Our Annual Pilgrimage

Thursday 9 July 2009

Today is THE DAY that we make our annual pilgrimage to the island of Borneo for the 3-day Rainforest World Music Festival. Woke up early enough and Byron was on time. Mr Liex, our regular cabi, picked Deep & Khang up at their pad and from there, headed off to LCCT.

Khang buat kecoh since morning as first first, kena stop cause he was carrying lighter fluid in his bag. Had to unpack everything to take it out and almost couldn’t check in cause the grumpy girl at the counter wanted to go off already. Later on, he left his bag at the 2nd X-ray check point and totally forgot about it. Panic later on cause all his stuff and the brownies were in there. Kena sound by the immigration officer for wearing a communist cap too haha.

Eddy pula, missed our 9.45am flight completely. He, Hawa & Sara had to book the next one which was at 11.45am. Turned out the plane had some technical difficulties and the flight was delayed till 4.45pm. Poor things.

It was stright to Telang Usang Hotel from the airport where we had our usual sarawak laksa & tuak. Khang got wasted by 2pm. Maggot!

Sarawak Laksa & Tuak lunch at Telang Usan Hotel, Kuching

Khang kantoi-ed early

Camp Permai, our usual pad, was being a bitch as they’ve been ridiculously raising the price every year. It’s a 250% increase this year from the last! Boycott!!! Decided to stay at the Melanau Tall House in the Village itself this year which was SUCH an awesome thing. Our pad’s clean, cheap, cooling and snack in the middle of everything. Heck, I could go back to my room to mandi in the middle of the concert if I wanted too!

Our pad at the Melanau Tall House, Sarawak Cultural Village

Met Leo and the Iban boys on the first night and they invited us to the Iban longhouse after midnight for some langkau (distilled tuak that resembles jet fuel), moonshine whiskey at Tsingtao (This Shit Is Not Good To Any One) Beer. Khang held his liquor well this time but he looked like he had a great time rolling around on the floor.

Moonshine whiskey & Tsingtao Beer

Scenes at the Iban pad