The Tale of the Forgettable MasterCard & Universal Singapore

Bright and early the next morning, we got up at the crack of dawn after another less-than-restful night’s sleep at the V-Hotel, owing once again to the dictatorial air conditioning unit in our room which decided for everyone when the room was cool enough and would promptly switch off, leaving the room to heat up to unbearable levels before turning back on again. Destined for Universal Singapore, we fell prey unfortunately to one of commercial Singapore’s... Read More

Singapore – The Fine City

The clean streets of Sing... Somewhere I’ve been meaning to go for quite a few years, but never managed to get round to, was Singapore. I had planned to go there during my excursion in 2009, but unfortunately the way things worked out, that never happened. Likewise, despite all my time in Malaysia, Singapore’s northerly neighbour, I hadn’t yet managed to make so much as a single day visit, in spite of the close proximity of the two countries... Read More

When Time Flies…

Happy New Year. I first started writing a blog at the end of November, 2008, so if I can hold that one steady for another 11 months, it’ll be a record of dedication worthy of some sort of celebration. A can of beer or two, maybe. While you were all busy feezing back home... But I admit, quite openly and apologetically, that in more or less a month, I haven’t found time to write anything at all – the site had to ring in the New Year entirely... Read More

Potatoes, Mercato & Chinatown…

Evening descends once again on KL... Since we got back from Thailand, things once again have settled into a slightly less-interesting ‘day-in, day-out’ routine, aside from a couple of interesting things like a festival we were at last week, planning our next trip in early December to (what looks like) the absolute tack-filled Genting Highlands – imagine a theme park and associated resort delicately perched atop a few-thousand foot high mountain... Read More

When a Massage Offer is Five Too Many…

Allow me to show you a little something I like to call...the view... According to my clock, in five minutes I’ll have been in Malaysia for one month to the day. It’s definitely not a case of a month too many, but it’s hard to believe it’s actually only been just the one month. After the whole Penang/Paradiso Guesthouse affair (as in, having a McDonald’s billboard being changed outside my bedroom window overnight), we finally got round to... Read More