Hi, just trying to catch up and fill you in with everything I have been doing. So please be patient and keep checking over the next few days, I will update you bit by bit. Tonight I was invited to make like the locals, well the chinese ones at least, and pay a visit to the Cheras night market. The longest night market in KL apparently. Night markets are very popular amongst the chinese population, there are several doted around the city on various n...

Hi I am curently on the Tioman Islan a small island in the South china sea. It is very much as you would imagen a tropical island with palm trees and white sands, very picture post card. I am staying on a beach front chalet. The challet feels a little bit like something out of Hidi Hi but the view of the sea is a bit different. The challet is also collecting so much sand there is likley to be a beach in it by the time I leave. The only down side to the...

Hi everyone I made it to Melaka on a very nice coach from KL. Throught out Malaysias history Melaka has been one of its premier ports. Due to its strategic position on the, Straits of Melaka, Melaka has been subject to colonisation by several exteral populations, mainly the Potugese, Dutch, British and Japaneese, all whom have left their mark on the community. The effect of this eclectic ancestory was obvious as soon as I reached the town square. ...

Hi I have been Penang for a few days now. I am staying in a little guest house in Georgetown, the capital city, it is clean comfortable and basic plus it gives me somewhere to rest my head on a night so it is ok. Georgetown is what i think many of you think KL is like. A busy asian city with people, cars and motorbike coming form every direction. I think i need a few lessons form the locals in crossing the road. They all seem to weave so causally in...

Hi Just thought i would fill you in with the rest of the weekends entertainment. On sunday i was able to have a nice leisurly, sorry can't spell, wake up. This made a good change to my 8am starts in the hospital every morning. I then made my way down to Bintang, where I stayed when I first avived. I spent most of the day pottering round the area and looking in the crazy shopping malls. Before I came the first thing people always sais to me was "so you...