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Overseas Assignment 2012: Myanmar Adventure Part 1 – Landing In Secret Burma

Myanmar Tamil Malaya Burma Death Railway History

or as it is known now is always remembered for Burma’s Railway in World War 2 where it is said in total 62,000 POWs was forced to work on the death railway by the Japanese and almost 13,000 of them had died.

The image shows the Malaysian Tamils who were forced from their homes in then Malaya working on the construction of the death railway and who suffered worst than the Allied POWs with out of some 100,000 who was forced to work, 60,000 died. Image source: Wikipedia / Malya Thamizhar Sarithiram ISBN: 978812342548.

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Personal Trip 101: One Day Drive To Lush Green Sekinchan Part 2

Sekinchan, Paddy, Waterway, Green

The to is actually our first trip outside of our usual safe zone namely sibling and relative house since the started. It was also one of the few trips that will take us a day to go and come back home and yet still be able to do some activities. It is cheaper as we don’t have to book any accommodations so we can use the cash for something else.

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Personal Trip 101: One Day Drive To Lush Green Sekinchan Part 1

Sekinchan Paddy Field Green

It was the last day of the Deepavali week and at the very last minute, we decided to take a break away from home and go for a short drive out of the town to . Before that, we were considering several options for a quick, one day drive which included Sepang Gold Coast but Sekinchan which is famous for the lush green field, fisherman village and great seafood restaurants seems to be a better place to go.

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Outbreak 2020: Malaysia Breaking 10,000 COVID19 Case Thresholds

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is under the 2nd wave of wave – from a single-digit infection at one point mostly from returning Malaysians; it has now increased by 2 digits in recent days. This is not a good trend. Image source: DG, Ministry of Health

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Kingdom of Cambodia 2020: Part 9 – No Fear, Foodpanda Delivers (1)

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The next 3 parts in this series would be on the various dishes ordered online using delivery services from in , a true blessing in disguise for those working late and do not want to be walking around looking for in time of a major . Photo by Erik Mclean from Pexels

Perhaps it was a blessing disguise but back in March when the lockdown in place, we had no choice but to start ordering food, grocery, , etc online and names like Foodpanda, Grab, Lazada and yes, McDelivery was fast becoming a household name. Before March, we had never had to order online for food because we either cook dishes at home or just drive out to “tapau” from outside.

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Kingdom of Cambodia 2020: Part 2 – Overweight Luggage And Short of Cash

cambodia MAS flight phnom penh

The to started off rather early in the morning with me waking up early and double triple checking everything that I suppose bring along for the long . The kids were deeply asleep but just before I left the house, they were awake to say goodbye.

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Lock Down in Malaysia 2020: 6 Main Things I Have Missed Due to Lock Down

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We are in the 13th day of the nationwide lock down aka movement restriction order which commenced on 18th March 2020. By now the US have taken the lead in the total number of infections – recording 105,240 confirmed cases compared to China which has 86,498 confirmed cases todate. Infographic source: Statista

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Outbreak 2020: Novel Coronavirus Situation As At 13th February 2020

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There has been a huge spike in in recent days. The 2019-nCoV virus (now known as COVID-19) situation as at 13th February 2020: 1,489 dead, 6,984 recovered and 64,268 confirmed cases. Since 8th February 2020, the number of deaths has increased by another 675 deaths.

Compared to 8th February 2020, the fatality rate as of 13th February 2020 had increased from 2.17% to 2.32% but the recovery rate had improved from 7.77% to 10.87%. The number of confirmed cases in unfortunately had also increased from 16 cases to 19 confirmed cases but without any fatality (Singapore also saw an increase from 40 to 58 cases todate). Image source: The Center for Systems Science and Engineering

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An Insane Travel Idea: One Day Trip to Tarrafal Part 2

The continues to after Part 1 here

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From afar, we could see and even smell the sea and some of the guys started to get excited, probably because it was a welcomed change from the earlier dry, hilly route. Tarrafal was indeed a small town next to the sea but seems cleaner and more organised compared to Praia. The houses and commercial areas mostly two and three stories high were well organised and clean.

Seriously the Government and private enterprises need to do more to promote their beautiful beaches here. If this is in , the plan would have been overrun by local and foreign tourists on the weekends. Just take a look at Port Dickson which is about 100 kilometres from Kuala Lumpur – there are already plenty of hotels, service apartments and houses for rent and the town continues to be developed for tourism.

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An Insane Travel Idea: One Day Trip to Tarrafal Part 1

Tarrafal

The seaside town of Tarrafal lies on the other side of the island, about 70 kilometres from opposite side of Praia. It is not far but considering the condition of the road, it is expected to take us more than 2 hours to reach it. So when someone suggested for one day to the other side of island for a swim, at first it sounded insane but then it was clear that it was the break that everyone was waiting for. Image source: Google Map

When we are on , we will rarely have time for sight seeing – after all, we are expected to work on weekends and till late night. In , things were a bit different – since the users are not available on the weekends, there are days when we are unable to work on weekends. So left to hole up in the room, the team had a choice of either rest in the room or go for a walk and explore the town.

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Delicious Food in Cape Verde – Part 4 (Dinner)

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When in , I rarely take my mainly because it will be too late at night to order something from the kitchen (I don’t want them to scrap the leftovers). Further I would be very sleepy by the time I reach the hotel room so it has been easy for me to take the shower and hit the bed than walk down to the hotel restaurant.

But nonetheless, there are times when I would be very hungry and it just happens that we are back from office early, so instead of having something light in the hotel room (namely instant noodles or biscuits). Maggi instant noodles far away from home and at cold nights is simply heaven sent – any Malaysians will confirm that.

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Blogging 101: News Snippets As At 30 October 2014

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(Some snippets for this week. Hello friend, feeling jet-lag ah? This what happens if you fly too many times on tax payers and do most of your “work” from and leaves the country to run on auto pilot. Image The Net)

The post was originally slated to be posted last week (or was it the week before that? I can’t recall) but after half way through drafting it, I fell asleep. By the time, I had time to complete my draft, I had other thoughts and decided to start fresh again. You see, I am away on another assignment and the vicious cycle had started all over again.

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