When we arrived at the KL stop, we only had to wait a few minutes for Soma's brother Daven, a local, to pick us up and drop us back to the hotel, where Soma was waiting for us. Dave bears a striking resemblance to Soma, so that if you catch one out of the corner of your eye, you could easily confuse him with the other. Van's parents had arrived, Binh and Sao ( I've just guessed the spelling). They are an open and friendly couple whose limitations in spoken Engli...

Malaysia day 2 I am beginning to write this as I sit in the cavernous LTTC terminal in KL. It is a special terminal that deals only with budget airlines, like Air Asia, on which I am about to fly. Everything about the terminal reflects its budget based business model, but it seems to work, so I have checked in, eaten and cleared security in under 45 minutes. However, back to the past. I woke on Sunday about 7 having slept well. It didn't look like Kuhen had sti...

The Malaysia connection I know.  How is it that only 8 days after returning to. oz from the incipient wilds of Ontario's early winter I am off on the road again? Just lucky, I guess. Having answered the call of duty in Canada, I am now on leave, and fulfilling a long standing invitation from my friend Soma to see something of his country, Malaysia.  This plan was hatched earlier this year, around the time when my change of job became public. It changed slight...