JCI Seduan organized a "Wet & Wild" pool party at Tanahmas poolside on Saturday at 5 pm. I went there dressed in little more than shorts and a T-shirt (the dress code was casual) with my trusty Speedos underneath.
Our contingent (which were not from the JCI movement) arrived to disrupt the proceedings and behave in a generally rowdy manner. I'm kidding, we were invited to go there to boost up the attendance rates and liven up the pool party. ;)
The poolside at Tanahmas Hotel has a great view of Sibu and the evening sun was just right for a bit of swimming and pool games.
Some of the girls didn't want to get in the pool but ended up being chucked one way or the other into the water anyway. Participation is mandatory, resistance is futile. ;)
This is me and Eddy, who needs no further introduction. He's a really fun guy to be around. Our group staked claim to the pool for the rest of the evening. :)
I'm sure most of the people here needs no further introduction, being featured before in sixthseal.com and all that.
This is Mary Ngo who didn't want to get into the water...
...but somehow ended in there anyway. ;)
There were three (3) girls in bikinis that didn't seem to be from the JCI Seduan group so being, the nice host that I am (har har) I approached them and introduced myself to them.
It turns out that they really were gatecrashers but I got them into the pool anyway to join us for the games.
It's sixthseal.com lar, what did you expect. ;) Please do not focus on me sucking in my stomach when there's plenty of T&A for your viewing pleasure.
This is the other gatecrasher who took the previous photo for us.
Just to break up the excessive display of skin, here's a shot of me and Rali. I actually met him in NZ when I was studying there. He's a Past President of JCI.
Anyway, we got a game of water polo (of sorts) going...
...and I sprained my ankle during a particularly enthusiastic block.
Water polo video
Next round was with the gatecrashers, who really could swim.
I hard such a hard time keeping the pace with the girls that I nearly drowned.
Sheesh...
Eddy asked them how they came to be such good swimmers and it turns out that they grew up near a river and swam all the time.
Dusk came soon and the pool was temporarily cleared while dinner was being served.
The platters were carted in from the restaurant below and put into the buffet warmers.
Dinner was prepared buffet style and contained:
Shark Fin Soup
Salad bar
Steamed rice
Fried rice vermicelli
Curry chicken
Beef rendang
Sweet and sour fish pieces
Mixed vegetables
Dessert of sliced fruits and cakes
I filled up my plate with an impressive amount of food...
...and a visibly less impressive amount of dessert. My stomach literally increased in size after that huge meal.
Night fell and rendered the pool into a nice shade of green. The dry games session started soon after that. Our contingent was represented with Joyce teaming up with Colin and Mary teaming up with me.
The game is about tying a balloon to the male partner's ankle while the female tries to burst all the other competitor's balloons.
The pairs must hold hands and the male must not lift up his feet (but shuffling and defensive gestures are allowed) at any time.
Mary and I did pretty well, with her bursting quite a few balloons and me defending myself from all the other females. I made a pact with our side (the 10 teams were in a circle) to go after the opposite team first but promptly broke that pact by getting Mary to attack our immediate neighbor. Alls fair in love and war. ;) We lost though, due to a certain someone surprising me from behind. :p
I teamed up with Shirley for the next game which involved a complicated dance around within a certain amount of tiles routine.
You're allowed to dance within the confines of the stated tiles but you must keep within the tiles or you're automatically disqualified.
The amount of tiles you're permitted to step on keeps getting smaller and smaller...
...until you end up sharing two tiles so you either have to lift your partner up or get her to stand on your feet.
Mary and Shirley singing karaoke
It was fun, despite the rain that came pouring in towards the end of the pool party. Cheers to JCI Seduan for a well organized event.
Pizza Hut is having a new promotional pizza called the Starzbites Sausage Pizza. It comes with the tagline "Double the treat! Double the fun!" and is a new concept where mini cocktail sausages (like mine) are embedded in the crust - not as in sausage ring type filled crust (which was a previous promotion), but in a star burst configuration.
True to Pizza Hut's promotional pizza tradition, there is a spinner game involved. :) The rules of the game have changed this time though - you're allowed one spin, and if the spin goes to a free regular Starzbites pizza, you have to spin for a second time and get it right again to get the pizza. Otherwise, you default to the second spin's item.
I'm know to be spun all the time (old readers of sixthseal.com will get this reference ;)) so I was the designated spinner. I got a free salad (which is better than a free Pepsi, which is what I tend to get in the spinner games). :)
Thus, it was off to the salad bar to claim my free salad...
...which I'm not able to utilize to the full potential due to my lack of salad stacking skillz. ;)
This is the Starzbites Sausage Pizza with Hawaiian Supreme topping. It's claim to fame is the star burst configuration and the alternate toppings on the individual sausages. The New York style topping of mayonnaise and tomato sauce is on one sausage while the next sausage would have the Chicago style topping of honey mustard and relish.
The Starzbites sausage pizza is also given a sprinkling of black sesame seeds on the side of the star burst shaped pizza. It tastes quite good and is a rather novel presentation of a pizza.
The STARZBITES Sausage 1 combo (recommended for 2 persons) is priced from RM 29.90 and contains: 1 Regular Starzbites Sausage Pizza 2 Soup-of-the-Day 4 pcs Breadstix 2 glasses of 7Up Revive
The Borneo Cultural Festival is held annually in Sibu and showcases our ethnic diversity. BCF 2008 has three themed areas - the Chinese, the Malay/Melanau and the Iban/Dayak cultural areas. This post is focusing on the Borneo Chinese Cultural Festival (BCCF) and the opening ceremony. I will visit on other nights to do the other writeups.
The Borneo Cultural Festival (BCF) 2008 opened up with a fireworks display. It lasted for a good 15 minutes and kicked off the festivities.
The highlight of BCF is always the food stalls.
The BCCF has ethnic food stalls operated by the respective clans.
The food stalls features the respective delicacies of the ethnicity of the clan. This is the Hainan clan, which is not very big in Sibu, which is predominantly Foochow.
The Hainan, who are known for their Hainan Chicken Rice, is also offering one of their other specialties - BBQ pork.
They also have a traditional dish which I can't remember the name of consisting of a starchy blend of meat and mushrooms.
You can actually eat your way through BCF 2008 without paying a single cent from the free samples of food, but that wouldn't be a very nice thing to do. ;)
The Foochow Association was well represented at BCF 2008. This is Mary posing in front of it. She's Foochow, although I can speak the dialect better than her. :)
There are makeshift seating arrangements on the footpath and inside certain stalls for people to enjoy their food on the spot.
There is a traditional Chinese group playing erhu and other classic Chinese musical instruments as part of the program.
Thus, naturally... ;) What did you expect, you're on sixthseal.com. :)
The Teochew group also made their presence felt at the Borneo Cultural Festival.
This is their portfolio of delicacies...
...and their pork offerings, which is rather impressive.
This is a variant of meat dumplings wrapped in square leaves instead of the triangular shape.
We compared the Hakka version (previous) to the Henghua version (above).
There was a traditional Chinese opera going on at the Chinese Cultural Festival.
I shot a video of it, it's pretty good and surprisingly entertaining for a dying art.
I would be remiss if I didn't take a photo at the Heng Hua booth, being a Heng Hua and all. Heng Hua Pride! =D
We stumbled upon a stall where we could enjoy our food within a booth. It serves alcohol which is always a plus point. RM 12 for three (3) cans of beer.
I was immediately asked to drink by the promoter. The beer kept flowing for free after that thanks to one of the kind association members.
The beer was poured into an authentic Chinese pitcher and then to bowls instead of cups for The Real China Experience.
I didn't even remember how much I drank, have to ask Mary for the figures. ;)
This is the comparison between the Hakka dumplings (RM 6) and the Heng Hua dumplings (RM 6.50).
The Hakka dumplings were wrapped in brown leaves and is completely white. There's no soy sauce in the glutenous rice, which is different from what we always get. It contains pork, mushrooms and peanuts.
The Heng Hua dumplings are the ones that I'm used to eating. It's dark from soy sauce and contains more generous and juicier chunks of pork, mushrooms and peanuts. We all concluded that the Heng Hua one tastes better, and I assure you, I didn't skew the results due to being of Heng Hua ethnicity. ;)
The amber fluid floweth throughout the night...
...and floweth
...and floweth
...and it seems like the cup (or bowl) almost overfloweth.
I think it was the rowdiest booth in the whole of BCF 2008.
Thanks to the association for giving us a good time (and free beer). ;)
I went to the Borneo Cultural Festival 2008 just now to catch the high school girl's basketball competition. The BCF is an annual week long event held to celebrate the diversity of cultures in Sibu and I went to the opening ceremony last night (full write up tomorrow, got a pool party to go to in an hour).
You may recognize the female in the gray sweatshirt from the previous XX Chromosome entry. I didn't want to take photos with minors for that particular category lest I get hauled off for 10 years of jail time and 10 strokes of the rotan (caning). ;)
She looks much better in person actually, and she's a teacher (albeit a very young one).
The girl's basketball competition was surprisingly entertaining (and not for the reasons you're thinking). I meant that in the most platonic manner.
There was a fair bit of competition going on, being a contact sport and all that. It turned me on...to sports. You didn't let me finish speaking. I meant I'm into basketball now after watching all that. ;)
It's my ball. No, it's my ball. The other girls weren't looking at me by the way. The referee was standing beside me and they were waiting for her to make a decision.
...and as we raise our hands in silent prayer,
We beseech thee to be our guiding light in times of duress.
I took too many photos to upload, so here's a video of the girl's basketball competition.
This is my favorite player (in a totally non-sexually connotative way). I just like her repertoire of expressions. :)
Doing a basketball competition referee is more likely. ;)
More photos of the girl's basketball competition at BCF 2008 will be up later. I just got back and will be posting about the opening ceremony from last night too.
I just got my new digicam from Mary whom, due to her tau keh nio connections, got me a special price which I'm not allowed to disclose. I was actually pondering about getting the Sony T-300 and the Olympus 10 meter waterproof digicam but I concluded that the latter would be too bulky for everyday carrying.
She got it for me at the dealer's price (which is much cheaper than retail) but with strings attached. Not very simple this Mary. ;)
Thus, I am now the owner of the Sony Cybershot T-300 digicam with 4 GB of memory (with the additional 2 GB from the defunct Sony T-70 and the battery).
There was a 7 car pileup in Brooke Drive last night. The roads were wet and slick from the rain, granted, but there was a great deal of debate as to how it actually happened. It's very unusual for such a high number of cars to be involved in an accident in Sibu, especially when the average speed people drive at on that road is 50-60 km.
This one takes the cake - the car flew over the road divider and crashed head on with a stationary truck repairing a street light. It's amazing how little visible damage it suffered considering the flight and target (a truck, for Christ's sake).
Six other cars were involved in fender benders behind on the lane turning left. There were a couple of police around to redirect traffic and the people involved in the accident standing around under umbrellas.
I still can't figure out how it happened. My current theory is that the first car was speeding, lost control and ran over the road divider to the other side of the road and crashed into the stationary truck repairing a light fixture. The car behind him probably stepped on the brakes and the car behind him was rubbernecking The Flight of the Proton Wira so he crashed into the second car resulting in the other three cars behind him/her crashing into him.
I seem to have earned (?) myself a reputation for being something of a playboy, from the feedback I have been receiving from friends and coworkers as of late. It seems that this is solely due to the amount of photos of different chicks, I'm sorry, I mean females I have on the blog. I've been asked not to put up certain photos from girls with boyfriends for fear of being tarred and feathered by their boyfriends and from being labeled a "sixthseal.com chick",
I should be quick to claim that most of the girls are my friends and the arm over the shoulder thing is just a manifestation of the "buddy buddy" thing. I do it with both guys and girls, and no one comments about the male photos. I had a discussion about this with my boss just now and the case of Tony Fernandez with his arms around two flight attendants came into play.
Now, since he has his arms around them, he's obviously fucking them, or that's what the general public thinks (over here in this small town anyway). I think it's nice of him to do the "chummy" thing with his cabin crew. It's just how people look at things.
I have had a lot of comments that I must be a player due to the number of chicks that are featured on my blog, but it should be noted that most are just friends.
There is a popular Foochow concoction over here called pek tin yok which is translated literally as "eight herb soup". I haven't had much contact with this particular broth while growing up, being rather adverse to soup dishes in general. I've had it a couple of times at my maternal grandmother's house (who is a Foochow) and didn't particularly like it.
Faye is a bit of a traditional Foochow in the stuff she eats. She actually loves "8 herb soup" and has cravings for it from time to time. There is an eating establishment here that doesn't have a signboards so the locals just all it "xiao yu shang" (Little Umbrella) from the seating arrangements outside which has a huge beach umbrella covering it from the rain (since the place is not open in the morning, it can't be the sun).
Little Umbrella is supposed to have the best pek tin yok in town and props should be given to the proprietor for attempting to install some fittings in the interior that makes the place look more upscale. There are glass tables inside and artsy fartsy chairs made out of real tree branches. Unfortunately, the clash of the old and new styles contrasts too garishly. A for effort, F for execution.
The place serves a bowl of Eight Herb Soup for RM 7. Eight Herb Soup is a concoction brewed in 8 different types of herbs and spices with pork leg. It's considered to be a traditional nutritional supplement of sorts and is often force fed to overactive little children. At least, that's what my mom used to do. ;)
Eight Herb Soup is served with a complimentary plate of rice in Little Umbrella. It's rather similar to bak kut teh in this sense, but the two dishes tastes totally different. Eight Herb soup tastes very "sweet" for a lack of a better descriptive adjective.
There are also other Foochow specialties in Little Umbrella - this is chicken feet cooked with peanuts and soy sauce. I don't mind eating chicken feet but it can be a bit of a bother at times coz of the little bones inside. I like the de-boned chicken feet in Kuching.
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Eight Herb Soup is brewed with chunks of pork meat. The meat is tender and juicy and absorbs much of the soup's flavors. It's eaten with soy sauce and rice and some people add a little bit of soup to the rice as well. I don't remember liking it when I was a kid, but I was force fed a couple of scoops of the stuff and found out that I actually kinda like it now. It's a little like vegetables - I hated the stuff when I was younger, but have started loving some kinds of vegetables now.
Don't make me hungry. You won't like me when I'm hungry. Feed me.
Peppino's Pizza is a hole in the wall located in the Pedada area in Sibu. Peppino's Pizza serves semi-authentic Italian pizzas (about as authentic you can get over here) and there's a neon sign showcasing their product. It is easy to be put off by the garish fittings, but it's actually a very nice place to eat, if you don't mind al fresco seating arrangements.
Peppino's Pizza only serves pizza but they are good at what they do. The menu is somewhat limited with just 10 choices, but they also serve Calzone - which is not a Pizza Hut trademark, contrary to popular belief, but a type of pizza which is folded over.
Peppino's Pizza puts their pizza in a huge electric oven and it's about a 15-20 minute wait for each pizza to be ready.
This is one of the staff with a peel (the paddle thing) when our pizzas were done - baked to perfection.
This is the 4 Seasons pizza that the proprietor recommended. The pizzas are served on a wooden block and pre-sliced into four (4) slices. It's RM 19 for a small 8" pizza, RM 28 for a medium sized 10" pizza and RM 36 for the big 12" sized pizza.
The 4 Seasons pizza (RM 19) comes with toppings that include sweet peppers, mushrooms, ham and tuna. It tastes pretty good, it's kinda like a fusion between a seafood pizza with the tuna and a regular meat pizza with the ham.
We also had the flagship Peppino's Special pizza. This is their premier offering and is priced at RM 20 for the 8", RM 28 for the 10" and RM 34 for the 12" pizza. I don't know why the pricing structure is different from the 4 Seasons pizza, with the largest size ending up cheaper than the 4 Seasons, which contradictorily starts out cheaper for the smallest size.
Peppino's Special is topped with tuna, ham, mushrooms and pineapple and tastes kinda like a Hawaiian pizza with the pineapple topping. I like this one more than the 4 Seasons pizza, it's juicier with the addition of the mushrooms and pineapple and I like pineapples in my pizza. I like eggs as well, which is an Australian style pizza, but we don't get that over here.
Peppino's Pizza serves their pizza on a thin crust, and it's been around for quite a while and doing brisk business with the overseas students currently working in Sibu. I think that is their target market with their pricing structure (which is similar to Pizza Hut) and the owner has a daughter studying in Australia or New Zealand. I have gotten a lot of good feedback about the quality of their pizzas compared to commercial franchises like Pizza Hut.
Please feel free to stick your umbrellas in me. I am not an umbrella stand but I don't really mind...wait, the tree next to me is telling me to release a neurotoxin. Plant angry! Puny humans!
These people obviously haven't watched The Happening.
Sebangkoi Country Resort is located about 30 odd kilometers from Sarikei. The place has been a national park for quite a while but the addition of the resort is relatively new.
Sebangkoi Country Resort is located right in Sebangkoi Park and has accommodations ranging from the budget traveler to suites.
Sebangkoi Country Resort has a guardhouse that is landscaped to look like a chunk of rock. The place is meant as a country retreat and the gates are closed and locked at 9 pm unless you make arrangements with the staff. Sebangkoi Country Resort does not lack in creature comforts (except WiFi) and there's plenty to do at the park.
Our contingent arrived at the Sebangkoi Country Resort at about 2 pm and checked into the suite. I had booked the RM 280 suite for the night. Mr. Tang kindly offered me the entire suite for the special price of RM 60 coz in return for a writeup about the resort on my blog (which I was going to do anyway ;)). Cheers!
There are two types of rooms in Sebangkoi Country Resort. The dormitory accommodations (pictured above) sleep 20 people in double decker beds and costs RM 18 per person. The suites has three (3) bedrooms and a living room and can sleep up to 7 people. It's also fully air conditioned.
Sebangkoi Country Resort also has BBQ facilities, as well as a conference room that can accommodate up to 200 people. There is also a sound stage that can be used for free if you're organizing events and such. Okay, enough with the obligatory promotional spiel. Back to the post. :)
We took the Bunga Raya (Hibiscus) Suite, which is our national flower. It's the VIP suite and it's one of the two suites in Sebangkoi Country Resort.
The exterior walls of the suite is plastered with images of Sebangkoi Nature Park. The main feature at Sebangkoi is a waterfall, which is interestingly called "pooh pooh" in Chinese.
The suites has glass sliding doors which reflects the nature surrounding Sebangkoi Country Resort. The foliage around the place is impressive...
...as is the wildlife. I'm only taking this coz the spider is dead. I have severe arachnophobia.
The two RM 280 VIP suites are furnished with a dining table and TV (with Astro) and leads right into the three (3) bedrooms.
There is also a living room with couches and a mini-fridge which you can use to store contraband...
...like the RM 41.40 bottle of Don Camillo Lambrusco sparkling red wine you bought prior to coming to Sebangkoi. The official policy at Sebangkoi Country Resort is that outside food and drinks are not allowed.
Two of the three rooms are fitted with a queen sized bed and a single bed while the other room is only fitted with a single bed. There is also a wardrobe in each of the rooms.
The rooms all opens up to a great view of the greenery around the Sebangkoi Country Resort, with a thoughtful mosquito netting screen to avoid the pesky insects from indulging in your hemoglobins during the night.
We headed straight to the only canteen at the resort straight after unpacking our stuff for lunch. I hadn't eaten anything since the morning and was starving for some solid food. The canteen is located at the reception area and is open to the public as well as resort guests.
There are coconuts, ice cream, and snacks on offer as well as a la carte orders.
The canteen Sebangkoi Country Resort also serves alcohol (only beer) and we ordered Oranjeboom Premium Lager at RM 10 for 3 tins. It certainly went down well in the warm weather at the place.
I ordered the Nasi Goreng Pattaya (RM 4.30) which the proprietor highly recommended. It tasted great, but I was craving for carbohydrates at that time so I'm unsure if my judgment was affected by this situation.
It's fried rice with bits of meat and frozen vegetables (defrosted and fried before serving, naturally) wrapped in an egg omelet.
My traveling companion went for the Maggi Mee Telur (RM 2.80) which is a bit of an interesting choice. She said she hasn't eaten the stuff for ages and wanted to eat instant noodles. It came with the packet of flavoring on the side and has an egg and some vegetables inside.
Thus properly nourished, we went for a walk around the resort area.
Sebangkoi Country Resort is not a big place - there are two suites, four dormitory style accommodations and a central dining area.
Sebangkoi Country Resort is located on top of a hill so the air is relatively fresh and cool. This also necessitates the construction of concrete stilts to accommodate the hilly gradient of the terrain. There is a long flight of stairs if you go up to the suite using the back entrance but the front access is on flat ground.
The entire resort is located in a forest, so there's lots of foliage and greenery to sooth your eyes. It's been ingrained into us as school children that proper rest for the optical senses should be done every hour by looking at a distant tree, so I think we used up our quota for the month so we can stare back at the LCD screen at work without breaks. ;)
I also saw some decidedly feminine panties being hung out to dry. I assume it's from the local girls working as staff at the resort. Washing dirty linen in public.
ZOMG! Sichuan Earthquake 7.8 Richter aftershock hits Sebangkoi! More than a month later! (Which makes it OK to joke about it)
It should be noted that wasps have made their nests under the resort's structure, which can make it unsafe for people who're allergic to stings.
The most popular attraction at Sebangkoi is the Sebangkoi waterfall. It's about a 10 minute walk (up and down hilly terrain) from the resort through a guests-only gate behind the main reception area.
There is the occasional stream running through the planked path as well as forest trees all around.
The famous bright red Sebangkoi park rest huts are located at intervals down the path. There is also a 2.6 km jungle trekking trail for those who're into this sort of thing.
Sebangkoi Falls is not very difficult to locate since there is just one path leading to it. We soon heard the sound of falling water and arrived at the falls.
The Sebangkoi Waterfall is located on an inclined rock terrain with a bright red bridge behind it. This is the only waterfall in the park and there is already a family frolicking in the water when we arrived.
Sebangkoi Waterfall video
The water isn't exactly clean but it's very cold and refreshing. It's not dirty from garbage or anything like that, but rather topsoil and other dead leaves being washed down from further upstream so it's perfectly safe for swimming in.
There are random logs and rocks in the pool under the waterfall and I attempted to remove a rather solid looking log, but nearly got a hernia instead.
Hello, I'm Johnny Knoxville and this is Log Throwing.
Dad? Is that you? We have the same beer belly.
It should be noted that there are sharp stones at the bottom of the waterfall pool. I managed to get a gash on the knee without realizing it.
It's a good thing it didn't get infected or anything like that, but I did sneeze a couple of times. I attribute that to the hundreds of people cursing my existence though. ;)
Row, row, row your boat.
It's actually very therapeutic to be under the waterfall. The falling water acts as a massage on your aching muscles and the cold water from the highlands is very invigorating.
Please do not disturb. Kung Fu Practice in session.
Mr. (from another) Universe - front view
Mr. (from another) Universe - back view
Smoking beer and drinking cigarettes while soaking in the pool. What could be better?
I met a nice family from Sibu on vacation there as well. Please focus on my potbelly, not on the poor little girl's puberty manifestations okay? ;)
This is the very last photo taken before my Sony T-70 fell into the water. It's divine retribution for my narcissism, I'm very sure of that. ;)
I was so depressed that I just had to open up our bottle of red wine before dinner. This was taken with a cell phone camera so the image quality is lacking.
I still managed to do the narcissism (is necessary) thing to get back at the divine retribution thing though. ;)
The canteen closes at 9 pm and the cigarettes and snacks counter closes at 6 pm so keep that in mind if you're intending to be eating anything at all at night. We got there at about 8 pm and ordered:
Sweet and sour fish slices
Chicken cooked with soy sauce
Wild leaves cooked with egg
There was only enough rice for two (2) - they didn't expect us to eat more than the two dishes of rice, apparently, and that's a bit of an oversight on the management's part.
We didn't really get enough to eat so we managed to wake up the staff at around 1 am in the morning and drove down to Sarikei (about 15 minutes away) to get more alcohol (and food).
I still haven't worked up the courage to try and start up the submerged digital camera the next morning when we woke up so the breakfast photos were also taken with the cell phone cam. I noticed that the canteen has a larger selection of coconuts now so we each ordered one.
I had a yellow ripe coconut while my traveling companion had a green pandan coconut.
I tried their Nasi Goreng Seafood (RM 4.30) while she had the Nasi Goreng Pattaya (RM 4.30) I had the previous day. The seafood fried rice didn't taste as good as the previous day's offerings.
The proprietor was kind enough to let us check out at 4 pm so we decided to go to the "other" waterfall in Sebangkoi. He told us that there's a lesser known "waterfall" about a two minute walk away so we changed and went down the route he showed us.
I got some beer from the canteen and with a little bit of Dutch Courage, inserted the battery into my digicam and started it up, while praying to the very same deity that struck me (or rather, my digicam) down in his righteous fury at my narcissism. It worked! =D (albeit with an extremely slow startup time)
I wouldn't call it a waterfall though...that would be stretching it a little bit too thin. It's the runoff from a storm drain!
However, the water seem to be clean enough to be swimming in and the place is very private. There are even tiny fishes in the water.
It's not completely free from habitation though - traces of a very recent campfire/BBQ session was seen from the charcoal beside the "waterfall".
I was debating whether to enter the dubious looking runoff water...
...and jumped in anyway. Call it a leap of faith. ;)
I did more vertical Lotus Position training at the storm drain runoff. It's not as dirty as I expected, the water quality is about the same as the Sebangkoi Falls. I wouldn't recommend drinking it, but swimming should be fine.
You can bring you own beer if you feel thirsty though...and your own tobacco/other products. ;)
I went au naturale in search of a leaf to do a Garden of Eden scene.
Hello, I'm Adam...
...and I have a small one coz I ate the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
The water was very cold, and soothing on that warm afternoon. I tried my luck at catching some of the little fishes swimming around, before realizing the futility of the exercise.
I tempted The Creator with another narcissistic shot...and this time, judgment day came just a little over 24 hours later. Oh well.
I spent a lazy Sunday afternoon drinking beer and smoking at the pool. Please keep your cigarette butts and empty beer cans in a trash bag and carry it away with you. Seriously, a few bad apples will ruin the rest of our reputations. Leave nothing but footprints and all that.
Sebangkoi Country Resort is a great place for a private and quiet weekend getaway instead of the usual Saturday night excess. You still get to drink, and get some exercise in addition to all that. There's the nature surrounding you too, so you feel invigorated. It's the closest natural waterfall from Sibu and the water is cold and refreshing. :)
Sebangkoi Country Resort is not a 5-Star resort like Hilton Batang Ai Longhouse Resort, so don't expect the same level of creature comforts, but it's cheap if you go in a group and it's close enough to Sibu for a quick weekend getaway. Cheers!
