The recovery - how about a 11:30am sleep-in and a very slow start to the day. A cup of tea and a sit out under the sun. Bat around 2pm we went out for a typical Chinese Lunch of pork belly and pork in a typical Chinese marinate, rice, wontons, fried vegetables and other bits and pieces. The food the food it is amazing it is mind blowing but it's too much I couldn't eat like this everyday but hey when in Malaysia. Unfortunately the battery had gone flat in the c...

Today we are off to Kuala Lumpur for Caths cousins wedding dinner - so its up early and time to get organized. We were supposed to be in the car and on the road by 12pm but that didn't happen haha it's very hard to organize a big Indian family so by 2pm we had left the house but had 5 stops before we would actually be on the road. The road was a super highway but unfortunately the sun was beating down on my side of the car and there was no aircon and to go with...

Today I woke up at Caths and had absolutely no idea of what was going on, apparently her Aunty was supposed to be here to show me around, tell me what's what but unfortunately she wasn't around. At about 1pm she came home and her and I went to take Caths little brother lunch at school. It was absolute chaos at the school cars, kids and parents everywhere! I met Caths little brother Vevang and we sat and had a chat whilst he ate his dinner. Next we headed back t...

Today was once again very hot in Penang but I decided to make the most of it. In the morning I walked into the old town and stumbled across these amazing markets called Campbell Mall Markets; basically most of the market was finishing up as it was approaching midday but there were a bunch of stalls still open selling preserved pickled fruits. I was given a run down of the technique for preserving the various fruits which involved ailing the fruit in salt, then ...

After a fairly rough nights sleep I was up at 7am ready to go today. First up I got my washing out the way, sent a few emails and then went out for a walk. I went for a nice walk along the promenade here and although the water is quiet muddy and unswimmable it is still quiet majestic to look at with various sea birds and critters scouring the coastline. By around 1pm it was too hot and I could already feel that I was sunburned so I headed back to the house. In...