How to fleece money when travelling

Yup , when we travel , we loose money , we had to pay the higher taxi fare those jerks asks , we have to pay Tourist only high prices , but I got them good , in my recent travels with the family i went through all the tourist traps paid through my nose but at last i got them , first the Coffee Bean Company , the cofee shop like star bucks had a program to buy their membership at RM 25 and get RM 30 value , guess what i bought it at every coffee bean ( my usual order used to be two ice lattee with chocolate muffin totoal 29 RM ) and the mother of all the my last night in KL , i high on coffee found a roach in my 15th floor room which i quietly handed over to the receptionist and the next day left the hotel citing that i don;t wanna any other bug roaming on me , little they know i was leaving the country hahaha and when i reached home i had an email from Shangrila KL stating that due their negligence they will give me one free night at Executive Floor , now my uncle is going this week and he will utlize the night hahahaha i got them good sara kharcha nikal gaya
now i gotta run for Namaz take care

Marriott Sucks

Yup Marriott Karachi sucks , i had a meeting on behalf of my organization there on Saturday night at Senator Hall and guess what those jerk heads made me sit on a wet drenched chair and spoiled my NEXT trouser , when i called their manager , even he was rude to me , finally i had to resort to call my account manager who had to run to the hotel in his t-shirt along with the GM of this flithy hotel where the AC ducts were leaking water , flies were flying around with their banquet manager running after them with a fly swatter what a sight a five star hotel ( they call it that ) looked like that of a 1 star at train station . The GM asked me to give him my pants so he can get them dry cleaned , like i am going to take my pants off , what i will wear for 20 min a stiking towel wow a towel on a dress shirt and tie interesting Bengali look . The next day the firm i work for organzed a big gala dinner and we found a fly in the rice yup a fly dead and cooked in the rice , i am never eating at Marriott again don;t wanna get gastro , last time i had that lost 10 pounds in 2 days and looked like a stick instead of the healthy hippo i was before had to change the ward robe for my pants to fit . The gala dinner went well we celebrated with 5 am one of our directors organized the musical it was cool , i had to leave early causse my kids fell asleep , will post some photos later

The Travelogue

Finally i'm back sitting in my office , sipping my flavored tea taking a 15 min break from work like the past 2 weeks i was not on official break .
The story is to be told after i left Bangkok airport for penang , i left when my daughter Z started messing with the keyboard and my son started nagging to see the airplanes so we left for the boarding area and guess what the flight was late by an hour which we spent watching airplanes come and go , Z learned to imitate airplane flying in that hour with ZZZZZ sound while T was busy watching his cartoons on the PMP i got from Pakistan . My original plan was to reach KL at 12 pm and catch 1:45 shuttle to Penang plenty of time at KL airport but due to an hour delay i reached at 1 pm , rushed to the transfers counter , they even arranged for my kid's stroller to be sent directly to Penang , ok breaktime over will write later

Last hours in Bangkok - Thailand Recap

Yup the time has come , me sitting in the lounge with my family , its 8:05 am , i will be catching the 9 am shuttle to Kualalumpur with connecting flight to Penang , will reach the place at 4 pm , around after 6 hrs with 2 hrs stayover at KLIa . About my Thailand experience well , Thai hospitality is its best , my hotel in Pattaya , the Sheraton resort was one of the finest i have ever stayed at , 3 swimming pools , large spacious rooms , and the shower well it feels like i am standing under the rain , i took my family to the walking strip during the day , and to the central entertainment plaza they loved it all , missed the Coral isalnd tour because of my a** travel agnet who forgot to hire the tour for me and f***edup half of day when i was waiting for him adn later say , you never told me i thought it was optional . Well on the third day we left for bangkok stayed at Grand Sukumhvit by Sofitel , not bad for $ 80 , 2 rooms yup 2 one with bed and the other one with SOfa and kichennte , the first thing my son asked was mom will you cook for me plese guess he is tierd of all the KFC ( its halal in Thailand ) and Fish burgers . here we went to Siam discovery and Siam Paragon , wish Karachi has places like that Siam Discovery has a Ocean World with Sharks , Squids , Jelly fishes and all sort of sea ctreatures even Penguins and water rats took us 2 hrs to go through all that and my youngest loved the fishes , didn't wanted t leave and had to be forcefully taken out , Siam paragon is some what like City center in Duabi but a lot better the first thing we saw when we enetered were a Lanmborghini Gllardo and a Lamborghini Merciliago yup the finest machines right on diplay with Ferrari Porche and Hummer showrooms on the 4th floor , awsome shopping place if you have the dough ARmani , Jaspal , Swarovski , Damas , Tiffiny all were there and a lovely food court with foods from every where . Spent a total of 6 hrs there and got back to our hotel at 10 pm and straight packed the bags and went to sleep , woke up at 5 am gt ready , forced the kids out of the bed , went down checked out and guess what my jerk of the travel agent forgot to send me the pickup car ,i called him and he said it will come , when i don't know, well i hired a cab , nice guy and reached airport at 6:45 check in went smooth , unlike my other Thai experience , came in the business class lounge wihch was full for the early morning flights , had my family seated got them tead and corrisants and water melons and now me relaxing in front of what my wife call her " sotan " ( second wife ) the computer and blogging away with my youngest the lovely Z on my lap , she is contsnatly trying to hit on the keyboard . its 8:15 , m,y son T has come asking for more water so i better leave , will write later about my exploits in Penang till than you all take care and wait :)

Blogging from pattaya

Yup , me back and blogging from Pattaya , a mix of heaven and hell well , there is a mosqu and numerous gogo bars , in the night it looks like a women super market ,i mean you can choose among them aat the numerous beer gardens . Well i am here with my family and not interested in these activities . my flight from karachi was soso , the business class of Thai was not as expected . no amenities , no service tiotally pthetic , will blog later it s raining outside and goptta reah my room fast

I'm back and going out soon

Yup I'had been away , stuck with work , has a manager meeting today at 5 pm so was busy arraning stuff from writing material to sheilds all is now done , me relax another 5 min and back to work . the week went awsome with the work. Last sunday took my son to Sunway LAgoon , Pakistan's best water park , well the palce was good but not the crowd , a lot of horseplay and staring at women's chests etc by them , i stayed there for an hour and took my son to Country Club for lunch . then the rest of the week was spent doing work and arraning for my tickets from Malaysian Airline . The jerk there told me that there are no seats available for Penang KL flight and all classes are full , when i contacted my agent he told me that business is open so i had to run back to Malaysian and made him issue me the ticket. Another collegue of mine has left for KL with his family , his last words on SMS before sitting on Malaysian Airline plane was " here all seats seems wet , soggy and smelling " good thing i am travelling on Thai , didn;t had a good experience on Malaysian last year , some body dropped brown rice on it , the tray was dirty and sticky even the flight attnendent didn't listened to me the worst flight i had and i had sat in bad planes like that of BIman airline with orange interior , my son who was 2 at the time got them good , when the flight was landing in Karachi on our way back , he got to go pee and they didn;t let him so he wet their seat , now i knew the flight from Karachi to KUl was again pack , they deserve it all the lashing they will get from the passenger who was assigned to that seat , well i'm leaving for namaz , will post something new maybe tomorrow and than adios for 2 weeks or less if i can get my hands on a computer somewhere

Travelling Plans

Well one more week to go when i leave for my well deserved vacation , I deserve it cause i work 60 hour plus a week not to mention sometimes it shoots up to 70 hrs so 62 hrs on average into 50 weeks makes 3050 hrs a yr , now i will be gone 14 days of pure bliss no letters , no emails , no SMS , no MMS , ocassional phone calls ( my office number is set on international roaming ) 14 days with my family , basking in pattaya , shopping in Bangkok , wind surfing at Penang , exploring in Langkawi , splashing in Sunway , riding in Genting and finally relaxing in Kualalumpur . Got all my flights reserved , all my hotels reserved and guess what as an special incentive , the company allowed me to travel Business Class all the way with the family , ooh the sweet sensation of wide seats on Airplane , i can sleep all i want , eat all i want , the amenities , the special attention .

Even the hotel is got booked are world class , Sheraton Resort , Sofitel Grand , Holiday INN ( no choice here Shangrilla is sold out 2 mths before ) , and Shangrilla where they have live bands in the night right in front of KLCC . The hotels came out to be quiet inexpensive despite all the big names my average comes out to be $106 per night not bad considering a friend of mine is paying on average $190 for the same hotels . Well i am off to work will update later

Karachi is Not So Quiet

The past two days had been very quiet in my life but not in Karachi , things happened , a well known political / religious figure Alama Turabi was killed in a bomb blast , so his party has called for strike , there was a long queue outside petrol pumps ( gas pumps for americans ) today i went out , half the city was close from outside but working behind closed doors , even my bank closed their shutter and letting customers in through back door .

Last night i saw Click , yup we get movies in Pakistan within a week after they are released in US although the quality is never good till the master print is out none the less all my AMerican friends envy me that they spend some $ 6-10 to watch a movie ( $ 3.75 for AMC matinee time ) and i spend the maximum of $1.00 to own it on DVD to watch it again and again and if the luck strikes i get 5 movies on one DVD in Divx format so 20 cents a movie to be watched on my home theatre system but not on a Bravia .

I'm back after nice dinner

Tonight i went to Sheraton Pakistani awsome place kick ass prawns , great kebabs , tasty parathas and delicious gravy and biryani , 25 people all fed till they are full only for Rs.5000/- (USD 85) than we had Amma ka metha pan from P.I.D.C now stomach full i'm home , the kids are asleep , even me sleepy so see ya all in the morning take care
ooh the higlight of the day , Porsche showroom yup a spanking new Porsche dealership is opening at Karachi in PC Hotel shopping area right beside Sani's , will be fun to visit i hope they'll carry some Porsche caps and key chains