The trip was good until I reach KL. Having a bad mood as the check in is late and I want to go up and rest. We reach there at 1.00pm and the receptionist says have to wait until 3.30pm to check in. :( So i am really ****** off, keep asking the girl. At 1st she says 2.30pm then i ask Dear to ask she tells him 2.00pm. Different treatment huh? I am...

It's the capital of Malaysia, a rather new city with no history inhabited by about 1.3 million, small by Asian standards. It is very modern, with decent public transport and solid infrastructure. It has the second tallest building in the world, but somehow it doesn't seem that tall throughout the city. KL mostly consists of shopping malls where...

Selamat paggi! well what a difference this week has been, having got a swift flight back to Kuala Lumpur we quickly got ourselves settled in our hostel right on the edge of china town , a place where you can buy "real copies, not fakes" of anything from luis vuitton handbags to Rolex watches! a place where "im just looking" or "no thanks" means ...

14.6 - 15.6.08 Kuala Lumpur. Malesia. Paluu Bangkokiin on alkanut ja logistisista syista paadyttiin yopymaan yhdeksi yoksi viela tanne Kuala Lumpuriin. Singaporesta ei ole tallahetkella suoraa junayhteytta Bangkokiin mutta sellainen on kuulemma tyon alla. Kuala Lumpurissa kaikki nayttaa olevan ennallaan joten jatketaan tana iltana junalla Butter...

Another country and the hope of some beach existence when we landed in Kuala Lumpur. Immediately you notice a big difference between Malaysia and our previous two countries, Vietnam and Cambodia. Good roads and comfortable buses but still at cheap prices. We got to the hotel in the middle of Chinatown in KL after a bit of searching through the t...

After Singapore and Terangganu, Anna, Gwynne, and I took a night bus to Kuala Lumpur. After a few classic episodes of the office on Anna's computer, we attempted to sleep/play musical chairs. We arrived at 5:30am and took a cab right next to our hostel, which conveniently had an amazing outdoor roti place. We just chatted, drank teh tarik, and ...

We had a good chat with Tony who owns the guesthouse in Melaka before we left and found out some handy info. Turns out we were going to cross the border to Thailand in a place that would have us ending up in a civil war zone. We are usually well read about the places we are going to but this war is barely reported in Asia or at home. So feeling ...

The objective of our trip this time round is to challenge ourselves to having the most fun with the least amount of money. It was a valuable experience selecting the best bargains and going for the cheapest. We stayed overnight at my uncle's place in Woodlands as we prepared to wake up at 4a.m. for the long journey to Senai Airport. The first Ca...

Staying in Chinatown amongst the ripped off designer label clothing and pirate dvds. We saw the famous Petronas Towers from a distance, looked at a couple of mosques and a Hindu temple, went to Merdeka Square and visited the bird park at the Lake Gardens. A brief stop in the capital before we head off to Borneo but we will be back in time for Ch...

(Not a whole lot of photos, since I accidentally deleted them all on the second to last day. HA! Oh and my camera crashed a few days later. Heh! Bought a new one. Hehhhh.) These two weeks have had some sort of lousy mojo. If you have seen Kenneth Branagh's 'Frankenstein', there is a scene where the Dr. completes the monster's ungodly birth. In i...