{"id":1212,"date":"2010-08-24T14:26:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T14:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bumisepi.com\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2010-09-17T09:12:05","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T09:12:05","slug":"miri-sarawak-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bumisepi.com\/?p=1212","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Miri, Sarawak, MALAYSIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>18 August 2010:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Early MH flight to Miri was an aging Boeing 747-400.\u00a0Seated\u00a0at 19A seat,\u00a0I could see clearly stained metal patches on the wing, over the scratches window. The engine made some rattling noise when taking off but quietened down when cruising. The sky was cloudy but no rain. Most passengers felt asleep the entire journey over South China Sea, 33000 feet above at the speed of 800 km\/h. After 2 hours 15 minutes I could see the shoreline with rivermouths full of muddy waters from the interior of Borneo. The plane was circling a couple times along the shoreline beneath which are\u00a0at one side green plains and zig-zagged rivers and\u00a0at the other side\u00a0are muddy beaches. The pilot Jeff Azman went on air saying some problem at Miri Airport which did not concern us. He managed to land safely eventually. Airport terminal was a straight line building\u00a0with 2 or 3 contact piers, just like Yangon International AIrport. Immigration was a breeze as I presented my intenational passport to the officer behind the counter, and she stamped the &#8216;visa&#8217; on a blank page which allows me to stay up to\u00a090 days on social visit to Sarawak.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Yangon arrival, nobody was waiting for me. This is my home country\u00a0Malaysia and I was expected\u00a0to know this country well. People speak my language and eat my foods, so whats the big deal. That what my new company thought, when I called them last week to\u00a0tell\u00a0them of my arrival date.<\/p>\n<p>I went thru typical airport arrival procedures\u00a0 &#8212;\u00a0immigration checkpoint,\u00a0collect baggages, custom checkpoint, greet&amp;meet area.\u00a0After custom checkpoint, I exited to the greet&amp;meet area. At your left there were many car rental counters and one of them was a taxi counter. Bought\u00a0a coupon here, only Rm20 for 15 minutes drive to Mega Hotel in downtown Miri.\u00a0 Took and presented the coupon to the waiting taxi queueing for passengers outside the arrival hall. No taxi touts at this airport.<\/p>\n<p>It took about 15 minutes from Miri Airport to Mega Hotel in the city center, along tree-lined boulevards.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Miri, one of the youngest city in Malaysia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18 August 2010: Early MH flight to Miri was an aging Boeing 747-400.\u00a0Seated\u00a0at 19A seat,\u00a0I could see clearly stained metal patches on the wing, over the scratches window. The engine made some rattling noise when taking off but quietened down when cruising. The sky was cloudy but no rain. Most passengers felt asleep the entire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[211,132,133],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bumisepi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bumisepi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bumisepi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bumisepi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bumisepi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/bumisepi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"https:\/\/bumisepi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bumisepi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bumisepi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bumisepi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}