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 motorbik...

Sunday 1/10/2006 Spent the whole day in this amazing resort, in front of my laptop, preparing for our presentation. Eventually finished at about 1AM and decided to go for a swim before sleeping. On the way back to the chalet from the pool I walked past this huge fruit bat crawling around at about eye level on the tennis court fence - nearly soil...

05h30 Travel day: - 1 Hour to the Airport - 6 Hour flight to Singapore - 5 Hour Bus ride across the border into Malaysia. Traveled to our final MBA destination, Avillion Resort in Port Dickson, Melaka Arrived at 10pm local time, resort looks really beautiful, we are staying in stilt houses set out over the Malaysian sea - too tired to explore th...

I could not sleep for some reason -- I don't recall thinking about anything in particular, but it was probably 5am before I fell asleep. Needless to say, I was not first up this morning; it was almost 11am before I got up. Most everybody had already gone down to the beach; I was pretty much alone. The fat uncle was in a chair, snoring away, and ...

did little between breakfast and lunch -- walked along the beach, went to the stalls, called Kathy. After lunch, sat around and talked with people. Played carroms and tried a little gymnastics on the beach. Then the Foos, Markus and Moshe, Jay, Mom, Pat and I drove to a town nearby to eat fruit: rambutans, mangosteens, oragnes, bananas, ci-gu, d...