Category Archives: travels

Stories from my travelling experiences

Malaysia – A Thousand Shades of Green

Yikes, it’s been a frightfully long time since my last update. Let me recap on what I’ve been up to. My scuba course in Kota Kinabalu (KK) was excellent. There was me and two Malaysian naval officers who didn’t really know how to use their legs and fins, but they learned okay. We dived around [...]

Shoestringing Sabah

I’ve been taking it easy in Kota Kinabalu, the capital city of Sabah. A friendly and sunny town with a few islands off the coast to simply relax, soak the sun and waste time away. After to being to many of the best dive sites in the world, I realised it was probably time to [...]

The indigenous tribes of Borneo

The last week has been really excellent. I left Kuching, the capital of the Sarawak province with two British girls – Sarah and Zoe. Determined to experience a more authentic impression of the cultures on the island we headed inland to the jungle town of Belaga. It is so inland that the only way to [...]

Singapore and Sarawak

Holidays again, what wonderful ways to spend time. I visited Singapore for the first time, spent a few days seeing the sites and taking in the city. The city/country/island is exciting – so many different cultures blended into one, which is obvious with the various ghettos such as Chinatown and Little India. The food matches [...]

Mentor Summit Wrap-up

Google’s warm reception for all of the summer of code mentors ended a few days ago, and I’ve found some time to get back down under and sort through the piles of emails and rss feeds which have accumulated over the past week. The summit was, in my opinion, much better than last year. Those [...]