Food Glorious Food

A year on the road exposed us to many delicious dishes in Asia. My own delicious dish, Kristen, has somehow miraculously managed to stay slim and gorgeous while I have taken on a barrel like shape and are preparing myself for several bouts of serious dieting once we get back to Sydney, Here are some […]

Beautiful Boat People

The glamours of the KM Kelud on parade for you.

Central Market KL

Muzium Telekom

I was wandering peripateticly (as you do,) and came across this staircase, it looked green and inviting so I accepted the invitation and up I went I did. Past this beautiful flower and this sleepy guy, (sssshhhh, come on, lets tippy toe past him). Up up to the corner and around the bend, walking, walking, […]

The Happy People of Bukit Bintang

Kristen is still away grieving with her cousins and Aunty. I’m suddenly all on my own, a callow youth of barely 60 summers, lost in the big steaming megalopolis of KL. It sometimes makes me feel like this, While at other times it’s more like this, But bless the cotton socks of the Bukit Bintangians. […]

Colonialism (according to some of the formerly colonised) and some freedom of speech issues it raises.

A bar, somewhere in Malaysia. The Tiger was flowing, the whisky and water was going down nicely. Surprising No ? We in the West have been told over and over again that colonialism was an unalloyed evil that we should be thoroughly ashamed of. Not so, it seems. Warning. A political diatribe follows. If […]

The Excellent Women of Ipoh (and a few good men).

Malacca’s a Cracker

Marvellous Miraculous Malacca.