During my time at Lumileds I made four trips to Malaysia. Each time I stayed at the Equatorial Hotel... Pictures from these trips and travel to and from...
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| View from my room at the Eq | Driving range | |
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| Very sweet looking pool... never got to swim in it though | ||
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| Tired from travel | They drive on the left in Malaysia... one of the many motor scooters... they sometimes deal with the rain by putting their jackets on backwards as they drive | |
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| Random scenes | ||
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| Fruit stand | Traffic jam | |
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| Some kind of World War II Japanese bunker... couldn't stop in traffic to read the plaque | ||
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| Typical traffic scene | ||
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| The steamy weather is hard on buildings | ||
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| Lumileds | ||
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| That land mass is eastern Russia near Siberia | Our plane just barely 'kissed' the edge of Russia | |
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| I think those are the Ural mountains in the distance | ||
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| Plane in Penang | Nuther view from my hotel room - different room | |
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| The bridge to Butterworth | High priced homes behind the Eq | |
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| Looking towards Gloomy-LEDS (Lumileds) | Old house below hotel | |
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| New house being constructed | Looking down hotel balconies next to mine | |
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| Sunrise | More sunrise | |
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| Nuther sunrise... different day | More still... Malaysia can 'do' sunrises | |
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| Pool from cafe | Regan at breakfast | |
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| Julian and Regan... the big bellies | The Eq pool... I did hundreds of laps in this pool | |
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| Stairs between levels at the Eq | Eq koi pond | |
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| Hollow inside of hotel | Eq in the distance | |
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| Random traffic scenes | ||
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| Motor scooters everywhere | ||
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| Batik factory | ||
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| Gift buying at the batik store | Nice scarf Julian | |
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| Me getting in touch with my feminine side | Is this a good look or what? | |
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| Vertical mall | ||
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| Muslims everywhere | These are Suuni Muslims | |
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| Flying over Point Reyes | Stunningly gorgeous... | |
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| This was a serious blessing that I had a window seat and.... | ....I had my camera | |
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| Amazing.... | ||
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| Mile Rock off the entrance to San Francisco Bay | ||
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| Mount Fuji | So lucky that the plane flew right over this and I had a window seat and again that I had my camera | |
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| Singapore Harbor... | ...ships everywhere | |
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| Landing at Singapore Airport | Flaps down | |
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| Big construction project right next to the Eq... | ||
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| I would lean out my balcony and watch the action by the hour | Oh... this the progress on the new house under construction seen in the above pictures | |
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| The tall, white house in the middle of the picture was pretty spectacular | Workers working on one of the towers of the condo building | |
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| These workers worked 12 hour days and lived on site in the pictured living quarters | I think they also worked seven days a week but someone told me that they rotated days off so that construction went all seven days | |
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| Bringing concrete up to the top of the tower | The crane nearest me | |
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| They used this crane for everything... | ...including moving this stuff around | |
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| Big rain | ...and thunder and lightning | |
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| I loved the rain in Malaysia | During this week long trip I think they completely added one floor to this building | |
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| Close up of the living quarters of these workers... I was told that these folks were imported labor... some of them appeared to even have brought their families | ||
| return to travel |