Strangely familiar cuisine

August 20th 2007
We stayed in Sandakan before and after our Kinabatangan visit, in both cases because it was where our bus journeys departed from. The express bus station was a study in controlled mayhem. Unlike in countries such as, say, Thailand where competing bus companies tend to have different departure times and you will be directed to the bus with the next closest departure time, in Malaysia (or at least ... read more

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During the late 18th and 19th centuries, Great Britain established colonies and protectorates in the area of current Malaysia; these were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. In 1948, the British-ruled territories on the Malay Peninsula formed the Fe... ... read more

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I quit the rat race in 2005, after working as an IT project manager for over a decade. I then travelled around the world for 4 years, a period of my life which is covered by this blog. After finishing my trip, I wrote a book about my dissatisfaction with my career, my reasons for quitting my job, life as a first-time thirtysomething backpacker, and finally the lessons learned from being exposed to experiences and people that I would never have encountered if I'd stayed in my office. The book is called "Out Of Office Male" and is available at all the usual eBook outlets. I took a ... full info

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