Greetings from Ireland…

Dublin, it’s been a while. Last August, with great excitement and a degree of anxiety, I left the country bound for an unusual emigration outpost; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Over there, I took up what was by all means a quite successful internship for six months, where along with the work at hand, I made contacts and all that good stuff, and wound up with plenty of work on my plate from others. Roll on a few months and March 2011 sees me standing,... 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

Chicken Chop is not ‘Western Food’.

The view from Sky Bar of a clear evening... After slightly over six months working away in Malaysia, it’s time for us to part ways. That’s not to say I won’t be back for certain, who knows what way things will go from here, but it does mean that for now at least, I won’t be enduring the major sweat-inducing heat on my way to work every morning, nor will my walk home be largely dominated by trying to avoid taxi drivers trying to offer me a... Read More

Singapore – The Fine City, Part II

The fine beaches of Sentosa... Our trip to Sentosa contained all the usual qualities I was coming to expect of Singapore taxi drivers – a comfortable car, metered fare and a guy who actually seemed to be genuinely taking the quickest way down there. Sentosa Island itself meanwhile was much bigger than I’d expected it would be and as we drove up (and paid a $5 admission fee to just drive onto the island, which I considered to be a load of rubbish)... Read More

Thailand Beckons

Barely a few weeks back from our trip to Langkawi Island, and with Anna’s parents now over, it was time for us to head north to Thailand, to take in some new sights.   All abord the Air Asia express... Admittedly, things didn’t get off to what I’d have considered a smooth start – first of all, we elected to get a taxi and the driver, who wouldn’t have been too out of place driving around Dublin, felt compelled to inform and advise me... Read More

If I Passed This Off as Chinese New Year…

Would that work better? The problem I always have with writing ‘lengthy’ articles, as I always tend to do, is that they end up having to be split into a number of posts, each getting further from the last, until both you (and I) more than likely forget what we were even reading, or writing, about. And when large absence’s happen on this site, then the usual excuse of ‘very busy’ gets pulled out and guess what – it’s been rolled out once... 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

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

From Ringgit to Baht…

KLIA's LCCT...and I wasn't taken with the prices for a 'low cost' terminal... For the weekend, we took our long-awaited trip to Thailand, with Anna leaving work at 5pm, me leaving work at 5pm, and both meeting down in KL Sentral for our ‘coach journey’ to KL’s low-cost carrier terminal. Now, KLIA, the airport, comes purpose-located and consequently has acre upon acre of possible expansion room when the time comes further down... Read More