It was a beautiful day in Langkawi. The air warm, though not too humid. The sky was clear. Here and there fat British tourists engaged in numerous watersports.

A nice enough day to go kayaking. To....MONKEY ISLAND!

I hadn't been to Monkey Island since I had a 486. So I thought it time I go again. We paddled through the Indian ocean in our two-person kayak. No problem, the water was quite gentle. We thought we would have a nice picnic on Monkey Island. We were wrong.

We arrive at Monkey Island. All our food was soaked in the kayak.

Damnit.

As we are getting situated on the island, I see a monkey. It's a male. I know this, because it's balls are bigger then it's little monkey head. I name him Uncle Poofling. He growls at me. I immediately assert my alpha male dominance by running back into the ocean. I then proceed to yell at the monkey, with thunderous charges such as "aw-ooh aw-ooh!".

This seems to throw him off his game a little. We figure let well enough alone, so we start to walk down the beach some to let the monkey have his domain. But he follows us. MONKEY! Realizing we can't win, we go back to the kayak and eat lunch.

Then it happens. He approaches. Teeth glaring in the hot afternoon sun, Uncle Pooflinger's grimy little monkey hands walks right up and steals my lemon chicken! Bastard!

He eats it in plain site of me. I can't take this.

He approaches once more, this time I think he wants to steal my fried rice. I pick up the kayak paddle and swing it madly, all the while making the most vicious "ewk, awk, boo-wah! boowah!" noises. I am able to frighten him into the bushes.

He tries two more frontal attacks, but each time I counter more viciously flinging sand into the bushes he now cowers in.

We leave monkey island, wet and hungry. Know this Uncle Pooflinger, we will meet again.

Wanted to give a quick update of where I've been and what I've been doing. I have some nice pictures of my latest travel, but no USB cord to upload them with right now. So it will have to wait.

So we left off in China. I spent a day and a night in Hong Kong. I didn't really spend enough time in Hong Kong to get a really good feel for it, but still had some fun. Had British high-tea at the Peninsula Hotel, which was just amazing. The best pastries I've had in my life PERIOD. With live classical music playing in the background, and gigantic chandeliers set against gothic carved wall sconces, it was a big taste of Britain in HK. Very expensive though. The Peninsula is consistently ranked in the top three hotels in the world, and there's a reason.

Also went to a night market in Hong Kong. I've been to many night-markets well in Asia, and I've come to notice that the items they offer cater to two crowds: the locals and the tourists. In that case, who is to blame for the molded plastic penis, breast, and nose squeeze-its with "white goo" shooting action I found in this night market? For Hong Kong's sake, I hope it's the tourists.

After that I went to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia for five days. Spent most of my time working, but explored the city some. The twin towers of KL dominate the cityscape, and you could see them quite wonderfully out my hotel window. Also went to the "Baht Cave" a huge cavern that's home to a famous Hindu shrine. And lots of monkeys. Took pictures, gee wouldn't be great to post them?

I am now in Langkawi island. Langkawi is a tropical island on the northwest part of Malaysia. It's tropical paradise. Really. Wow. I've been relaxing for the last two days, riding motorbikes around and exploring the island, kayaking in the Indian Ocean, visiting the local sites.

Apologize for such a dull post, hope to liven things up later. But you do realize you're cutting into my vacation time, right?