JOKES

A woman was walking down the street when she was accosted by a particularly dirty & shabby-looking homeless woman who asked her for a couple of dollars for dinner.The woman took out her bill fold, extracted ten dollars and asked, “If I give you this money, will you buy some wine with it instead of dinner?”“No,” I had to stop drinking years ago, the homeless woman replied.
“Will you use it to go shopping instead of buying food?” the woman asked
“No I don’t waste time shopping,” the homeless woman said. “I need to spend all my time trying to stay alive.”
“Will you spend this on a beauty salon instead of food?” the woman asked.

“Are you NUTS!” replied the homeless woman. “I haven’t had my hair done in 20 years!”
“Well,” said the woman, “I’m not going to give you the money. “Instead, I’m going to take you out for dinner with my hubby & myself tonight.”The homeless Woman was astounded. “Won’t your hubby be furious with you for doing that? I know I’m dirty, & I probably smell pretty disgusting.”The woman replied, “That’s okay. It’s important for him to see what a woman looks like after she has given up shopping, hair appointments, & wine.”

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Q: In Europe, what do you call a female wearing sunglasses & a big hat?
A: A rich lady
 
Q: In China, what do you call a female wearing sunglasses & a big hat?
A: Tai-tai
 
Q: In Singapore,what do you call ! a female wearing sunglasses and a big hat?

A: Carpark Attendant

Trip to Miri – photolog 12 …. makan, makan, makan

Ah Hui’s mum – great cook, perfect hostess to us…….. Thanks a million

Table was FULL of food!

Mouthwatering crabs

Leftover shells and bones

Kuang Fei’s expression – priceless!

Kah Choon – eat until “blur”

Let you in on a secret ……….. the guys’ method of ensuring they can eat all they want………

You eat and eat till you can’t eat anymore,

then you drink a glass of Eno………..

then eat again !!!!

Trip to Miri – photolog 11 – The real Crocodile Farm

This is Maureen, and her husband – great friends of ours.  They took all of us for some famous prawn mee – it really looked great, and I took some pics of the big enormous prawns.  A pity I had no chance to try it cos I’m allergic to prawns

After the breakfast, we went to the local market (which I will blog about next) where we met Ah Hui’s brother.  Next was Canada Hill and after that, it was the REAL crocodile farm (we’d already seen the one in Ah Hui’s house, lol) – only it was not just a crocodile farm – they also had snakes, geese, monkeys, snakes, rabbits, cassowary (according to the guiness book of records, it is the most dangerous bird on earth) and of course, plenty of crocodiles – some were reared for consumption. 

Personally I felt the animals were all better behaved than our Allan & Friends’ group on that day…… you should have seen them making  a ruckus, annoying the crocodiles and confusing the monkeys!

Crocodile eggs

All the crocodiles just lying around with nothing to do………

Its nice to be a crocodile

One of the 2 sun bears

We noticed that he walked like Quinton – or is it the other way round? – no, I’m not joking, all of us immediately identified Quinton with the bear when it started to walk……… toe-d in

Kevin re-living one of his childhood dreams

Trip to Miri – photolog 10 – Canada Hill

Ah Hui’s brother graciously tok the day off to take us around.  One of the places we visited was Canada Hill. 

You can see almost the whole of Miri city and its surrounding area from Canada Hill. This is where Miri’s (and Malaysia’s) first oil well also called the Grand Old Lady of Miri and is now a Historical Monument.  There is also a museum on the hill.

Tried using Panorama mode on my trusty hand phone, but still not too sure how to use it – nvm la, I think this is acceptable

Site of the first oil well

Trip to Miri – photolog 9 – to market, to market

Buying hill rice at the market

We bought this mango like fruit but was not allowed to bring it on board – too fragrant – the ground staff could smell it even though it was packed in newspapers in a sealed box! Sigh – so how, eat la at the airport!

Wild durians – Allan HAD to try one from every stall

Later we went to the Iban BBQ market – many stalls selling all kinds of BBQ meat

The stuff include things like pig’s head, ears, etc………..

Trip to Miri – photolog 8 – Ah Hui’s mini zoo

We’ve heard for years, about Ah Hui’s crocodile – yes…. we all have dogs and cats for pets but Ah Hui’s father rears crocodiles!!!! We were all excited and full of anticipation as we headed for this home.  When we arrived, we found that it was not just a crocodile but also ………….

some birds………

one crocodile………

TWO crocodiles…………

closer look at the first croc………

some ducks and chickens (didn’t take pic of chickens, but hey, who wants to take pics of common chickens when you have crocs!!!)

an owl………. and 3 dogs , but lets not even waste time with the dogs!

Ah Hui’s dad was involved with catching this big, humongous crocodile

story is that the villages wanted to catch and kill this croc cos it had eaten a boy, but when they cut up the croc, they found not just one, but two children inside, already all decomposed – so this was a man-eating croc

 

Ah Hui’s dad brought back the head

We went to the crocodile farm later and saw some crocodile heads there, but none were as big as this one!

See how easily it can swallow a human alive?

Trip to Miri – photolog 7 – Retired men keeping busy

Noticed this Chinese Chess Association …….

,…. and the members, mostly retired men, having a serious game

Trip to Miri – photolog 6 – Sunset, Miri style

After the water fall trip, we went back to Miri town for some food and then rushed to the beach to view the sunset. 

All pictures taken with my Nokia handphone

5 minutes ………. from this picture…………

………. to this.

                

Doesn’t Kevin’s post resemble Lenin’s statue?

Trip to Miri – photolog 5 – Batu Niah town and Latak waterfall

(All pics taken with my Nokia 6120 mobile phone)

They have very creative ways of preparing their beverages – like using this green herb with their sugar to add to their soya bean.

“Water Fish”, actually a terrapin la – yeap, the locals sell this openly in the markets for boiling soup

On the way out of Batu Niah to Miri, we stopped at this stall owned by an Iban and her family to buy wild durian.  This little girl was just sitting there happily and so we played a while with her.

Latak Waterfall, quite a good place to visit

After spending a full day at the Niah caves, none of us wanted to walk to the farthest waterfall – we were contented with Latak waterfall

Our youth camp tshirt stands out amidst the jungle trees!

We were wondering what these holes in the river bed were – but there was no one to answer us

Finally reached the place. It was the dry season and so the waterfall was not in its full glory.  Nevertheless, it was a good swim because there was a huge pool at the base of the waterfall.  Be careful here – with 6 steps, we were in really deep waters and in 10 steps, the pool was more than 10 feet deep! It was refreshing as the water was ICE cold

On the way out, we noticed this tree – it definitely stood out – the trunk was really red!

Well, this is the name of the tree – I didn’t noticed any other one of its kind around

It’s really tall as well

The bark kinds of flakes of in layers and when you peel it off, it leaves a reddish powder residue on your fingers.

Yodelling sensation Taylor Ware

LOVED THIS!!!!!!!!