Tanjong Lobang Again!

Have you any sweet memories of Tanjong Lobang? Beautiful long beach... small pools of water everywhere... stout and tall Casuarinas waving in the cool fresh sea breeze... seagulls flying in the air happily... rocks and pebbles everywhere along the seashore...

Remember those days when you could just take a stroll along the sunny beach and wander aimlessly around all these mighty tall stubs of parts of the cliff (I believe there's a geological term for these so keep your fingers crossed while I do some updating later) which have been eroded over the years...

Sadly, I was told by a number of persons that this part of Tanjong Lobang beach is now inaccessible to the public as a huge 'castle' belonging to a prominent tycoon has been built on part of the cliff. I hope it's not true as all beaches used to belong to everyone. Recently, the ruling coalition party's elected parliamentary representative for Miri, Peter Chin Fah Kui, has just declared that no private individuals can own the people's beaches.

Okay, one of these days I'll check it out!

A Loving Witness of Christ

I was researching in my archives when I came across this carbon copy of a letter written by the late Garnet Dearnley (see pic with his son, on right), from New Zealand. In it, he aptly described his experience in Miri here in those days. In delving deeper, I learnt more about him and actually came to the realisation that this European truly loved my old school, Saint Columba's School and its founding mission, the Anglican Church.

Sadly, the late Dearnley, a jolly lecturer at Tanjong Lobang College died in a fatal motor-cycle accident, not too long after writing this letter, near where he is presently buried, in the oldest Christian graveyard in northern Borneo, between St. Columba's School and St. Columba's Kindergarten. His grave is closest to Abang Indeh Road with abundant yellow daffodils growing beside it and has the friendly handsome gent's pic, placed there by his son whom I met over a year ago.

A Beloved Witness for Christ to the End

I was researching in my archives when I came across this carbon copy of a letter written by the late Garnet Dearnley, from New Zealand. In it, he aptly described his experience in Miri here in those days. In delving deeper, I learnt more about him and actually came to the realisation that this European truly loved my old school, Saint Columba's School and its founding mission, the Anglican Church.

Sadly, the late Dearnley, a jolly lecturer at Tanjong Lobang College died at quite an early age in a fatal motor-cycle accident near where he is presently buried, in the oldest Christian graveyard in northern Borneo, between St. Columba's School and St. Columba's Kindergarten. His grave is closest to Abang Indeh Road with abundant yellow daffodils growing beside it and has the friendly handsome gent's pic, placed there by his son whom I met over a year ago.
Every day, as I bring my wife who works as the headmistress of St. Columba's kindergarten there, his face would be seen with a friendly grin.