Thistle Johor Bahru

... in order to reach the auditorium, you had to "take the lift down to the second floor, turn left, continue for 500 yards, turn right, through the double doors, straight through, turn left again to the lift lobby, then go to the 4th floor make a right and the auditorium should be clear from there". Right.<br><br>So after about a decade, we found the auditorium and slipped through the back. One of those horrific things happened which doesn't usually ...

... and also this weekend I'm tagging along on a trip that someone else has planned. The plan is to leave tomorrow morning, around 8 in the morning, take the subway to.... some stop... then from there take a taxi... to somewhere else. Then we've rented a van and this guy is going to drive us to KL. Essentially, it's a road trip through Malaysia. Haha, and yes, I know, I'm SOOOO well informed on exactly where I'm going. Let's all pray I don't get lost and die. <br>

... mall where we visited every camera shop to bargain for my camera (Panasonic TZ7 in case you were wondering). This was actually the only mall we visited, as the following day Mum and I got out at Orchard Road (the main shopping strip), and jumped in a cab to get away after about 30 seconds!<br><br> <br><br>In the evening on Sunday, we went to the Night ...

... leave. Upon arrival at Bangalore International, we were excited to find out when we had entered the building that not only were we not allowed out again, but also that the airport too was enjoying a dry state. By this time we were thoroughly ****ed off with the whole country and more than ready to go, but of course we had about a million years wait to board the plane. So we had some food, bought a book on Hindu Mythology (a very cool 19th century ...

... When I got there we had to walk along a red carpet with children dressed in national costume throwing rose petals before us. I was then given a Singapore Sling and shown into a large room. I sat with some other English people and an American and were given canapes - really nice. We were also entertained by dancers, musicians and a man fire eating. There were also other oriental characters around the room, two on stilts ...

... of the house and felt it made him special and made his family very distinguished - he kept shaking out hands as if to bless us!!! He was most proud of the fact that Winston Churchills grandson had visited, as if it had been the big man himself!! So, Cedric got to sit on his ass for 50 minutes while Matt and I fake smiled, we had played him for an hour and definately didn't get our moneys worth!! The town itself was pretty quiet we went out ...

Hello hello, three days in and I'm still keeping up to date with this thing, never thought I'd even get this far. Anyway after my last entry I was pretty tired but also pretty smug as it was around half 11 and I had beaten jetlag by going to sleep at a normal time, or so I thought. Disappointingly, I woke up freezing at 3am in the morning thanks to me putting the aircon in my room on a bit too cold and couldn't get back ...

... with hardly any cages - white tigers, leopard, flying foxes, all sorts of monkeys and even sloths amongst the highlights. Time to leave Jacqueline and we then did the not to be recommended in Friday rush hour transfer by bus into Malaysia. Basically the world and its dog was going back to Malaysia - we're on the full bus (one of many) - the only Europeans and the only ...

... the bus station we were intending to get a bus to Malacca but when we got there there wasn't a bus for another 4 hours so Malacca got ditched and we decided to travel to Kuala Lumpur (or KL as everyone seems to call it) instead. The buses to KL were also booked up but we found one 'company' who had seats left. The guy was very pushy and gave us the impression the bus was leaving immediately and that if we didn't pay him the 40 Ringits there and then we ...

JOHOR BAHRU Having concluded our immediate work in Sri Lanka, we set off to resume our original travels. As hard as it was to separate ourselves from the Sri Lanka project -- which, of course, is far from being over -- we left our friends in Singapore and headed off to Malaysia. We enjoyed the first few days ...