Blogs from Johor, Malaysia, Asia - page 7

Free WiFi jest tu nawet w takiej dziurze jak male portowe Mersing. Nasz kraj powinien dużo nadrobic w tej dziedzinie. Azja wyprzedza nas o co najmniej krok. Dzieki temu moge cos dziś znowu nastukac i dostarczyc lektury dziesiatkom oczu spragnionych wrazen z naszej podrozy :). Ok just kidding. To tylko dla Ciebie mamusiu. :) Malezja jest krajem razacych kontrastow. Miejsca sumiennie wysprzatane i wypolerowane sasiaduja tu z totalnym syfem. Dzisiejszy dzien dostarczyl nam właśnie takiego, typowego dla tego rejonu, rodzaju wrazen. Rano bez trudu dotarlismy do wyszukanego wczoraj prze caly dzien dworca autobusowego TBS. Jest chyba niedawno wybudowany i cudownie zadbany. Tak pieknego obiektu tego typu nie widzialem jeszcze nigdy, szczegolnie w Polsce. Wstyd dla nas. Jest czysciutko i wszystko doslownie się blyszczy. Zjedlismy więc nienajgorsze sniadanie w dworcowej kafejce zap... read more

Finally, for the first time in five months I managed to achieve my goal: to be the only foreigner in a town. I came close to it many a time in Cambodia and Vietnam but the entire time I stayed in Johor Bhayru we were the only foreigners (I base this on the fact we saw no other white people and we were out a lot). I should probably say white person as pretty much everyone in Malaysia is a foreigner at some level or so it seems. The thing I love about Malaysia is just that: the combinations of skin colour and religion. Johor Bhayru emphasises all of the colours and the religions in to tiny colourful streets compacting all those wonderful places of worship in to one street. Here you glimpse in to an ... read more

Sunday, 18th September 2011 We woke up especially early for a Sunday morning in order to be on time to catch the morning express train to the town of Kluang in central Johor. By 8.00am, we had already reached the other side of the customs and purchased the tickets for our train journey. Our train arrived on schedule at 8.50am but it was only after 9.12am before it finally departed, on its way to the town of Kluang. Like all shutterbugs out there, this minor holdup was welcoming as we had all the time in the world to perfect our shots of JB Sentral Station and the comfortable Express Train we were travelling for our morning leg. Enroute, our train passed through the town of Kulai and the patches of oil palm plantations dotting the Johor ... read more

“I just love living in a place that has four seasons…” Millions of times I’ve heard some variation of this utterance. It’s always delivered in that same dreamy tone that seems to imply that deep down inside everyone should feel this way. It's infuriating. I DO love one season, and I can tolerate some parts of two others. Winter and I however will never see eye to eye, and it’s hard for me to express just how happy I’d be if I never had to experience another day of it. Nothing bah-humbugs me more than winter coats, cold wet shoes, and snow. Many people get depressed in the winter; I feel downright outraged by it. The feeling I have when cold wind blows in my face might be compared to the feeling I get when I’m ... read more

Saturday, 25th September 2010 We met up at Kranji MRT Station in the morning of 25th September 2010 for our highly anticipated weekend retreat to Kota Tinggi. We had been contemplating this road trip for the past one and a half years now and were glad that the plan was finally falling in place. Traffic was light and this meant that in no time, we had reached the other side of the causeway to begin our journey to Kota Tinggi. Our bus journey from the new Johor Bahru CIQ Complex took a good 70 minutes to reach the town. Enroute, it passed through the sprawling Jusco Tebrau City, touted as the largest shopping mall in Johor Bahru. We were under the safe hands of CW, who was born and spent her childhood days at the humble ... read more