We’ll call you

A typical adventure to the tax office:
After several hours of waiting in various lines and speaking with numerous “people behind a counter” I finally get my chance to go into the little office where the magic happens (which, oddly enough, is vaguely reminiscent of a karaoke booth). We have a little chat, photocopies are made, [...]

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The Waiting Game

Ah, the joys of leaving a country and moving on to a new one… Somehow you manage to forget the hassle as soon as it’s over (kind of like giving birth, I imagine) but when you’re going through it, it’s all-consuming.
In the last few weeks, I have:

Waited in various bureaucratic offices for hours on end. [...]

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Join the Club!

For the last three months or so, I’ve been attending a (very small) travel club at work. Basically a group of us get together every Thursday and share travel tips and advice, and then ask questions. Most of us have been abroad for a number of years, so we have lots of travel experience – [...]

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Blown Away

Even though we live in a tropical climate (read: 90+ degrees Fahrenheit with 98% humidity every day), we have barely used the aircon in our mid-level apartment over the last two years.
We have enough windows and doors throughout the apartment to let the air flow freely with just the use of our ceiling fan. [...]

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Like Mother…

Well, folks, it’s finally happening. I’m turning into my mother.
All those habits and behaviors I said I would never replicate as an adult. Yep, they’re all here. And they seem to appear when I’m least expecting them – they just happen, naturally. This was not in the life plan of superkimbo, all grown up. Unfortunately, [...]

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Photo Hunt: Colorful

One of the benefits (or disadvantages, depending on your opinion) of living overseas is automatically being a member of a community of expats. Depending on the size of the city you live in, there may be just on small expat community, or, like here in KL, there may be so many expats that there are [...]

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An Insider’s Guide to Malaysia’s Best Beaches

The truth behind the title:
The “insider” is me. And the “guide” is my newest article on the Viator Travel Blog. Check it out! It’s even on the front page of the blog today (though I’m sure that won’t last long)!
You know you want to learn all about these Malaysian beauties (technically, both from the [...]

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Prime Time

In the US, “prime time” is the two hours of the evening when all the top shows are on TV. In the northeast, where I’m from, prime time is from 8 – 10 pm. Not that I ever watched that much TV (aside from Seinfeld) when I lived in the US, but at least there [...]

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Stir Crazy

I’m pretty much a homebody. I can spend days on end just puttering around the house – doing chores, messing around on the computer, reading, watching TV, whatever. Basically, I don’t have any sort of natural compulsion to leave the house unless I have something specific to do.
However, there does appear to be a [...]

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Armaggedon Days Are Here (Again)

Last week I wrote about my favorite songs from the year I turned 18, one of them was The Kingdom of Rain by The The. That particular one may be one of my favorites, but the whole album is fantastic – especially the lyrics.
This morning, a friend pointed me to this YouTube video mashup [...]

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