defrog: (air travel)
defrog ([personal profile] defrog) wrote2008-04-22 11:34 pm

LONG GONE IN LANGKAWI TOUR: SPECIAL PREVIEW

It is time. I’m off to Malaysia in the morning on another mission in the name of telephones.

Destination: Langkawi. Which looks like this.



Or, if you prefer, like this.



Not sure how much of it I’ll get to see, unless the ballroom where we shall be sequestered with nothing but coffee and PowerPoint® to keep us alive has a sea view. Which it won’t. I am an experienced journalist. I know these things.

Anyway, expect reports. Maybe. The website of the hotel where they’re sticking us has an asterisk next to the sentence “Wireless Broadband Internet Access (Wi-Fi) is available in guest rooms, the Lobby, Business Centre, Games Room, Poolside and The Restaurant”. And the asterisk stands for “This service is on a best effort basis and is not recommended for heavy use.”

Not a good sign. For I am nothing if not a heavy user.

Anyway, the good thing is I’ve never been there. Malaysia, yes. Langkawi, no. So it’ll be a new experience – one that hopefully won’t include tsunamis. (Langkawi is another island that got hit by the Boxing Day Tsunami, though not too hard.)

Gimme danger,

This is dF

[identity profile] zen-kitty.livejournal.com 2008-04-22 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
That is beautiful. I really hope you have a break so you can see more than 4 walls. :o)

Have a safe trip.

[identity profile] bluesgirly.livejournal.com 2008-04-22 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Travel safe and update often as I live in Petaluma and need your worldly dispatch. Pretend you're Mark Twain.

Ok here's what happened here today - some chickens got loose downtown and Starbucks opened their fourth store.

YA see why I needz you?

Wishing you copious internetz too.