Hello everyone! Well, now those of you who have been checking this site daily for the past week, simply because it is part of your routine, won't have to feel disappointed (at least not as much) because I'm back to posting! I had a seriously lovely time back home in Victoria. It was absolutely the best idea ever for Derek and I to come home for a bit before coming to Europe. It gave us a chance to buy warm coats, new shoes, recharge, and see good friends. Speaking of good friends, thanks heaps (I've already been in London too long!) [View Full Entry]

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It's almost time!!! Almost time for me to board a plane to Taiwan, which will then take me HOME to Victoria!!! Yahhhhh!!! I'm really excited for the upcoming 10 days of reunions and mad packing for Europe. I'll try to see as many people as I can. Depending on the state of my house (I left it in quite a bad state when I took off.... but Alec and Dad might have rectified the situation) I may try to host a social event... I'm not making any promises, though, because that certainly never happened before I left and I was really [View Full Entry]

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We did it!! We managed to drag ourselves out of bed early enough to get to the Petronas Twin Towers in time to get tickets for a walk on the "Sky Bridge." That's a big, 2-story bridge that connects the two towers. We tried to get tickets the first time when we were in KL, but it was way too hard to get our huge, lazy, 10 person group going in time and the tickets were all gone by the time we got there. Despite waking up late and having to litterally jog the whole way to the towers, however, we [View Full Entry]

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So, yesterday Mark took off for Ko Samui, Thailand, leaving Derek and I here in Singapore. The Travelling Trio is no more. It was scheduled to happen in just a few days, but the abruptness of our change of plans took everyone by surprise. We've got a replacement, though (haha, no one could replace you, Mark!) in that Geoff will be staying with us in Kuala Lumpur. That's great, because Derek and I have opted to stay back at our favourite, super fancy, slightly budget breaking hotel in KL, and having an extra person in the room really helps out with [View Full Entry]

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First of all, if any of you were worrying about me heading to Thailand in two days after the recent tourist-oriented bombings in Bangkok, don't be. I've decided to change my plans and not head back to Thailand until less than 24 hours before I fly out for home. The whole Full Moon party thing was just becoming more and more of a headache to deal with, and I really wasn't incredibly interested in going in the first place. I was just going because everyone else was. And I really didn't like the idea of being stuck on this island with [View Full Entry]

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After a full day of bus adventures we made it to Singapore safe and sound. We had quite a number of close calls that nearly prevented us from getting here, but we prevailed in the end! It all started in the morning, when we were getting to the bus station just a couple minutes before our bus was supposed to leave and we had trouble figuring out which bus we were actually supposed to board (there were only 2, but it wasn't clear). Then the luggage compartments were either missing a bottom (so they were open to the road) or full [View Full Entry]

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I'm basically just spending a lot of time on the internet today because my ankle is too sore to be able to explore the area very much. That's too bad, because there are a lot of cool agri-tourism things I'd like to see on our last day in the Cameron Highlands, but oh well. Anyways, since I'm sitting on the internet I thought I'd use some of the time to post some pictures from the last few days. Enjoy! [View Full Entry]

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My Christmas this year was certainly not a traditional one in most senses. No tree, no family, no turkey dinner. However, my body made sure I kept one Christmas tradition alive--my Christmas cold! Yahhh! For at least 5 years running I've had a cold on Christmas, usually due to the end of an intense season of cramming and caffine, and this year is no exception. It's not a really bad cold and I don't feel particularly poor, but I just thought it was kind of funny that even on the other side of the world I can't escape the Christmas cold [View Full Entry]

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Merry Christmas, everyone! Well, I guess it's still Christmas Eve for all of you, but it's Christmas here, now. Christmas Eve was pretty fun, but definitely the strangest Christmas Eve I've ever experienced, what can you expect, though? I went something like this: We checked in to our hostel in Kuala Lumpur without any real hitches. The place is incredibly dirty and seedy, but at least the location is good. It was the only cheap place that had beds available for 10, and beggers can't be choosers. It's only for two nights. After a bit of time to frantically hit the [View Full Entry]

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Well, the free computers in our hostel are all in use right now, so I borrowed Randy's laptop to write this entry. Unfortunately, it seems to be unable to detect the wireless connection right now, for some reason, though, so I decided to just type an entry in Word and I'd upload it later. Unfortunately, Randy doesn't actually HAVE Word on this computer. That kind of blew my mind, but I guess he wouldn't really have any need for it since it's a brand new laptop for his Korea trip and he's not taking any courses or anything so I suppose [View Full Entry]

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