Magic Cream from China - Keep Dry and Shady

Good for:  Relieving mosquito bites and other skin irritations, light entertainment :P

Not so good for:  English lessons?!

Having lived away from Malaysia for the last (almost) 15 years, my skin is quite sensitive to mosquito bites.  After 4 days of being here, I am now moderately covered in little red spots.  So I was offered some cream by my parents to alleviate the itching.  It came in the jar above....

I have to say I spent quite some time giggling at the jar and its label.  I am not sure what I found funniest.   "Keep Dry and Shady" or "Do not drink" or "Scribble on skins" - Google Translate gone wrong!  But the cream seems to help the mosquito bites which is what is important.  :)

Touchscreen Notebook

Good for:  Coolness factor, surprisingly convenient option of "touching the screen" to do what you want

Not so good for:  Older techno-phobes, Windows 8 annoying interface

Things have been a bit quiet on my side for the last week and a bit.  Reason being, I was first getting ready for and am now on, a flying visit to Malaysia! Being a true Malaysian who lives abroad, I have 2 interesting items on my agenda:  Eating and shopping.  :P  

I'll save eating for another post, but today I went shopping with my family. 

First I was dazzled by the colours clothes in F.O.S., and eventually I bought a touchscreen notebook.  I am not keen on Apple products, and do not own or use any computers other than my work machine, and my mini laptop at home.  So this is my primary means of storing data, tracking training and social-media-ing.  My criteria of selection was coolness, small(and light)ness and ability to transfer and process training data and pictures.

I first looked at a tablet with a keyboard option, but was told that whilst it appeared to be equivalent to a laptop, a tablet is not capable of supporting special software that I use regularly such as Adobe Acrobat, Garmin Training Centre, and Suunto Movescount. It was "USB capable" but only had one USB port.  And it did not have an SD card reader.  Good to know.  That just rendered it incapable of fulfilling 60% of my requirements.  So it was back to a more traditional laptop option in the end.  But with a touchscreen, hah!  It had to be cool in some way, right?!?

Rainy-Denmark vs Water-Rationing-Malaysia

Good for:  A reminder that things might not be as bad as they seem!
Not so good for:  Cycling outdoors (in Denmark) and/or taking a shower (in KL)

First of all I must admit that keeping to the theme of this blog was a bit challenging for this post.  But I will persevere!  Second of all, I admit that you can't tell just how rainy it was when that picture was taken.  But I can assure you it was RAINY...  my soggy clothes were evident of it (although I have no photographic proof).  :P

Those of you who have been reading my blog will know that I am going on a flying visit to Malaysia next week.  I saw this article about water rationing in the Klang Valley last night, and couldn't help but compare it to how we are always complaining about the "dårligt vejr" (terrible weather) in Denmark.  According to the article, 2.2. million households will have water for 2 days, followed by 2 days of dry taps.  My family are lucky enough that our house does not fall into the areas affected.

So maybe I should stop complaining about the rain and slightly flooded river banks I have to run on.  At least I can take a shower when I want to in Denmark!