Serikin; an 'Instant City'

If you plan to go to Serikin, make sure you go either early in the morning, i.e. you reach it before ten in the morning or after two in the afternoon. We had experienced stuck in the jam (commonly pronounce as "jem") for an hour. Mind you, the one hour was to cover about less than two km. From Kuching to the bridge just before the village will take about 30 minutes. BUT you'll spend another hour just to cover the one km.

Finding a parking space is another problem. The (paid) parking lot as big as a football field cannot cater the cars, buses, pick-ups and even lorries. Luckily there are a few reliable 'parking attendance' to manage the area. If not because of these guys, I can tell you it can be worse than KL and Georgetown. If you don't want to pay (I'm not sure how much), than you can just park your car at the side of the road, but be ready to find a few scratches (if you're unlucky).

The 'city' itself is congested with people (shoppers and sight-seers). To make matters worse, some 'no brain' drivers just want to shop as close as possible to the 'shops'. They just push their way in between the 'shops'. These include pick-ups. Fuh...I just can't understand these Malaysians. Thinking of this, if we built a supermarket whereby shoppers are allowed to drive in, I think that will be the "most frequented" place in Kuching. You are able to see this along the roads, they just choose, point, pay and get their 'things' without leaving their cars. Well, this only happens in Kuching.

Back to Serikin. The lonely village is transformed to a city only during weekends. Weekdays...the villagers are back to their normal business. Actually those 'towkays' are our friends from Indonesia. The villagers only collect the rental. Well, at least this is what Robert Kiyosaki means business, let others earn money for us...it's called investment. So, without reading Kiyosaki's books, the villagers know how to make money without working. Am I right?