The Kuala Lumpur Traveler

Time flies so fast and before you notice it, Kuala Lumpur is Home is now already one year old. I started blogging at Kuala Lumpur is Home for Home Turf Media one year ago in December 2006 after being selected by Jon Symon as part of his new blog network project. Well actually I was not Jon’s 1st choice for the pilot sites. Jon had wanted me to start blogging Kuala Lumpur is Home after he had launched the three pilot sites, but I pushed my luck and tried to convince Jon why Kuala Lumpur should be in his pilot …read more

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A typical homestay program introduced by the Malaysia’s Ministry of Tourism is actually a program that allows tourists, local or foreign, to stay with a host family and be part of the family and their community to experience the local culture first hand.
BEiB’s Wan Kay Homestay is somewhat different from the typical homestay. Wan Kay Homestay, which is located in Kuala Terenngganu, is simply another place to stay in Kuala Terengganu, which I think is definitely worth considering.
If you are getting bored of staying in a hotel or chalet and would like to stay ‘at home’ while you are in …read more

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My daughters are all at home for their school holidays. It is normal for us to have some kind of family activities at home and most of the time it is centered around the activities in the kitchen.. cooking our favourite meals together. So yesterday I woke them up very early to help prepare breakfast and lunch together.. The menu this time was Frankfurter Breadroll for breakfast and Tandoori Chicken, served with Tomato Rice and Pineapple Curry for lunch. It is not hard at all to prepare these favourite meals especialy if you do it together with your …read more

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I read in Malaysiakini that another coalition to counter the lies spread by mainstream media and demand for press freedom and independence had been formed. Appropriatelly named GASAK which stands for Gerakan Anti-Salah Maklumat (literally Movement for Anti Mis-information), the movement will be pressing for three main objectives:
1. Stop the mis-information
2. Balanced reporting for all parties
3. Editorial independence
At the same time GASAK also launched a campaign to boycot the mainstream media that will be promoted nationwide in their effort to educate the public about the lies spread by the Government-controlled media within Malaysia.
Read more at Harakah Daily.Net
Read about the latest …read more

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The end-of -year school holiday had started…. but the new school term is fast approaching. The present Malaysian government had, in its latest budget, announced free text-books for all students from next year, and in doing so, proudly told the public, the education in Malaysia is now FREE. Yes.. I agree… but only to the extent of agreeing to the fact that ONLY the text books are free… no more than that. Quite to the controrary, the education will cost even more next year for Malaysian parents. I am sure, I will have to spend at least RM3000 early next …read more

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It is definitely interesting to know that Australia has a new government and a new Prime Minister from the opposition front.
Asked why Mr Howard had lost power, Mr Rudd said it was vital that leaders were honest with voters.
“I think it’s really important with the Australian people to be straight up and down about what you can do and what you can’t do,” he said. “We believe that the core reason we have prevailed in this election is because we’ve outlined an agenda for the future which now becomes our agenda of work. If we prosecute that agenda and …read more

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Police roadblocks, police warnings, arrests of top leaders and the prospects of being arrested, fired with tear gas did not deter about 20,000 of Malaysian Indian to show up at a mass rally organized by Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf). The rally was meant to petition the British High Commission for Her Majesty’s support in their bid to sue the British Government for bringing the Indian labours to Malaysia and exploited them for 150 years. Hindraf is seeking a total of RM14 trillion as compensations.
Kuala Lumpur is under siege again today. The rally, which was supposed to be a peaceful …read more

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I will be taking my family (except my son who is in Dungun) for a weekend in Malacca, the Historic City. We have been to this small state of Malacca on short trips before but this time we will stay longer to explore Malacca as much as we can. I have not booked a place to stay yet because I am not sure if we want to stay overnight in Malacca or elsewhere. I have been browsing the net for the last couple of hours looking for some clues of where to go and what to do in Malacca and …read more

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Bersih rally had caused Kuala Lumpur traffic reduced to a standstill on Nov 10 2007. Ok… I am not stating the fact quite right. We all knew the fact that the roadblocks by the police force were the main contributors to the massive jam around Kuala Lumpur on that fateful day. I thought that was over… but it seems that the lessons were never learnt. Malaysiakini reported that there were massive traffic jams around Kuala Lumpur yet again. This time Malaysiakini had reported that a police source had revealed that the roadblocks were setup to prevent the Malaysian Indians from …read more

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I was at the KLCC today to meet a client. While waiting, I managed to capture a few pictures for you to enjoy.

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