Tuesday 6 August 2013

Miri


Miri Sarawak, also known as an oil city. I live here for almost 3 years. Miri is such a nice place to live. Plus.. there're the new highway going to finish soon from the immigration border to the Miri city. There will no more jammed on hectic times as always. I want to share some of Miri informations that you might want to know :)


Miri is a city in northern Sarawak, Malaysia, on the island of Borneo. It is the second largest city in Sarawak, with a population of about 350,000, and located close proximity to Brunei. It is the government administrative centre of Miri District in Miri Division. Miri is the birthplace of Sarawak's and Malaysia's petroleum industry, which remains the major industry of the city. The picture below will show you where Miri is located.
 
 

 

Purpose of this Blog

Im Mohd Azril b Ismail from DPE1-S3. Fyi, this is just a temporary blog of mine. This blog is for p&p of BC101 only. This blog is for learning & understanding BC101 course. By making this blog, I exposed more to blogging things that I've never tried before and I find it interesting.

About this Blog

Introducing about Miri city, races, various foods, event occur, special places and history of Miri. I just giving a little bit informatoin about Miri. Enjoy!

History of MIri


 Oil Discovery

The first oil well (the Grand Old Lady) was drilled by Shell in 1910, and is now a state monument and one of Miri's tourist attractions. Shell also built Malaysia's first oil rifenary in Lutong, a suburb of Miri, in 1914.

 World War 2

Realizing that war was imminent, the Brooke government, under Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, conducted preliminary work to establish airstrips at selected locations throughout the country. These airstrips would be located at Kuching, Oya, Mukah, Bintulu, and Miri.
With no air or sea forces stationed in or around Sarawak, the British government encouraged the Brooke regime to adopt a "scorched earth policy" in the event of a Japanese attack. Later, schemes were developed to destroy the oil installations at Miri and Lutong. The Brooke government learned of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (on 7 December 1941) and quickly ordered the total destruction of the oil fields and airfields at Miri and Seria. Orders for the demolition of the refinery at Lutong and the oil wells reached the officer commanding at Miri on the morning of 8 December, and by that evening, the task was completed. The garrison, a company of the 2/15 Punjab Regiment, then left for Kuching by sea on 14 December. The Japanese captured the city on 17 December.

for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miri

Special Places in Miri

Grand Oil Lady on Canadian Hill

Petroleum Museum. Sometimes they make exhibitions of Dino-Trek to expose to people mostly to kids about dinousours & their type. At the same time, to attract tourists to go for a visit there. When you go to the top of this hills, you can see all the of view of Miri. It such a beautiful place to chill & hanging around during weekend or night.



Taman Awam Miri

Map to Taman Awam Miri.

Taman Awam Miri is about 3km from the city center along the Miri-Bintulu Road. There are flora gardens, souvenir center, canteen, observatory platform, children's playground, exhibitions room, stone carving and sculptures, waterfalls, suspension bridge, fountains, pavillions, jogging track and other sporting facilities. There is also a Children's Water playground.

The swimmingpool, main attraction for the kids.

The "Jambatan Gantung".

Eastwood Valley Golf & Country Club

Map.

Eastwood Valley Golf & Country Club is a 5-minute drive from Miri International Airport. It features a golf course, an outdoor pool and restaurant.

This place is the main attraction for the golf player/lover. Located on a man-made lake, Eastwood Valley Golf & Country Club is nestled within beautiful landscpaed grounds. It is about 5 km from the city centre.


The swimming-pool. Guests can enjoy a swim in the 50-metre long pool or workout at a fitness room. A jacuzzi, sauna and steam rooms offer relaxation. Karaoke facilities are available.

The resort view.

Beaches at Miri

Luak Esplanade
On weekend, there are many people going there doing recreation activity. Besides, there many event were launch to attract the visitors =3

Marina Bay
A Seafood Restaurant and where the boat parking at the bay.

Tanjung Lubang Beach
This is the where we can find seafood restaurant and it is also reacreation park.

Crocodile Farm



One of the mini zoo that you can find in Miri, but most of the species that they raise up here obviously crocodile. You can find another species of animal too. Besides, you can ride elephant and horse here. Plus, you can also feed milk to the baby bear. 

As you can see at the title, Im going to talk about the special places that you can visit here in Miri. There're a lot of interesting places which may attract you to go there. It is one of the state's most important tourist attractions. It is surrounded by three world-class national parks which is:
  • Gunung Mulu National Park
  • Niah National Park
  • Lambir Hills National Park
Firstly, Im going to show you the location of Gunung Mulu National Park.

The picture below is the front view of the national park. 


The pinnacles of Mulu.




Gunung Mulu is the world's largest natural cave chamber, the Sarawak Chamber. The national park is named after Mount Mulu, the second highest mountain in Sarawak. There're three ways to go to this national park which is by land, by river and by plane. To get into the park you must register at the Park HQ office and buy the five-day-pass for 30 RM per person. To enter any caves you must have Licensed Park Guide or join a guided group. They're also provide homestay and place to eat but it was somehow limited. For an adventerous person, there're a lot of activies you can do there without any hesitation such as walk from Clearwater Cave to Park HQ via Moonmilk trail , trekking to the Pinnacles , trekking the Headhunters' Trail , trekking the Summit and night walk spotting insects and other night creatures. Interesting right? So how about you come and pay a visit there?


Next is Niah National Park. Here the map to go to there:


Front view of Niah National Park.

The Niah National Park, Sarawak is the site of the Niah Caves, one of the largest limestone caves in the world. More than hal the park is covered in limestone resulting in limestone vegetation predominating the common herbs.  Animals are not easy to spot buy you may catch sight of the long-tailed macaques, bulbuls, trogons, squirrels, flying lizards, Rajah Brooke butterflies, hornbills, mouse-deer and water monitors. Mostly the visitors are going for a caving expeditions, but you can also try the other activities such as jungle walks & archaelogy.

Thirdly, Lambir National Hills Park



Lambir Hills National Park is 30 kilometres south of Miri in Sarawak, Malaysia. With its picturesque waterfalls, good birdwatching and impressive tall trees, the park is popular with tourists, especially at weekends when more people from Miri travel there for a day visit. For longer stays, visitors can book one of several chalets. There are several trails for tourists to explore. These range from short and fairly flat walks to the long and sometimes steep trek to the summit of Bukit Lambir, the tallest point in the park.





Event Occur at Miri

May Fest Festival

May Fest also known as Miri City Day, 'Go Green'.
All people who participated were going to wear the green shirt given by government.

The panorama at the fest

Borneo Jazz Festival

Borneo Jazz 
There is an artist that attending the borneo jazz festival. 

During the festival.





Monday 5 August 2013

Various Foods in Miri

There're a lot of apetizing foods you can find here in Miri. This is the some of the pictures of most popular food here:

Kek Lapis Sarawak

It is very popular among the sarawakian. They are often baked for religious or cultural celebrations such as Eid ul-FitrChristmasDeepavali, birthdays and weddings. It was prepared with various flavours and colours.

Laksa Sarawak

Spicy noodle with prawn & egg.

Kolok Mee

It is traditional chinese mee but you can also find it at malay restaurant.

Umai

This is one of  the traditional food. This traditional delicacy is not confined only to the Melanaus. Folks all over Sarawak enjoy a good serving of umai.

Lalapan Ayam/Ikan

A healthy meal that where you can find it mostly at Muara Restoran & Awg Mahyan.

Kinky Fat Chef Kitchen (KFCK)

where you can only find it in the only branch in Piasau, Miri. It is very popular among the youth citizen. 






Races in Miri

Miri is a city comprimising of different ethnic of people, we have Chinese, Malays, Dayaks, Indian, and all of the other races of Malaysian. Miri is also the city to be considered the richest culture of races from all different tribe of Sarawak, in the ethnic Dayaks; Iban, Kayan, Kenyah, Kelabit, Melanau, Punan/Penan, Murut. All ethnic live in harmony and respect.


Iban


Kayan


Kenyah


Kelabit


Penan/Punan


Melanau


Murut


Malay


Chinese


India