"Breathe, breathe, suck the oxygen in, you can do it" No, I am not being coached while giving birth, though climbing Mt Kinabalu is akin to that experience, I am instead trying to get enough oxygen into my lungs in the rarefied air, close to the 4,000 meter mark on Mt Kinabalu. It is 5am and we have been climbing from the climber's rest house, Laban Rata since 2.30am. I am struggling to get enough air to keep going for a minute without a rest. Avan could see ...

Just when we thought Chinese New Year was over..... we found it all over again in Kota Kinabalu! KK is the capital of Sabah a Malaysian State in the Island of Borneo. We flew in, courtesy of Air Asia, and enjoyed two days at a bit slower pace. Eating and drinking is fairly inexpensive and in the evenings we went out looking and found live music. An amazing performance troupe presented a very acrobatic version of the New Year lion dance that involved high platfo...

We came back to KL from Penang for one night and spent it in the China Town area staying at a very budget priced "Swiss Inn", which was easily accessible from the monorail. Public transport in KL is generally, cheap and easy. The accommodation proved perfect for one night even though room did not have a window. We enjoyed wandering the streets, heard some bad karaoke, before preparing for the next leg our next adventure, to Sabah. 

Welcoming the Year of the Tiger...A walk to the monorail station with packs on our backs, then a walk to the bus station for the airport bus, then a short Air Asia flight, followed by a taxi ride and here we are at the Bayview in Georgetown. Had to chose Bayview since it is the namesake of our work place. An orientation walk proved that most people were off work enjoying their family time for New Year's Eve but we found, of all things, an English style pub to...

"That's the smallest receipt I have ever seen!" exclaimed the Air Asia Sky bus attendant and he laughed as he showed his colleague. We had just boarded the bus from the KLLCC (Kuala Lumpur Low Cost Carrier terminal) after an Air Asia flight from Perth. Rather than carry bulky A4 size pages printed off the Internet for our airline and bus tickets, I had reduced the size on a photocopier and cut out just the necessary receipt and barcode. It is all about the w...