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.