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21 January 2017
This trip starts with another one of my regular visits to family in hometown Kuching, but it will be more special as I’ll spend Chinese New Year there with them. And on the way back, I’ll do a detour to Pulau Natuna, an island in the South China Sea that is now part of Indonesia. […]
27 December 2016
With travel, work and keeping fit, this year’s album started small but it appears to have grown rapidly towards the end… Posted by Alex Chan on Saturday, March 12, 2016
15 December 2016
Bakso is an Indonesian-style meatball served in a soup, sometimes with noodles. I try making it and use it in a Malaysian-Thai-Chinese beef noodle soup. With Kimball John Gaitely and Jo Spiers. Posted by Alex Chan on Wednesday, December 14, 2016
13 December 2016
Malaysians don’t rave about Filipino food. It isn’t spicy enough for us. As a challenge (and a private joke between me… Posted by Alex Chan on Monday, December 12, 2016
27 November 2016
I was getting tired after midnight and lay down in the check-in area. I dozed for an hour before waking up, as the check-in counters were being prepared for opening. I got a boarding pass for my flight back to Auckland immediately. It has been a good trip with all going smoothly until the little […]
26 November 2016
First thing I did when I woke was to check on the internet whether my aircraft had departed Perth to come for us. The internet was broken. Fortunately it livened up again and the plane had a 10 minute delay. Weather was cloudy and drizzly. I filled up the car (1/3 empty) for AUD44. Must […]
25 November 2016
I had set the alarm for 0240. I had messages from Andrea and Diane cancelling due to rain. I looked outside and saw that the ground was wet but the rain had died to a drizzle. I decided to press on and drive to Ethel Beach. I parked and realised that it was pitch black. […]
24 November 2016
Going for the spawning I set the alarm for 0330 as I needed to be at Flying Fish Cove for the spawning at 0400. I cycled in. A group of people were at the boat ramp. There was a group of crabs but it wasn’t impressive. I looked further to the beach head to see […]
23 November 2016
I started the day going to the Tourist Information Centre to get an update on the spawning. While it was originally expected on the mornings of Sat 26th and maybe Fri 25th, they now thought it would be more Thu 24th and Fri 25th. To explore the island I also needed a car. But the […]
22 November 2016
I woke too early at 0500. It was meant to be a lazy sleep-in with a 1300 departure. I bused to the airport. Check-in opened shortly after I arrived. I was issued with a standby pass at first but the agent immediately assigned me a seat manually. After a brunch upstairs, I organised my transfer […]