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Comment on Help nurture entrepreneurs in poor countries by Jake

Jake — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:44:20 +0000

Thanks Allan - it’s great to hear of success stories! Here is the Kiva website.

Comment on Help nurture entrepreneurs in poor countries by Allan

Allan — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:57:41 +0000

My friend’s high school age daughter is starting her investing career off by making loans to third world entrepreneurs through Kiva. She’s learning a ton and a few of her borrowers have successfully launched their small businesses.

Comment on One egg, two yolks by Robin Ng

Robin Ng — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:33:14 +0000

wow, i never see twin yolk……

Comment on Heeren Inn (Malacca) has bed bugs by tanya

tanya — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:47:16 +0000

I stayed at Sunny’s Inn in Melaka a couple days ago and my room had bed bugs too.

Comment on Potato stronger than plastic by Enviroment Kid

Enviroment Kid — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:33:14 +0000

Yea so I am doing a project on clean energy and I think this is genius! I mean metal is good but every once and a while for the cook out, the picnic, ya know. So i really think that if we make like tupperware or other plastic things then we can reduce SO MUCH!!!!!!!!! I really hope one of the presidents will avocate the clean energy…. lets hope so.

Comment on Heeren Inn (Malacca) has bed bugs by Kok

Kok — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:37:43 +0000

wow.. thanks for sharing…. i almost wanted to look for more info about Heeren Inn after seeing a traveling programme recommending Heeren Inn in Malacca…
forget abt staying there anymore…

Comment on Heeren Inn (Malacca) has bed bugs by Jake

Jake — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:57:34 +0000

Sorry to hear about your bedbug experience Kenny. I told the owner of Heeren Inn to hire Rentokil or another pest control agency. He said he would, but obviously he does not take this seriously.

This is a serious public health issue. Hotel owners need to be educated about bedbugs and the public need a way to report hotels to the Ministry of Health. I’ve emailed them to ask what process, if any, is in place at present.

Comment on Heeren Inn (Malacca) has bed bugs by Kenny Low

Kenny Low — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:31:47 +0000

NEVER STAY IN THE HEEREN INN !!!!!

I should have read your blog properly and memorize the room number… i stayed in Heeren Inn for 3d 2n last week on the 30th Aug-01st Sept 2008 in room 207 and my friends stayed in room 208 from 30th-31st Aug 2008 for 2d 1n.

And… Yeah!!! You are right mate, me and my gf were attacked by bed bugs in room 207 but surprisingly not in my friends’ room 208.

On the first night (we went to bed quite early in the morning about 5am++ after having some playing card game at the reading area) and when we woke up the next day, i thought i had been bitten by mosquitos because i had found about 2 rashes on my arm (but the feeling is not like mosquito’s bite, it is more painful than mosquito bite) so i went to the reception counter to borrow mosquito repellent to spray in the room. The hotel owner’s reaction is like “huh? got mosquito fly in?? the toilet’s window have to be closed…” He don’t even bother to pay for a look into my room. At first I thought it was safe after spraying the mosquito repellent but apparently it was not!!

On the third day, this time, i found 2 more rashes on my arm and about 5 rashes on my gf’s arm (all rashes were in red and swollen as what shown by your photos here, actually i don’t know that was bed bugs bite untill i read back your blog after came back from there, OMG!!!). I can definitely tell that we had been attacked by bed bugs now…. Luckily we had lesser bites than you guys…

So, travellers, please skip this Heeren Inn the next time you plan to visit Melaka. Cheers!

Comment on Heeren Inn (Malacca) has bed bugs by sengkim

sengkim — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:41:01 +0000

many thanks for your comment. will list out heeren inn in our booking.

Comment on VW Polo running on vegetable oil - no modification needed by Jake

Jake — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:15:23 +0000

Paul,

Check your Polo manual and it should say that it can run on 50% RME (Rapeseed-Methyl-Esther). It’s a different engine to mine, but I suspect you’ll be able to run it on biodiesel.

Filtering oil takes a bit of time to set-up but it is worth it for the free motoring! There are lots of options for filtering the used oil (known as WVO - Waste Vegetable Oil). Have a look here:

http://www.biodieselcommunity.org/filteringoil/

A friend of mine used two oil drums - one of top of the other - and filtered the oil through old socks and rags. Very enterprising and low cost.