the pass 10 years and this is the first time I saw a seabird flying here. According to my friend @horukuru, an expert in bird guide also a spoke person for Nikon EDG products told me that Whiskered Tern sometime visit the land.

I think this is very rare and I really impressed how persistent this bird during a fish hunting near the pond.

2 month prior the second Giant Hypermarket Kota Padawan open for business – The first Giant Hypermarket Tabuan Jaya marking the first grand opening in Kuching On 25th August 2011.

Giant Hypermarket Tabuan Jaya
No.1, Tabuan Tranquility Commerial Centre
Jalan Canna 93350
Kuching Sarawak
Tel: 082-530 082
 Fax: 082 530 088

Giant Hypermarket Kota Padawan
No.148 Kota Padawan Batu 10,
Jalan Penrissen 93250 Kuching,
Sarawak
 93250
Kuching 
Sarawak.
Tel: 082-616 086 
Fax: 082-612 086

The local do not normally wear bikini or anything that too short to reveal their skins – not that they are shy but probably because they don’t like sunburn as much as the westerner do.

Photos taken during the Gawai weekend in Kuching enjoy.

The last time I posted Tua Pek Kong (大伯公 Tuā-peh-kong) some requested more pictures. The caretaker in one of these photo hates photographer.

If you’re a visitor and wishes to find out more information about this temple you can visit Chinese museum across the road. It would be interesting to see some old photos of early Chinese uses this temple for prayer.

A friend of mine Mr. Sim is working with some other peoples to declare Tua Pek Kong (大伯公 Tuā-peh-kong) in Kuching a world heritage.

When we talk about Wong Fei-Hung 黄飞鸿 we would undoubtedly thought of the god of drunken and martial arts guru in Hong Kong film history Jackie Chan & Jet Li. In fact the biggest Wong Fei-Hung identity was the movie’s theme song – for many it was like a national anthem.

I love these beautiful Yangqin 扬琴 instrument, these kids are so inspiring and truly blowing my mind away by their skills. It would be a shame if no one enjoy the art of Yangqin and the talents from this group of young artists.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLOW0dGETxU

Happy Chinese New Year!

In China the main attraction for tourist would be visiting the statue of the modern father Dr. Sun Yat-Sen. I know you’re familiar with Statue of Liberty in NYC but In Kuching we have cat statue.

Kucing in Malay means Cat. The local Melayu Sarawak call it Pusak.

We have 3 (almost) identical cats statue in Kuching but the one shown here is special – This cat get a cloth change in every festival.

Where to See 1 of the 3 Kucing Statue?

View Kucing Statue in a larger map