Winner of China's Got Talent Final 2010 - Armless Pianist Liu Wei Perfor...

i wrote about this remarkable person a few months ago, and look..he won!!

A very remarkable life indeed...

Rainforest at MOA

Perhaps the most iconic of all shopping malls in North America is the Mall of America in Minneapolis. It is a huge sprawling mall with an indoor amusement parks and rides.

Last week, as usual in almost every trip to Minneapolis, the evenings before flying off will be spent at MOA, either for dinner or some shopping.

This time round, had dinner at the Rainforest restaurant, where there are fake trees, rain, howling gorillas, real fresh and salt water fishes as part of the surrounding ambiance while one dines.

I had an old (blind i think) eel about 2 feet away from where i was eating.

This fella was staring at me....


I was eating this:



which eventually was finished up to this:



As usual, the meal was simply too big for me to complete.

KLIA really needs to buck up.

The worst thing that can happened to any traveler arriving at the final airport/destination after many hours of flying is to wait for your luggage to be delivered.

After some 36 hours of flying from JFK to Narita, Narita to Singapore, Singapore to Malaysia and hoping to collect your luggage within a reasonable time, only to be told that the visual monitors that are supposed to let you know which belt will have your luggage is always wrong, and the monitor at the belt itself is hopeless wrong, and to read on the monitor at the belt that the last bag has been delivered when you know for a fact that not a single bag has come out, really sucks.

To think that the waiting time to get the luggage upon arrival at KLIA took longer than the time taken for the actual flight from Singapore and passing through immigration is something that simply cannot be tolerated or excused.

When asked why and what is wrong, the people in charge simply said 'if you wish to make a complaint, let me bring you to the counter to make the complaint'. They also said ' lack of manpower' and the gist of it all ' the monitors are always wrong. Listen for announcement over the PA systems.

And to think that KLIA is supposed to be the primary gateway to the country, and visitors are received in such a manner, it s a no brainer that investors will run off to some other countries. We tout ourselves as being efficient, and having first class facilities. Bull crap..

After getting the luggage, one has to get coupons/tickets for taxi. There were three persons at the booth, but only 1 was serving customers. I am 100% sure that if it was simply a metered taxi, the fares would be lower than what i paid to get home from KLIA.

What a rip off!!

Changi airport

Left JFK New York at about 220pm on a Thursday Atlantic time, which is 220AM on Friday Malaysia's time. It is now 320am saturday morning at Changi airport.

How many hours is that, i am not too sure i want to even count.

To make matter worst, we drove from the hotel to JFK at 730AM because weather report was stating there were floods and heavy traffic jam with no let up at all of the rain. So, to be safe, left the hotel real early. Took the southern way in to NY island, Goethals Bridge and still it took 2 hours to reach JFK.

Another 5-6 hours before reaching back to KL... Tranfer counter here at Changi is still closed...

what to do..