Day 3 Bandipur National Park
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 ...
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Day 2 Somnathpur Temple
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 ...
Day 1 Nameste from Bangalore
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 ...
Family Fun in Legoland Malaysia
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 ...
Mountain #3 Gunung Pulai
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 ...
Mountain #2 Bukit Banang
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 ...
Mountain #1 Bukit Timah
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 ...
Family Fun in Lost World of Tambun
On day four of our road trip in Malaysia, we left KL for the town of Ipoh. I have never been to Ipoh and really had no idea what to look out for there. While ...
Family Fun in Lotus Desaru
I was desperately counting down to this day. Since the beginning of 2012, Theo and I had almost burnt every free moment of our time juggling our careers, managing Joel’s burgeoning school work and tests ...
A Survey of JB
The family including mother, brother and sister-in-law joined us for the house hunting trip last Saturday. Together with our two older kids, we only managed to cross the Causeway around 1pm and famished. So much ...