Petronas Towers sparkling in the sunlight

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Imposing. Impressive. But in terms of aesthetics, I like Taipei 101 better.

Not the Philippine National Bank

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Somewhere in Kuala Lumpur is a building with a PNB sign on top. When I first saw it, I wondered if the Philippine National Bank had established an offshore branch in Kuala Lumpur which would have been strange. I learned later that PNB stands for Permodalan Nasional Berhad and it is a fund management company.

New, but old

A traveller’s diary: From Port Klang to Kuala Lumpur and back

I’d love to write about my Southeast Asian adventures on a day to day basis, just like a real traveller’s diary, but I can’t. Some stories are due for publication in the paper I write for and I have to wait until they get published first before I reproduce them in my blogs. So, I’ll ... (more)

Nanny cam

This is a two-year-old video clip of a maid (nanny?) physically abusing a young girl. I first saw a truncated version in Facebook and I had to do my own search to find the source. It is authentic, it happened in Kuala Lumpur, the children’s parents were the ones who installed the camera and that ... (more)