Faisal, Miri, Mulu and Meor.. (part 2)

With DH (Dearest Hubby) on Canada Hill, overlooking THE Miri City!

On Sunday, we arrived at the Mulu airport (to catch our flight to Miri) much earlier than we should, so we ended up doing some people-watching. Not much really, since the airport was hardly filled with people. A flight bound for Kota Kinabalu arrived to "collect" some passengers. I said "collect" since I didn't see any passenger coming out of the arrival hall!!

DH talked to some of the policemen on duty there. Apparently these officers are actually based in Miri, and they take turn to come for duty in Mulu!! They said the same arrangement is made for the immigration and custom officers!

We arrived in Miri at about 1.30pm - as scheduled. Meor was already waiting for us. We were free for a few hours as our flight back to KL was scheduled at 7pm so we've already contacted Meor to "take care of us" during the transit time :-)

Meor is attached to Shell Miri. He was among my first batch of students when I started working in 1986 as a teacher in Ipoh. Meor is married to my (mum-in-law) MIL's neighbour's grand-child. She is simply known to us as "Kak". Kak cooked a very sumptous lunch for us.

After lunch, Meor and family (minus his two girls who had to go for their Tae-Kwan-do's lesson) took us round Miri. We also visited the site of the first oil well, up the Canada Hill.

At 5pm, we came back to Meor's house for prayer. Then we stopped by at the airport to check-in and get our boarding passes. We then went to a house near the airport to meet up another x-student of mine who used to be Meor's classmate. Earlier when Meor mentioned Ab Halim, I could not recall him. But when Meor mentioned his nickname when in school i.e. "Nan", immediately his face came into my head!! Nan is now a chopper pilot with MHS, based in Miri.

It was a very pleasant surprise to meet Nan and family. We were so engrossed in updating each other that we almost forgot to take any pix!! Nan is also into bonsai and shell-collecting. He has all sorts of bonsai around the compound - some of which had won him recognitions in bonsai competitions!

With Mahani (Mrs Nan), Nan, Meor & daughter and Aina

Nan, me and Meor

At Nan's, we had mee kari and bihun (for early dinner?). When we left his house to go to the airport (which is only 5 mins away) we were really full. We arrived at the airport just in time to board the plane - we actually walked straight into the plane- no waiting in the departure lounge! We were just short of having our names called out!!

And in the plan,e Aina and I had to cancel our plan to have Nasi Lemak - we were just too full!!

Our plane landed at LCCT 10 mins ahead of time - not bad.... 3 weeks ago when we were flying back from Kota Kinabalu, our plane was 20 minutes earlier!! now.. who said "air Asia selalu lambat" (Air asia is always late)???