It's "Gawai" and "Pesta Keamatan" festive period again and it also means it's less than two months before the Rainforest World Music Festival (RWMF) 2010, which is held annually at the Sarawak Cultural Village since 1997. If you're new to RWMF, it's a 3-day music festival celebrating the diversity of "world music" with daytime music workshops, cultural displays, craft displays, food stalls, and ma... more.

As previously posted in my post Be Bold, Go Bald 2010 in Kuching!, the Go Bald campaign is for real and not as what many claimed it as a publicity stunt. Yes, publicity is perhaps one of the objectives but creating awareness via publicity is the effort that we should all support. The Go Bald campaign is one of the many events by Sarawak Children's Cancer Society (SCCS) that aims to gain funding to... more.

Forget about hair gel or hair tonic, it's time to be bold and go "balder" than ever! If you're new to the Go Bald initiative, it is essentially a campaign to raise awareness for childhood cancer. This year Go Bald 2010 will be held at The Spring, Kuching on 16 May 2010. It is a continuation from last year's success. Organised by Sarawak Children’s Cancer Society, the Go Bald campai... more.

Looks like REDTone Wimax is in Kuching, Sarawak for a quite a while now, and I was wondering if they managed to get good amount of subscribers to their Wimax service. Plus, the company was fined last year for not achieving the intended population coverage. When it comes to wireless broadband, Celcom is still dominating the market share in Sarawak particularly in areas not covered by other alternat... more.

Hive Hosting, a web hosting company based in Kuching is offering cheap domain names for both MyNic and Enom domains. You can get your .com or .com.my domains from as low as RM31. Hive domains comes with a control panel in which you can make necessary changes to your nameservers to point to your web hosting. This is a good chance to get your domain at a very low price. (A) DISCOUNTED PROMO .com... more.

This is a late blog post on the Rainforest World Music Festival (RWMF) 2009 held at Sarawak Cultural Village (SCV), Santubong as well as the the first bloggers' meet endorsed by Sarawak Tourism Board (hereafter known as "STB", the endorsement seems not so official though). Of course, I have to firstly thank Cyril for taking the efforts to initiate the bloggers' gathering. It was a small ... more.

Rainforest World Music Festival 2009 will be held next week (10-12 July 2009) and my friend Cyril is taking extra efforts to organise Bloggers@RWMF 2009 event supported by Sarawak Tourism Board (STB). Being the first ever bloggers gathering at Rainforest World Music Festival (officially endorsed by STB), it would be good for all bloggers especially those in Kuching to grab this chance and meet eac... more.

This is a quick post to wish everyone in Sarawak Happy Gawai and Happy Holiday. For those lovers of tuak, don't drink too much. Haha. On another note, my friend is sending invitation to all bloggers who intend to join in the party at  from 10-12th July 2009.  Please refer to his post here "Invitation to attend Bloggers@RWMF’09" If you're interested, do give reponse to his... more.

Yes! MBO Cinema will open an 8-hall cineplex in Kuching's largest lifestyle mall The Spring Shopping Centre. The 3-storey mall, touted as the largest in Sarawak, opened officially in early January 2008. The new MBO cineplex would be the only other cinema in Kuching other than Star Cineplex Kuching and the outlet in Riverside Kuching which was recently passed on by Metrowealth to Lotus Five Star. ... more.

In conjunction with theMPH-Alliance Bank National Short Story Prize 2009, MPH is organising a workshop at The Spring, Kuching on 31st January 2009 (10am-1pm). The workshop on "Improving Your Short Story" will be conducted by Robert Raymer, the author of Lovers and Strangers Revisited. The workshop aims at providing some guidelines for authors/writers especially beginners on how to impr... more.

In an attempt to promote the efforts initiated by What Rainforest?, i dedicate this blog post to inform all Malaysians especially Sarawakians that they need to stand up and fight for the rights of the indigenous people of Sarawak. For your information, What Rainforest? is a non-profit collective of individuals and NGOs concerned about the state of the Malaysian rainforests and its inhabitants. Wh... more.

Happy Gawai Dayak to all my friends in Sarawak!... more.