Heritage Hotel view from Greenhill Apartment

Here's a nice view of Heritage Hotel from Greenhill Apartment. Due to lack of available rooms in hotel from the Heritage Vacation Club, we had to shift to Greenhill Apartment the next day to house a large number of family members.
Actually could have avoided all this hassle but due to miscommunication from my wife and my dad and the Heritage Vacation Club, the bookings became a mess. So no choice, wasted a night's stay of the Vacation Club points plus the hassle of having to shift all the luggage from hotel to apartment.
Well you, whenever a family group travel, and now with baby, the sheer number of items to bring for a trip is quite a bundle.
Anyway, this apartment got a nice view despite having to port all the stuffs 3 floors up! Fortunately many hands make work light.
Now the sky is getting balmy and slight drizzle, so our outdoor activities to the various attractions in Cameron Highlands may be hampered somewhat. Anyway, time for lunch soon, but first feed baby and then off we go!

Waking up in Cameron Highlands

Waking up in Cameron Highlands. Temperature in the morn about 23.4 C in the hotel room according to my Casio watch.
Still felt very cold here in Heritage Hotel. Now planning for breakfast coz my dad's Heritage Vacation club don't have breakfast included. I think we will go Uncle Chow for breakfast coz my family has not tried it yet.
As for baby? Will let him sleep with uncle and auntie coz their paid room came with breakfast and they can take care sleeping baby while we quickly take our breakfast.
Good to be up in Cameron Highlands to cool off from KL heat. Kinda off peak this weekend probably due to Ramadhan fasting month.
So go for some chow chow now!

Camerons here we come!

Time to take a break and travel to Cameron Highlands once again! This time round my dad would like to finish using his Heritage Vacation Club points so my parent, Lena, her mom and her sis together with baby will be tagging along. This will be the first time for good old baby to travel to his dad favorite vacation spot in Malaysia!
Yeah! Would be very interesting trip for him and bet his head will spin left and right taking in all the highlands sights!
Heard it will be cold this time right round. The Cameron Highlands's weather is rather wet this time round and there was some landslide with some fatalities. Hopefully by the time we make our way there it will be normalize. Still the weather is rather unpredictable.
I'm making the trip during ramadhan in the hope that it will be low peak so can avoid the holiday crowd. I should think so too judging from the reduced website traffic. Less searches could well mean less tourist during this fasting month.
There is a super long holiday during Hari Raya and Merdeka day combine during the end month of August. Could be crowded then again most people would want to 'balik kampung' to be with family. Still it is hard to say whether it will be a superpeak crowd as some may still want to holiday as an alternative to returning to their hometown.
For now, I will make trip earlier to avoid such peak times. Just want to enjoy and relax with family away from the crowd!
And of course collect info to update the Cameron Highlands Destination website too.
Bon voyage!

SGS for testing Vegetables and Fruits

Hi, I'm Mahani from SGS (M) Sdn Bhd. SGS worldwide network has accreditations to all major standards and is recognized as a leading global benchmark in the field of inspection, verification, certification and testing. We are interested to do the testing for vegetables and fruits to ensure no pesticides/insectcides residue, that export to Singapore. May I know who should I deal with regarding on this matter?
Thank you.

Mahani Mohd Zabidin
Shah Alam
Selangor
10/8/2011

Dear Mahani,
I do not have any contact with the individual farmers. You could try to find their farming association. Unfortunately I do not know them. So you just have to search on your own.
Regards,
Jan.
11/8/2011

Kea Farm opening days

I read about Kea Farm. Do you know which day of the week it
closes? TQVM!

Jon Chong
Malaysia
5/8/2011

Dear Jon Chong,
They are open every day.
Cheers!
Jan.
5/8/2011

Various Comments

Hi, I am from seremban, vegetables wholesaleer. Inquiry abt recycle,... I have some old new paper and cauliflower basket to sell... If any interested, u can give an offer, then we direct contact sir...thx

Kelly Ho
Seremban
6/July/2011

Cactuspoint contact
Mr Rutchapol
Bangkok
Thailand
12/7/2011

Hi,

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We work with a wide range of publishers in your niche and would like to also begin working with you.
Please get in touch if you would be interested in chatting further about possible partnerships.

Look forward to hearing from you soon,
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Adbeans
19/7/2011

Dear Sylvester,
I'm all ears. Give me your proposal.
Regards,
Jan.
20/7/2011

GPS Address for Restaurants and Eateries in CH

Why the eatery recommendation did not include address? How do one find the location?

Thanks
Eunise Wong
Malaysia
1/7/2011

Eunise,
Which one?
Regards,
Jan.
1/7/2011

http://www.cameron-highland-destination.com/restaurant-highlands-charcoal-steamboat.html

I think it would be good just put an exact address, for those ppl who are using gps, much easier to locate the restaurant.

Thanks.

Best regards,
Eunise Wong
4/7/2011
Sent from my iPad

Ah, this was an one of my earlier posts. Beside they didn’t have name cards when I wrote then and they shifted. They are located behind the main road of Brinchang. Same row as Rosa Passadena Hotel. And forget about GPS. They are useless in Cameron Highlands.
Cheers!
Jan.
4/7/2011

PS 20/1/2012: Maybe next round I try get GPS coordinates since I've just recently bought myself a Papago GPS device. But it will take a lot of work and time, so not all will get the coordinates. Cheerio!

How to go from Langkawi to Cameron Highlands

How to go from Langkawi to Cameron Highland for an Arab family of
2 adults and 6 children.

Fatima Hafid
Dubai
United Arab Emirates
26/6/2011

Dear Fatima Hafid,

You can try to charter a taxi, in your case two taxis to take you directly from the mainland jeti to Cameron Highlands. If they are not willing to make the trip, you can try to book with Kang Tours and Travel minivan service:

http://www.cameron-highland-destination.com/kang-tours-and-travel.html

If they also do not stop by at the jeti, you may have to make your way to Ipoh and from there either charter taxis or book Kang's minivan service or take bus coaches to Cameron Highlands.

Cheers!
Jan.
27/6/2011

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. 7 Cameron Bungalow poor review

Just let you know that your recommendation on the NO 7 cameron
Bungalow is a worst place that I stay at cameron highland if bring family together better stay in a proper resort don't ever stay at the bungalow ...no fan , all single bed and smelly and bathroom...yaak ... and very noise .....please dont recommend anymore ....

May
Kuala Lumpur
8/6/2011

You are referring to Puncak Arabella Bungalow no. 7?
How much was it per night?
By the way, all accommodation in CH has no fans.
Regards,
Jan.
8/6/2011