Finally Kiteboarding...

Today I finally went kitesurfing in Singapore. I had a GREAT session and met a bunch of the local kitesurfing crowd. Tommorrow I may be heading to Batam (Indonesia) for the day with some of them to go wakeboarding on a cable park.

Monday should come with some new pictures for the blog. Trying to figure out how to get a pic from my phone to the computers is hard when you do not have your own setup at home.

I have been missing a lot of things lately . . . Mi, family, friends, Vancouver, my CRV, etc... not necessarilly in this order. ;-)

It's funny to see the way I see Vancouver and Canada now. On the almost 8 years I lived there, I learned to see and call it home. My friends there became part of my family and I miss each and every one of you in ways that I can't even describe. I really hope I manage to keep in touch and I see this blog as one of the ways to keep you all in my life.

Well ... that's enough emotional talk for now.

Cheers. Me

Tioman Chapter II

This is what the trips and work here is like ... 8 people, 9 passports. It's a great experience to be able to meet and learn so much about all the different cultures and people in this country.

More on this very soon ...

Tioman trip this time was very cool again ... The travelers consisted of Ben (as always), Pedro, Ivy, Manuel and Mimi, MIng, Sonny and me. I kindda organized this one. I say kindda because I just called Denis, a diving instructor from Tioman and a friend, and asked him to book "something for 8 people. He booked the only thing he could find and we were on our way to the Island. Price for accomodation was 15 RM a night per room. That's something like 5 bucks US. It was simple but enought.

We played a lot of cards, drank as usual and met a few more people among them: Sarah (dive Master), Pieter (diver - who took the photos), Tery (canadian), Donata, Alberto and Ulax from Italy and Amelie and Sophie from France.

On saturday me and Pedro went scubadiving. The rest of the time was reserved to eating, relaxing, drinking and recovering from drinking. I am getting withdrawl from extreme sports now... starting to sweat.

In 2 weeks I will be going to Brazil for Juli and Edu's wedding. I CANNOT WAIT.

Here are some pics as usual

Kuala Lumpur

This past weekend a group of us headed to Kuala Lumpur. The place is very interesting and full of life. My reason for going there was that I was really interested on the architecture and on seeing the Patronus towers, the tallest twin towers in the world. They were worth the trip.

We (Pedro, Ben, Julia, Ivy and Me) left on saturday morning around 5:30am on a cab to cross the border to Johor Bahru and get a plane to KL. The trip was long and now I kindda regret not having just taken a bus. It would take 30 min more but they cost a third of the price and it would be a lot more confortable.

We stayed on a hostel called Eight,very nice room with 3 bunkbeds. Ivy took of as we got to KL and went to hang out with her family.




The 4 of us went out to a place calle LUNA at night... a VERY COOL bar and from there me and Pedro ventured into the KL night and Ben and Julia went to bed early.

Next day was the twin towers day and heading home. As many know, I am not a big city person and do not like them very much so I have not much to tell about this trip. KL is worth a short stop in my opinion.

My take on the malaysian culture keeps changing as I get more time here.

Yesterday there was an article in the paper about this chinese couple kissing in public in KL that got arrested and are facing trial and can get up to 1 year in jail. And that's only for kissing. I can only imagine what it would be like if laws in Brazil were like that. Walking in any beach at night you would be able to give at least a couple life sentences. Laws in malaysia are very strict and I believe the powers in the government there try to brain wash the people and impose their beliefs wich is something I personally do not agree with. The couple arrested was not malay or muslim, they were chinese.

Sailing Singapore

Bill and I on the front page of Sailing Anarchy ... Niiiice !!!


Here is the article:

"The Community - Why We Rock

Here’s why I dig SA so much…

A couple of months ago I got PM’d from a guy named Sandro. He had seen that I post alot in SA about sailing in Singapore/SE Asia and since he was moving here (with Lucas Films – how cool is that!) that he would give it a shot and contact me.

Fast forward about 8 weeks and Sandro is walking down the dock towards our boat at Raffles Marina here and we spent that day sailing together with a bunch of people who won a ride on my boat from a charity auction (see photo). Turns our Sandro – a Brazilian and seasoned sailor – racing all the usual big rides (Swiftsure etc) prior to tons of racing in his home town of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He is great guy and now on our regular crew roster on the SYD 40."
'' ... "Where else can you do this? Nowhere.

Two months ago I wouldn’t know either of these guys if they walked up and hoofed me in the nuts and now they’re racing with us!

Thanks SA! tuf-luf - 04/10/06"

This is from the sailing trip we did 2 weekends ago.

I met Bill through a website and he invited me to sail on his boat. We took a group of people that never had sailed before to a day sail on aracing boat cause they donated some money to help an orphanage in Malaysia.

This weekend I am heading to KL ... gonna go check the tallest building in the world. Report to come soon.

CHEERS !