Had made my trip to east Malaysia last Monday, it was a 4-days trip, and the place that I gone is Kuching, Miri and Labuan, although it is only within 2 state, but it takes day to travel among the city, by car, but of cos I'm traveling by flight, time is $$$After a short meeting with Alan in Kuching's airport, we depart direct to Miri, the oil town, and we had spend 2 days in this town, majority of the resident here dealt with oil and gas, or timber industry, just like Kertih, this place is HOT, theres LOTS of hardware shop that supplying stuff for the oil company, and you can see a lot of worker wearing coverall with their company logo walking on the street, inside the shopping mall, on the kopitiam, inside the hotel, airport, just anywhere (1 of the thing we supplied, lol). We'd spend 1 whole day to visit the dealer, and Petronas. After dinner, it's pub hopping time, and the next morning, we depart to Labuan.
It is only 25minutes flight from Miri to Labuan, and Labuan is a heaven, although it is HOT too. We stayed in the Grand Dorsett, and the view (as in photo above) is superb, it is an oil platform, and the food, I would said it is the best hotel's food I'd ever eat (normally hotel's chef sucks!). Too bad the hotel room doesn't have wifi, and I have to check my mail in the lobby (online for 2 hrs only charge me RM60, @!#$#@!$%@$%$), waste my time to enjoy the room's superb environment!!!
Half day in Miri, we only manage to find a customer, Petronas, and after our discussion, it's 5pm, normally they work until 4.30pm only (sooooo envy!!!). After meeting, we gone for the duty-free shopping, liquor here, incredibly cheap, 1L Chivas only RM65 (I bought RM100+ in airport duty-free shop T_T), 1L Bacardi only RM25, and I bought 1L JW Black Label, 1L Absolut Vodka, cost me RM90+ only.......... too bad me with Ernest 2 people can bring 2 bottle only, or else I will buy all kind of liquor in the shop!
Labuan is an island, surrounded by sea, so, there's LOTS of fresh seafood here, this is the reason I love sea, because they provide very nice seafoood, the size of the seafood here is double to those in peninsular, and the price is twice of peninsular too, twice more cheaper than peninsular!
Reach KL in the next day (today 1pm), and just finish my work, after replying the never ending e-mail, some small meeting in office, back home, online-meeting, replying e-mail till 10pm..................... huh
p/s taxi charge in east Malaysia, VERY EXPENSIVE!!!
