Here and There Blog

Nothing new. Life continues on in Malaysia with the hotel to work to hotel routine. I'm in the homestretch of this assignment. Three more days here then I get to do a very short stopover in Taipei on my way home. I'm looking forward to Taipei and even more so, my home!

I had an unexpected "get caught up on work day." Technically, it's Saturday and my day off but I thought I was going to have prep work for next week's class. Turns out, the other people cancelled so I made it a hotel office day. Hotels on a golf course, with open lobbys and tropical breezes with palm trees swaying don't make a good incentive to work. Long lunch with a blueberry smoothies was one of the most relaxing things I've done in a while. I could have fallen asleep in the chair. Tomorrow's Sunday. I have no plans. There's the city with traffic, pollution, and the craziness of a hot city. And I did clean out the inbox and get quite a bit of work done today. Palm trees in the breeze win. See you on a lounge chair in Malaysia!

If I was a tourist who golfed, and braved mosquitos to go swimming, I'd probably enjoy staying here. The hotel has a big tourist crowd along with a sizeable business crowd and you can tell the difference between the t-shirt and sunburns and the work clothes. Somehow the sunburned people look happier. My life consists of the usual early morning departure to the meeting room and the evening return. Not much time to do anything in-between. That's okay since this isn't a do stuff part of town.  The lobby area really is relaxing though.

Out of the city this time at a golf resort. Seemed like the best hotel choice for the area.

Rooms on the even numbered side of the airport Marriott overlook the airport. There's even a golf course so if you golf and your layover is long enough, you can do a round!

Destination: Malaysia. Stopover: Hong Kong. Routing: Did it for fun but won't do it again: Carlsbad-Los Angeles-Honolulu-Guam-Hong Kong. Tired. I arrived at 10 pm last night and managed to sleep enough. I have a few hours to relax this morning and then it's off to the last segment of this to Kuala Lumpur.

Of course I ran out and saw Star Trek yesterday morning! I fought the urge as long as possible but at 9:30 am, I grabbed my wallet and car keys and found myself a few minutes later inside the theater.  So much happens in this movie that it is not safe to talk about it until Monday when every hard core Trekkie has seen it. The movie delivered. It had action, the Enterprise crew together, bad guys, good guys, and explosions. Everything you need from a hit movie. And the humor was right on target. Small details were included to give a nod to long time fans while not detracting from knowledge that new fans need. I loved the revamp on a classic story but in the new universe. Parallels, changes, dialogue was perfect (for me). Downsides. The aliens shown in the first few minutes were annoying. It won't spoil anything and it will relieve you to know that you don't see them again. A couple of the "save the day" sequences were way out there and it was hard to suspend dis...