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cab drivers
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  • When getting a local cab, he will surely ask where you will be going and sometimes these drivers can be a fussy lot and sometimes would ask for a flat rate...pls. insists on the meter and if he does not want to, get another cab. look out that he does not meddle with the meter as i myself have been thru this and would not like to have visitors to malaysia to be conned !

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    Leaping Lizards
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  • In your hotel bedroom or the restaurant, you may be lucky to see the gecko or wall lizard darting between picture frames on the wall.

    They are harmless and eat mosquitoes and insects. Interesting if caught, they will break off its tail to distract you to escape. And a new tail will be regenerated.

    The Malays called them "cicak" and currently there is a local movie entitled "Cicak-man" following the likes of Hollywood movie "Spiderman".

    You will get a funny look if you ask your hotel reception to get rid off the gecko lizard from your room. Unlikely they will get to your bed or bother you at all but hide all day and come out when everything is quiet on the wall to catch insects.


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    Last Day Sale
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  • Of course, this is a common sales gimmick everywhere by some shops that it is clearing stock, moving sale or last 3 days left. Sometimes the sale is genuine.

    There are a few China porcelain sales which are cargoed by local businessmen and manned by Mainland Chinese. They will from location to location, different shopping malls or different towns. So it may be true that it is the last 3 days but they will show up with the same stock at a different location and will be back again.


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    Snakes
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  • Malaysia has around 100 species of land snakes. It may be reassuring to know that only 16 are poisonous. Well maybe not very. The most feared venomous snake is the king cobra. All 20 species of their sea snakes are poisonous.
    Luckily for us we did not see any of these snakes except in Penang. Then the snakes were in cages.

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  • Website: http://www.angelfire.com/mo2/animals1/snake/kingcobra.html

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    This is a real and wild black...
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  • This is a real and wild black (baby) cobra, just next to our group at Sungai Palas Tea Estate in the Cameron Highlands. Malaysia is a country with many poisonous snakes (of which this is the most dangerous one!). So don't walk in the wilderness with flip-flops ect. and always watch your step! This poor animal was killed immediately by one of the plantation's guards because of the danger for all the tea pickers working around in the plantation!

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    Becareful of the traffic if...
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  • Becareful of the traffic if driving.
    Try not to drive if you are not familiar with the many one way highways. I got an experience of getting to a restaurant from my hotel which takes me only 10minutes to drive there. Guess how long I took to go back to my hotel... I took more than 2 hours to get back!

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    there are sharks indeed in the...
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  • there are sharks indeed in the area!!! i heard from the boat guy who took me on a waterski tour that in the nearby island there lives a shark called mark :)) but mark is very kind, he had never bitten anyone :) i was really curious about marky mark so here i am going shark hunting by skis!!! unfortunately mark was not around this day :((

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    Thumbs Up for Automated toilets
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  • Mohd Fadlee ... pleased with self-flushing toilet - Malaysia
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    Thumbs up for automatic toilets
    Saturday December 23, 2006
    By CHOW HOW BAN

    FINALLY, Kuala Lumpur has automatic toilets like those in other major cities in the world.


    Since the opening of two of the 12 units on Wednesday, many users have given their thumbs up to the new facilities. However, many voiced their fears that the top-notch facility would be vandalised like other public amenities in the city.

    Mohd Fadlee Yusuff, 39, who works as a chef in Bukit Bintang, was among the first to use the comfortable and fully-automated toilet located in front of a McDonald’s outlet in Jalan Bukit Bintang.

    “It has class,” he announced. “Finding it air-conditioned was a nice surprise. The toilet also flushes for you when you’re done while the taps turns on automatically when put your hands under it.

    “I think such a sophisticated toilet will be able to educate city folk to be more disciplined about hygiene and cleanliness,” he said.

    Mohd Fadlee said that although the cost of the toilets was high, the facility would benefit in the long run.

    Angeline Chen, 30, who works in Sungei Wang Plaza, described the toilet as convenient.


    “I don’t understand why these toilets are built in this area as public toilets can be found in the surrounding shopping malls. But without doubt, it is comfortable to use,” she said.

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  • Website: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/12/23/central/16396250&sec=central

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    Depending on your present...
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  • Depending on your present location and destination, of course, if you can help it, do NOT attempt to get into a taxi during peak hours ie 8 - 9am and 5 - 6pm. Also, when it rains, there would be generally less taxis on the road. Traffic jams in KL, especially when its raining heavily, can be horrible. BEWARE !!

    This is a picture at 3AM on a Sunday :)

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    Watch out!! Whang!!!
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  • The terrain will be changing very quickly during raining season. Some irregular erosion will happen & creating big hole in the middle of the trail. The fast growing ferns will make the trail more dangerous.

    Please take my advice for using harness, helmet & tight down your cargo as explain in my Pahang page.

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