Hello lovely people. If we haven't had a catch-up in a while you maybe don't know
But I just spent two months in Malaysia with my beautiful wife
It was the holiday of a lifetime
but I am NOT going to call it a
maxi moon
Because then Andrea won't be my friend you can watch the entire
Trip on our
Malaysia playlist, but here are 10 semi random things
I learnt in Malaysia number one. There are no floor numbers 4 or 14
4 is an unlucky number in many Southeast Asian countries mainly because the Cantonese version is near homophonous with the word for death
Many buildings just go one, two, three
3 A, five. Number two the country has very
separate
ethnic groups
And they don't all speak the same language even within those different groups
There are many
different dialects and they don't necessarily understand each other the Malay language
Has ten dialects. The Chinese has seven and the Indian has six
Instead they often converse
cross-culturally in
English with a smattering of The B'hasa Malaysia, which has many words that are really really similar to English, it's quite amazing to experience
Number 3 always carry tissues always if you're a person who needs to use the toilet ever
By which I mean, a person, you will thank me later
Number Four - be brave and try
Every different dish you can get your hands on especially from the roadside hawker stalls the most
Delicious food was always found in the most
unassuming of places
I am now obsessed with chakra tower and I ate it at least once a day
Occasionally twice or that one time I ate it every meal. Number 5 - wear bug spray all the time constantly
Just do it. You don't want to die
Number 6 - The heat makes your hair and nails
Grow incredibly quickly I have never had to trim them quite so much
My hair is much longer than it normally would have done after 2 months, and I did have to trim these nails every week
Number 7: if you're holding a camera *sighs*
At least 5 different men will stop and ask you if you need help every time
Number 8 - Don't step on the grates on the pavement you may just fall through...everytime
Don't get your cane don't get it stuck in a grate. Number nine- on the subjective pavements they follow
no, rhyme or reason. They don't have a
regulatory height width or condition these pavements in front of each different shop will be
Entirely different, and I hear toys have steps to help you get in between
You're in a wheelchair think of it as
off-roading or just stick to the road. Number 10 - money is
beautiful
colorful
and confusing. The central bank created new notes and coins in
2012 this is the fourth series
But the previous series is still around maybe that's due to there being so many
Roadside stalls and traders who don't necessary then take their money to the bank to be taken
back in
We were given notes and coins from the third series
And I'm pretty sure maybe some from the second because they were just odd. That's the third series from
1996 and the second series from
1982 as such the old one looks more like the new 50 then it does the new one
confusing if that's in your purse and
Both of these are accepted as 20 cents
Also there is no 1 cent, so shops just round up or down, but yet, they still price things
like
68 cents they know you just have to give them 70. Why? they know you have to give them 70 I know that'll be one
and finally
Malaysia is a beautiful beautiful country. It is full of the absolute
warmest people and we never felt anything but
Sincerely welcomed being there for two months was a wonderful experience that we will never forget
Things will be going back to normal on the channel now however
I'll be releasing two videos a week or three if it's a special week
Or I just have a lot to say. They'll be chats about disability, some hair tutorials, vintage clothes things
fun and games of my beautiful wife and lastly puppy dogs and
maybe some educational stuff because I
Find learning fun. First, I will finally get around to making the style swap with Claudia. I'm not entirely sure
Who the loser is there?
And the house tour you have kindly asked to see if you have any requests for things you would absolutely
Love to see then please do leave them down in the comments below
And I could be avidly reading them if you are new here
And that sounds very exciting then please do come in and subscribe
I have a whole video of all of the amazing things that we bought in Malaysia coming out on Monday
So I look forward to seeing you then