Huh? Whats wrong with that? ;-) 

Andre

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With being glad to be away from them, or with bar girls in general?  I was in Chiang Mai for a long time.  You really don't notice them much if you are there for a vacation, but after a month or two you become more and more aware.  They are pretty much in your face all the time.  Since they don't care what sex their customers are (you do know they are hookers, right?), I got solicited, too.  I even had my breasts grabbed once.

They are mostly from the north and have these really awful screechy accents and are really loud.  For a while they were background noise, but over time they are wearing.  I also got tired of the stupid men who believe the girls love them.

Also, very old men with very young girls isn't pretty.  Maybe I should go to Bali, where I can see old women with young men.

hi there, how r u?

i'm stay here in Sabah, Malaysia.  I never went to Penang and aso another country in Malaysia. At this moment i dont have a budget yet to travel around Malaysia. Someday i will. Here in Sabah, u will find murtabak also, but it have a unique variey here.

In night market, some people sae murtabak Jawa here, and muratabak daging.  Sabaah rich with culture, arts, beautiful people and Mount Kinabalu. 

shueqry,

sabah, malaysia.

shueqry1@gmail.com 

I visited Sabah more than fifteen years ago.  I walked up Mount Kinabalu for a couple of hours, then turned around and came back down.  That was my plan at the outset, by the way.  I went to Poing Hot Springs, Uncle Tan's Jungle Camp, out to see the tortoise's lay eggs and watch some hatch, to Sepilok, and hunted up a Rafflesia.  I also spent a day out on one of the islands off Kota Kinabalu.

It was a great trip.  How many people have had a wild orangutan throw a branch at them.  That happened at Uncle Tan's, by the way, not Sepilok.  She didn't like cameras pointed at her.  Apparently she was a young female mating for the first time, trying to impress her potential mate, so she brought him over to see her pet people.  She just didn't like it when we got uppity.

It's been two months since I arrived in Penang, so I thought it was time for an update.  I've been doing some sightseeing - restored houses, temples, mosques, and the like.  Yesterday I went out to the beach for the first time.  I went to Batu Feringhi, and in spite of its name, I saw no little pointy toothed avaricious creatures at all.  Feringhi means 'foreigner' in Bahasa Malaysia, and this is supposed to be the beach where the first foreigners landed.  It's also the ex-pat area.

The beach was virtually empty.  It doesn't have the nice clear water I associate with tropical beaches, but it was nice, nonetheless.  I really like it here, in spite of the heat and humidity, and looked into staying year-round, but it is too expensive for me.  I'd want to have a western-style apartment, and unlike Thailand, they are all large three-bedroom places renting for $700 to $1000 per month, which is way beyond my meager budget.

If you want to stay in Asia , where will you look for more permanent housing?  Back to Thailand????

Right now, I don't think I would be happy there.  If I feel I have to settle down, yes, as of now that is where I would go.  Although between inflation, the rising baht, and the tanking dollar, I don't know how long it will be affordable.

I'd sort of planned on Panama, but I've heard prices have gone up a lot in the last two years.  I may go to check it out next winter.  They use the dollar there, which eliminates one problem.  Ecuador uses the dollar, too.

There used to be a fair number of places where someone on a minimal pension of $600/month could live in reasonable comfort, but those are disappearing rapidly.  I think I'll check out Peru again, too.

I love penang too, i stayed there for one year.. but i think u can find a nice apartment for less than 400$

Even $400 is more than I want to spend.  I've recently heard that Gurney Road is cheaper than Batu Feringhi and that it might be possible to get a nice place for around $200.  Do you have any other suggestions?

I know I definitely have to have air-conditioning.  I haven't had it, and just a few days before the rains started and the nights cooled down a bit, I was ready to pay to get it.  I usually think that if I can sleep at night, it doesn't matter so much as I'm usually outside during th day anyway.  But the heat was really getting to me.