Blogs from Malaysia, Asia - page 748

Dear Bob, Guess who? That’s it you've guessed it... its me...Bob. And guess what again?? No Bob I'm not getting a dolphin-plasti... I'm in Malaysia. Yeah I can't believe it either but I'm here. Honest. No joke of a lie. Anyway Bob I thought I would write you a little letter to tell you about some of the stuff I’ve been doing... I arrived in Malaysia in a little bus often referred to as a "mini-bus" from that place called Tie Land. My first port of call was a place called Penang. Pulau Penang is the oldest British Straits Settlements in Malaysia and has many colonial buildings and stuff. Know what I mean like?? It’s an island off the west coast of Malaysia not too far from the Thai border. The capital is Georgetown and that’s ... read more

O.K Trip has begun. I was so happy to land after my Sep 11th flight. Safe I thought! Had no sleep and I was walking through arrivals where someone jumped on my back! Turned around and there was the wrong un. Only Mr Danial Pollard himself along with his Ting Tong. I knew it was goiung to get messy from this point in. Jumped in a cab and straighyt to Pat Pong. Anyone that knows him knows that he is morally wrong. Just stepped off a plane and now I'm fighting my way through ladyboys in a busy Bangkok bar. It could only happen to me. I wasn't too impressed with the ping pong show by the old hags but opening beer bottles with your fanny is one hell of an achievement in my book! So ... read more

gona keep it brief seeing that im gona be home in less than 24 hours but well, since last post,well went to church in yogyakarta and was amazign so much fun they were a great laugh and spent a good bit of time with a group of them and they spoke brilliant english and were just brill. they even drove me to the train station and waited for a good hour with me and then sent me off on the train like a nice imbarrssing family would do. then got to jakarta and spent only around 6 hours there so didnt see much but just enough to want to get out anyway. very smoggy and full of traffic. and the taxi driver took advantage of the traffic and alot of my money. so then was sumantra ... read more

Place holder for my 2nd trip to Tioman... read more

After our exploration of Borneo's underwater offerings, time to see what lies above the surface ! As if Sabah didn't sound exotic and mysterious enough, our next destination is Sarawak, which to my mind conjures up vivid images of tribal villages deep in the jungle, accessible only by longboats along steamy, brown rivers. How close to this is reality going to be ? We leave the marine delights of Sipadan behind, flying from Tawau to the Sarawakian city of Miri, with a short stop-over in Sabah's capital city, Kota Kinabalu (we decided not to climb Mount Kinabalu - too easy you know ?). Miri, a self-styled "resort city" (don't make me laugh) is apparently a small place with big ideas - it's been flooded with money from the lucrative industries of logging and palm oil production. ... read more