One of the best things that I did when I went back to my home town for the recent Harvest Festival holiday was celebrating my mom’s birthday. Instead of taking her to some fancy restaurant to probably have some fancy spread of food, I took her to a little hike across the village – the village that bears so much memory and significance to my life. It was there that I spent much of my childhood and it was there…
So, I have just returned from a short trip home – something that I’ve been doing every year whenever May comes, probably because the Harvest Festival is a good enough reason to go back to Sabah for – apart from the fact that I am from there. But of course, above all, it’s the family. In the end, it’s the family that matters most to me no matter where I am and what I do in life urang bilang. Even…
Nobody comes to Sandakan without feeding himself with seafood. Sandakan is said to have the best seafood in the State – and probably in Malaysia – as told to me by some seafood enthusiasts. They told me how seafood in Sandakan is better than those in Tawau or Semporna – the other two major seafood-producing towns in Sabah. I’m not quite sure what they mean by good or how exactly they do the comparison but I know for sure that…