<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Travel - Malaysia &amp; Indonesia @ valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com</title><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Travel - Malaysia &amp; Indonesia) </description><copyright>Copyright 2009 valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:39:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Travel - Malaysia &amp; Indonesia @ valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Amusing Malaysian small ads:</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/amusing_malaysian_small_ads_1.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/amusing_malaysian_small_ads_1.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2005 05:40:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=amusing%5Fmalaysian%5Fsmall%5Fads%5F1</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Â Another one from the archives, following on from the Phnom Penh small ads:It's always amusing to see the various ways that non-English countries abuse the mother tongue, especially when it comes to the written word. The Americans of course, are no]]></description></item><item><title>Earthquake Tsunami update - the pledged aid</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/earthquake_tsunami_update__the_pledged_aid.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/earthquake_tsunami_update__the_pledged_aid.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2005 05:24:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=earthquake%5Ftsunami%5Fupdate%5F%5Fthe%5Fpledged%5Faid</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The response to the appeal for aidÂ Â by people and governments the world over has been truly staggering. With anything up to $4 billion dollars pledged. A shame-faced America eventually agreed to cough up $350 million after an astonishingly embara]]></description></item><item><title>Earthquake tsunami update - the good, the bizarre and the ugly</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/earthquake_tsunami_update__the_good_the_bizarre_and_the_ugly.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/earthquake_tsunami_update__the_good_the_bizarre_and_the_ugly.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2005 06:38:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=earthquake%5Ftsunami%5Fupdate%5F%5Fthe%5Fgood%5Fthe%5Fbizarre%5Fand%5Fthe%5Fugly</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ten days after the double disaster in Asia, people are picking up the pieces of their lives and the many stories of grief and woe are interspersed with the occasional tales of miraculous survival.One fisherman man was rescued a week after his boat ov]]></description></item><item><title>Vulcan stirs - a seismic buterfly effect?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/vulcan_stirs__a_seismic_buterfly_effect.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/vulcan_stirs__a_seismic_buterfly_effect.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2005 06:06:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=vulcan%5Fstirs%5F%5Fa%5Fseismic%5Fbuterfly%5Feffect</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Earthquakes - the toll is seismically ominous. Almost 12 months ago to the day of the horrificÂ Sumatran earthquake and subsequent devastating tsunami, another earthquake claimed tens of thousands of lives in Bam, Iran. The Sumatran quake was caused]]></description></item><item><title>Earthquake Tsunami Update, New Years Eve</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/earthquake_tsunami_update_new_years_eve.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/earthquake_tsunami_update_new_years_eve.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2004 05:48:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=earthquake%5Ftsunami%5Fupdate%5Fnew%5Fyears%5Feve</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Phnom Phen, CambodiaUpdated 31/12/2004Well, the news feeds seem to have caught up and are now reporting that there are over 125,000 deaths. That figure will increase further of course but I think that the figure may well peak at around 150,000 as peo]]></description></item><item><title>Tsunami Earthquake Update 30/12/2004</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/tsunami_earthquake_update_30122004.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/tsunami_earthquake_update_30122004.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2004 07:40:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=tsunami%5Fearthquake%5Fupdate%5F30122004</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Phnom Phen, CambodiaUpdated 30/12/2004The death toll continues to rise past 80,000 and towards the figure of 90,000 that I gave yesterday. Sadly even this figure is likely to be exceeded. One UN official here in Phnom Penh that I talked to mentioned]]></description></item><item><title>Sumatra earthquake - Update 29/12/2004</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/sumatra_earthquake__update_29122004.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/sumatra_earthquake__update_29122004.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:56:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=sumatra%5Fearthquake%5F%5Fupdate%5F29122004</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Phnom Phen, CambodiaUpdated 29/12/2004:The quake death toll has now exceeded 68,000 and is likely to rise even further with tens of thousands still missing and some regions yet to be contacted. The figure could now rise as high as 90,000 fatalities.]]></description></item><item><title>Earthquake toll - news update</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/earthquake_toll__news_update.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/earthquake_toll__news_update.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2004 07:35:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=earthquake%5Ftoll%5F%5Fnews%5Fupdate</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Phnom Penh, Cambodia Updated 28/12/2004:Revised figures from Indonesia suggest that between 21 and 25 thousand people have perished, putting the total number of fatalities at somewhere around the 40,000 mark. Up to 40,000 people are unnacounted for i]]></description></item><item><title>Medan, Indonesia - the first day</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/medan_indonesia__the_first_day.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/medan_indonesia__the_first_day.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2004 04:18:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=medan%5Findonesia%5F%5Fthe%5Ffirst%5Fday</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Its amazing the doors that open for you when you are armed with a good book, a piece of paper and a pen. Women in particular seem drawn to the artist, much moire so than a man to a female artist. I'm not sure why this should be, perhaps its a measure]]></description></item><item><title>Johnnymac at a typical Batak Wedding</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/johnnymac_at_a_typical_batak_wedding.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/johnnymac_at_a_typical_batak_wedding.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2004 23:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=johnnymac%5Fat%5Fa%5Ftypical%5Fbatak%5Fwedding</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I was privileged enough to be invited to a Batak wedding on Samosir Island, Lake Toba, North Sumatra.The poor girl in the blurred (apologies) photograph was very unhappy indeed. Although she was happy to be married, she was marrying outside her villa]]></description></item><item><title>Danau Toba - Lake Toba</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/danau_toba__lake_toba.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/danau_toba__lake_toba.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2004 23:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=danau%5Ftoba%5F%5Flake%5Ftoba</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Lake Toba was formed as a consequence of the largest volcanic eruption ever to occur on earth, approximately 75,000 years ago, which ejected some 1,500 to 2,000 km3 of material.It is the largest year-round lake in Southeast Asia, is located in the pr]]></description></item><item><title>Malaysia - A food court in Georgetown</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/malaysia__a_food_court_in_georgetown.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/malaysia__a_food_court_in_georgetown.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=malaysia%5F%5Fa%5Ffood%5Fcourt%5Fin%5Fgeorgetown</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[One of the wonderful things about South East Asia is that nearly everything is done out of doors in a bustling, hustling sort of activity. The drilling chatter broken by the clanking spatulas against iron woks, cut with the hiss of hot metal squeakin]]></description></item><item><title>The delectable Nancy from lake Toba</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_delectable_nancy_from_lake_toba.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_delectable_nancy_from_lake_toba.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2004 23:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fdelectable%5Fnancy%5Ffrom%5Flake%5Ftoba</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Nancy was a lady I developed a huge crush on in Lake Toba.I hadn't felt this way about a woman in years, it was bordering on the obsessional. But I'm getting ahead of myself, the story about Nancy starts a way back, shortly after I arrived in Lake To]]></description></item></channel></rss>