New Year is coming

New year is coming in days time, so far today Dec 26, 13 rooms were booked out of 17 rooms and thus I have 4 rooms available. I hope I will get full occupancy so that we can have a satay party for the New Year Eve.
The guests taht will be here on New Year eve are :-
1. Domhall from Scotland ( was here last New Year eve)
2. Xiao Fang Chen from China
3. Hai Foo Chan from Malaysia
4. Ayana Ishii from Japan
5. Lynell Granger from UK
6. Azarai from Malaysia
7. Paisal from Thailand
8. Susan Golbert from Australia
9. Therese Menze from Sweden
10. Micheala from Germany
11. Gyula Dancsok from Hungary
12. Ayana
13. Camelia from Romania
I hope there will be another 4 rooms filled up this next few days to make it full for a new year party.

What a life!

Pete went home to Bandung on 22 December, luckily my daughter Sofia who lives in KL came over on 20Dec thru 26 Dec...that helps. My 2 younger children came too on 18 Dec they are Norman and Nadia. As usual Norman will be stuck on the internet/laptop day and night...what a waste. It is sad that Sofia left today Dec 26, I am alone till Pete come back perhaps Jan 03. The husekeeping maid is off on 27 Dec. So left me a lone and 2 dogs. I gave notice to the guests that there is no changing of linens and housekeeping for a day....hopefully.

What a week

Busy weeks. Lost maid. Lost workers for Zack as well. Good news is that we got good material from LIMA although it gave Zack new idea to build new communal area. Hence the new communal area cannot be used till today.

Two families are staying with us, Harris' from England and Lisa's from Sweden. Judith is still here till 14. Rooms are full as usual although we had 2 annoying cancellation/no show. What a week.

Old mate

Old mate from KL came to Langkawi and visited Zack. Zack was so happy. Good for him! Here are the pics. Donald and his lovely wife and daughter.

Tiring and mad month. So full. With girls! And we are rushing now to finish the new communal area. We have 3 more single fan rooms with shared bathroom and one triple aircond ensuite and one twin aircond ensuite.

Hopefully we can bring in electricity and satellite tv cable tomorrow and on Friday we can move the kitchen and the sitting area to new place. More spacious and airy.

So many things to do. Small fixtures have not been fixed while rooms are so full, I can't even breath at all. Housekeeper will end her tenure this 30th as she has to cater food for LIMA. Big headache. For me.

Posted here some pics of our guests this month.

Super peak period 4 - 8 Dec 2007

Due to LIMA 2007, we strongly advise anybody to plan the trip carefully. Do not try your luck by coming to Langkawi during that time without any reserved accommodation as far as we know, there is no room available anywhere here. Cars and vans have been rented out for sleeping vehicles as well.

If you really want challenge the lady luck and experience walking miles with your backpack with no hope, please do try come with early flight or ferry otherwise you will stuck in the island. Last ferry will be at 7 pm while last flight is before midnight.

I doubt the municipal will allow anybody to sleep on the beach or roadside with sleeping bags or tents as it is international event and that kind of sight usually is unacceptable here.

And the answer for anybody that may ask : NO, we do not have room from 5 to 8 Dec.

Good luck!

Update for October

Had a big problem to connect to blogger.com for few days. Anyway, simple update... Zack celebrated his Raya in KL. Posted pic of his family - all in traditional Melayu or Malay clothes. For the men, it is called baju Melayu or Malay wardrobe and for the women, baju kurung. If you have nothing to do, check in google the translation of "kurung" in English, you'll be so amused!

Rooms are full as usual. We have Thomas from Germany and Goh Su Wang & co last week. The Malacca's students had bbq here on their last night and I must give thumbs up that they were some of the few Malaysian youngsters that are polite and well-mannered. No but or despite of. Yes, they even cleaned up after one of them got sick after too much wine! Lol.

Few girls were here as well. Karin and 2 other swedishes, Helen, Nicole and Jenn.
John King from UK, Nicholas from UK, Muaiad from Iraq and Arun from UK also were here for few days.

Now, we still have Vegar and his family from Norway, Mozani from Germany, Peter from Germany, Heidi and her partner from Sweden and Amanda and Lisa from Sweden as well. Joe Hans from Switzerland. Lorenzo and 3 boys from Italy. Sally and her partner from UK.

Karim will leave us tomorrow to stay in other place as we do not have enough room.

Another day for Bandit

We decided to give another chance for Bandit as he gave a fight when the vet came last night. Suddenly despite his weak legs, he managed to go downstairs and ran outside. Put him on drips for a while and gave him a massage and he started to eat solid food as well. A trooper as he always is.
Although his rashes are still rather bad but he is quite active now and shows appetite to eat as well. So, yeah, we put this "sleeping" idea on hold until another attack.

Jody left to KL to start his journey to take train from Vietnam to England. Elliot left as well to Thailand and Mikami left to Singapore as well.

We have new batches of guests today. A group of international teachers in KL. Rob, Chaterine and her friend, Mark, Justin, Lin and her 2 other friends. Another one is Allison from USA teaching a home school from her house in PJ. Iraj from Sri Lanka joined the crowd.

Gopi, Karim and his daughters and Jenny and her partner are still here.

Zack is going to KL tomorrow to celebrate Idl' Fitri - a Moslem celebration of finishing fasting month - with his children.

Bandit

Bandit is getting sicker. His spirit that always keeps him alive until today despite all the sicknesses he has - is very low now. He hardly can't move anymore. His legs are too weak to support his body and he spends all the times in his bed. I has to drip water to his mouth as he cannot bend down to drink nor eat anymore. The only thing he can do is mere lifting his head. He does not even wag his tail at all.

It is sad and we consider to put him to sleep. Big decision as it will be holiday tomorrow and the vet services will be closed as well hence we need to make the decision today or wait until after holiday - Tuesday. Zack can't bear to see him in misery anymore neither do I but I just need a little hope that he can survive like many times before. I want to wait for a hint of wellness but in the same time I do not even know whether I help him or make him suffer by waiting for too long to put him down while I can.

The guilt of keeping JD in her pains for so long is still become my burden and now, Bandit.... I just need him to tell me what I should do now.

Preparation for Raya

Many things happened in a week.

Busy as usual. Edie left to KL with a heavy heart. What a man! I wish when I reach that age I still can cycle daily to Kuala Teriang daily! Gemma was back to Shanghai to teach again. Yoann and Damien left to Krabi as well.

We had some Asian guests surprisingly. Yugo Honda and his partner from Japan. Tran from Vietnam, See Kian Shim from KL and Mikami from Japan. Jody is still here. Her passport and visas arrived yesterday and hence she can plan her trip - train from Vietnam to London! Karim and his daughters are still here. And Gopi as well.

Elliot and his partner from USA arrived yesterday and will spend 2 nights with us while Peter and his partner has been with us since the 6. Nicholas from Sweden with his partner is going to stay until 12.

Raya celebration is coming. We are busy preparing the rendang as Zack is going to go to KL to spend this holiday with his children and grandchildren there and he wants to bring the beef rendang and chicken rendang for them. OK, of course beside all the sinful ciggies and buzz.

Meanwhile, we are in sombre feeling as well as Bandit is sick and getting sicker by days.

The curse of duty free island

We have Karim's daughters here, Bethan from UK, Kate from Australia, Gemma from UK/China and Kelly from Canada/Korea plus of course Jody and Ashleigh making total of 8 girls in our place. The boys only Damien and Yoann from French, Eddie (73 y o) from UK/Australia, Charles from USA/Korea. And of course Karim.

Activity? Drinking. Get drunk. Watch TV. Burn yourself under the sun. Here is the pic of Yoann this morning.

Chris left yesterday. With a big rush! We tried to wake him up thrice as the flight was 1350hrs. He only managed to drag himself to Zack's car at 1315hrs! Lucky they still opened the gate. Pic here is the warming up drinking session on his last night. From left : Damien, Eddy, Chris, Yoann and Zack.

Cindy Li and her husband and her mom and his mom left today. Richard and Laura left to Singapore as well today.

Post hiatus

Took 2 weeks holiday back to my hometown. Zack took care the guest house by himself. A minor incident when Bandit and Kacang wandered around to Oasis and scared the staff there. Bonton picked them up and called Zack after that. Kacang refused to jump into the car and hence he followed the car from Bonton to the house!

Anyway, Zack was sick as well after that until yesterday. Six days no alcohol and just practically in bed. Big deal for him as he has never been sick until that state. But he is back to normal today and work as usual this afternoon. His favorite job ever : cutting grass.

It is Ramadhan this month. And again, God shows His sense of humor. The humidity and the warm weather are definitely a killer. I hardly can breath being back from my hometown @ 15 C. Good thing is food bazaar is open again.

The house is busy - despite the low season hit in Langkawi. Most of the rooms are occupied and we are blessed that we have the returnees. Chris from Switzerland, Jody from Canada slash Korea, and Dawn from England. Karim will be back tomorrow with his two daughters.
Beside them we have Gopinath from KL on working trip here since 22, 73-y-o-Edward from England from Saturday and will be here until October 6, Ashley from UK slash Korea, Richard from Scotland and his Laura, and Yoann and Damien from French.
We had Jussi from Findland for few days and the group of Ruchir and Agrawal from Nepal/Indian as well. Thibault even slept in the unfinished room in our new site!
Not so bad.

Pic: in blue sitting : Dawn, Ashleigh *yellow, Jussi and partner.
Pic : in dining table : Jody, Chris, Laura, Richard and Thibault

The sad note is that despite our rooms are full, I do not have any maid anymore. Well, good to shed off the kilos I gained home.

Timber house

The timber house is finally ready as what Zack wanted. The bathroom is ready with the warm shower and room is ready with its cupboard and airconditioner.

Joshua from Shell Malaysia was the first one that stay and Richard followed after that. Ruth is going to stay there with her beau, Alex on the 6th. The list goes on.

With the guests

Picture of some of the guests staying with guests these few days. Nina and Ruth (glasses). Stuart, Susan and Beth (pink shirt). Family dinner of Nassir with his in-laws from Cambodia and his uncle and auntie. And the last one : the sailors : from left : Richard, Guy (yellow), Sophie (pink), Zack, Ruth and Patrick.

Hoyers

Still sunny days. Rain usually only after midnight for a while. Still the same batch of guests as well. Nick will check out today. We have Fernandez and his wife since two days ago, Bartosz from Poland. Today Susan and Stue from England are coming, Zhao from China and Dhermisa from England as well.

Nothing much happen here. Funny story : Janja had checked few website (apparently they have never updated them) and had found that there is bakery here in Tengah area called Hoya (Hoyers). And as she likes fresh bread and pancake, she naturally asked about it. Huh? This was belong to Zack and he closed it down in 1997! 10 years ago, and a stranger asked about it exactly to us. Geez!

And mating season starts, Kacang and Bandit bring home each a girl puppy. Two mornings in a row. They still do not want to stay and do not want us to touch them. But let see the next few days.

Sunny days at last

Sunny for two days after few days of thunder storm.

New batch of guests on 20th after a week of boys - except for Liesbeth and her partner. We have Nick and his partner from UK, Janja and her partner from Slovenia, Chai Lang and her friend from Singapore, Paul from UK, Joe from UK, Nina from Wales and Ruth from Canada.

The picture was from the last night of the previous batch before they left on 20th. From left : Noel from UK, Prapasit (in red) from Thailand, Alex from UK (glasses) and Scott (white shirt).

Bhaskar & co

Top one is the picture of Bhaskar and friends. They work in UBS, Singapore and they stayed with us from August 9 to 12. Rough journey to come to Langkawi as they had problem with the bus they took but according to Bhaskar's email, they had a good journey back to Singapore after that.
From left : Ravi Kanth, Kiranmayee, Zack, Balreddy, Gayathri and Pratima. Seated in front is Bhaskar.

The other pic is when the girls entertained Neo.

Cooking night

The rooms are busy but we managed to repaint all rooms and put new tiles. The new rooms are getting ready as well with only one room left to be tiled. Rain - heavily - for the last couple of days. Picture : from left : Karim from UK, Liesbeth from Netherland (behind the chair) with her spouse, Mark, and Maria Ines from Portugal who left this morning to Bangkok. We still have Alistair, Nick and Alex. Coming today are Scott and his friend, Prapasit and his friend. Boys night!

Charlie, Tom and Neo left yesterday to KL as they cannot get cheap ticket back on 20th. Charlie was sick in the afternoon but seemed much better after a quick visit to Dr. Govin. This was the picture of the last night when Zack served prawn and chicken - sweet and sour ala Zack - with toasts and potato salad. Ted and Kim were enjoying the dinner as well. And they left yesterday as well to Krabi.

The other picture was the night before when Tom cooked steak and mashed potato for Zack.

Farewell Cumi

Cumi had complication this morning. Very sad and I had no choice to ask vet to put her to sleep. Her heart was very strong and it was difficult for me to see it.
Zack found out about her condition around 630 am after Kacang woke us up. We tried to call the vet from Bonton after 7 am but he refused to pick up the phone. Only around 730 am, the vet from Kuah finally picked up the phone and he agreed to come to put her to sleep. Bless him!

He arrived an hour later due to the distance and it took such a long time to put her to sleep as she had such a very strong heart and strong will to be alive. There were so many "if" in my head but think about it, I know it is better just to let her go.

For a short memory and the joy that you have given me, thank you, Cumi.

Cumi

Managed to put tiles for room no 6 and 7 and repaint room 2 - 4 and 6. Cannot do more than that as tomorrow the rooms will be occupied again.

Cumi was spayed this late afternoon in our backyard. She is still recovering herself, sleeps most of the time in the balcony on her special bed. Must be very painful.

Renovations

Family weeks. Tony - Malaysian that moved to Sweden 27 years ago - is still here with his wife and 2 sons until 11. Tom and Charlie and Neo, are still here as well. And yesterday we have the family of Babul as well.

Les went to Penang this afternoon to get visa to Phuket as he gets job as charter manager there. Although Tan Peng and her friends are still here and Christophe from French are still here as well, the rooms at the small house are empty for few days and we try to make use of it by putting new tiles for no 6 and 7.

We managed to repainting the rooms also.

The new rooms are almost finished. Two singles rooms have their beds and floors now, so another single and two more rooms to go. Meanwhile we are preparing for the common area now.

And Cumi is back and hopefully she will stay tomorrow as we arrange the vet to come to spay her.

Just simple update

Karim left on 2nd. Pic here : his brother and his niece. Other pic is our three dogs (Cumi is back) and Tom and Charlotte. Tom and Charlie with Neo are staying for 2 weeks. We have Tony Chew and his family also for 10 nights.
Les is still here. Megan and Lindsay are still here as well. Finishing their open water PADI course today. Gregory that we turned down few months ago due to his arrival date confusion is back. We also have Rowan from Australia, Stephen from Australia, Shigeru from Japan and Patrick from Germany.

Weather is so far so good. Flights delay every now and then as LID is being held now until 8th. And the new rooms are getting ready.

Throwing up "hipokrit" guys!

Many accuse that hosteliers are racists and double-standards as they always treat Asian/Malaysian worse than the other tourists. Do ask with most of the owners of hostels or hotels, I guarantee they will say the same as what we said below. Cosmopolitan Hotel @ Chow Kit even explicitly said in their site that they do not receive any Malaysian. At all.

But actually I can say that it is not the race that is matter but that bad attitude always resulting bad treatment. And lambasting telling us "ill-mannered" them just after they had given us bad attitude - is just ridiculous. I believe they behave 180 degrees differently if they travel in other countries staying in "whities" hostel. Who is the racist now?

While we try to be at our best, the bad experiences handled this "local" sometimes really overshadowing the good ones. Pic here is just our example guests. We need to clean up the whole things and change the mattress etc as I don't think anybody want to stay in that room after what they did. Coming in a group and try to squeeze in a room. Pardon me, the bed is made for certain capacity - not to carry 4 - 6 adults in a bed. The rooms are created just to cater specific number of people and not to be treated as hall/lepak place.

I doubt that they "know" the meaning of the words "dust bin" or "astray". Eating in the bed, throwing rubbish everywhere, smoke in bed and burning the sofa, carpet etc. The cost of accommodating these "future generations" sometimes can be as much as refurbishing the whole room or even the whole living room.

Not to mention the noise they make. "CONSIDERATION" is such a big word, I suppose, for some of these fellas. Lepak mentality that make them think that everybody sleeps at 4am and wake up at afternoon justify them to do whatever they want. "Neighbour" is just an alien that unfortunately and stupidly doesn't understand this "cool" things.

Came in 4 although booked for 2 persons, we told them they should find other room but we gave them "CONSIDERATION" as they said they were well-behaved fellas! Five minutes checking in, Heineken on the carpet. Not a drop but can spilling, Sir! Not even saying sorry nor admitting it.

Next day, throwing up on the mattress!

Any word? None. I asked them whether they had anything to admit as I changed the whole bedsheet and mattress so they can sleep. None. Nobody admitted anything. DENY is the key here. BLAME others is another keyword, I supposed.
Only after got confronted, one guy admitted that he threw up. Any apologize words? None. Again, after I asked for, he only uttered it.

No responsibilities. No manner.

I charged them for the washing. Big complains! Called us hypocrite (not "hipokrit" as you said, guys!) Want to check out and just left the mess. Smart! Only paid after I told them I called the police. Lucky for them, I gave BIG CONSIDERATION for charging only RM97 for washing - not for changing mattress and bedsheet and carpet and blankets and pillows. Yes, this fella (red shirt) threw up a lot and everywhere.

What comes around goes around. Someday when you all have your own house, who knows, somebody will be your guests and do the same to your belongings. I wonder what they will say or do.

Of course, we had many youngsters that were such a big thumb up as well and had some "whities" that usually got kicked out immediately as well. So, yeah, still doing the business and still full till today. Must be somewhere, somehow, something right. God bless us.

And for those who wondering how "bad" is our treatment to these guys : gave them superior room with 2 extra beds with price of standard room, 1 barrel of heineken free, lended our car so they didn't have to walk for dinner, and late check out till 4 pm as the "kings" cannot wake up.
No "thank you" in return, instead complaining that we were "pro-white" and "bad treated/not friendly" with them!
Thanks to them, we will not - ever - give these "bad" treatment to anybody.

Kacang's girlfriend

Les and Karim are still with us. Karim will leave to Australia on 2nd though. Maude Grossan and her boyfriend left today after 13 nights with us.
Aisyah - Malaysian teaching in Chiang Mai - is with us. Karim's brother and his niece are in the house as well. Megan and Lindsay from Canada are doing open water course, Tautvydas and Saullius from Lithuania stay until 1st August and Metka and her boyfriend from Slovenia stay for 2 nights.

Kacang brought home a girlfriend as well although today she left - hope she will find way back. We put collar and did deworming, showered her with anti-flea med before let her choose whether she wants to stay here or back to the jungle.

Guests

Matthew, Jess, Heather and friends are still here. (Pic). Bernadette was back to Phuket on 16 (pic). But most of our guests since last blog are still here. Justin and gf (Ireland) arrived a day late as they were cheated in Satun border costing them around 400 euros. What a bad luck!
Maude from French and bf are going to stay with us until 30th. Les is still here as well, and Karim. Stipo from Croatia is still staying here and he has not any decision when he wants to leave.
Only Kalio from Finland left today and Krupa from India.
Hence we have Andersson from Canada, Jason Lim and Lau Sing Yee from Malaysia. And Syahdan and his 4 friends from Malaysia that insisted to stay here and finally squeezed in one room. Sound familiar?
And again, this is low season in Langkawi and you can find plenty of rooms here for a bargain.

Zack is making 6 new rooms now and hope that they will be finished by October.

Dinner

Hot like hell for few days and today suddenly we have cold shower. Good to cool down the weather a bit.

Sofia and her entourage left last night. Most of the nights as Zack cooked for them, the guests enjoyed free dinner as well. After beef rendang (Malaysian dry stew), the next night he grilled fish, and last night we ordered food from British Raj and baked quails! and chicken - tandoori marinated (courtesy of British Raj).

Tomorrow Nic and Charlie will leave the house and go to Bali. Les and Karim are still here tough and two couples Chong Zhang from China, Ian from England. Few girls as well Bernadett from Germany, Elisabeth and Carla from England and 3 boys and girls from England that came one to early (Matthew & friend - one month early, Heather and friend, Jessica and friend). Anna from Sweden and Jane from Canada just left this morning.

Beef Rendang Night

Zack's grand-daughter from KL came today, of course with her mom, Sofia. Zack cooked beef rendang for everyone - all the guests and sorry, no pics as I forgot to take one. Karim, Nic (athough she did not eating) and Charlie, Les from South Africa (return to our place after almost 2 years), Tia and Shane from UK, Luke from Australia, Sal -Sofia's best friend from KL, and Jennifer and her friends all from KL.

The night before I drank too much and still got the effect of it, I suppose. Rafal from Poland with his mother and brother and Ainu from Singapore, Sattar - GP from London, Nic and Charlie. All of us under the tree - the usual spot. A bottle of gin and two bottles of whiskey.

Kacang injured both his back legs' paws although it doesn't stop him from keep jumping around here and there.

First time outing for Edie's last night

It's been long time since I updated the blog. The reason is of course being lazy and the other one is our main computer is crashed! We had to reformat everything. Luckily most of the data can be restored although one of our project was gone. We will change our website from html to php-based and sadly our design etc are gone exactly just before we supposed to launch it. Well, another long nights - sleepless night.

Anyway, Eddie finally went home on 6th and the pics are his last night here. He lived with us and did not go out at all to eat outside as he cooked most of the times and the only food he bought outside would be fried chicken and pancake from night market. So we took him to British Raj to try some Northern Indian and Middle Eastern food and to get him fancy dinner. That was the first time for him to taste it and at least he finished his. His first time drinking lassie also! (And he spent almost six months in Asia)

The Thai Restaurant starts to build the restaurant and with sad and heavy heart, we saw the bulldozer cleared up Zack's beloved front yard/garden.
We relocated most of the plants including the bougenville to our backyard.

Stormy days

Few stormy days, few sunny days. Headless body stranded in Cenang during the worst storm on Tuesday and sailing boat "Dynamite Cruise" was beached as well in front of Lanai. The boat was in devastated condition and they will raise fund to help the owner to do something about it in Sheila Restaurant.

Only one or two rooms empty though. Still you don't have the feeling like the house is full due everybody stays here so long already and we kind of like big family now. New people come and stay usually for few days and easily mingle with us.
Funny feeling actually.

Eddie finally got his flight home on 6 July from Bangkok via Egypt Air. Nicole got answer from YTL that she perhaps can join them for apprenticeship in Bali start next month. Wiener got new house as well.

Curry house - British Raj - opened for public since yesterday. Finally. And start next month as Big Joe ended his tenancy, the front yard (not the building) is rented out to a Thai Restaurant. They will build new building as they want to make an authentic Thai-style building. So far, they said they want to put it as fully aircond. restaurant. Think about it, it is good for the guests that stay in the fan rooms as they can escape occasionally there during the hot season.. .

In and out

We have Nathan May and his partner since Monday. Shanon and his family since last Thursday. Lany and her family since Tuesday. James since Sunday. Paul and Anna. Muzzy. And today Mimi - South Korean from US and Sukrit - Indian from US. Plus Nurul and her companies from KL.

Of course, we still have Karim, Nic and Charlie, Edie and Wiener.

Got a bit worried as the house would be overbooked on 17 but luckily Nurul, Mimi and Sukrit changed their plans and hence we are going to be just fine on that day.

Charlie finished his paperworks last Tuesday so we gone overboard again in Sunba to celebrate his "holiday"! Nic finished her yoga class yesterday so well, finally, they can have a break for few days or perhaps few weeks before they have to start to reality again.

Some other guests

These are the picture of Alicia and friends. Some of them were staying with us in March when they were doing GAP voluntary program.

Another one is of course Nicole and Charlie. Yes, they are still here with us. We were having dinner at Oasis - last days of Nadia's holiday in Langkawi. Charlie just went back the day before from Singapore for his exams. Wish him good luck for the results!

House was full of Australians last week but this week we have mix of everything with Britons dominant the house.

The family

Here are some pics of Zack's family. From left : Norman (youngest son), Nadia (youngest daughter), Jasmin (in white dress - Sofian's eldest daughter), Sofia (eldest daughter) with Dayana (her daughter), Zack, Sofian (eldest son), Rowena or Weng (Sofian's wife) and Jayfara (Sofian's youngest daughter).

Another day again

Its school holiday now in Malaysia and Langkawi enjoys a short peak season.

About the guest house, Nic and Charlie are still here. Karim is still here. Edie from Austria is back and Wener from Germany is back as well. The later two will stay until early July.

Gary - American living in Perlis with his wife, Christina, went to Langkawi and made a short visit to the house. This is his pic with Zack. He was donated some books for our library last year.

Posted here some pictures with the guests. Leonardo from America, Elena from Spain, Claudia - Italian/Venezuelan living in Ireland and Joy from America.
We had Debbie's partner from Netherlands and Robin and partner from England with Gunther from Germany together with Zack and Raja - under the tree.

Hot and humid days

The days are hot and humid.

As we put satellite back down on the living room, most of the guests just laze around there now. Karim from Oz still here. Nicole from Germany and Charlie from UK as well. Nick and Michelle from UK still do not know when they are going to leave. In between now and last blog, we had/have Danish boys Ramus and his friend, Wiener from Germany, Lee from KL, Max from Germany, Fergus from NZ (he ll be back in Dec with his family), Yuen from HK.

Tomorrow we will have Bilal and family from India and Jeffry from USA.

Go public!

So we finally made it to KL or more exactly Genting.
This time we decided to use public transportation : bus! For Zack, this was the first time after 30 years as usually we drive ourselves to anywhere.

Picture here : skybus from LCCT to KL Sentral (red) RM9, Aerobus that charge RM1 cheaper (yellow bus but not star shuttle), Genting bus RM3.30 only from KL Sentral to Genting skyway station, Genting skyway RM5.