Mimi on March 19th, 2010

When my former roommate from Ateneo came for a visit last month, she asked me about left luggage lockers at KL International Airport (KLIA). I was embarrassed to admit that I knew nothing about it, other than the fact that I’ve seen it somewhere in KLIA. The most that I could do at that time [...]

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Mimi on March 13th, 2010

…when the buns on the shelf of a convenience store feature flavours like these:-

From left to right (click on above photo to see a larger view):

Kelapa – coconut
Ikan bilis – anchovy in chili
Kaya – coconut jam
Kacang merah – red bean
Spicy tuna

Retail price: only RM0.80 apiece (~USD0.23) as of this writing.

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Mimi on March 6th, 2010

In a previous post, I confessed to being a perpetrator of drive-by shooting. And my latest ’shooting’ involved the Petronas Twin Towers.
I took these shots en route to a meeting at Mandarin Oriental Hotel using my D90 and my 50mm prime lens from a moving car.
Here are the Petronas Twin Towers, layered one on top [...]

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An old friend from my alma mater, Ateneo De Manila University, was attending a conference in Malaysia last week and I had the chance to visit her at her hotel — the picturesque Pullman Lakeside Putrajaya.
The sprawling hotel — as its name indicates — is located right next to the man-made Putrajaya Lake, which [...]

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Malaysian year-end school holidays typically start on the last few weeks of November and last all the way until the first Sunday of January. Hence, even though I was away for 30 days last November/December, I still managed to hang out with the children for the last ten days or so of their school holidays, [...]

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