- Rainforest World Music Festival -

Yes. It's back. The spectacular music events are back here in Kuching. Situated 30 km from Kuching City and couple miles away from Santubong beaches and Damai Beaches and Damai Logoon. This will be my first time to the Music Festival and it's the 9th year that Sarawak Tourism Board organizing this event. To start, Adrian, John and Casper are in Kuching for holidays last weekend while Adrian and John are having meeting in Saint Joseph Cathedral. Anyway, the first few days they are having fun here in the so called "Cat City" or the City of cats. haha... Food heaven indeed. The Music Festival run from Friday 7th July till 9th of July yearly.. depending on the weekends in the mid month of July. We Went for the Finale. Anyway, we depart from Merdeka Palace in front of Dataran Merdeka Field. We Puchase our tix in the afternoon to catch the Workshop for the Rainforest Music Festival.

Picture above: Adrian aka Tourist in Kuching.....

Arriving Sarawak Culture Village around 330pm, it was heaty and we are all sweating there. Still the eagerness of looking forward for da Music Festival doesn't slow us down.

Pix above: The sign says: Welcome to Sarawak Culture Village.

Well, see, obviously u can see still lotz of people are anxious to watch the finale of da Festival.

Pix above: From left: Me, John, Casper and anonymous......... hmmmm ....

Anyway, the entrance fee is RM60 per head and it's really worth it for da night.haha.. plus the transportation fee, which catar us from Merdeka Palace is RM20 back and for. Alright now, we can only move on the da last workshop for da day. which is according to da schedule is the Chanson a Respondre - the interactive workshop on Quebecois songs with Genticorium - these guys or singers are from Canada man.. haha... it's pretty cool though i dind't really took any photo there.. John on the other hand went to the PRECIOUS CHINA workshop...haha... after da session, we went to all da indegenious houses to visit them and play their games, their lifestyles and their food too.. haha basically none of them cook that day cause there's lots of food stalls nearby. so it's easy to channel all those food into our stomach.. hmmm.. ok we visited the orang ulu long houses which Adrian, Casper and John fall in love wif da sape, a musical instrument played by the orang ulu...

Pix above: there, can't really see the sape anyway.... the guy wif da Hawaian blue shirt wif tourist cap is the sape professional.

Besides, all of da tourist get to chop their passport wif the house chop... it's unique though. last time i went there wif tons of chop but can't really find it in my house.. and Adrian will definately become one of the passport on him.

Pix above: see wad i've said, there the chop on his leg now.....

Other than that, security was very tight that day wif German shepherd around and oh... and if u are really hot there's always modern fan around for u to kick off the heat there. Hint: it's in Rumah Iban.

Pix above: Good doggy.....

Picture above shown the main stage for da Music Festival night. it's awesome... can't get a real close on da night cause my cam is not high tech enough. Well, for da night.. i can't really explain cause IT'S INCREADIBLE and GREAT... one more word for it.... MAGNIFICENT~!!!!! yeah that's da words that suits all of this Festival. So in any sense, everysong played by the Rainforest Band is musically great. Among the highlight of da night is The Dikir barat by the ISTAMUZIKA, the GENTICORIUM from Canada, The TENGIR TOO from Kygryzstan, The Oriental Traditional Percussion Kuching, Kilema by Madagascar, Calle SUR from Latin America (i like their songs as they played samba and Guantanamera) and the Les Yuex Noirs from France which is the best rainforest band for me.. their talented violinist took my breath away.. haha... juz that i like how they played wif da violin profesionally. Other than that, people from all around the world partying around the open air ground..... Till then, Rainforest World Music Festival 2007, here i come!!!!!

CHeerz~!~!!!!!!

p/s: Visit Malaysia Year 2007......... so plan your holidays now.... hehe......