On this auspicious day of the sixth (!) aniversary of me becoming a Canadian I have hit a milestone in travelling.


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Hot Fuzz is really good.

The only thing that made it now as good as Shaun of the Dead is that I saw it by myself and not with a cute girl.

Also it only cost me 5rm ($1.54can) because it was "gentlemen's night." seriously. I think the usual price is like 6 or 7 ringgit.

Yesterday I went to the Sepilok Orangutan placething ( Read more... )

Today I went to the Sandankan Memorial Park.

It commemorates the Sandakan death marchesDuring ww2, the Japanese had a number of POW camps located throughout asia. Near the end of the war the surviving POW were marched for several hundred kilometers through the jungle. Of the more than 2000 Australian and British soldiers who lived in this camp, ( Read more... )

A few nights ago, I was siting on a bench/chair thing in the patioish area of a guest house reading. I moved and I hear something metallic falling to the ground. I look down and see a small key. I has magically appeared ( Read more... )

Everyone seemed sleepier than usual this morning, and I can only assume it's cause was whatever it was last night that caused that to happen ( Read more... )

So when I was in Kuala Lumpur I met a couple of guys from a punk band (Seven Crowns from Bath, England). I told them I'd go to their show in KL, but I ended up not going because I messed up the time and then went to see an Indonesian trip hop band instead ( Read more... )

Yesterday when I woke up my stomach hurt. Boo. But I would not let that stop me from encountering monkeys ( Read more... )

Yesterday I got up at 3:30 in the morning to be driven up a mountain to see the sun rising over some active volcanoes. Smoke was coming out of them (well, presumubly smoke ( Read more... )

So I didn't cross it on land (boo), but I'm currently in indonesia ( Read more... )