Progress! Tourism Malaysia : Destinations : Kuala Lumpur

Tonight I purchased my tickets! I will be flying to Malaysia on the 3rd of April.

It turned out to be significantly cheaper for me to book separate flights from LA to Malaysia and then from Malaysia to Jakarta. So my first SE Asian experience will be three days in Kuala Lumpur. I fly into Jakarta on the morning of April 7.  ¶ 11:34 PM 1 comments

  BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Jail for Chinese baby traffickers BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Jail for Chinese baby traffickers  ¶ 12:42 AM 0 comments

  Turkmenistan, by Expat Monkey Expat Monkey

Pictures of crazy Turkmenistan. The most fascinatingly backwards country in the world!  ¶ 12:09 AM 0 comments

  CNN.com - Mexicans leery of giant U.S. telescope - Feb 21, 2006 CNN.com - Mexicans leery of giant U.S. telescope - Feb 21, 2006: "The gleaming white structure, which looks like a gigantic satellite dish, springs out of volcanic rocks on the freezing-cold summit of the 15,000-foot-high Sierra Negra.

Located in the central state of Puebla, Sierra Negra is one of six Mexican volcanos that are higher than any peaks in the continental United States.

Working above cloud level, the telescope will pick up millimeter-long radio waves that have been traveling through space for nearly 13 billion years. Astronomers will use the information to plot more detailed maps than ever of stars and galaxies as they existed shortly after the Big Bang.

'We will get incredible new insight into how galaxies were first formed,' said project scientist David Hughes of Mexico's National Astrophysics Optics and Electronics Institute. 'Once we start operating, we should be making breakthrough discoveries on an almost daily basis.'"  ¶ 1:33 AM 0 comments