ten ₱esos

at E & A Budget Hotel in Penang, in which bedbugs fed on my legs one night last year

See the truck owners’ website, OnceAroundtheWorld.com or EinmalUmDieWelt.Ch.

rickshaw pedaler in George Town, Penang, Malaysia – last year

Check the toenails.

more blog filler: another old motorcycle pic

The State Department cautions U.S. citizens against travel to eastern Sabah, in Malaysia, due to threat of violence against foreigners from terrorist and criminal groups. 

  There are indications that both criminal and terrorist groups are planning or intend acts of violence against foreigners in eastern Sabah, notwithstanding the Government of Malaysia’s increased ability to detect, deter and prevent such attacks.  The Abu Sayyaf Group, based in the southern Philippines, has kidnapped foreigners in eastern Sabah in the past.  Criminal elements are also responsible for kidnapping and piracy against foreigners.  »→

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Where did the “si” in Malaysia come from?

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an interior view of the sparsely-furnished, 860-square feet apartment in OceanView on Penang Island where I lived March to August 2009

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OceanView apartment building in Jelutong, Penang

No view of an ocean from my balcony … I can see a hill on Malaysia’s mainland (left).

Residents in upper floors’ apartments with eastern views can see the channel between Penang Island and mainland Malaysia … but not an ocean. Pulau Penang (Betelnut Island) is in the Andaman Sea.

This post office on Pulau Penang sells hiking and camping gear (behind glass), very stylish Chinese bicycles, Chinese sewing machines, fruit juices (on counter behind sewing machines) and nutritional supplements (pills).

boys playing in a river on Pulau Penang (Penang Island)

resuming our look at consumer products for sale in Malaysia:

MYM sodas bottled in Perak (left-to-right): anggur, sarsi, cream soda, air limau, strawberi