The WoH and I went to The Curve in Damansara to watch the new James McAvoy/Angelina Jolie movie ‘Wanted‘. We decided to treat ourselves and took advantage of the new ‘Platinum Suite’. You get access to an exclusive lounge before your movie and get complementary drinks, internet access and magazines. You are then escorted to [...]
June 26, 2008
Categories: Review . Tags: movie review, Wanted . Author: scottthedot . Comments: 3 Comments
We are spending the last week of our honeymoon in Kuala Lumpur and are staying at the Traders Hotel in the city centre. We have a spectacular view of The Petronas Towers and are just across the road from the Suria Mall.
To get out of the heat we decided to go an watch a movie [...]
June 25, 2008
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Have had lots of e-mails about the lack of proper pics. Well we had to wait for the professional photographers to get back to us, then we had to wait to find a computer with a DVD drive. But finally we have the pics. These are only a small selection of what was taken. More [...]
June 17, 2008
Categories: Personal stuff . . Author: scottthedot . Comments: 3 Comments
These are some of the pics of our informal legal ceremony this morning.
The ‘proper’ do with kilts etc is tonight. Stay tuned,
June 12, 2008
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Yesterday was my birthday and looking back over 34 other birthdays this one was one of the most memorable.
The jet lag has not left us yet and so we were both wide awake at 2am in the morning. As luck would have it this also coincided with the live broadcast of the portugal v turkey [...]
June 9, 2008
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Well, we made it to Langkawi – a tiny island in the Chin Chin straits off the coast of Malaysia.
It has taken us two days to get here but The 11 hour KLM flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was made easier by getting a good deal on some first-class tickets. Lie flat beds, great [...]
June 6, 2008
Categories: Personal stuff, Travel . Tags: jet lag, langkawi, the datai . Author: scottthedot . Comments: 1 Comment
My brain is filled with numbers at the moment. Allow me to share.
On Saturday and Sunday I played in the most expensive (official) poker tournament ever held in Aberdeen. There were 72 entrants each paying £400 to enter. (Including a rebuy). I never paid that owing to winning an earlier game. After 18 hours of [...]
June 3, 2008
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No going back
Just looking at the calendar and it has been a whole year since I packed in the 9 to 5 (or 8 ’til 8 to be accurate) and took some time out for myself. Soon I will have to get back into the mainstream of society and do things like work, pay a mortgage etc. [...]
June 25, 2008
Categories: Personal stuff, Social Commentary, Travel . . Author: scottthedot . Comments: 2 Comments