The main problem facing orangutans is the isolation of each group to small pockets of remaining native forest. They’re forced to walk for hundreds of kilometers through palm oil plantations to connect with others for breeding.  The orangutans eat the palm fruit but it is so low in nutrition, that they often starve en route.  Plans are underway to recreate connecting corridors of native bush, but most agree it is too little too late. The only significant sized group is in Borneo, but the same problem exists there. Anyway, the       …..More Crumbs >>

I reconnected with Carl from Singapore and we went to couchsurf in Melaka, a former strategic trading post occupied by the Dutch, Portugese and British.  IT has a very nice Chinese quarter, and some beautiful colonial architecture.  The Maritime museum is the most interesting being housed in a fullscale replica of a Portugese warship. At our host’s, we met anther couple of travelers Ayal and Mimosa, and organized to go to Taman Negara national park with them.  Apart from the huge insects; tigers, elephants, bears, snakes and a pygmy rhino       …..More Crumbs >>

10 years man!  10 years!  Where the f&%k have you been for 10 years!  Remember that scene from the brilliant movie “Gross Point Blank”.  When the guy who’s become a professional assassin, bumps into his old buddy at the high school reunion. Well, it was nothing like that when I met my old friend from University, James in Kuala Lumpur.  Instead it was “8 years man!  8 years!  Where the f&%k have you been for 8 years!”.  And some people have called me an “ass”, but never an “assassin”.  After       …..More Crumbs >>