from the land of the hornbills with love

greetings from bintulu. its not a typo as i truly am in bintulu in body and spirit. have a meeting tomorrow hence an overnight trip. will be back in kl by tuesday evening 9.30 pm.

the departure at klia was quite something this morning. a bit of delay since there's a very long queue of aircraft waiting to take off. i mean i visually saw no less than ten aircraft queueing to take off. apparently, as the merdeka day celebration air show was taking place at nearby putrajaya, there wasnt any flight allowed to depart between 9 am and 11 am. hence, quite a number of flights were delayed. as mine was scheduled at 11.15 am, so there was about 40 minutes delay as we were queueing behind a bunch of other aircraft.

flight was uneventful. saw the islands of ambas and natuna of indonesia. beautiful sight of blue green water and coral reefs from the air.

i ventured to bintulu pasar malam. found the much coveted belacan bintulu as well as udang kering. unfortunately, didnt find any ulat mulok, so cant take on the dare by fahroe. hehehe... as if. nonetheless, i was amazed by the number of local fruits and vegetables never encountered in semenanjung. and they all look yummy.

tapau some fried mee and fried chicken for dinner later at the hotel. this time i didnt dare to buy the umai tenggiri as i still remember the rejection my tummy made the last time i had it last year.

i have to thank parkcity everly hotel bintulu for providing free wifi to its guests. only wish the speed is a lot faster. but then, shouldnt complain about free stuff, right?