24 May, 2009

Malaysia Asia, a travel blog site by David Jr

Malaysia Asia, a travel site by David Jr

David Jr sitting with an Iban Shaman from Sarawak


Getting to know David Jr from Malaysia Asia. 

Welcome to my travel site Malaysia Asia. I am an avid traveler and enjoy exploring new places for all sorts of positive values. From photographing to learning about the place, you will find most of me and my co-writer (Lilian who handles more CSR) sharing our travel experiences with our readers here. You should also know that Malaysia Asia is not a travel blog but more of a travel site with information about all things Malaysia and Asia.

I have been living in the lovely city of Petaling Jaya in the state of Selangor in Malaysia 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

I come from a film background over the last 20 years and now I focus mainly on traveling, social media marketing and management, and Malaysia Asia. On the lighter side - Life is good if you ask me as it is always full of unexpected situations when you choose to live this kind of life. 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, Vietnam, Macau, Hong Kong and my personal favorite, the main Island of Borneo, namely Sabah and Sarawak.I also indulge in Scuba Diving as a personal hobby of mine.

I am pretty much active on Social Media therefore you can reach me on the various platforms listed below:
One of my companies focuses on a lot of Social Media Management, Marketing and Campaigning for the travel industry.I work closely with Tourism Bodies, Hotels & Resorts and even Travel Companies by assisting them in getting more out of Social Media platforms. Contact me if you need to learn more about this.

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

23 comments :

Lena said...

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!

David Jr said...

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

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sc said...

good start!!

David Jr said...

Thank you very much Webroyalty.

SC, thank you too. So far it's been 6 solid active months from June 2009.

Regards,
David

Rush Murad said...

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!

karlota said...

are those tattoos of Iban Shaman??

David Jr said...

Hello Rush, thank you bro.

Karlota, yes they are the real tattoos of the Shaman. Awesome isn't it?

David

Alec said...

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!

David Jr said...

Thank you very much Alec. Glad you are living the dream and enjoying life! Explore while you can is my motto too :)

Islandvacations said...

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.

Diana Jones said...

Hi David, it is really nice to meet you and what you do here on the web. Stay in touch! Best Regard -Diana

David Jr said...

Hi Diana, thank you so much and all the best!

One23smile said...

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!

jumpsters said...

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!

David Jr said...

Heya guys, thank you very much and hope to do some 'flash-packing' one day :)

One23Smile - Thanks and what was your name again? :)

Renata Wiles said...

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

David Jr said...

Hello Renata, thank you for the kind words. Also, if you have any questions about Malaysia, please do ask me anytime.

Jom Travel said...

great to know people like you david!

Malaysian Hotelier said...

Great blog and wonderful Malaysia travel content. Congrats for your achievement and will definitely follow your blog from now on David :)

Unknown said...

Quite jealous that you get to travel. Would like to after college. Keep it up! :-)

Anonymous said...

Good infomation.tk

Bibu Wilda said...

HI.. congrats for being finalist. very informative blog, definitely to add this into myblog list :)