Category: Travel

Going Backwards In Time Because an Event of Great Importance Was Not Given Sufficient Attention on this Blog; An Instagram Reel’s Language is Rather Powerful; However, More Powerful is the Poem Secrets to Being Brave with Its Islamic References; The Relaxation Found in the Words Led to Reportage of a Fun Day, Yet Again at Alexis Restaurant; Photos to Bring Joy and Laughter

I need to go backwards in time. I guess I should be blogging every day because I have not been speaking of important news – not emphasizing the most important thing I have done in…

Where Am I Now?? Hoodwinking My WhatsAppers; My First Day at Domitys Bangsar; Meeting Many Residents Over a Delicious Breakfast; Quick/Slow on the Uptake; Making New Friends; Precious Help Finding the Kaaba; Speaking to and Learning of Old Friends; The Heart of Mecca Reappears Thanks to Artificial Intelligence: Retrieving My Baseball Cap; Sharing An Evocative Preface

Where am I now??? Fortunately I know, and you shall find out in due time. What is that phrase? I was total reassured – it is a proper English idiom meaning : eventually at an…

A Most Unusual Blog Beginning with the Word of the Day: Affection: Then a Discussion of Artificial Intelligence; Knowledge Coming from the Podcast Ideas a CBC Production; An Atlantic Monthly Search Leads to Typing Trump into the Search Engine of my Blog Discovering My Prediction for the Fall of Dubai Made in 2020; Some Photographs of Me During My Six Months Living in Abu Dhabi

I am having a rather peaceful day which followed a rather strange day. Well not that peaceful – I locked myself out of my room safe but found out before I needed anything from it…

After the Fall; Looked to the Meaning of the Expression. It is When Adam and Eve Got Kicked Out of Paradise; An April 2022 Blog Quoted Proving Judeo Christian Versions Lead the Denigration of Women, Quran Does Not; On the Home Front I am Either the Proud Grandmother or a Matriarch of a Growing Chinese Family; Photos of the Kids and My New Beverage of Choice

I was thinking of my fall of six nights ago, remembering it, the pain, the fear I would keep falling and be bed ridden for the rest of my life. Now I focus upon the…

Changes in Attitude and Changes in Attitude Yet Again: Everything Topsy Turvy But in a Great Way; Penang Looking Like it is My Final Resting Place; Attentive Thankfully Defined; Ducks in a Row; Kissing Toads But I Finally Found a Prince; My Malaysian Doctor Diagnoses Good News; An Inspiring Moon Photo and a Blood Pressure Monitor

July 2, 2026 It was amusing to go the search engine of the blog and find that I had mentioned Changes In Attitude, Changes in Latitude 37 times. For me change seems to be a…

A Day in the Life of Raffles Becomes a Fabulously Funny Fiasco; Two Idioms in a Row, Repair to One’s Room and Rings a Bell; Using the Lawyer’s Excuse; Artificial Intelligence Does Have a Keen Sense of Humor; Queen for a Day Becomes Raffles Resident Writer for a  Day; An Alexis Lookalike Brings Laughter

I had this great idea and now will follow through with it. Trace for the peons what it is like to be celebrated at the Raffles Hotel. Here we go. The morning began with Fajr…

An Embarrassment of Riches. The Best Day of My Entire Life; A Chronology of the Blessed Day; The Reel, the ALEXIS MCBRIDE APPROVAL LETTER; Meeting the Brand New Raffles Managing Director on His First Day of Work; An Indian Food and Beverage Manager Leads Back to The Last Prince of Bengal Proving It is a Small World; Blessings Never Come to the Wrong Address

Today was the best day of my entire life – and that is saying a great deal. I knew of a phrase that was so descriptive: an embarrassment of riches. Did not know what the…