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

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

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 and making key financial decisions pertaining to a new car and property investment in JohorContinue Reading

It has been five days since I returned to my mundane life and I am still recovering from jet lag and travel fatigue. I must be getting old! We landed back in Singapore at 9pm local time, which would have been 12mn in Sydney (yah I crossed daylight savings whileContinue Reading

One full day left for us in this part of Down Under. As highlighted earlier, we were already beginning to feel the rigour of travelling by Day 9 so I was actually glad that this was our last day of travelling. I must be getting old. It took me awhileContinue Reading

The power came back on sometime in the middle of the night and we were once against warmed by the small tiny heater which we are grateful for. The morning came and despite everything, we had a pretty good rest hibernating under our sheets. We did a quick wash upContinue Reading