Articles tagged with: Malaysia
Hunting for LIONS in Malaysia! [The Chinese New Year Acrobatic Lion Dance]
Colorful, exciting, dramatic, funny, suspenseful. What could this be? The newest Pixar film? No, it’s the traditional Lion Dance for Chinese New Year. I really, really wanted to witness an acrobatic lion dance in Malaysia in which the performers leap from high pole to high pole. But, with my talent for missing things, I kept missing lion dances.
Other travelers and tourists told me about the …
Tourism Secrets of Kuala Lumpur
Everyone loves secrets, and I know lots of them about Malaysia’s fascinating capital city, Kuala Lumpur.
My first secret is at the famous KL Tower. Every tourist knows this tower. At 421 meters, it is the seventh highest self-supported tower in the world. Ride the elevator to the upper decks for fantastic views of the city.
But just steps away, I discovered the KL Forest Eco Park. …
New Passport at the Canadian High Commission in KL
I’ve always had a strong interest in good customer service and good design, and I was pleased to find on my visit that the Canadian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur had both.
I went there because I needed to renew my passport, and I was a little bit nervous. I’m always nervous when I come face-to-face with officialdom. They ask me to fill out forms, and …
Passport Photos with Never-Drying Ink
I could write a weekly or even daily column entitled, “Things That Happen Only to Me.” Today, that thing involved getting passport photos. I need two of them to present to the Canadian embassy as part of my application to renew my expiring passport. I imagine thousands of people around the world doing this every day. They go to a photo shop, comb their hair …
Trip to Penang to Get an Indonesian Tourist Visa
Thursday, November 5, 2015
It’s been a while, so I thought it was time for a note from the “road.” It still isn’t much of a road, but at least it isn’t Kuala Lumpur. I’m in the George Town district of Penang about 5 hours by bus north of KL.
My journey here falls pretty firmly into the “things like this only seem to happen to me” …
Buying a Smartphone – Samsung Galaxy J7
I finally got around to buying a smartphone. I thought’d I’d do a little experiment and type something up on the NEO and then hook the NEO up to the phone (using the keyboard emulator function) and see how easy it is to send an email.
The story of this smartphone could already take up a few hundred words, but I’ll try to keep it under …
Quick Trip – Kuala Lumpur to Singapore
I’m writing from Singapore, and for the first time, I have my laptop out in a coffee shop. I never really took it outside of the hostel in Kuala Lumpur. It’s not like the NEO. Not quite so portable and all that stuff. Taking this computer feels like I should be doing something important. And it’s a lot heavier. Everything feels a lot more complicated …
Quick Trip – Kuala Lumpur to Singapore
A small adventure to report. It really is small, so don’t get your hopes up. It’s just a short trip to Singapore. My tourist visa for Malaysia was expiring, and I had to leave the country. My original plan was to leave by bicycle, but I was too disorganized and that never happened. I was so disorganized that I didn’t even realize that my visa …