Marriott Putrajaya

... objects and our own image will make us happy. But these objects have no love for us in return, and our image is not who we are. We are chasing fools gold, and hoping for a nice, big pot of it at the end of the little rainbow in our little illusory world. <br>The world of the west is trying to be one big shop. At the front, it is all lights and glitter, but hidden from view at the back, there are rats, snakes, ****, and suffering. And the machine that drives all ...

... next to the beach... complete with a massive Donald duck and everything!?!<br>Another afternoon and evening chilling with the wild monkeys, the hornbills that fly around..... caught up with the kent street crew on the phone which was fab... avoided the unwanted admirer and had another chilled night... nice!<br>When midnight struck there were some fireworks as it was the start of their Independence Day celebrations - 52 years of freedom from the UK! <br><br>Back to KL<br>Time to ...

... shame I tell thee...I learnt this from having to ask in excess of 20 people where the hell my bus left from...<br><br>So yeah I made it...after a 12 hour snoozefest aboard an impressively cheap Air Asia flight from London Stansted into KLIA...or so I thought!! Turns out I was actually at LCCT and that was the main reason my bag and I spent 2 hours, 4 lifts, 13 people questioned and almost a mile walked before realising my free shuttle bus to the airport hotel left ...

... of Dave's facebook status, the saga of the watch continues! I managed to set the alarm somehow as we were taking off from Heathrow. I was only playing with the light - honest! Well then of course I didn't know how to turn it off. Dina thought it was really funny - until he realised I was serious. We pored over Dave's written instructions for about ten minutes until Dina pressed something by accident and the little symbol dissappeared :0

... br>We then visited Genting highlands which is home to Malaysias only legal casino, and also a theme park and skydive simulator which we were more interested in. Pete and Jin went "skydiving" powered by 3 massive jet engines and it looked really good fun. We also visited the big Chinese temple up the hill too.<br><br>That evening we had dinner in a restaurant overlooking the city and watched the sun set by the Petronas towers - pretty cool! We then tried the dreaded durian. The most ...

... first half, as somehow we went up 2-0 on the Brazilians. Sadly, the Brazilians made a comeback, and what could have been a major breakthrough win for the U.S., ended in a 3-2 loss. Great for the U.S. though. <br> After a great nights rest, we grabbed some snacks and water and headed up the road. Little did we know, we were in for a good workout today. We were going to take a trail that goes to the highest peak in the area at 6,666 ft., and down a road along one ...

... trip to and around Malaysia for months, but it got off to a relatively sedate start: a thirteen hour flight to Hong Kong. Ian was lucky enough to be able to snooze for most of the trip, but I've never been able to sleep while flying. I killed time with a Charles Stross paperback (thought-provoking, geeky fun), Woody Allen's "Matchpoint" (excellent), Pacino/Deniro vehicle ...

... Mosques and the Islamic buildings as there are not many of these in Minnesota or other parts of the world that I have been to. We also snapped photos of the famous Petronas Towers, known as the world's tallest freestanding twin towers, standing at 452 meters high (1,483 feet) and the KL tower; the 4th tallest communication tower in the world. When we weren't visiting the tourist spots of the city, Julie and I enjoyed wonderful massages, shopped at the ...

Today was a good one. I got up at 8am which is super early for me these days and had a good English style breakfast in the cafe next door to the guest house. Then I got on a local train to KL Sentral (Kuala Lumpur's main train terminal) and got a ticket on another train to Putrajaya. Putrajaya is a brand new city - and you don't see too many of those! It is about 30kms South of KL and it was founded in 1995 to become a centre of Malaysian Government administration. It has ...

A half day trip to Putrajaya to see modern architecture in the administrative seat of Malaysia. We took the light rail from KL Sentral to Putrajaya in a half hour - on a very quite and modern train, complete with flat screen TVs and doors that talked "please press the button to open th door"