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Kampung Budaya Sarawak [Culture Village]

Culture Village [Rumah Iban, Rumah Bidayuh, Rumah Melanau and etc. ]

Semenggoh Wildlife Centre

Kuching Town - Cat City

24 - 27 April 2011 - First times, I had been assigned to be tour guide and bringing them (Prof Boitet, Dr Archille, Prof Tang) to go around Kuching. This is the first times, they visited Kuching. Hence, I must give them a good impression. On the other hand, I felt proud as I able to manage the schedule of this program (planning the program, arranging the transportation and etc.) and able to invite the three professor who are very professional in Natural Language Processing especially in machine translation. Within this few days, I gains a lot of knowledge while communicating with them.

I went to Kuching Airport to pick them out from Airport to Four Point Hotel once they arrived to Kuching. The first impression they give me is they are very friendly. At night, we had a dinner at See Good Restaurant.

Early morning, I brought them go to Semenggoh Wildlife Centre to see the Orang Utan as the feeding times for Orang Utan is around 9-10 a.m. After visiting Semenggoh Wildlife Centre, we went to Culture Village which located at Damai there. This is my 4th times, I went to Culture Village >.<

The next morning, they have a session discussion with SaLT(Sarawak Language Technology) members. Each of the SaLT members have to present their Master project to them. After that, we have a lunch at Bombay Restaurant with them. Besides that, there is a seminar series at 2pm in BMU. The title of the presenter are MT & the Web and demo OMNIA project + AXiMAG project by using the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) approach. After spending the half day in FIT and later, we had a dinner at Mango Tree.

Before Arhille went back to France. Today, we bringing him to Waterfront to walk around as he likes to take photo.

P/S: Learning some French words ~ merci beaucoup - Thank you very much.