My Holiday

It was an awaited moment during the long term school holiday in 2010 which was in December last year. Everyone in my family was very excited to have a trip to Sarawak, a land of my father's descendants. My father has been a Sarawakian originated with the mixed blood of Chinese on his father's side and Melanau on his mother's side from a place of Sarikei. Our interesting journey started with an air travel by flight from Senai to Kuching which was very exciting at first. However it turned to be a bad experience when the weather was getting worse. I could feel the plane shaken badly when it crashed with a dark cloud. Everyone in the plane screamed out loud including my sister and my mother. Every second in the flight was a scary moment to go through. I impatiently waited to landing on the airport. Fortunately, we landed safely after more than one hour and a half being in the anxious flight. While being in Kuching, we stayed in a five star hotel for two days and one night. During our stay there, we spent our time to visit some nice places such as Sarawak museum, waterfront, Sarawak Cultural Village, Fairy Cave, Kubah National Park, Borneo Heights and Merdeka Places Victoria Arms. We enjoyed very much visiting those places days and night. Furthermore, we enjoyed some traditional delicacies and local delights. Some of them were sago, salted terubuk fish, umai, fish snack, tabaloi and kolok noodle. There are many restaurants serve such popular foods for guests and travellers. After getting tired, we got back to the hotel to rest. Next, the experience of travelling by boat from Sibu to Sarekei was thrilled yet scary to me especially when the water went up like a strong storm in front of me. After double of hours in the boat, we arrived at the Sarikei harbour. We were all relieved to step on the next journey to my father's originated land. There is a river nearby the Melanau residential area where I caught the most enjoyable time to row a sampan for the first time. It was like riding a motorcycle without any knowledge and experience. The sampan bummed around, collided over the shore many times and was very difficult to set the direction. I lost control of the sampan and finally it got upside down. I fell into the water. I have gotten wet all over my shirt and belongings. Luckily my relatives and friends over there helped me out of the water though they were all laughed at me for the funny thing that happened to me. After the whole one week we enjoy our travel in fascinating Sarawak, it was time to say goodbye to my friends, family members and my father's beloved hometown. Despite of having fly away home, our sweet memories remain there, far away in a beautiful enchanting land of Sarawak.