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Blogging From Sri Lanka: 2008-12-04 7:07PM
2WTH, i can’t decide whether want to feel safe or unsafe. In the airport, already got few machine guns
walking out of the airport saw some more machine guns
So we’ve waited for some time and the van came and we were picked up and transported to the Hotel. The distance from the hotel is about 20km. The exit of the airport is barricaded with army personal, two of it with machine guns and two more of them have hand gun on their waist.
Ok that is it, few more meters away from there there is another road block with more soldier. After that its a relieve for like few seconds because for every 200meters or so there is two soldier where one of them carrying machine guns and another with hand gun. Two of these soldier position along our way to hotel every 200 meters or so.
That is over security where it doesn’t feel secure at all. *sweat*
To be continue…
Blogging From Sri Lanka: 2008-12-04 4:07PM
0My Hotlink calling SMS rate back to Malaysia is RM2/sms
Make a call to Malaysia RM 4/min Only if you use this code to Call *120*006 <Area Code><Phone number>
else it will be RM 14/min calling using +60124573144
That is insane
Broadband access from hotel room is USD6/hr
Lucky here in their office got free internet access
So limited communication
Dirty little secrete here, I’ve left my Passport in the hotel room ontop the the table visibly there waiting for someone to pick it up.
One good news and serveral bad news i heard from the journey from Sentral to Sri Lanka
The one and only one good news here is i’ve reach Maldives. Woooohoooo!!!!!!!!
but only at their airport.
The MH 189 flight have to stop by Male, Maldives (Capital of Maldives) before to Colombo, Sri Lanka
The flight took about 6 hours into total but i’ve save 2.5 hr from the timezone difference hahaha.
Reach Bandaranaike International Airport (Colombo, Sri Lanka Internation Airport) at about GMT +8 2:20 AM Malaysian time
reach hotel at GMT +8 3AM++
The first bad news was from Ram a SAP consultant who travel with us for this business trip. He is an Malaysian Indian who have relative in Sri Lanka said and i QUOTE “Sri Lankan has internal tribal conflict. Will have suicide bomb” Said Ram
My eye blink blink and ooooooooooooooo………. disbelive and ignored it
Then we reach Sri Lanka and the first thing i notice in the Airport, soldier with AK-47 Machine Guns positions statigically and cammoflougly at key position
To be continue………