Corus Paradise Resort Port Dickson

... but it's not - whoever made this thing clearly had a grudge with the company they were working for, and probably put the magnetic blob somewhere random! It is more annoying because the true north on the compass is represented by somewhere vaguely near East SouthEast.
Ok I could have used a map instead and followed street names - I know!! But I wanted to do it old school style! New compass added to my wishlist...
Anyway, I then met up with my new friend ...

... them to bring me something with chicken and not hot. It was pretty good but im not sure what it was. We caught a taxi to an internet café and back to the hotel. As we walked back in Jessie heard music and one of the guys at the hotel told us that they was live music a short walk over. We walked over and watched as several singers sang Karaoke, a couple of them were pretty awesome. Despite the fact this is were the locals vacation we decided to move on to the next place.

Wishing everyone a Happy Christmas and a great new year. Arrived in Port Dickson to the south of Kuala Lumpur, with the plan of spending Christmas on the beach, Port Dickson is a small beach resort with very nice hotels, friendly people and even places to camp on the beach! We took the opportunity to swim, buy ice creams from a man on a motorbike riding along the beach and tip toe over thousands of tiny crabs, swarming on the low tide sand. The beach ...

... seem to be doing something - ive been able to stand up today AND walk around a bit. still its put a bit bummer on my trip. also all this sitting in has got me thinking - i still have no where to live in september. and i have no way of finding somewhere to live until i get home and mission to Fuxbridge, that ole shithole. Still tempted to get a transit van and kip in there. will be more rewarding than commuting. or, pitching ...

... the Federer Express and he won in straight sets leaving me wondering what to do for the rest of the day. I walked down to where the Melaka "Sound and Light show" should be but instead of finding that I found the cinema and watched a supremely poor film - "Epic Movie". It really was bad and not recommended at all! I'll leave Melaka in the morning.

Arrived late at night into the sprawling metropolis of KL, Malaysias capital city. Although apparently, they've nearly finished building a new one near by. As you do.
Stayed near Sentral Station- which I'd advise against. The "hotel" had an "hourly room ...

... to Bukhit St Paul's (Jesuit church long in ruins, full of vendors and old tombstones now. Apparently Francis Xavier was buried there for a while) and the Istana, walked around the Dutch governor's house and by the river. In the evening, I went to the really fancy shopping mall (huge, and just like an American mall, complete with English signs) and saw a movie. Assigned seating, and the kids next to me were stinky and loud.

... shirt looked at my ticket then walked off talking rapidly into his walkie talkie. I'm thinking "what the f#*K! is going on?" Stood there feeling helpless for another 15 minutes. Just as I'd decided that I'd been conned, Black T-shirt comes running back, "Singapore? Singapore?" (that's my name I guess)- he nods towards some coach. So I boarded it and away we went! It was getting dark now. For all I know, we could have been heading towards Thailand. My life was definitely in their hands!

... a quick jaunt to the canopy walk he called me a boat. We jetted upstream and I was dropped off river side to hike up to the canopy bridges. Having bought my ticket I climbed up and began across the first bridge. There was only a decaying plank of wood with some mildewed ropes and holey netting separating me from the forest floor far below me. The bridge swayed and the boards creaked as I made it across holding firmly to the ropes as I went. Looking down produced a mild panic ...

Went with Mom to the market in the morning. Bought tons of food. Drove down with Victor, May and Robin to PD. Stopped by the bungalow then went to NUBE for lunch. Swam in the afternoon. After dinner, played MAD game, lost at carroms, chased crabs, sang and was entertained by the guitar. Bed about 1:30am.