Malaysia Asia, a travel blog site by David Jr
David Jr sitting with an Iban Shaman from Sarawak
David Jr sitting with an Iban Shaman from SarawakWelcome to my blog Malaysia Asia. Though I am considered relatively new in the blogging world, I appreciate any comments or feedback to my postings. I am an avid traveler and enjoy exploring new places for all sorts of values. From photographing to learning about the place, you will find most of me and my partner (Lilian) explorations blogged and documented here, hopefully helpful and detailed enough for my readers.
I have been living in the lovely city of Petaling Jaya in the Selangor district for almost all of my life though I was born in Taiping in the Perak state, my family moved to Petaling Jaya in 1971. That is about 39 years now. So, I would easily consider myself a city person with city ethics.
Posing at one of the pre-war shops in Gergetown, Penang
Anyhow, I work on occasions doing some freelance work for film commercials and in my full time, I work on my own running a little trading business. On the lighter side - Life is good if you ask me as it is always full of unexpected situations. How we look and decipher them is another ball game all together.
If you should know, I started traveling the minute I finished school back in 1987. A 26 hour Bangkok trip by train opened up my eyes and I have never stopped since. I have experienced working and living in Tokyo, Japan at a ripe age of 19 years old and partied at the Northern Mariana Islands of Saipan and Guam (in the Pacific Ocean) when I was 20 years old.
Trying to look better than the statue behind me at Angkor Wat
The early years took me to various places around the world starting with Australia's Brisbane and Gold Coast and all the way to Perth. From there on, I just kept going. I must have visited the United Kingdom 6 times and Los Angeles about 5 times. A three week trip to Northern Europe to Finland, Sweden and Amsterdam taught me about life in the colder countries as I had never experienced this coming from a tropical country.
One of the best places I have visited in all my travels have got to be South Africa's Cape Town and going right down to the Cape Of Good Hope. From there, I flew over to Buenos Aires, Argentina to experience the South American culture and visiting Evita Peron's Tombstone to name a few of the activities I did there.
Goofing around with Bruce Lee in Hong Kong
Of lately in the last 5 years, I have been focusing on local travels and around the South East Asia region and here is where you see most of my current work on Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Macau, Hong Kong and my personal favourite, the main Island of Borneo, namely Sabah and Sarawak.
I am pretty much active on Social Media therefore you can reach me on the various platforms listed below:
So with this, I hope you enjoy reading my travel blog and if you need to ask me anything, please do email me here - juniorhogan [at] gmail [dot] com or simply use the Contact Malaysia Asia Form.
~ David Jr, Malaysia Asia
I have been living in the lovely city of Petaling Jaya in the Selangor district for almost all of my life though I was born in Taiping in the Perak state, my family moved to Petaling Jaya in 1971. That is about 39 years now. So, I would easily consider myself a city person with city ethics.
Posing at one of the pre-war shops in Gergetown, Penang Anyhow, I work on occasions doing some freelance work for film commercials and in my full time, I work on my own running a little trading business. On the lighter side - Life is good if you ask me as it is always full of unexpected situations. How we look and decipher them is another ball game all together.
If you should know, I started traveling the minute I finished school back in 1987. A 26 hour Bangkok trip by train opened up my eyes and I have never stopped since. I have experienced working and living in Tokyo, Japan at a ripe age of 19 years old and partied at the Northern Mariana Islands of Saipan and Guam (in the Pacific Ocean) when I was 20 years old.
Trying to look better than the statue behind me at Angkor WatThe early years took me to various places around the world starting with Australia's Brisbane and Gold Coast and all the way to Perth. From there on, I just kept going. I must have visited the United Kingdom 6 times and Los Angeles about 5 times. A three week trip to Northern Europe to Finland, Sweden and Amsterdam taught me about life in the colder countries as I had never experienced this coming from a tropical country.
One of the best places I have visited in all my travels have got to be South Africa's Cape Town and going right down to the Cape Of Good Hope. From there, I flew over to Buenos Aires, Argentina to experience the South American culture and visiting Evita Peron's Tombstone to name a few of the activities I did there.
Goofing around with Bruce Lee in Hong Kong Of lately in the last 5 years, I have been focusing on local travels and around the South East Asia region and here is where you see most of my current work on Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Macau, Hong Kong and my personal favourite, the main Island of Borneo, namely Sabah and Sarawak.
I am pretty much active on Social Media therefore you can reach me on the various platforms listed below:
So with this, I hope you enjoy reading my travel blog and if you need to ask me anything, please do email me here - juniorhogan [at] gmail [dot] com or simply use the Contact Malaysia Asia Form.
~ David Jr, Malaysia Asia
21 comments:
Totally - Bangsar Girl here. Ive been wanting explore Malaysia a little bit more these few months. Who knows what's lying around in our own backyard?
LOVE your blog - will take your travel ideas and roll with it. Im going to the Hilton Long House, and also doing Rawa Island (hopefully before the monsoon kicks in) and also the Jungle railway to Kelantan!
Hello Lena, thanks for the kind words and hope you already done the places you mentioned. Do let me know how it went.
Regards,
David
Malaysia Asia
Happy new year
thank you for your posting,very useful blog.
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I like it very much.
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Thank you very much Webroyalty.
SC, thank you too. So far it's been 6 solid active months from June 2009.
Regards,
David
Hi David!
Thanks for visiting my humble blog - Tepak Sireh. We have things in common; an avid traveler, like photographing, Gemini, writes travel blog....
Will link your blog..
cheers!
are those tattoos of Iban Shaman??
Hello Rush, thank you bro.
Karlota, yes they are the real tattoos of the Shaman. Awesome isn't it?
David
Great blog David! I totally understand the feeling of the first travel outside, and how you can just get hooked to it, because it is so fulfilling. Myself I'm from Canada, and has been in Singapore for the past 5 years, and have been travelling in Asia ever since! Cheers on the great informative posts you have!
Thank you very much Alec. Glad you are living the dream and enjoying life! Explore while you can is my motto too :)
It's a nice feeling that I was able to visit your great blog. Nice to know also that you've been to various parts of the world. How I wish I could expand my travel horizon. I've been to Spain, Singapore and Thailand not to mention my visits to the various provinces of my home country-the Philippines,and Kota Kinabalo is my next target.
Hi David, it is really nice to meet you and what you do here on the web. Stay in touch! Best Regard -Diana
Hi Diana, thank you so much and all the best!
Been reading ur blog....facebook and etc!!! You can really write!!! O.,....we went Imbak together! We shoot "star and cloud trail"!!! You inspired me with ur passion to travel and to see the world! Thanks Bro!
Hi David! I'm Nawal from TheJumpingTravellers and I LOVE YOUR BLOG!!! very informative and well written! Keep it up and hope we can backpack together one day!
C YA!
Heya guys, thank you very much and hope to do some 'flash-packing' one day :)
One23Smile - Thanks and what was your name again? :)
Hi David,
Thanks for following me on Twitter! I have just started reading your blog and am keen to continue! I am heading off to Southeast Asia in December (just for a short trip) so I'm sure your posts will be of great help to me. I look forward to reading more of your blog.
Renata
Hello Renata, thank you for the kind words. Also, if you have any questions about Malaysia, please do ask me anytime.
great to know people like you david!
Great blog and wonderful Malaysia travel content. Congrats for your achievement and will definitely follow your blog from now on David :)
Quite jealous that you get to travel. Would like to after college. Keep it up! :-)
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