Urban Mini Getaway

Most people's idea of a holiday is to have travel, at least another state, better another country, another continent, and even further if technology and the travel industry condones it.

I therefore ask the question, how about a mini getaway right where you are ; a hotel in the city, rent a house with pals to chill for the weekend, etc. You've got little to no travel expenses, you the area well, you don't need to take too long a leave to do it, etc. Besides, admit it, there's stuff in your own country you've not seen which people travel half way around the world to see. (I was gonna say 3 quarter way around the world, but I just realised why they logically term it that way)

I did just that.

Place of choice was Hotel Maya, which I was totally oblivious to until a friend of mine told me he'd be planning a wedding there later this year. I wanted some thing different from the usual hotels.

Hotel Maya has a unique interior, shares half a building with Menara Chan (imagine converting an office block into an hotel), faces the Petronas Twin Towers, has a hydrotherapy pool, and cool sky lounge on the 13th floor. On a side, they also offer in-room DVD movies.

Stayed a night there, throw in a short trip to Suria KLCC, a dinner and complimentary breakfast the next morning and some privacy, you got yourself a cool mini weekend getaway.

I'd come back again :) ... for now ... enjoy the view;

... watching this to sleep ...


and waking up to this ...

Why Rev-Boy ?

I sometimes get people asking me, what's "Rev-Boy" or the meaning behind my nickname.

It feels like so long ago, but I think I can still recall. I better put it in a post before I forget due to my not-so-young age, and the fact that I am not getting younger physically.

1996 or 1997, the advent of the Internet to the teen community among the crowd I was with. mIRC was the biggest thing. Being able to communicate with people no matter how far away via chat was an amazing thing (of course mobile phones weren't common then too) So eventually I tried it. I needed a nickname.

I wanted something to reflect a good guy persona (even if it was made up haha). But I wouldn't dare go online using "goodboy" or "male-angel", that's cliché and corny. So I went with "reverend", sounded neat enough, even had some class to it. I think I even padded it with unique characters, and made it "|reverend|" or something. I think even now it's e-hip :)

Used it for a month or so, then someone created a bot (some permanent online ID) in my favourite chatroom using the same name, and I could not login anymore. I felt cheated. But what could I do ... nothing. So then I went a few years younger, and became "Rev-Boy", again doodling it, and getting "Rev-ßoy", which still looks ok to me. Used that for a very long time.

Many years later, when I got to working with a German firm, I then realised that the "ß" was nothing like a "B" and did not sounded like "bee" at all. The character "ß" is actually a "sharp s", which can be replaced with a "ss", and pronounced simply like a "s", common in the German language. So the German word for street, "straße", is not pronounced "strabe", but "strasse". So, my nickname is not pronounced "rev" "ssoy", that sounds like a bootlegged soy milk product.

So now, I am better sticking to Rev-Boy, just Rev-Boy. This way I don't even need to use the "Alt" button on my keyboard and the keypad (numbers 2 and 3) to generated the "ß" character ... and I don't sound like a drink.

Apparently, there's another revboy out there, but that is not me (I realised this back in 1998 or so). If I ever meet the guy, I'm sure we'd get along well. I think he's from the USA. What do you think ?

Rev-Boy out.