Update to The Curious Case of the Private Unit

After writing my lengthy and detailed rant on the Private Unit, Berjaya Times Square’s very own in-house dump, which I had booked through none other than booking.com, the following came to my inbox lately (10th December) from none other than – well, booking.com of course.It sort of ignores the issues I really had a problem with but was an unusual case of someone actually getting back to you from a website.   I don’t know if... Read More

Singapore by SuperNice!

In the last installment, we waited to hear back from the venerable ‘Mark’ of Golden Green, a company with whom I had never realised existed until my arrival to the Berjaya Times Square hotel. Anyway, he eventually got back to us, a day before we were actually due to depart, in an e-mail (ask, and I’ll be happy to post it) in which he berated us for not liking the place and not trying to get in contact sooner (which of course we had). The whole... Read More

The Great Escape

As detailed in the last post, we had a very serious issue with our first accommodation in Kuala Lumpur – the “Deluxe” Private Unit. Although the cleaners did a surprisingly acceptable job that we had had to wait for outside (without pinching any of our stuff, as our dear neighbours had informed us was a strong possibility), the place stank of smoke once again by sunset and the toilet, without anyone using it, started smelling horrendously by... Read More

Down Under to Perth.

Perth...while struggling to stay awake... Before returning back to Europe, it seemed only right to go and stretch our stay away just a little bit further and head down to Australia, not knowing when you’d get the chance again. Initially, our plans had called for basically the absolute cheapest flight we could possibly get to Australia and this, by the time we came to booking (by which stage all the prices had changed multiple times again), came... Read More

And Just Like That, It Was New Year…

Our local outstanding value eatery... The rest of our week with my mother over, in what I normally consider that awkward period between Christmas and New Year, when you never really know for sure if anything’s open or not or what to do, flew by – we had many important sights to show off. Next up on our own personal tour of Kuala Lumpur was a trip to one of our favourite, and incidentally cheapest, eateries. SK Corner is a food stall place very... Read More

Crouch and Go…

The King's house...not bad... It was pretty obvious that we couldn’t stand for long on the hop-on hop-off tour of Kuala Lumpur, especially given the speed it completes its circuit at, so we didn’t really have much choice as to whether we wanted off at the next stop – we really had to, if we were to avoid chronic neck and back problems later on. So, when we were told at the next stop, the Royal Palace, that we’d be breaking for 15 minutes... Read More

Where Do We Start?

Ho ho ho from Kuala Lumpur... Well, it’s certainly been a while since the last time I wrote! Over here, whole shopping mall seasons can seem to come and go in the time it seems to take me just to write a blog entry – right now, for example, we’ve moved from living in a 30-degree plus tropical landscape to somewhere with Christmas trees, snow and Lapland-esque huts. Needless to say, in a place where the chance to draw a couple of extra shoppers... Read More

When a Weeked Won’t Come Quick Enough…

The local construction site...for years, seemingly... This weekend we’re off to Thailand, to a place that looks incredibly upmarket – surprisingly enough, since it wasn’t actually that expensive and the flights were originally threatening to be more expensive than the accommodation – and I have to say, I can’t wait. KL’s an extremely busy city, non-stop – there’s that whole thing about New York being the city that never sleeps, but... Read More

Like I Owned The Place…

Now if only they had mattresses on them... As usual, I’m taking the opportunity to scribble down a few words while stuck somewhere and unable to go anywhere else; today’s venue of long-term sitting is Melbourne Airport, where once again, I’m battling the cold which doesn’t need any invitation to come pouring in every time the automatic doors slide open. The flight and indeed, the night itself prior to the flight is a topic... Read More

Snoozing All The Way to KL…

Not to be attempted after a 'family party'... It’s 6:20 in the morning and I’m due to fly out on a flight at 8:50 for Kuala Lumpur. But for now, that doesn’t matter – I’m deeply asleep and have been since I went to bed 1 hour and 20 minutes ago following the supposed ‘family party’ downstairs in Duc Vuong Hotel, Saigon. Beers were had – quite a number of them – and as a result, I set my alarm for 4:30... Read More