Just when you thought we are back from our Phuket holiday, you are wrong. We are still there, this time let us bring you to this road side restaurant that serves awesome seafood. This place is just a stone’s throw from our hotel, so it’s really convenient for us and since the dishes are very [...]
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Posted in Badminton & Other Sports on Jul 11th, 2007
PROTON-BWF World Championships 2007 is the latest and hottest badminton tournament of the year, it is coming to Kuala Lumpur on 13-19 August this year. Do mark these dates on your busy calendar as this is the only chance you get to see all the world class players meet and compete against each other. I [...]
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Posted in Food Watch on Jul 8th, 2007
Durian is a fruit unique in Malaysia, Thailand, and some other South East Asia countries. Those who like durian typically regard it as the “King of Fruit”. In countries where there is a real flood of durians, prices never drop to dirt-cheap levels, as they do for pineapples and bananas. Although for the last couple [...]
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Posted in In my Inbox on Jul 7th, 2007
US Immigration Officer: Good morning. What’s your purpose of visit?
Malaysian Visitor: I’m here to study law, sir.
Officer: I see. By the way, you must have a lot of lawyers in Malaysia.
Visitor: Why do you say that?
Officer: Well, I’ve been here for so many years, and I’d say 90% of Malaysians I see here say they’re [...]
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Posted in Holidays & Travelling on Jul 6th, 2007
In Phuket and other tourist destinations in Thailand such as Pattaya, monkeys are undoubtedly qualify as men’s best friends. This isn’t surprising, since for centuries the people here have used monkeys to do the hardest part of the work climbing the trees to pick what else but coconuts.
After the adventurous jungle trekking on elephants, we [...]
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They say if you haven’t been to a temple in Thailand, you haven’t visited Thailand! I was so worried my friends will say that to me when I come back, so I urged my tour guide (more about this friendly guide) to bring us to a temple, or wat as locally known. In fact he [...]
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