Happiest happy birthday happy jenya (happy)

For kruncherton: borneo is the landmass- it is divided into malaysian and indonesia parts. and some tiny sultanate called brunei is here to.... or so we are told.

so we headed out of kuching, sad to leave the fantastic fairview guesthouse. we cooked our own meals there with food from the huge markets and a curry paste mixed like a magic potion by an indian man there. he had huge fragrant and colourful mounds of unknown substances that he cut chunks off of and put in a bag for us.
also, we caused an upset in the power structure of the yard animals at the fairview. the dog became so enamoured with eben that she neglected her scrap eating duties in order to stare at him wistfully while wiggling every inch of her doggy body. she seemed to resent me slightly... this left the scrap dish open for both the cat and the rooster. there was an uncomfortable tension in the air. it is probably for the best that we left.

for some reason we caught a night bus up to miri. now we are there. we are going to see the biggest taoist temple in southeast asia. it better be big. damn big. our room is on angle and looks out over part of the old part of town through a row of big windows. we lie on our beds sweating and listening to people doing things down below. who are these people? what are they doing? we have no idea. then we sweat some more.

o yes- and i am allergic to antbites and am covered in welts. o yes- and we have trusted some laundry place to clean all of our clothes- the receipt includes the diclaimer that they are not at fault if our clothes come back unclean. oyes- and happy birthday miss jenya, we love you!