Category Archives: travel

Penang -> Bangkok

Posted on March 6, 2010 by andrew

Yesterday I took the ferry from Penang back to Butterworth and had a quick lunch with a guy named ‘So’ who I met on the ferry.  We took a taxi to a dim sum place that was highly rated on … Continue reading →

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Kellie’s Castle

Posted on March 6, 2010 by andrew

The day before yesterday I hired a car to drive me out to “Kellie’s Castle“, the ruins of a hundred-year-old colonial estate. It was both more modest, and less ruined than I expected.  Even though it was built in the … Continue reading →

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Ipoh->Penang

Posted on March 4, 2010 by andrew

It’s too late at night for me to post photos from yesterday… Today I took a reasonably nice bus from Ipoh to Butterworth and rode the ferry to Penang.  (I think if I’d stayed on the bus it would’ve driven … Continue reading →

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Sam Poh Tong

Posted on March 1, 2010 by andrew

Looks nice, right?  Well, it isn’t.  The idea of putting a temple in a steep valley that you can only access via a cave is a nice one, and the fact that the religion of the temple is so inclusive … Continue reading →

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KL->Ipoh

Posted on March 1, 2010 by andrew

I loaded a dozen episodes of “Jordan, Jesse, Go!” onto my music player and had a very pleasant morning riding the train through Perak listening to nonsense and enjoying the view.  I took about a hundred photos out the train … Continue reading →

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Tanjong Pagar->KL Sentral

Posted on February 28, 2010 by andrew

I’m killing a bit of time in the Kuala Lumpur train station, waiting for the ticket office to open so I can pay for my seat to Ipoh.  There’s a TV in the corner running political coverage, and the Malaysian … Continue reading →

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Posted on February 19, 2010 by andrew

Bathroom stall door at a LAN-gaming center Side-by-side dueling cream-puff franchisees.  There’s a third cream-puff outlet (‘Polar’) about 50 feet away.

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Scope

Posted on February 19, 2010 by andrew

Here’s a very shaky long pan of the Albert hawker center where I ate dinner tonight.  It’s mostly blurry and useless but may give some idea of the weird enormity of the snack shacks I’ve been frequenting. I was holding … Continue reading →

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Traffic

Posted on February 10, 2010 by andrew

It’s hard to convey in a photo just how crowded the shipping lane over to my right is.  Some of the time it really looks quite a bit like a freeway. (Click the photo to expand.) After pointing out and … Continue reading →

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Newater Visitor Centre

Posted on February 7, 2010 by andrew

Let’s see if I can do a satellite embed… View Larger Map That (if all is well with Google Maps) is an aerial view of the weird factory that I ride by every day on my way into town.  It … Continue reading →

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