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Just Give it a Little Snakey Lick
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 4 October 2010
When I learned about the Snake Temple in Penang, Malaysia, I knew I had to visit. Snakes and I have a long-standing relationship, which may have begun back in 1968, when my father brought home the new Bill Cosby album, “To Russell My Brother, Whom I Slept With.” One of the bits was about his [...]
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Seeing George Town, One Cautious Step After Another
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 1 October 2010
I walk cautiously along the narrow streets, staying as close as possible to the edge without slipping into the concrete gutters that separate asphalt from George Town’s parading row houses. A gaunt Chinese man pedals an ancient bicycle beside me, his flip-flops poking from beneath flowing pants with each downstroke. Out of the corner of [...]
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Settling in to the Easy Ebb and Flow (and Food) of Malaysian Life
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 28 September 2010
It is monsoon season here in Malaysia. Every morning dawns clear and sunny with a breeze that freshens, keeping the monstrous heat at bay. By early afternoon., blue-gray clouds roll in and darken the sky, threatening to release a deluge. The wind dies down; humidity and suffocating heat take its place. Everything drips. Inevitably, the [...]
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Photo of the Week – Langkawai, Malaysia
Blog: Ottsworld - 2 July 2010
Unsettled Seas – Langkawi, Malaysia I did something a bit different this week, I asked you what you wanted to see for Photo of the Week. Actually, I asked my Twitter followers what they wanted to see this week! They had the choice of Kids, Action, Landscape, or Gory Photo topics; Landscapes overwhelmingly won out! Never [...]
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Know Your Gestures
Blog: Desperately Seeking Root Beer - 23 April 2010
Our van twisted up the mountain through tea plantations on the road to Tanah Rata. It was gray and drizzly, and in the dry warmth of the van I felt sorry for the two soggy backpackers we passed trying to hitch a ride in the opposite direction. They were obviously Westerners: ginormous backpacks, shorts, bandanas, thumbs up in the air trying to flag down a ride as cars hurtled by.
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Melaka, Malaysia
Blog: Patrick and Katrina do the Globe - 17 November 2009
In Melaka we finally found the quaint, charming southeast Asian town we'd been looking for. The streets were full of colonial character, with narrow alleys and colorful shutters on the aging mansions and clan houses.
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Cameron Highlands, Malaysia
Blog: Patrick and Katrina do the Globe - 12 November 2009
Imagine a Boston summer day. Then imagine donning a winter coat and jeans and going for a one mile jog along the Esplanade. Follow that up with pouring a bucket of warm maple syrup over your head and then hopping on a jam packed green line train only to get stuck between Arlington and Copley. That would be about half as hot, sticky, and uncomfortable as walking outside for five minutes in Malaysia. Ok, maybe that is a little bit of an exaggeration, but there is a reason that cool mountain retreats are much appreciated in this country a few degrees north of the equator.
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Penang, Malaysia
Blog: Patrick and Katrina do the Globe - 10 November 2009
After a week and a half of rest and relaxation on Thailand's beaches, we were ready to pack away our swim trunks for a bit and put our sightseeing pants back on. Our first attempt was to visit a "typical" Thai town on our way south.
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Slideshow: The Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 16 October 2009
In the late 1860s, a poor teenager from Guangdong Province named Cheong Fatt Tze fled the Opium Wars and escaped to Dutch-controlled Jakarta, then called Batavia. From his beginnings in a sundries shop, he grew into the head of a major trading company with stores across southeast Asia. One of those stores was in Penang, [...]
