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.