Cthulhu & I

Whale Shark

Whale Shark! Whalesharkwhalesharkwhaleshark!

In Miri, bordering to Brunei, I went for some diving. Miri is not really that well known, but hade beautiful corals and great marine life. But the best was the whale shark. When I was diving, suddenly my divemaster started pointing, measuring with his arms like wild. And there it came. The whale shark. It was a small one, only 4.5 meter, but when you're close to it and it is swimming straight at you, it doesn't feel that small. Feels quite big, really. According to my divemaster, it took him around 1000 dives before he saw his first whale shark so I feel kind of lucky. Take a look at the pictures here, here, here, here and here.

Otherwise, I thought that the Sultan would come running when he heart that I and Mr. Cthulhu were in town, but as yet, we've had to be satisfied with his wise and strong countenance on the numerous pictures around town.

New Blog

Created a new swedish blog for my swedish posts. Apart from my swedish travel letters, there will also be political comments on current affairs.

Candid Camera

My camera troubles continues. About a week ago, the cameras protested about one of my memory cards and wanted to format it. No one of them could display the pictures (about 100 of them lost). I will check in Japan if they can be recovered. And now one of the cameras have totally stopped working. Thankfully, I still have the other one left, but I missed some great pictures of both lion fish and mandarin fish because of it.

Well, apart from that I've had a great time in Kuching, looking at the rastapopolous monkey as we Tintin enthusiast calls the Proboscis Monkey. Also, Mr. Cthulhu & I visited their cat museum with 2 m cat statues, cat tea pots, cat stamps, cat movie posters and whatever. A great museum! Now I'm in Kota Kinabalu where I have a booking to climb the Mount Kinabalu, around 4 km high. After that it's onwards to Brunei to shake hands with the Sultan whom I on radio have nominated to the Nobel Peace Price. I really hope he appreciates it.

Eqthquake Weather

A few days ago, when Mr. Cthulhu and I were relaxing in our room in central Singapore, the room suddenly started to shake. After some thinking, we realized that it wasn't the room that was shaking, it was the whole building. As I had just taken a few sips of korean wasabi booze, I first thought it was me, but after a while I understood that there had been an earthquake. According to the newspaper, people all over Singapore had panicked during the earthquake, although no one at all was hurt and no damages were done. The center of the quake was in indonesia, where people had a much harder time.

After Singapore, we left for Melacka where we found the really excellent Museum of Enduring Beauty. Enduring in the meaning 'Enduring pain' that is. The whole museum were about how people had mutilated themselves during all times to look beautiful. There were crushed feet, tattoos, anorectics, nose jewelery and other nice items. Mr. Cthulhu enjoyed the museum a lot.

Here in Kuala Lumpur, I've started to wonder on how kinky the Malaysians must be. I've seen S and M Jewelery store, S and M Department store, S and M Mobiles. I went in to the department store, but I must have too bad an imagination, because I didn't see anything dirty.

From Hell and Back

The last week, Mr. Cthulhu & I have been with some friends on the malaysian Tioman Island. There we have fought monkeys and battled giant evil lizards that tried to block our paths to the naked natives (naked native to be honest). Longer report on that in swedish here.

Otherwise, we have also been to Singapore where we saw a fantastic display on what would happen to sinners in the buddhist hells. New pictures uploaded from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Here are some highlights:

Indonesia:

• Nice little statues from Bali.
• Bats in the local bird market in Yogyakarta. Should taste great.
• Mr. Cthulhu learns to play guitarr.
• Hampus, the tourist attraction.
• Cool indonesian puppets.
• Beautiful city of Pangandarang.
• Jeans street in Bandung.

Malaysia:

• Strange underwater thingie, approx 50 cm (20 inches) wide.
• Hungry lizard.
• Crawling chaos.
• Creeping horror.
• Nice little kitty.
• George Bush.
• Fishy hat.

Singapore:

• Subway rules.
• Merlion.
• Sleeping dragon.
• Sweat.
• Weird house.
• Rabbit with huge pointy teeth.
• Buddhist hells here, here, here and here.