December 2000
(Malaysia) Kuala Lumpur
(California) Palm Springs & Disneyland
(PA) Glenside & a New Jersey New Years Eve!
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The
Beginning of December 2000 |
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was a great month. We had a leaving dinner with SQC about the 5th
and got ourselves ready to leave Malaysia for Palm Springs, California
on the 9th December. We were going there to meet Gerry at IBI -
Income Builders International, an amazing experience
for those who are ready, but that's another story.
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were sad to leave KL but knowing we are returning in a few short
months is great! We have made some great friends, and has some life-changing
experiences. The weather is so beautiful and we know we are going
to be entering the freezing cold when we fly into the United States
for the next month and a half!
This is me with Yong and Lee. The photo above and beside was taken
during the leaving dinner with the SkyQuestCom staff. The meal was
delicious! We could probably make a whole website on the food we
have eaten (or not eaten) in Malaysia. |
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From Malaysia to the USA
December
2000 |
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are the worlds tallest buildings, the KL Twin Towers. They are right
in the center of the city. For more shots of KL look here:
KL - The Towers.
Well, our time came to an end in Kuala Lumpur, so we packed up
our apartment, filled 4 bags ... what stuff do we have now!! and
left for the airport.
We arrived in LA airport on Sunday and hired a car. It had one
of those new Global Positioning Systems in it. THEY ARE GREAT! We
typed in the place we were going to (and YES, I mean the STREET
ADDRESS) and using satellite we were directed (by graphics and voice)
all the way to our destination.
 I
would highly recommend when you next need to rent a car that you
use Hertz and experience it for yourself...never be lost again!
(It is called the NeverLost system.)
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California, here we come...
10th
of December 2002 |
| Well, we landed in California without much hassle.
We even got to spend about twenty minutes in the Tokyo Airport.
We stopped and bought a bag of sweets (which we couldn't decipher)
to bring back to my folks in Philadelphia. I considered it a cultural
gamble.
Our purpose of going to California was to attend the Income Builders
International seminar and conference. Not knowing what to expect,
we were quite surprised when we arrived at the resort in Palm Springs.
I think Lisa is about to tell you about it, so I'll sign off ... |
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Palm Springs, California
11 - 19th December 2000 |
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was our resort hotel for the conference. It was a week long, "full
on" seminar experience.
The setting was beautiful and it made our time there very pleasant.
Not that we got to spend much time in our room! Meetings started
at 6.30am and we were up usually until 12 midnight or 1 am. We gained
a LOT from the course, and left feeling exhilarated! In fact it
was a wondrous experience I would recommend to anyone interested
in going to the top! |
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you would like to see some of our IBI friends, check it out here:
Palm Springs.
Palm Springs is really just a big beach with no ocean, not at all
as we expected it to be! |
|  Everything
in USA is so much bigger...just look at the size of this truck!
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Disneyland, LA
Festive Time 2001 |
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Then we took the obligatory trip to DISNEYLAND OF COURSE...No trip
to LA is complete without a visit. We had a lot of fun. More pictures
here: Disneyland.
We stayed in the Disneyland Hotel, where one of the great guys
on the front desk took a liking to us and delivered fresh strawberries,
ice cream, brown sugar and a bottle of apple cider on ice to our
room...it was delicious!! It shows you what can happen if you are
nice to people. |
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Christmas in Glenside Philadelphia
Festive Time 2001 |
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left California on the 19th, my Mum's birthday, and headed off to
Philadelphia to spend Christmas time with our stateside family.
We worked out we hadn't seen them in 18 months!
There we relaxed for a couple of days, put up the Christmas Tree,
slept and ate. |
 Tom,
EJ's brother, has a flight on New Years day for Brighton, England.
That's were he is right now, so we were getting as much time in with
him as possible...except he drinks and we don't really and he spent
most of the time in the pub! We had a great Christmas in Philly and
yes there are giant icicles... |
|  EJ's
grandparents didn't know that we were coming home so it was a great
surprise, there were 15 people for Christmas dinner and it was a
lot of fun.
You can check out the full scoop here: Christmas
in Philadelphia, USA
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New Year's EVE 2001
New
Jersey Shore ~ USA |
|  For
New Year's Eve we decided to take up an invitation of several close
friends and go to the Jersey Shore with them all.
Many of them had been E.J.'s friends from High School
and college. It was a riot.
We stayed in a house on the shore, in the snow and
just chilled out the whole time.
I have included a selection
of the 580 photos that were taken on the weekend. |
|  E.J.
was snapping pictures and throughout the weekend he projected them
up on the wall with our digital projector, and we were able to watch
our weekend progress.
Just before midnight on New Years Eve we had a run through of all
the pictures.
You will also see that during the weekend many were to be found
lying in front of the huge screen. We had a ton of mattresses, and
everybody flopped all over the place. It was really like a home
cinema.
Fantasia is quite an intense movie, isn't it, really? |
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people were playing drinking games, that was fun to witness - the
rest of us just relaxed.
Just after midnight we all went up on the roof and
drank champagne.
We had a great time with all the gang and we thank
them for a great ending to the first year of the new millennium,
and a great start to 2001.
You can see the full pictures here: New
Year at the Jersey Shore. (Please note this may take a while
to download there are a LOT of snaps) |
| EJ
was snapping pictures and then during the weekend he projected them
up on the wall and we were able to watch out weekend progress. Just
before midnight on New Years Eve we had a run through of all the pictures.
You will also see that we watched Fantasia upstairs using the digital
projector. We had a ton of mattresses, and everybody flopped all over
the place. It was really like a home cinema. |
|  Some
people were playing drinking games, that was fun to witness - the
rest of us just relaxed.
Just after midnight we all went up on the roof and drank champagne.
We had a great time with all the gang and we thank them for a great
ending to the millennium year, and a great start to 2001.
You can see the full pictures here: New
Year at the Jersey Shore. (Please note this may take a while
to download there are a LOT of snaps)
On New Year's Morning (Jan 1st) we went down to the beach which
was COVERED IN SNOW! What an amazing sight. Walking on the beach
in 2 feet of snow!! Strange feeling. See it
NOW... |
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