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air-temperature-malaysia
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content: The temperature and air and general ambience in Malaysia between sunrise and 10am is amazing. I really need to adjust my sleep pattern to make this part of my day.
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content: I also bought a saucepan, a soup ladle, and a spatula. My AirBnB is somewhat kitchen-ly deficient. I discovered Mydin, a supermarket/department store that has everything for cheap. And they play rocking Indian pop music. I'd hang out there just to listen to that.
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content: Baked beans are bigger here, but otherwise the same.
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content: Binging Star Trek on Netflix. TNG and Voyager are particularly hope-inspiring.
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content: Coauthoring papers with people in vastly different timezones has the advantage that there's someone working on it 24/7. And also that you're not distracted by debating changes in realtime, you can just get on with it and deal with the consequences later..
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content: Cool, social sciences are SO far ahead of web science when it comes to publishing on the Web >.> (and activism about Open Access in general) #LinkedResearch
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dripping
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content: Yesterday I went to Penang National Park, and got three kinds of wet. Part One: Sweat I took the 101 bus from KOMTAR. For 3.40 RM it took about 50 minutes to get to the National Park entrance, which is the last stop. I had to wait in line to register for at least 30 minutes. There are separate lines for Malaysian and foreigners; don't stand in the wrong one. I was unfortunate enough to be stuck behind a large group of Chinese tourists. Entry to the park is free, but you have to register your name and passport number, and in exchange for this they give you a permit to enter the park (a piece of paper with a hard-to-read map and stamp on it). This permit was checked once by a member of park staff later in the afternoon. I'm not sure if this was protocol or if he was just trying to make conversation. So probably best not to try to skip this process, even though you could technically bypass the registration desk to get to the park entrance fairly easily. I hiked from the park entrance to Pantai Kerachut (Turtle Beach). This took about 2 hours including looping around the meromictic lake twice and climbing an unnecessary hill by accident, and stopping for a snack break. The jungle is thick outside of the marked trail, and set against a backdrop of a non-stop high pitched whistling sound. I don't know if it is birds or insects. I also saw big ant trails, which is always cool. The meromictic lake is one of only a few in the world, and is interesting because it contains both freshwater and seawater, which don't mix; the latter floats on top of the former. Except most of the year it's basically dry, so there wasn't much to see. There were a handful of people at Turtle Beach, and a very small handful of turtles in the sanctuary. It was pretty peaceful, and good places to hang hammocks, and a nice view. There are no facilities (food for sale or anything), and also no swimming due to big waves and venemous jellyfish. From Turtle Beach I hiked to Teluk Kampi, which earlier some …
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george-town
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content: Just kidding, I'm going to break the habit of blogging every single day, since there will be fewer days packed as full of excitement as my KL days were. I'll probably stick most to short notes for a while. But I ate at two good veg*n restaurants today, so that's worth mentioning. Coya has a variety of healthy dishes, and labels things with egg. I had dumpling noodle soup, buckwheat tea, and watermelon (11.80myr). This evening I met C, L and Y at Sushi Kitchen for dinner. I'd missed Japanese food! A vegan restaurant with an abundance of things I want to eat. I'll be back. I ate a spicy sushi roll, edamame, and udon with tempura (25myr). On the walk back the sky went from zero to torrential in a parsec. I was drenched. I'm surprised my phone survived the journey. The other people staying in the apartment tonight laughed at me when I came in.
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georgetown-wandering
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content: Yesterday evening (21st) I went for a 'quick walk' into town. My apartment is about a 20 minute walk from the edge of George Town heritage area and 40 minutes from the jetty and core tourist zone. Between home and the edge of the 'nice' part of town is not particularly nice: apartment blocks, malls and big roads with... intermittent... footpaths. There are still lots of interesting places to stop of course; markets, stalls, local restaurants, general streetside chaos. Walking around here takes a lot of concentration, between trying to take in the surroundings, not being hit by scooters and cars, avoiding enormous open holes into the sewer, and not accidentally buying a kilo of tropical fruit every five minutes. The sky was blue. My goal was to procure coconut oil for cooking. I thought it would be easy to get hold of here, but so far, after a few days of hunting around, I found it in a vegetarian restaurant (Leaf Healthy House) and a baking shop for twice the price. I asked in an Indian grocery, and was directed to another grocery store, but I never found it. So I returned to Leaf to pick up 2 litres for RM 36.30. Or so I thought. I got distracted by not-meats at a different Indian grocery, paid a visit to Fort Cornwallis, plus dinner at Veggielicious, and by the time I made it to Leaf I didn't have enough cash left. On that note, Fort Cornwallis was pretty rubbish. There are guided tours where one is presumably told about the history.. I was at the allotted tour starting point at the right time, but nobody showed up. The 'exhibits' are glass boxes in mouldy rooms containing bits of rock or dioramas, and no explanation of what they are. There isn't much 'fort', just outer walls and some cannons on hills. I was feeling particularly disgruntled because I paid 20 RM to enter, which could have got me four or five meals. I left after about half an hour, most of which was occupied milling around waiting for a tour guide to show up. When I got back it had started raining, …
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gurney-drive-and-penang-hill
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content: Gurney Drive I spent the last few days hanging out by myself, or with friends I just met. I've wandered around George Town a little more with P and A. MM (Malaysian Mum) took us all for steamboat at MamaVege on Saturday (24th): We ordered two kinds of soup, which are served in bubbling pot on a hot plate built into the table. Plus a selection of vegetables, not-meats, and noodles, which we drop into the soup and watch simmer. Then I wandered around Gurney Drive, an area north of George Town where there are lots of fancy condos and hotels and is a common place for tourists to stay. It's a far cry from the 'heritage' of George Town, and largely malls and plazas and shiny new buildings. I thought there might be some form of beach access, but it's mostly off limits because of construction in the sea (Penang Island is all out of develop-able land). At one point I wandered down a side street in the hope it might lead to the ocean, but it turned out to lead to some guy's orchard. Just as I realised I was on someone's land and should probably leave, the owner, Bok, popped out of the bushes to say hi. He told me all about the fruits he was growing (coconut, jackfruit, various others) and that he does it for fun not profit, now that he's retired from managing a security firm. He picked a small, yellow relation to the guava (English name unknown) from a tree for me to try; it was mildly sweet and fragrant. I eventually made it to Straits Quay, or at least the shopping/hotel complex part of the area. There's a trail along the seafront that leads from Tanjung Bungah to Straits Quay, once you can find the way in. It runs behind a huge area of luxury villas, most of which are still under construction. It was more peaceful here than walking along the road... obviously. All of the villas have pools facing the sea. A good place to stay if you want to veg out and aren't interested in the local area or culture. I walked back along the seafront until I returned to Gurney Drive. I spent …
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hours-wasted
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content: The hours wasted to debugging when I've typed Accept instead of Content-Type, or vice versa... It's now the first thing I look for when I'm having header problems, and it still screws me up all the time.
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i-am
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content: Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. I am Locutus of Borg. You will respond to my questions. I am Moana of Motonui. You will board my boat.
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published: 2016-12-13T14:39:00+08:00
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kuala-lumpur-1
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content: My flight landed in KLIA2 just before 7am. The line for immigration was short but slow. Fingerprints, but no forms to fill in. The terminal is huge, and I wandered around thinking about checking out one of many mifi options, and deciding where to change money, for a while. I didn't get a mifi, but did change $50 for 202 MYR. Not a particularly good rate, I think, but no fee with CIMB Bank. Anyway, I found the buses on level 1. I bought a ticket for Star Shuttle, having learnt from wikitravel this was a good option, from a very generic looking ticket counter which seems to cover all of the many transport options. I caught the 8 o'clock, and took the approximately 1.5 hour ride to Puduraya for 11 MYR. From there I walked about five minutes to Explorers hostel near Chinatown. I'm in a 6 bed dorm on the third floor. Aircon in the lobby and rooms; wifi only in the lobby. Movies playing on a TV in the lobby 24 hours a day; high brightness, so James Bond and Star Wars look like low-budget action flicks. Free breakfast - coffee, tea, toast, peanut butter (yay!). Lockers in the room. I rearranged the contents of my bag on my bunk, then met a roommate, E. She's been backpacking around for a while, and just came from Penang (where I'm going next). Together we wandered through the nearby market, and bought sweet bao (lotus, sesame, yam). The heat squashed my appetite for most of the rest of the day. We reached the KL Tower, which is surrounded at the base by a small patch of indigenous jungle. There's a rope bridge through the tree canopy, and forest trails. The base of the tower is full of souvenir stands and overpriced food. There's an upside down house. A house in which everything is upside down. Also the house itself is upside down. Okay. We didn't go inside. The tower itself is pretty expensive to go up, at over 100 MYR to the very top. Having said that, it's about the same as towers in most major cities. Maybe I'll go up anyway. But we didn't yesterday. Continued wanderin…
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name: Kuala Lumpur 1
published: 2016-12-02T11:02:00+08:00
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kuala-lumpur-10
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content: I had a plan. Leave early from the hostel, catch a bus to TBS (let's pretend that stands for The Bus Station), and take an intercity bus to Butterworth, Penang. Then get the ferry from Butterworth to George Town, and a bus most of the way to my next end destination. I'd be there by mid-afternoon. The night before, I met some people who were planning to take the train to Butterworth on the same day. The train is a little more expensive, and I'd read a little slower and less comfortable. But there wasn't much in it, and the more I thought about it the more appealing taking one train over two buses became. Plus all three of them ended up in my dorm that night. So I joined their little crew: C (Essex), L (Netherlands), Y (Russia). We left the hostel, bright eyed and bushy tailed, by 0830, hopped on the train from Pasar Seni to KL Sentral, and then found the ticket counters for the intercity trains (upstairs, above the Komuter ones). The trains were full until 11:40. That felt like aaages away. Trains sell out?! So we took a taxi to TBS. A taxi voucher counter was conveniently around the corner from the train ticket counter. Splitting 27 myr between four of us for a fifteen minute drive didn't seem so bad. I'd read the buses were super frequent, so we were confident on not losing much time at all. How naive we were. This is only half of the bus station. We queued for an hour, to find out that all the buses were sold out until 18:10. Right?!? There are a dozen bus companies, with departures for Penang every ten to fifteen minutes. All day. We sucked it up and bought the last four tickets on the 18:10 bus, for 34 myr each. The company turned out to be Konsortium. Not one of the fancy ones with wifi. Then we went for coffee et cetera at the bus station food court. L bought coffee, the coffee was awful. We all took one tiny sip each and could not go further. I have since discovered there's a common type of coffee that contains margarine. What the FUCK Malaysia? Yeah it was a…
generator: sloph
name: Kuala Lumpur 10
published: 2016-12-11T05:30:00+08:00
tag: bus
tag: kuala+lumpur
tag: malaysia
tag: taxi
tag: transit
tag: travel

kuala-lumpur-2
type: Article
content: (Friday 2nd December) Woke up early, and caught up on internets in the hostel lobby. Researched some things to do. Concluded that buying a KL Pass was not necessary for the discounts it offered. It's probably good if you want to go to like loads of themeparks and shows and stuff, but even with the discount on the KL Tower it doesn't seem worth it for me. Wifi in the lobby was good until about 9am when the rest of the world came down for breakfast. Headed out with E around midday in search of food. We went to Bakti Woodlands Indian vegetarian restaurant, a couple of blocks from the hostel. It was full of people who looked like they probably originated from India, and didn't consult menus before food arrived to them, which is a good sign. E ordered a Jain thali, and I had mushroom manchurian and aloo paratha. It was exactly the right amount of food, and so deliciously full of flavour. I'd say I'd go back, but there are a whole bunch of vegetarian Indian restaurants on the same street, so I'll probably try a different one. I had planned to wander to a monorail station and get a travelcard, then take a jaunt to Titiwangsa park, and be back before dark so I could do some work. We wandered into the first train station we found, which didn't have the TouchNGo card available, so we just bought a one way monorail ticket. The machines issue a little round plastic token, which is interesting but inconvenient because it doesn't fit in my wallet like a normal ticket would (1.70 myr). Then we discovered the monorail doesn't actually connect at this station. So we took a train two stops to one that did. The monorail was packed. But still cool. Next discovery was that the stationed named Titiwangsa is not that close to the park after all. And requires walking near a horrible, giant, smelly, under-construction highway. We stopped at Gloria Jean's for iced tea and a wifi break. We finally made it to the park, which has big lakes, fountains, and a traffic park.. a place with pretend t…
generator: sloph
name: Kuala Lumpur 2
published: 2016-12-03T10:31:00+08:00
tag: kuala+lumpur
tag: travel
tag: vegan

kuala-lumpur-3
type: Article
content: Today was moderately productive, from the hostel in the morning and VCR Cafe in the afternoon. I found VCR on workfrom. It's hip, spacious, with good coffee, good wifi, and abundant power outlets. Upstairs are floor-to-ceiling windows and a balcony (though, populated by smokers). The wicker chairs are comfier than wood. Coffee seemed kind of pricey - 9 myr for a small americano - but I don't know what's standard for the hip coffeeshop scene. About the same as chains, at any rate. I ate lunch at Blue Boy, an indoor-outdoor set of stalls supervised by sullen staff serving excellent food. All vegetarian. I got fried flat noodles with vegetables (and requested no egg), a plate of not-pork, and lemon juice, for a thoroughly reasonable 10.50. Dinner was on the pricier side, from Yuet Sum Hin, a Chinese vegetarian restaurant in Bukit Bintang. There was so much to choose from, and as I was half way through reeling off dishes the waitress warned me I was ordering too much. I confirmed that I could take home what I couldn't finish, and continued. For 44 myr I got sizeable portions of kangkong (water spinach), tofu in black bean sauce, and fried rice with salted 'fish', and a pot of jasmine tea. I finished about one third, and it was all delicious. The fried rice was my favourite. I detoured through Times Square again on the way back. Surprised by how cheap clothes on the upper floors are for a mall. Initially I was just scouting so I have a basis to haggle at the market, but then I bought some light, knee-length pants for 12. I wandered around a corner on the 9th floor and was confronted with... this... There's a literal theme park inside the mall. And it's all quirky and space themed. Full blown rollercoaster. Actual craziness. Took a wrong turn on the way out and accidentally found the thumping nightlife district. It was awful. Exited with haste. Longer route than anticipated back to the hostel, as my navigating-by-hotels is still not up to scratch, plus the chronic problem…
generator: sloph
name: Kuala Lumpur 3
published: 2016-12-03T23:59:59+08:00
tag: food
tag: kuala+lumpur
tag: times+square
tag: travel
tag: vegan

kuala-lumpur-4
type: Article
content: Spent today around Brickfields, the Indian part of KL. To get there I passed through Petaling St Market (... a couple of times) and scouted bright coloured loose pants. The starting price seems to be 20 to 40 myr, so I can probably negotiate down to lower than the mall ones. Let's also pretend that Kasturi Walk and Central Market were on the way too. Well, they kind of were, it's hard to keep bearings in these windy streets and enormous confusing highway junctions. Anyway, eventually I made it to Brickfields, and looked into some temples. In one, a wedding in progress. It seemed a bit chaotic. 20 sen for shoe storage outside. I had it on good advice (TripAdvisor forums) that the money changers in Brickfields are abundant and have the best rates. I spent my last few ringgits on a lotus bao to see me through lunchtime, and couldn't find an (open) money changer anywhere. Lots of veggie restaurants I now couldn't eat at though. Eventually I stopped into PODs hostel and got directions to one. A very specific one, perhaps the guy's buddy.. At PODs I noted excellent seating, wifi, and coffee. I followed the directions to Nu Sentral mall. Another mega shopping complex with many chains and divine aircon. I found a money changer that did not fit the description of the one I was told has "best best price for you", so I noted the rate and kept looking. When I found the one that looked right (orange signs), sure enough it had a better rate, and I swapped $80 for 355.20 myr - probably as close to the exchange rate as I could hope to get. I wandered the mall for a bit. Contemplated Boost, Nandos and Built (they have a vegan burger) and a cafe called Library Bar Central. Ultimately decided to return to PODs, not least because every outlet in the mall was playing christmas music. PODs sold me a lukewarm iced coffee for 5myr, and I sat in a super comfy swingseat in the window for the next few hours with my laptop. When hunger struck, I headed to Gandhi's vegetarian restaurant. The si…
generator: sloph
name: Kuala Lumpur 4
published: 2016-12-04T23:59:59+08:00
tag: food
tag: justgo
tag: kuala+lumpur
tag: market
tag: travel
tag: vegan

kuala-lumpur-5
type: Article
content: I spent most of today working from the hostel, after waking up late. Went out early evening for 45 minutes in the Telecom Museum. This was plenty of time to read everything, and it's very interesting. A student ticket is 5myr. Upstairs was seating and wifi; had I known, I would have gone there to work. I had dinner at Water Lily vegan restaurant, which has a huge selection of stuff and I definitely want to go back there to try more. I had the BBQ bao, which previous reviews on HappyCow raved about, and sure enough it was great. I got a set meal: assam soy fish, which came with tofu, vegetables, rice, and herbal tea. The tofu and veggies were bland, but the sauce around the fishy chunk of soy meat was good. I also had lime sour plum juice; 18.60 in total. I got there just after 5 and it was very quiet. Mostly the staff were occupied peeling mushrooms with which they'd covered the entire table. After that I wandered to Dataran Merdeka, a big open area of grass surrounded by museums and galleries, and containing fountains and a giant flag pole. I also found the library, and I think I'll go there to work tomorrow. As the sun began to set, the lighting here was incredible. Orange reflections cascaded between the glass of skyscrapers, and both the KL Tower and the Petronas towers were in view from some spots.
generator: sloph
name: Kuala Lumpur 5
published: 2016-12-05T23:42:00+08:00
tag: food
tag: justgo
tag: kuala+lumpur
tag: travel
tag: vegan

kuala-lumpur-6
type: Article
content: I worked from the library from 10 until 2.30, which was great. It's cool without being over-airconned to freezing, the wifi works fine, there are good chairs and desks (and I can take my shoes off and sit on my feet), a nice view, and the atmosphere is generally conducive to productivity. I walked through Kasturi St market for lunch, picking up a selection of fried Indian things (4myr), fresh coconut water (3myr) and steamed coconut rice (3myr). I dropped my laptop back at the hostel, then went to the Bird Park. A steep 50 myr for entry, but I think worth it. Still half the price of MOMA in Boston. I spent 2 hours here, until closing; this was enough time to see everything as well as sit tranquilly by a lake and listen to bird sounds. The park is a giant walk-in aviary with most birds flying free. Some are in their own aviaries, and there are smaller walk-in aviaries inside the main one too. The main structure is basically a net over some forest. There are many kinds of parrots - seeing little conures made me miss Tigo. I even found two green-cheeks. There are also lots of peacocks, herons, and various fancy pigeons. It wasn't particularly busy with humans though. I could have spent longer, just sitting. The constant background chatter is heaven. I drifted into the orchid and hibiscus gardens afterwards. I thought everything closed at 6 and checked every gate I passed through to make sure I could climb back over it if it was locked, but nothing so exciting happened. I just kept walking, and eventually ended up in the botanical gardens. Many beautiful areas, and full of joggers and kids playing, so I guess this part doesn't close and is free to enter. I found groves of bamboo, rare fruit trees, and wandered around the lake. In some open areas there's even wifi! I recommend a visit. I came out at KL Sentral, so I went to Gandhi's again for dinner. Just satay skewers and orange juice, as I wasn't very hungry. Maybe too much sun today.
generator: sloph
name: Kuala Lumpur 6
published: 2016-12-06T23:59:59+08:00
tag: birds
tag: food
tag: kuala+lumpur
tag: travel

kuala-lumpur-7
type: Article
content: This morning I went on a free heritage walking tour. We left from the KL Gallery around 9:15. Our tour guide was Marie and she alternated between funny and stern; giggling at her own jokes, and reprimanding stragglers or shhing passing schoolkids. She was full of information, and over three hours led us around parts of the gallery (free entry with the tour, normally 5myr), textile museum, some industrial buildings with history, and a private club facing Dataran Merdeka. The KL Gallery contains a scale model of the whole of Kuala Lumpur. It's seriously impressive. In clear plastic are skyscrapers yet to be built; the government is planning 300 new buildings over the next 5 years, including a 118 storey one in Chinatown. KL gives the impression of being in constant repair, chaotic construction disrupting footpaths and roads. But from the tour I learned that it's all part of a Plan, and there's meaning amongst the madness. In five years, this will be a different place. Particularly the river, for which the city is named (Kuala Lumpur means muddy estuary). Right now the banks look awful, concrete, diggers, trash, inaccessible. Turns out this is because there's a major restoration project ongoing and by next year it will be a beautiful recreation space with grass and cafes and peddleboats, and hopefully people will then stop dumping rubbish into it. According to Marie, KL has only 60 years of history. What she's counting from is when Malaysia got independence from the British in 1957. Before that is super interesting history about the reasons parts of the area were settled and developed, by Chinese traders first, and then the British, mostly due to tin. Lots of key individuals who came to seek their fortune as teenagers have left lasting legacies. The Spotted Dog remains to this day an exclusive membership club, but we were allowed inside as part of the tour. Except for the bar, where women aren't allowed under any circumstances. This is among many buildings which were b…
generator: sloph
name: Kuala Lumpur 7
published: 2016-12-07T23:59:59+08:00
tag: durian
tag: food
tag: justgo
tag: kuala+lumpur
tag: market
tag: tour
tag: travel
tag: vegan

kuala-lumpur-8
type: Article
content: I caught the train from Kuala Lumpur station (not KL Sentral) at half past 9 to Batu Caves. It wasn't nearly as busy as I'd been led to believe it would be. I first went inside the Ramayana Cave, 5myr entry. There was nobody else there, and distant dog howling added atmosphere and made me nervous. Brightly coloured and lit statues inside tell the story of Rama and Sita. There are also steps going pretty far up to unadorned parts of the cave. Next I climbed the steps to the temple cave. Some ladies at the bottom were enforcing a below-the-knee dress code (only for women) which I hadn't read about during prior research, and may have been because they were peddling sarongs to rent. I had my own scarf in my bag for just such an occasion. There's no charge to enter the temple cave, but there's not a huge amount of interest. Maybe worth going up for the view. And besides, I can never resist a massive staircase. Just before that however is the Dark Cave. A conservation and research area, with educational tours for 35myr. I took one, and really enjoyed it. Over 45 minutes we ventured into the depths of the limestone mountain and discovered spiders, centipedes, millipedes, scorpians, snails, snakes, bats and crickets. And different rock formations, plus a few minutes with lights off in total pitch blackness. Our guide, whose name starts with 'Shy' and ends in 'a' and has a q in the middle, was super enthusiastic and knowledgeable. If you love bugs and dark slimy places, this is totally worth doing, and a nice change from the tourists and temples outside. Batu Caves route on Runkeeper. I had lunch at one of the several vegetarian Indian restaurants at the base of the steps. Idli, with dahl, coconut chutney and tomato curry. This is a small breakfast dish - 4myr - and pretty delicious. I also had espresso for 6myr. I wandered slowly back to the train station, just missing one and waiting 45 minutes for the next. During this time the skies clouded and then opened up ferociously…
generator: sloph
name: Kuala Lumpur 8
published: 2016-12-08T23:09:00+08:00
tag: batu+caves
tag: coffee+amo
tag: food
tag: justgo
tag: kuala+lumpur
tag: travel
tag: vegan

kuala-lumpur-9
type: Article
content: I woke up later than I wanted, and went to the Islamic Art Museum (7myr for student). It was interesting, and huge, but probably not as good as the one in Qatar. Hightlight was an exhibition about Islam in Austria. I went to the museum restaurant, which is fancy and expensive. I asked for a seat by a power socket, and the wifi password ("islamic100"). It didn't seem super appropriate for me to have my laptop out, and after I ordered a drink the waiter was pushing me to order food. There was a set lunch, none of which was vegan, and a lunch buffet that wasn't on the menu. I eventually agreed to the lunch buffet (27myr); all middle eastern food, which I love, was a nice change. I stayed for two and a half hours. After the waiter trying to hurry to clear up my plate a couple of times he eventually accepted that I was staying, and chilled out. He even started bringing me water after about an hour. I got some work done. During my quest to get my money's worth of the buffet I think I ate too much. Then I walked to and around the scuplture garden, and found the war memorial there as well. There's wifi in the sculpture garden, naturally. I napped on a bench, it was hot. I stopped by 7/11 and a money changer for supplies, then went to Water Lily again for dinner. Curry mee was a little better than the previous food I had here. I bought three bao to go for the bus tomorrow.
generator: sloph
name: Kuala Lumpur 9
published: 2016-12-09T22:54:00+08:00
tag: justgo
tag: kuala+lumpur
tag: travel

malaysia-is-hot
type: Note
content: Malaysia is hot.
generator: sloph
published: 2016-12-01T11:34:00+08:00
summary: Amy wrote about #justgo, & travel
tag: justgo
tag: malaysia
tag: travel

page-count
type: Note
content: Nothing like spending a day making a perfectly good article less informative and harder to read to meet some arbitrary paper-based page limit.
generator: sloph
published: 2016-12-15T18:10:00+08:00
summary: Amy wrote about writing, & academia
tag: academia
tag: writing

penang-hikes
type: Add
generator: sloph
object: penanghikes.com
published: 2016-12-20T18:45:00+08:00
summary: Amy added http://penanghikes.com/ to https://rhiaro.co.uk/bookmarks/
tag: hiking
tag: malaysia
tag: penang
tag: travel
target: bookmarks

pool-break
type: Note
content: Sun is on the pool side of the building in the afternoon. And it's sunny today, not cloudy. So I took a writing break in the condo pool. It's on the fifth floor, and half open-air. Pool is good. Sun is good. Back to writing.
generator: sloph
published: 2016-12-14T16:19:00+08:00
summary: Amy wrote about swimming, life, & travel
tag: life
tag: swimming
tag: travel

settling
type: Note
content: As part of the settling into Malaysia process, I've bought a blender.
generator: sloph
published: 2016-12-22T20:11:00+08:00
tag: life
tag: travel

the-rock-seven
type: Note
content: Voyager just gets better and better. Next up, The Rock must fight Seven of Nine TO THE DEATH.
generator: sloph
published: 2016-12-20T21:26:00+08:00
summary: Amy wrote about something
tag: seven+of+nine
tag: star+trek
tag: the+rock

timezone-hawii
type: Note
content: *Changes laptop timezone to Hawaii* ESWC2017 deadline here we cooommmeeee...
generator: sloph
published: 2016-12-14T15:36:00-10:00
summary: Amy wrote about writing, & academia
tag: https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/eswc2017
tag: academia
tag: writing

too-much-stuff
type: Article
content: I shed two t-shirts, a pair of smartish trousers, and denim long shorts in Tokyo. I still find myself envious of all the people around me in the hostel in Kuala Lumpur with smaller backpacks than me. On a related note, I really want all of the brightly coloured loose pants at the market. So I'm going to try to significantly reduce my load again before I leave KL. To make it easier, I'll put something aside to rehome every day for the next nine days. To remind myself, and stay accountable, I'll update this blog post. Update: In the end I did it all at once, a couple of days after writing this. I extracted this stuff, and shoved it under my bed. At the end of my stay in the hostel, the folks at reception said they knew someone they could give it to for charity, so I left it with them.
generator: sloph
name: Still have too much stuff
published: 2016-12-02T09:16:00+08:00
tag: life
tag: stuff
tag: travel
updated: 2016-12-12T10:34:00+08:00

unpacking
type: Note
content: Unpacking all of my things because I'm staying in one place for a while... Kinda nice. George Town, Penang, until the end of February. Looking forward to grocery shopping and actually using a kitchen again.
generator: sloph
published: 2016-12-11T13:30:00+08:00
summary: Amy wrote about something
tag: penang
tag: travel

week-in-review
type: Article
content: Flew to Tokyo. Made a hat on the plane. Flew to Kuala Lumpur. Started settling in and exploring the city. Our Decentralised scholarly communications workshop proposal was rejected from WWW but accepted to ESWC. Did some work on a main-track paper for ESWC about LDN. Did some SocialWG admin stuff. Put together an implementations summary for AS2.
generator: sloph
name: Week in review: 28 Nov - 4 Dec
published: 2016-12-04T23:59:00+08:00
tag: socialwg
tag: travel
tag: week+in+review

week-in-review-2
type: Article
content: Explored Kuala Lumpur. Worked on a paper about LDN for ESWC. Reviewed and tweaked AS2 so we can update the CR. Saw Moana. Took the bus to George Town, Penang.
generator: sloph
name: Week in review: 5 - 11 December
published: 2016-12-12T02:12:00+08:00
tag: as2
tag: ldn
tag: malaysia
tag: travel

week-in-review-3
type: Article
content: Settled into George Town, Penang Finished (by not leaving the apartment for three days) and submitted LDN paper to ESWC (as HTML!) Improved the presentation of OnScreen. Helped with getting the revised AS2 CR published. Met my Malaysian Mum who took me for four kinds of dessert in one afternoon. Explored Penang National Park
generator: sloph
name: Week in review: 12 - 18 December
published: 2016-12-18T23:59:50+08:00
tag: eswc2017
tag: ldn
tag: malaysia
tag: penang
tag: travel

week-in-review-4
type: Article
content: Fixed my extension activities in sloph to match the new AS2 recommendations about name and summary. Started improving my LDN endpoint so notifications actually go into my triplestore with everything else, into a different graph for moderation. Helped prepare stuff for the upcoming WOW workshop and our ESWC Decentralised scholarly comms workshop Saw Rogue One. Climbed Penang Hill; held a scorpion. Visited Gurney Drive and Air Itam, briefly. Successfully avoided christmas.
generator: sloph
name: Week in review: 19 - 25 December
published: 2016-12-25T23:59:59+08:00
tag: academia
tag: as2
tag: ldn
tag: life
tag: penang
tag: sloph
tag: socialwg
tag: travel

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/01/5879c2b114fd2
type: Add
content: Testing my new kitchen: peanut salad (with tofu, purple sweet potato, salad stuff); fried noodles (mee goreng); bowl of exciting fruits; chewey banana oat ginger cookies
generator: sloph
published: 2016-12-19T23:18:20+08:00
summary: Amy added 4 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood