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7 June 2025
Trip Overview This trip started with an intention to go to Europe for summer, to escape New Zealand’s wet and windy winter. We managed to get confirmed tickets on points from Taipei to Vienna and later on added budget airline flights around to various sunny spots, and then it kept growing. We would use a […]
23 April 2025
I leave Kuala Lumpur today for hometown, after a whole in the big city. The day was spent having lunch in Kampung Baru, a long massage and dinner with friends Faiz and Colin. I woke at 0615 to take the 0700 train to the airport. I did a lot of work at the landside lounge […]
6 November 2024
Visitation I was still full from last night’s big dinner and had some milk and muesli for breakfast Amidst wet weather, I found a car to take me to visit Andre, a French friend of E over at Titiwangsa. I had never met him before and he turned out to be more of an acquaintance […]
5 November 2024
Flying to Kuala Lumpur Today I fly to Kuala Lumpur for a couple of nights en route to Maldives. The Maldives flight leaves in the morning at 0840 and I didn’t fancy an early connection from Kuching. Overnighting in Kuala Lumpur would be time-consuming with transport so I made it worthwhile with a two-night stay. […]
1 November 2024
Colourful old town Kuching by night Tonight, I hit old-town with some friends for dinner. I was hit with parking hell when I got there with three events on: the river regatta, a craft fair and a drumming festival. But it was worthwhile as the place was alive with lots of food trucks. It was […]
13 June 2024
Taking ten years off my age About 10 days short of six months, I stopped shaving just before going on my three-week trip to Saudi Arabia. Today, I had planned to have the beard taken off at the Indian barber in KL Sentral / Brickfields where I was overnighting. When I had a haircut there, […]
12 June 2024
For this visit to Kuala Lumpur, I had it on my list to visit the Islamic Arts Museum. This had come highly recommended by E, with whom I travelled around Saudi Arabia about half a year ago. I arrived at the site by train and foot, getting there a few minutes before their 0930 opening. […]
24 January 2024
Above: Tune Hotel lobby at KL International Airport. Today, I only have to make my way to Kuala Lumpur International Airport for a nightstop for my journey back to Auckland via Singapore tomorrow. I started my search for the way to the cable car more or less immediately. Some 20 mins later, I had found […]
23 January 2024
Killing some time Just for a change, instead of staying in Kuala Lumpur any longer, I had booked to go to Genting Highlands instead for a one-night stay. I had been perhaps 27 years ago in May 1997, that being my first and only visit. There’s no point getting there too early due to the […]
22 January 2024
Flying to KL I had trouble falling asleep last night with a sense of bloatedness. And I had to get up in the middle of night, emptying my belly completely but it wasn’t liquid and was a one-off. I don’t think it was diarrhoea but perhaps the oily pad see ew I had for lunch […]