We had our first BBQ here yesterday - a nice number of people, too much (but great) food, an awesome BBQ chef ;-) and lots of fun and pics. Looking forward to the next one!

It's been a long time since I have had a new favourite Hawker dish - now I got one. Ban Mee (a hokkien style dish). It's anchovies soup with bits of dough (pinched from a big loaf of dough), with dark fungus and some green leaves. I opted to not have the pork mince included. Pretty good, I would say! :-)

A few weeks back now, I took Troy for a weekend to France. Well, France inside Malaysia. Ok, so there is a alsass-french themed Hotel plus cobbled Street in the Hinterland of KL . That's as french as it was. It was nice, but nice in the way that if you go to Disneyland you expect to have fun, but no 'real' castle and stuff. It was the same here. It was fun. It was different but don't come with the expectation to actually get real french stuff. Not even the croissants tasted half french.

The main reason why we came up here was actually the Berjaya Golf course. As the whole resort is at around 1000 m above sea, it is a pleasant change to play with a breeze and not to have many people around.

 

Over the labour-day weekend, we flew into Tawau (Malaysian Borneo) to dive at the world-class diving site called Sipadan. Or so we thought... Sipadan island is a marine park and access is controlled by the park authority via a permit system. We knew that. But we also thought that as we only had 1.5 diving days we surely would get to go there once. Well, at the resort we were told that the unwritten 'rule' is that after 3-4 days of diving at the surrounding islands, you get to go to Sipadan. So, big surprise, we didn't get to go.

A bit sad at first, we quickly realized that being on a tropical island, staying in huts above the water and still going diving in other spots does not really warrant any sadness! so, we had a great time, saw HUGE turtles, sea snakes, a fish eating a sea urchin incl. the stings and much more. :-)

Weekend saved, all good, but Air Asia still managed to have our return flight delayed by 3 h, which had us arrive back home in the middle of the night. There IS a reason why we take Malysian whenever possible. Check out the pics...