Saturday, April 26, 2008

Tour De Malaysia

In between a cramped MBA schedule peppered with various courses lasting a week or two we suddenly found ourselves with a weeks break with nothing to do ..so thot of hitting Malaysia .. planned a lot stuff .. but cud finally get away only for 5 days .. we had the tickets for Malaysian Grand Prix .. so fitted our tour around tht.
We left Singapore by KLM Train .. KL was an overnight journey from Sing ... train was like the ones we get in India ( AC coaches) but was running on metre gauge hence compartment seemed smaller and the whole experience wasnt tht gr8 as it shook a lot more than Indian trains.
Entire trip was planned thru minimal internet research ... the big learning i got from this trip ( as with couple of trips i had undertaken in India also) was tht all u need is spirit to roam and experience something new and once u pack ur bags n set out everything falls in place.
At the same time i have to mention tht basic planning is also a must for instance we had booked hotels and train tickets in advance , but rest of the itenary n places we covered were all decided after reaching the respective places.This trip also gave me a chance to experience a totally different nation , which is similar to our own country in some ways , but is marching
ahead in many ways and offers very good lessons for us. I had lived in Singapore for 4 months prior to this , but had not observed the nation tht much , but after malaysian trip when i came back , i started comparing both the nations and kinda improved my understanding of Singapore.
So will post all the happenings of our 5 day trip over here in a series of posts.

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