Some downtime expected on this website

My website will be down for short periods during the following days. My hosting at SBI is doing some major upgrade so just have to bear with for the better running of the website in future. Here's the info sent to me, you can have look see if you happen to be unable to load up on my main Cameron Highlands Destination website. Cheers!

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Some downtime is needed for some major upgrades to our clusters, deployments of NetApp shared memory, etc.
It boils down to short periods of downtime (for your site this time, NOT for access to SBI! or the forums)...

1) Tuesday, June 21 - Starting 7:00 AM (ET), your site will be down for 10-15 minutes (best estimate), on a rotating basis (i.e., not all SBIers down at the same time). Again, Site Central and the forums should remain up. We'll be all done within an hour.

2) Tuesday, June 28 -- Less than 5 minutes of downtime per site TOTAL, with only 1-2 minutes of downtime at a time. Will require most of the day to finish all blades, etc.

Wednesday, June 29 -- If we were not able to finish everything on the 28th, work continues.

3) Tuesday, July 5 -- Less than 5 minutes of downtime, with only 1-2 minutes at a time. Will require most of the day.

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Planning to make more posts, but kind of too many things to do. Once you have a baby everything becomes heady and the time constraints increases! Still it is a joy to play with good old baby. Future coming in bright and sunny, and of course cool too if heading to the highlands! Planning to bring baby along on one of the trips! He sure need to cool down as do I!

 

No more Brinchang Night Market?

No more Brinchang Night Market? Well if Majlis Cameron Highlands says so everybody has to follow. Majlis plans to shift the night market to Tanah Rata. So in future it will be known as Tanah Rata Night Market and with brings along all the goodies and trash with it.

So Tanah Rata will become more lively as visitors will get to 'borong' all the veggies and stuff their mouths full of yummies.

Unfortunately, it will likely cause a massive jam in Tanah Rata instead despite that it will be held on a rather unused car park lot right under the Majlis office off from the main Jalan Besar road.

Will just have to wait and see how it goes when they do shift the Brinchang Night Market to Tanah Rata.

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Looks like the Night Market in Brinchang will remain. Nobody wanted to shift to Tanah Rata I suppose. So if on a peak holiday season, plan your travel itinerary carefully and not get stuck in traffic jam coming in via Simpang Pulai way!

Bus tragedy in Simpang Pulai Cameron Highlands road

This bus tragedy at the Simpang Pulai Cameron Highlands road is really sad and shocking. Woke up to see this big news splattered on the front page of Star newspaper. With so many people dead and injured, it is truly unfortunate. It should have been a merry making time enjoying the sights and sound of the highlands but now those that survive can only carry the grim memory of the mishap.

 

Although the Simpang Pulai route to Cameron Highlands and wider and smoother to drive there is indeed a risk as you could end up being complacent with your driving. Do note that this is still a highland driving and the road is not straight and there are various degrees of gradient which will create different momentum when going downhill.

 

For most careful drivers, going at a slower pace is a wise decision (but not too slow please). A 70kph is good a speed for safe driving. Any slower you end up like snail and pose a danger to other faster moving vehicles by way of them hitting you or trying to overtake you at inappropriate places.

 

Going down too fast would has a higher risk of losing control of your vehicle and they most often occurs at road bends, especially where the curvature of the road is at a greater angle. The torque would pull your car to wider circumference and you would end up crossing to the opposite lane if there is no divider, or as per the tragedy, hitting the road divider.

 

Even skilled drivers may make mistakes, and an impatient or angry driver are the most dangerous drivers not only putting themselves to risk but also endangering other road users as well.

 

So to all you drivers out there, good and less skilled, drive carefully! Speed kills. So do keep calm and keep your heads cool, and of course head of to Cameron Highlands to cool down further for this yearend holiday season and come home alive to tell your family and friends about this wonderful Malaysia holiday travel destination.

Ipoh to Cameron Highlands

Travel to Ipoh then to Cameron Highlands anyone? Well it is entirely possible as Ipoh is close proximity to Cameron Highlands. Actually Simpang Pulai is already almost to Ipoh and thus from Ipoh to zip up to Cameron Highlands just takes one and half hour.

So you can do some Ipoh tourism and then hop over to the Malaysian highlands for some cool time!

And what can you do in Ipoh?

Basically Ipoh is fame for its various gastronimical offering. Well that's my impression about Ipoh. Although if I do a little research I'm sure I can find interesting things to do in Ipoh apart from all those delicious offering.

Anyway until such wish you all happy holidays!

cameron highlands notes

Decided to do a quikie drop in to Cameron Highlands. My last visit was about six months ago. Then a healthy cheerful baby boy came into this brave new world and I was a tad busy to update anything about Camerons in a major way.

So if I got the chance to pop in even for one night then do so!

It's been five years ago since I started my travel website about Cameron Highlands and it has grown a lot with lots of good content. It can still reach greater heights just need to find time to do it.

This time round was to meet up with old friends and make new friends and look up both new and old places and see what are the changes in Cameron Highlands. Even for such a small place I still got so many things to write about. It simply dynamic place, a never ending growth and renewal.

And if things work out, I may even get to do a new project with that famous rail service. Not letting the cat out of the bag just yet! Once it falls through you will know.

For now is time to update the ever growing, ever popular website Cameron Highlands Destination about what else? Good ol' Cameron Highlands.

And yes, Karen, your fingers are tired clickaty clakaty replying all the inquiries! But it is good, yes?

Kang Travel and Tours Job Opportunity

Hello! Looking for a job in Cameron Highlands?

Well here's some job opportunity for those who like to work in the highlands, Kang Travel is looking for drivers who have PSC License and Sales Operator for their office. If you think it would be interesting to work in Cameron Highlands, well you can give Kang Travel a call. Their telephone contact +60 (5) 4915828

So give a call and see if the vacancy is still available.

Cheers!

Jan.