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- Back To The Future
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February 14, 2005
Back To The FutureDAY 481: "So I'll see you in about a month," Noelle said before boarding a shared songthaew that would take her back to Krabi Town so she could get to her morning northbound flight back to Bangkok to continue her...Read this entry From All Over The WorldDAY 482: Samuel L. Jackson once said in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, "Personality goes a long way." Although the Olive Spring Hotel where I stayed for my first night in Georgetown, Penang's main city, was colorful and clean, it had...Read this entry February 16, 2005
Like A Frog With No LimbsDAY 483: On a world map, the island of Penang off the coast of mainland Malaysia at roughly 6° N latitude, 100° E longitude is a mere speck, if it's even there at all. However, when you zoom in on...Read this entry February 17, 2005
V Day in K.L.DAY 484: Huh? Where are we? I wondered, all groggy-eyed when I woke up on a motionless train in my sleeper berth. Everyone was getting off the Kuala Lumpur-bound train at 6:40 in the morning. Are we there yet? We're...Read this entry February 18, 2005
In-Flight EntertainmentDAY 485: "When you go to Los Angeles, you go to Universal Studios or Disneyland," Geow the CalPoly-grad told me in the truck as we drove in the pre-dawn darkness of 6:30 a.m. "When you go to K.L., you go...Read this entry February 20, 2005
Where It All BeganDAY 486: "Visit Historic Melaka means Visit Malaysia," says one of the tourism slogans for the former capital of Malaysia. As another tourism slogan goes, Melaka is "Where It All Began."...Read this entry February 22, 2005
The FreeloadersDAY 487: If you're like me, you've probably read through the past couple of entries in the category "Malaysia" and are thinking (in italics of course), Is this all there is to Malaysia? Old colonial port towns, a big modern...Read this entry February 23, 2005
A Fine CityDAY 488: Singapore, the island off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, was once a part of Malaysia. However, the former English colonial port seceded from Malaysia in 1965 and went their own way due to "creative differences;" apparently...Read this entry |