The Wedding in Marudi
I attend my uncle’s wedding ceremony (my dad’s youngest brother) at Marudi just a few days ago. Marudi is quite remoted, and since it is quite close to Miri, it seems like everyone owns the new Toyota Hilux. Man, Marudi people is damn rich. 
Anyway, it was a 20 minutes flight using the Twin Otter to reach Marudi. For those whose so used to hitching a flight using a Boeing or Airbus, well, I have taken a picture of how does the cute Twin Otter looks like.
The mini plane. Cool eeh? X/
On the way to Marudi on this plane, I manage to take a picture of the very popular Milo Water Sarawak River. 
That’s the only part that I’m not proud as a Sarawakian :fishy:
It’s like teh si (milk tea) eeh…
Reached Marudi. One word, BORING. There’s no computer at my grandma’s house!! I’m so bored!! X/ Tried going to the cybercafe, change my mind in the end. Slow internet connection and it is very expensive!! :fishy: Since I got nothing to do, I went to Taman Tasik Marudi.
It was around 10 minutes walk from my uncle’s shophouse (the place we stay).
Taman Tasik Marudi.
My other uncle, not the one getting married, who have been staying in UK for years and is married with an angmoh woman asked me a question:
Uncle: So, taman is park right?
Me: Yea.
Uncle: And what is tasik?
Me: It means lake.
Uncle: If Taman Tasik Marudi is translated to English, it’s like Lake… Marudi… eerr..
Me: Err… it’d really sound weird 
And now, I just remembered of something. Tasik Marudi is the name of the place. So, I guess we call it the Tasik Marudi Park. 
Anyway, It was fun. I get to see a lot of fish at the pond. I guess the pond or lake is what they call the Tasik Marudi. Maybe that’s the reason that this park is given the name Taman Tasik Marudi.
Tasik Marudi, I would guess.
A lot of fish. A lot…
There’s also a museum located near the park. It’s closed though, and I think it is always closed. This is the 2nd time I’ve been to this park and everytime I’m there, the museum is closed. I wonder why. Is it not opened for public? Or is it always close during School and Public Holiday?
The always-closed Museum. Sigh~
After the one hour walk at the park, I went home. I can’t wait till the next day, and it’s the big day for my uncle. Heh, after all these bachelor years, now he is married person. I’m happy for him
The handsome groom, my uncle. 
11th November 2005 is my uncle’s big day. The day he’s officially married and settled down. It was around 9am that day, my uncle and his gang (I’m not sure who they are, some related people I guess) drove Honda City to pick up the bride.
Honda City. It’s not my uncle’s though, borrowed one, hehehe.
My uncle says, “Ah Liang ar.. you in charge of the firecrackers!!”. I was like, “What???!!”. Ok, I don’t play firecracker and now he asked me to lit on the firecrackers when he successfully picked up the bride from some hotel. I’m always too chicken to play firecrackers. And on that day, I manage to lit on the “2000 bang” firecracker. First time experience. It was fun.
After I lit the firecracker, I quickly get back up to the shophouse. My grandma says that nobody is allowed to face the bride until the groom and the bride is in their room. I wonder why, but we have to follow the veterans lah.. X/
When both of them entered the room and got out, the next thing is the serve tea ceremony.
“Mother, limteh and give me the gold!!!”. Wait, it’s not like that, ok?
After all those veterans and quite a number of people, it’s the kids’ turn to serve the tea to the newly weds. Heh, at least I got angpau from them for serving them tea and say, “Uncle, Auntie, limteh!!”.
After all that, it’s time for the newly weds to go to the bride’s family for this serve tea ceremony. I didn’t follow. I have to stay home to prepare chairs and tables for the lunch. After lunch and stuff, it’s the end of everything. Everyone now is preparing for the dinner at night.
The dinner was cool. Well, I’m looking forward for the eating only
My Uncle and his wife.
The usual cross hand drink champagne between both groom and bride.
Singing romantic songs to his wife. Hehehehe
Well, it was fun. Now at least I know the chinese tradition in a wedding
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December 12th, 2005 at 9:41 pm
hi nice little town, definitely better than KL, good food places?
December 12th, 2005 at 10:25 pm
Well, marudi is a place popular for the Fried Kueh Tiaw. It’s damn nice
December 12th, 2005 at 11:22 pm
you missed out the famous local ice-cream chendol
December 13th, 2005 at 10:18 am
you cannot see the bride coming in as they believe if you do that you’ll have a bad relation with her in the future.
March 11th, 2006 at 4:41 pm
cute……….
i was talking about the fish in the pond lah……. 
..hehehe 
maybe the muzium was the “MUZIUM” thing after all….. 80
what in the world i’m saying ? 80
September 6th, 2006 at 3:48 pm
Marudi is just like smallville (superman’s “kampung”). Very very very nice place…especially the food (ice-cream, cendol and rojak shop +++++ the fresh big river prawn). All marudian must be proud of our very own smallville…….
September 13th, 2006 at 5:25 pm
September 28th, 2006 at 6:37 pm
We hope Marudi will stay green and peaceful forever. It is one of the best place for relaxing holiday.
October 8th, 2006 at 3:16 pm
yaya, the local ice-cream is v nice (my uncle’s business,lol)…marudi is jz like another dimension wer u ll learn tat d time flow is v slow..hahah.kinda can’t wait til new year,wen i can go bc to d boring bt sweet hometown..wait,ter’s stil bunch of assignment to go,ok?
November 1st, 2006 at 9:13 pm
Hi, I enjoyed reading about my favorit town in Sarawak: Marudi!!!! It still seems to be a wonderful place (I lived there from 1977 to 1981)…. Hopefully I can come back for a holiday soon and eat ice-cream, chendol, kueh tiaw and …… I’m sending best regards and good wishes from Frankfurt/Germany to all Marudians and Marudi lovers!
March 3rd, 2007 at 2:11 am
Lydia says:
I know you Lydia. You were my Physic teacher in SMK Marudi many years ago.
I did went back to Maruid last year. My email is joseph4chua[a]hotmail.com.
Take care.
Joseph
March 12th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Actually you don’t have to think about it. :noworry:
You should think positively like the town are quite quite
or better than your home town.So that’s all.
August 20th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Finally, u’ve been 2 my hometown…glad 2 hear that u enjoyed yr stay there…do drop by often nxt time…
March 1st, 2008 at 12:25 am
Which hotel or lodging would u recommend to stay? Pls help…. Need to be there a couple of days b4 my mum-in-law check out of hospital? Any idea where’s the general hosiptal from the express boat jetty? Thanks so much….
May 30th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
I used to think Marudi is one of the best place to live in… it changed my perception as i aged…
I think the health care system in Sarawak generally is very poor especially Marudi because it is difficult to go out of Marudi… even though with the introduction of logging road’s vehicle services from Marudi to Miri through logging road and oil palm plantation… With limited medical stuffs, especially the skilled one, one has to be content with the available personals. Marudian used to be very happy with one of the male dentist few years back as he is one of the best ever dentist availabe in the history of Marudi. He is skillful at the same time polite… it is like one in 100 years you will find this kind of doctor in Marudi… Other doctors, sorry to said, i am not impressed… but were even downright arrogant…
Food… chendol used to be very nice…. but over the years the quality seems to have dropped…. the only thing that is still good is the “Kolot” mee…
I think Marudi is a sad town…. the town is too small until you dont have any privacy anymore… anything happen for instance if you fart too loud in your house, the next day, everybody in Marudi will know…. And the people is a bunch of “mesra” people… The rich people act as though they are the king of this small town and the higher position people or those so called “educated” have always thought they are better and some acted arrogantly or even look down at those lowly educated… It is the same everyway whether you are in Marudi or KL… and i think it is worse in Marudi because you cannot escape from all these things as the town is too small…
It is really sad to think of all these things as we should have think positively…
Marudi has been like the current states for more than 15 years….. I wonder how is the future of it with the beginning of the new era of oil plam plantation by the giant MNC…. Flood will be a norm, i predict as the soil will be further deteriorated other than the illegal logging activities…. the flood has been significantly reduced for the last few years as the logging activities has been banned…. and only illegal loggging still going on…
All the best to “Smallville” who has to bear the effects of the development of the economy and society even though she herself does not have much development…..for the past many years
February 11th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
Hi Joseph Chua,
I tried to write to you but your email address seems to have changed. If you read this again, please write to me under LyAnakUlu@aol.com
Best regards
Lydia
November 25th, 2010 at 3:36 pm
hey! I was born in Marudi and I have moved to Miri years ago, really missed the place! thanks for the pictures. haha…the musium, i went in there before, it was open at that time and it’s very rare to see it open. haha…nothing much inside though, except some wax statues and pictures.
i think they had some guns as well! hehe..