I am very confused. I have not posted here for about 3 weeks, yet my ranking within Orble has changed very little and my individual and link readers are quite high for not being active. They are higher than those of my new site, even though I am trying to redirect readers there. If you are a follower please follow me at my new site: www.ifoundmalaysia.com

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Respect Your Host

June 8th 2011 15:25

: Tourists Behavior in Malaysia

I have been meaning to write about the subject of the behavior of Western tourists in Malaysia for quite some time, but after a trip into the Georgetown section of Penang I made up my mind to do it today. I have always been taught that if I were a guest in someone else's home that I should dress and behave respectfully. I also would expect anyone who is a guest in my house to feel at home, but still respect my hospitality and dress and act appropriately. Whether or not someone visits another's house or country I feel the same rules of respectability should apply.

Tonight I saw no less than 10 caucasians who appeared to have just crawled out from beneath a rock. They had long, scraggly hair, unkempt beards and clothes that appeared to have been slept in and rarely laundered. They were absolutely disgusting looking and an embarassment to all civilized caucasians. Some of these people appeared to have been drunk and incoherent. Others appeared to be searching out the underlife of the areas frequented by prostitutes. Sadly to say a few of these people appeared to have psychiatric problems. To me all of them resembled homeless people

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NEARBY TREASURES

May 20th 2011 15:05

: SOUTHEAST ASIA TRAVELS

One of the many benefits of living in Penang, Malaysia is that many wonderful attractions of Southeast Asia and Asia in general are a short, inexpensive plane ride away. If you visit the AirAsia website, for instance, you can see a variety of exotic locations in Asia, for a very reasonable price. For people viewing various vacation packages from the US, keep in mind that unlike in the US the prices are for one way only. Sometimes the return trip is a little more expensive. I don't know why they don't use roundtrip prices. Maybe they don't think people will return!

Mind you there are many beautiful places in Malaysia to visit, which are a bus ride or car ride away, but this post will deal with a recent vacation to North Vietnam. Since Kevin only has a certain amount of vacation time each year, we have to choose wisely. We had heard many good things about Vietnam from friends, so we decided to check out some of the Vietnam travel websites for the best deals.Many years ago I had spent some time in South Vietnam, but never North Vietnam. We booked a week long tour of Hanoi and Halong Bay, on a website we found. The first day in Hanoi we had to take the mandatory tour of the Ho Chi Minh memorial and listen to an hour long propaganda spiel in the broiling hot sun. I can still remember being told that for the eigth year in a row Ho Chi Minh was voted the most beloved and popular leader in the world. I think I missed those votes

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Condo Overload

May 19th 2011 14:52

: Luxury Condominium Development

Seven years ago when I researched my first visit to the island of Penang I learned that it was called the Pearl of the Orient. I guess I expected a "small" island. When I arrived here I saw a large island with many large hills lush with rainforest growth and populated with monkeys, I walked along Gurney Drive, with luxury hotels, condo, foodcourts and hawker stands lining one side of the road and the ocean splashing upon the beach on the other side. Traveling around the island I do remember seeing numerous high end condos intermixed with low cost housing developments. I really fell in love with the island and it;s scenery.

Now things have changed. A large luxury housing development, including a very high end shopping center with extremely expensive condos above and a marina, has been built on reclaimed land. It is my understanding that reclaimed land should not be built upon for at least 15 years, but the time elapsed for this development was less than 5 years. Because of this development walking along Gurney Drive is akin to walking beside a mud flat. One can only see mud and washed up garbage and trash. Nature and beauty for all destroyed for the benefit of a wealthy few

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