The New Permanent Stage @ Sibu Town Square

Sibu Town Square now has a new, grand and permanent center stage that costs almost 2 millions of Ringgit Malaysia.

According to state's Minister of Local Government and Community Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh, the new stage was built to replace the general stage that has no facilities. Over the past years, Sibu Municipal Council (SMC) had to spend over RM100,000 to construct the temporary structure every time if there is any major event held on the place.

According to a report in New Sarawak Tribune website,  the stage is 40m in width and 24m in breadth, covers a total of 900 square meters floor area. The construction started on 1st October last year and completed on 30th May this year.

Facilities being incorporated into the stage are male and female's changing rooms with toilet facilities, audio video control room and distribution panels, utility room, VVIP restroom, the backstage and a large stage floor.

 

The stage will be equipped with the latest state of art lighting technologies with hydraulic operating system as well as excellent acoustics system.

Some said the stage looks like a Swan spreading her wings, what say you? Well... for me... I personally feel if you insist to relate the stage with a swan as Sibu is called "the town of swan", ok... that's accepted.

Anyhow, the new stage will be playing its role for the first time during the upcoming Borneo Cultural Festival which will be held in less than 2 weeks time from now, 28th June - 7th July 2013.

Reference:
1. New Sarawak Tribune: Sibu Town Square will have new stage in May
2. The Borneo Post: Town square’s centre stage 84 pct completed

Sibu Town Square Phase 2 Riverside Park Demolished

The riverside park located at Sibu Town Square Phase 2 had been demolished recently to give way to Sibu Town Square Development project by Fullyard Sdn. Bhd. According to the information, the development project will include two blocks of 25-storey high-end condominium, an eight-storey budget hotel, a six-storey office tower and plenty of shop houses which estimated to be completed in 3 years time.

I bet most of the Siburians are not aware/expecting about this demolition until recently they went to the place that they used to go for recreational activities and only discovered the beautiful park is in the process of clearing.

I believe that before this most people only aware that the mega project will involve the river fillings area in front of the riverside park and never expecting the park to be sacrificed.

In my archive, some of the beautiful scenery of the park (taken in 2009) and it'll soon be a history!

If you are interested to know more about the development, please try your luck with the following links:
1. http://sibutownsquare.com/
2. https://www.facebook.com/fullyardsb

Sibu Public Park a.k.a. Taman Awam Sibu @ Taman Permai

Located adjacent to Sibu Lake Garden @ Taman Permai, the 3rd phase of the Lake Garden extension project had completed and opened to public around February this year. It was named "Sibu Public Park" or "Taman Awam Sibu" or “诗巫公共公园”. This project is the collaboration between Jabatan Landskap Negara (JLN) and Sibu Municipal Council (SMC). The major attraction for the extension works would be the children playground with large scale playground equipment.

As the color of the playground are relatively bright and outstanding compare to its surrounding, the park appears to be very eyes-catchy, thus it's quite hard to miss the place if you are driving around that area. The huge playground equipment are like a heaven to the small kids where they have so much to climb, to explore and to play with. The spiral tube slides, wave slides as well as the tube tunnels are among the favorite of the kiddies!

These large scale equipment are designed in such a way they mimicking the shape and structure of a pirate ship, sort like the structure you could find in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean. The crow's nest, the sails as well as the rigging structure reminded me of the movie! I couldn't help myself to climb onto the crow's-nest-like structure to feel and enjoy a short moment of being Jack Sparrow! ^ ^

Seesaws and swings are also available at different corner of the playground.

Surrounded the playground are various fitness equipment with instruction how to use them. Among the fitness equipment available are like the balance beam, beam hop, body curl, horizontal ladder, push up bar, parallel bar and etc. While the kiddies are busy on their playground, the parents/adults can take the opportunity to do some exercises using this facilities! Isn't that great?

Worth mentioning is the attractive and brightly colored flooring are formed using EPDM (Ethylene-Propylene-Diene-Monomer), a synthetic rubber which is used in wetpour surfacing. The soft and continuous seamless finish of this surfacing technology provides a safer environment and reduces injuries especially for the kids.

I personally like the place very much especially its colorful environment which make me feel relax and cheerful! Sibu Public Park is certainly a good place for family to spend leisure!