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The next morning Mujib drove us up Chamundi Hills to visit a popular local place of worship. The Chamundi Temple is still a functioning temple which sees many believers coming every weekend to give offerings to the gods. Outside the temple complex, there are many peddlers selling flowers for offerings, trinkets and charms asContinue Reading

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This morning after a quick breakfast at the hotel, we checked out and met our driver and guide for the next three days – Mujib (I am guessing that is the approximate spelling). He looked in his forties, tall, very dark and unfortunately not handsome. He had buck teeth, potContinue Reading

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India has always been one of my top must-go list. Tell that to my colleagues and they stare at me increduously. To them, India conjures up images of dirty, undeveloped, poor and lack of hygiene. On the other hand, I relish coming in contact with thousands of years of history, an exotic location where youContinue Reading

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And so the wait was finally over. Way back in March, we bought the Legoland annual passes at pre-launch rates – RM199 for adults and RM149 for children. That is about 30% cheaper than current rack rate. Then we waited eagerly for them to announce the official opening date. ThatContinue Reading

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On 3 September 2012, I finally got down to doing what I had wanted to do for the last three months. Climb a mountain and not just Bukit Timah. About 1.5 month ago, Theo and I went to do a scouting trip to find the exact location of Gunung Pulai. ThisContinue Reading

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According to the list of Malaysia mountains, Bukit Banang is one of the lower summits we can scale in the state of Johor at just 427 metres. Although I only managed to find one article about trekking this hill, I was confident that if it made it to the list,Continue Reading

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Since finalising the purchase of our property in JB, I felt a need to look for a new challenge. And out of nowhere I suddenly recalled a long subdued desire to climb mountains. While I don’t intend to scale Mount Everest, my goal is to at least reach the summitContinue Reading