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New Blog Site Up Please Check There for New Entries

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

Hi Everyone. After a month long trip to Lao and 2 weeks chillin’ on a couple Islands in Thailand, I’m back to posting. I’ve got good news and bad news. The bad news is that this will be my last post on this website. The Good news is that Missing…Presumed Having A Good Time will have a new home starting with my next post.  I’ve spent some time updating my map points of where I’ve been over the last 9 months on the new site. Click on “entry-less map pins” to view where I’ve been on a zoom-able Satellite world map courtesy of Googlemaps. So if you have ever wondered where the H3LL is Borneo much less, Sipadan, now you can just click on the map and see. I’m not sure if the new site is good or not, but I’m hoping that they won’t crash and lose 3 months worh of posts. Let me know if you have any problems getting over there.

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Kuala Lumpur Petronas Towers

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

Petronas TowersAfter almost 13 years, I’ve returned to KL. I didn’t see much of KL the last time I was here because I spent most of my time in KL studying at Poh Gong Temple, a Taoist/Buddhist temple. But since I’m not a big fan of big cities, KL never has had much to offer. The only thing that remotely interested me was the ummm… “tallest twin tower buildings in the world”. They used to claim to be the tallest building in the world, but there is some doubt that it was ever really the tallest since the Sear’s Tower in my home town of Chicago is actually taller 1518ft vs 1483ft if you include the spires on top of both buildings. But in 2004 Taipei 101 eclipsed both for sure at 1670ft, which will soon be topped by a massive 2400+ft building in Dubai.

But I digress.

I find out that they only let like 1000 people up the towers everyday and if ur not in line by 9am, ur not getting up to the observation deck. The funny thing about Petronas Towers is that their observation deck in only 41 stories high on the bottom level of the skybridge. Now since I didn’t have anything else I wanted to do in KL and I was already there at 8:30am, I decided to wait in line to get my ticket to go up to the skybridge at 12:30pm. But all the time I’m thinking to myself that 41 stories is not that high nor very impressive since I’ve been to Taipei 101 already and hell, I’ve lived in a 34th story penthouse suite in Hong Kong set in the mid-levels that were higher than this stupid skybridge.

Observation DeckFortunately after I finally got a ticket, KLCC mall and the Mandarin Oriental Hotel are in the same complex and they’re air conditioned! If you’re in KL, I totally do not recommend wasting 4 hours of your life to see the “vista” from the skybridge.

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Kuta Beach Bali

Monday, August 14th, 2006
Well after 13 years, I have to say I don't remember much about Kuta except that it's very different and built out. I remember a bar with nothing but a roof and the lack of 4 walls. Now ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Time to escape from my Paradise

Monday, August 14th, 2006
I know from experience that one can get stuck on an island for quite some time. I over stayed my visa in Thailand a few years back by over 30 days on Koh Phanghan when I stayed just on the ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Dinosaurs Found on Gili Trawangan!!!

Sunday, August 13th, 2006
Of course my favorite island would have to have more than 1 entry for 2 weeks. I liked the island so much, I decided to spend my birthday on it partying at Rudy’s Pub. Jacko kept offering to send me ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Padangbai

Sunday, August 13th, 2006
World%20Cup%20CrazyOn the way to the East coast of Bali, I saw something that really shows quite well how crazy the Balinese are about the World Cup. This was a great place ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Gunung (Mt.) Batur

Saturday, August 12th, 2006
Well after a week in really boring Ubud, I decided to leave town and head for some physical activity up at the Volcano near Kintamani. I hired a guy to take me up to Kintamani, but on the way ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Uncle Chet’s Compound in Ubud

Saturday, August 12th, 2006
FOR THE BEGINING OF BALI SCROLL DOWN TO THE ENTRY ENTITLED 'BALI' ABOUT 6 STORIES DOWN After the wedding festivities ended, the few Americans and an Ozzie moved up to Uncle Chet's place in Ubud. It was yet another beautiful ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Bob and Denise’s Wedding June 10th 2006

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006
This was A day to be remembered. An amazing wedding in an amazing place. Destination weddings RULE! I had a linen suit made in Hoi An just for the wedding. The only problem with making a white linen suit and ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Bali

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
Bali Hai June 9th I finally arrived at the only time spot that I have on my trip. Since I left ‘home’ some 15 weeks or so ago, Bali was the only place that I knew I would go for ... [Continue reading this entry]

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