Blogs from Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia, Asia - page 200

Taking the bus to Maylasia consisted of many hot sweaty hours, sitting and looking out the window and a few intense border crossings. I of course slept in Grants bag the entire time. We went through Maylasia pretty quick stopping in Kuala Lumper to do a bit of shopping and site seeing... read more

Week Four: Sep 26th - Oct 2nd I'm so embarrassed that it's been almost two months since we have updated the blog! We are still here and doing well, I promise. The week started out with a shopping trip to Gurney plaza (where most of the expats shop). I meet my friend Carla for lunch and we shopped around a bit. I found a great pair of shoes (black, of course) but they didn’t have my size. Big surprise! 10’s aren’t too common here. My main reason for going there was to grocery shop at Cold Storage. Since it is close to the expats it stocks a lot more imported food. Yay! I found tortillas, salsa, beans, mac’n’cheese, good, real cheddar cheese, chips and some other “American” food. Yes, most of it was junk, but it’s ... read more

Our last 2 hours in India were spent working our way through the congested, exhaust filled streets of Mumbai (Bombay), weaving between people, cars and rickshaws. As we moved out of the core of the city we entered the slums which seemed to stretch out in all directions except up; no structure was taller than over 6 feet. Reportedly, 5000 new people arrive to the slums of Mumbai each week, most of them internal refugees driven from their villages by various catastrophes and general poverty. Hundreds of thousands of people live together in shelters pieced together out of reclaimed tarps, rags and plastic in what are the largest slums in Asia. Groups of smiling barefoot children rushed to our cab at every corner, singing and laughing and hoping for rupees, and then latching on and chasing ... read more

Hi all We’ve been in Kuala Lumpur (KL) for about 1 week now, and under normal circumstances that’d probably be a couple of days too long. However, we had a few matters to sort out which took longer than we thought (rescheduling flights to Aus was one thing) and given that we had found an excellent 5 star hotel for only 25 pounds a night - and the weather was behaving itself - we agreed to hang around here and do what we needed to do in this relaxed environment. We are also right across the road from a shopping centre which has a Delifrance with free Wifi connection - ideal given our latest gadgetry purchase of a new laptop. Well, you know how it is when your husband is a tech head - it would ... read more

Kamaman Oct. 14 - 21 Kuala Lumpur Oct. 21 - 25 We spent the week relaxing in one of Malaysia nicest beach and golf resorts. Our good friends Clela and Dan travelled 40 gruelling hours straight from Bangkok to join us but we're well rewarded by with air conditioning, hot water, comfortable beds not to mention the often deserted beach, huge pool and wonderful hot tubs where much time was spent. They have now returned to the busy life to begin new one year teaching contracts but we will see them in a few weeks up in their neck of the woods where they have promised us cheap massages, loads of seafood and great shopping. After the easy resort life, we headed to the big city of Kuala Lumpur. It is much like Singapore - ... read more