Tag Archives: Malaysia

Guardian of the Stairs

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When we were in Langkawi, we saw a handful of monkeys, or more specifically macaques.  They were a little sneaky and a little rambunctious, but for the most part they kept to themselves.  There was one little guy. He stepped at me like he was going to attack. I backed off a little. He did the same.

This one, on the other hand, was sitting on those steps. It seemed like he was there to collect a toll for those going upstairs. Alternatively, he might have been a chaperon who would only let the appropriate people by.  Sort of reminded me of sleep-away camp when I was a kid.

Canon 7D | Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 | 55mm | f/6.3 | 1/20th | ISO200

Catamaran in the bay

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Getting back into things after a long business trip.  Went back to my last home and worked for two weeks and spent two weekends with good friends and family.  But something happened that I didn’t quite expect.  I didn’t think of Sydney at all while in the States.  Didn’t miss it, didn’t think about it, didn’t yearn to come “home”.  But then I got back.  I noticed all the things that I like about living here in Australia. These are things you simply don’t get in the States.  The people are more relaxed. They are more friendly. They seem to value relationships over status. Oh, did I mention the weather?  It’s winter in Sydney, which consists of 18-20 ° C / 62-70 ° F.  That’s pretty much the same as Seattle gets in the summer.  The evenings are pretty cold, but I stay inside and put the fire on.  The message you should be hearing is that I might stay a while…

This is from our trip to Langkawi, Malaysia last March.  Amazing place, a really nice relaxed weekend.  We were out after dinner having a walk on the beach before it was totally dark.  I’m still pretty jealous of whoever was out on that catamaran. It sat in the bay the whole weekend and didn’t move.  I could see myself owning a catamaran and sailing the south pacific for the rest of my days.

Canon 7D | Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 | 46mm | f/14.0 | 1/250th | ISO200

Beach View

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I want to live by the beach.  Plain and simple.  I want to walk out of my front door and see this every day.  I would smile, smile, smile, a huge smile every day.

Canon 7D | Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 | 10mm | f/13 | 1/180th | ISO100

Small Slice of Paradise

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A few weekends ago, we had overlapping business trips in Singapore, so we took the weekend in Langkawi, Malaysia.  We stayed at the Andaman Resort, on Langkawi Island.  The staff claimed it was one of the top 10 beaches of the world. I’m not sure I believe that.  However, it was pretty great.  We flew out on Friday afternoon/evening and returned to Singapore on Sunday night.  It was a great weekend.  Here’s a little view of that slice of paradise.

Canon 7D | Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 | 10 mm | f/14 | 1/250 seconds | ISO200

Kota Kinabalu

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Yea, I had never heard of it either.  It is in the state of Sabah in Malaysia. It is a small (~600,000k population) city on the island of Borneo. Borneo is also the third largest island in the world. It covers approximately 750k sq/kms.  While there is a world renowned orangatan reserve, we didn’t make it over there. We chose a nice relaxing weekend by the pool and enjoyed cocktails at the sunset bar.

Today’s shot is of that Sunset Bar – tomorrow I’ll post one of the sunset that we saw.

Sunset Bar KK.jpg