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2 February 2023
Above: Orang Ulu mural at the Sarawak Cultural Village. Today, I took my guest to Sarawak Cultural Village for a taste of Borneo culture. It’s a place I always try to take my overseas visitors. Ivan, with peninsular Malaysian origins, would be quite new to most things Borneo as well. We started with a walk […]
1 February 2023
A friend Ivan arrived last night. Due to my upcoming departure to Singkawang, he stayed at a hotel rather than with me. I picked him up for a breakfast of Sarawak Laksa at Lauya Keng, a Teochew temple in old town. He was unsure if his empty stomach would handle the spice, so we tried […]
31 January 2023
The hotel restaurant ran out of all but two breakfast choices this morning. But they had exactly what I wanted, the Vietnamese sandwich. It was light but enough to tide me over till the lounge at the airport. I got to the airport by Ojek this time for a bit less than the ride in […]
24 November 2022
Above: Some of my dental bills. Coronation Day Today was my Coronation 👑 Day. Sometimes bad things strike at the best times. During my two stays in Kuching this trip, I learnt that I had a tooth decay that had killed the tooth and needed a root canal and then a crown 👑. I had […]
19 November 2022
Above: Inking is a relatively recent measure to minimise allegations of individuals voting more than once. Having lived outside of Malaysia since attaining adulthood, I’ve never voted here. Today, I exercise my constitutional rights by voting for the very first time in the Malaysian General Elections. My brother and I arrived at the nearby polling […]
15 November 2022
I spent about 1h30 in the Kathmandu airport lounge but ate little since we had eaten just before. As our flight had a 40 min delay, I headed to the gate around midnight and cleared security to enter the departure hall. We boarded the Malaysia Airlines B737-800 to Kuala Lumpur and pushed back around 0050. […]
3 November 2022
Above: Penang is connected to the mainland by two bridges, one of which is seen from my flight. Flying to my nightstop at KLIA I ordered a car at 0800 by the Maxim app and had trouble finding a driver that would accept. I switched to Grab and had an instant acceptance. I then realised […]
2 November 2022
Above: My favourite laksa shop was closed today and I had to make do from another place that wasn’t as good. I moved from the beach to George Town today for several reasons. To save on an early wake-up at Batu Ferringhi, for more local food and for a cheaper hotel. To make the most […]
1 November 2022
It was an achievement coming back from Europe to wake to the alarm at 0700. I was sluggish but I forced myself to do my first bit of exercise in nearly two months. I was keen to make use of the pool in the fine weather but procrastination and rest delayed my exercise and it […]
31 October 2022
Onwards to Penang We landed in Singapore on-time around 0430 with a long taxi to the gate, getting us there at the scheduled time. My connecting flight to Penang was about 3h later from Terminal 2. Getting there by train, the gate had just been changed to Terminal 3. Fortunately, the inter-terminal trains here are […]