just wanted to add something which i forgot to say in KL, in the CBD and around the patronas towers were women in full hijab clearly business women, coming and going from work, it looked pretty surreal to us considering that all men and women at home wear suits but i thought the baggy pants look for guys and rolls of material for girls looked pretty comfortable. what reminded me of this....? just watched the asian inline skating championships on espn and there ...

Singapore, not quite the 'sterile eutopia' its made out to be, i think this term has been exagerated through word of mouth, however, i can see why and where it has come from.... the first thing you read from singpore is 'death penalty for drug traffcking under singapore law'  on your immigration card, you are then bombarded with no smoking, no jay walking, no photogrpahy, no this that and the other as you cross the border. the street are spotless (althoug...

i got off the night bus and just wanted to find a bed, it was 5 in the morning, on my own and didnt have a clue what there was to do in KL. Got a taxi to chinatown where id worked out most of the guesthouse places are so rekoned that would me my best bet. as the taxi pulled up, i got swept off to a guesthouse by the owner with another english girl who after a few minutes relaised we'd already met in thailand, small world eh! he said  i could have that night fr...

the bus journey there set us up for the most beautiful place ive ever seen, well in terms of sand and sea at least. as it turned out, it wasnt his friends car, more of an air condition mini bus to ourselves. the journey was about nine hours that took us right over the highlands. at one point the van screeched to a halt and the driver shouted elephants. rite at the side of the road was a herd of elephants with a couple of calves, amazing, not what you expect at al...

considering it was a late night i got up fairly early to makethe most of the last day in penang and see some of the temples etc,. we ended up spending most fo the day at the oldest mosque in malaysia. what was supposed to be a fleeting vist turned into a lengthy debate with a women in the information centre. she sat us down while we waited to be taken into teh mosque and said to ask if we had any questions about islam and she would like to answer them because ...