The music team of Calvary City Chuch in Kota Masai practise up to four times a week.
GAWING was nineteen years old when he first arrived in Johor back in 1993. The Iban/Christian boy certainly never expected – over a quarter of a century later – to still be living and working in Johor Baru.
Growing up in an isolated longhouse community in Sarawak (almost 250km from the state capital Kuching) and the eldest son of struggling black pepper farmers, he was the fortunate recipient of a scholarship to study civil engineering.
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East Malaysians in Johor
The music team of Calvary City Chuch in Kota Masai practise up to four times a week.
The Calvary City Church in Kota Masai.
A proud Johorean: Initially, Gawing had only intended to stay in Johor for his degree and then return to Sarawak.
The service at many Sarawakian churches like this in Kota Masai is conducted entirely in Malay.
Barisan Nasional candidate Wee Jeck Seng talking to a local near Kukup ferry terminal at Jalan Kukup Laut on his Tanjung Piai by-election campaign recently.
East meets west: Small traders at Pasar Borneo selling East Malaysian pastries. According to the 2010 census there were some 342,900 East Malaysians residing in the peninsula. – Photos by Team Ceritalah
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Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim at one of the “Sembang Santai and Ramah Mesra” events in Tanjung Piai.
Small traders selling different kind of vegetables.
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