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Detailed travelogue on visiting the remotest inhabited islands in the world (Tristan da Cunha and St Helena), also South Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia. Very interested read, and indexed.
Remotest Islands in the World St Helena, Tristan da Cunha + S. Africa, Malaysia, mor
Larry2006-05-27 03:20:07
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shops on the lower level of S&M Plaza are cheaper than the
outside stalls, with most charging only RM4-RM5 rather than the RM6-RM7+
charged outside (computer CD-ROMs are also quite cheap here, at RM9 rather
than RM10-20 from the street vendors). New titles arrive on bootleg VCD
almost daily, with movies such as "Family Man" (which just came to US
theatres on December 22nd) already for sale on VCD. Today I noticed a VCD
shop in the S&M basement selling some of my favorite Japanese animation on
both VCDs and all-region DVDs: "Kimagure Orange Road Memoir" (VCD...
RM9.95/US$2.62), Mononoke Hime (VCD... RM12.95/US$3.41), "Shin Kimagure
Orange Road" (DVD, RM$69.99/US$18.42), the Studio Ghibli films sold
separately (DVD, RM69.99/US$18.42 each) or as a set (RM240/US$63.16 -- which
went down to RM200/US$52.63 when I asked about them later in February).
While the store had a VCD player to demonstrate VCDs on, they had no DVD
player -- and the packaging on the 4-DVD set (mentioning 11 movies on one
side and only 10 on the other) didn't reassure me.
From both the S&M entrance as well as from the window of a CD store, I
could see the lightning bolts and hear the loud thunder which quickly
followed. For a while, I joined everyone in sitting on the entrance steps
(even though there's a notice saying not to do so), just watching the rain
come down. While sitting there, a young Chinese lady came up to me with a
questionaire on internet e-travel services in Malaysia, which she asked me
to fill out (with questions such as "do you feel safe buying over the
internet?", "do you have a computer?", "what would you like to see in a
travel site?", etc). As I was finishing the questionaire, the police came
up to ask a couple of locals sitting down to produce documents, but didn't
bother anyone else... and while the
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See photographs from:
Indonesia Gallery
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Malaysia Gallery
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Singapore Gallery
,
South Africa Gallery
