Blogs from Malaysia, Asia - page 775

First of all thanks for all the comments and messages from you guys back home - its really nice to hear from you and that you are finding the blogs entertaining! So, here goes the food journalism for today! Left the skank hotel also known as 'The Shining' yesterday - thank the lord it was ming a ding ding! Got to the bus station for our transport to Singapore - bought more eye candy and a lipstick which you can eat! Very amused yet again waiting for the bus. A strange guy was hanging around us asking people if they wanted a ticket to singapore, so we ignored him and acted tough, then he came over and asked if we have a ticket to singapre, and of course we did, so i stupidly showed him and ... read more

It will seem to you that the only thing that I can do in this blog is to complain. Indulge me, please. Kuala Lumpur is a city of contradictions as almost any other city in the world. It has a very useful monorail, underground, comprehensive bus service, the second tallest sky-scrapper, the Petronas Towers, as Ade puts it the first monument of love to Petrol. So how is it possible that a city with such modern standards can lack in the most obvious city planning design? I mean Traffic lights where our friends the green man and the red man can show us the way to go. Crossing roads is a nightmare, today e.g. a high speed bus blaring its horn almost takes out around 10 pedestrians crossing the road, Why? very simple, if you ... read more

Again it's been a long time since I did this and I have loads of stuff to catch up on so I'll keep this as short as possible. The last weekend I was in Bario I went away with Yara and a guide called Mado, who we met in Pa'Lungan the weekend before to do some jungle stuff. The guy knows his stuff and has done courses and stuff to back up his existing knowledge. We went away for 4 days and spent 2.5 of them in the jungle with him. My accomodation was a hammock tied between two trees with a basher over my head and all our food came from the jungle. We spent our time in the day trekking around being shown various plants that are used for food, poison medicine, building etc. ... read more

27.04.06 We caught our 8am speed ferry back to Mersing. It took us 2 hours so there was certainly nothing 'speedy' about this boat! Looking back at Tioman, something we forgot to put on the other blog was that we saw 2 wild porcupines, there were always lots of butterflys and cats. In the evenings there were lots of little low flying bats. Everynight there was a massive thunder and lightning show with thunder like we'd not heard before. As soon as we were off the boat we are greeted with touts and taxi drivers. We bypassed all them and were met by Dave who had caught the 7.30am ferry back. We dumped our bags and went in search of a ticket to Melaka, on the west coast. We bought our tickets, but the bus wasn't ... read more

Last night in kl was cool, we went up the big KL tower and saw the city at night - it was amazing! I was a bit scared though, didnt want to go too close to the edge, but managed ok. On the way back to china town, we found this cool indian cafe place, and we were sort of pulled in by the man who showed us all his food, and then started to dish up all these things for us, before we knew it we were eating! was very funny, the man was realy nice and kept asking us if we wanted to try things, he was most distraught that chris didnt want to try his prawns! he kept bringing them on a plate and offering them to chris over his shoulder! We ate ... read more

I woke up in my hostel bed in Singapore with a throbbing head ache. I felt the back of my head where two large bumps brought back a painful reminder of the previous nights proceedings. I would leave Singapore that morning. I caught the first bus to Johar Baru, then 2 connecting buses to Mersing, followed by a one hour speed boat ride to Air Batang on the island of Paluau Tioman off the East Coat of Peninsular Malaysia. Tioman is a sleepy tropical island filled with empty beaches, friendly locals, cheap accomodation and some of the best snorkeling and diving in South East Asia. I arrived at dusk and was taken aback by the stunning beauty of this place. The setting sun seemed to illuminate the beach and surrounding rain forest, the perfect place to ... read more