Alan Irwin’s Blog

As we are preparing for our trip, I decided to note some web sites with useful travel tools. That way if anyone (nieces & nephews) ends up traveling outside of the country for the first time, they (nieces & nephews) will have a few references to get started. Whomever they (nieces & nephews) might be.

A time zone converter can be found at:

The Time Zone Converter: http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc
The World Clock: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

Singapore and Malaysia are 16 hours ahead of Pacific Time.
For currency exchange, we use Oanda to create a cheat sheet that we carry with us:

Oanda Cheat Sheet: http://oanda.com/convert/cheatsheet

The Singapore Dollar (S$) converts as

• S$1.00=US$0.64
• US$1.00=S$1.56

The Malaysian Ringgit (MYR) converts as

• US$1.00=MYR3.63
• MYR1.00=US$0.27

Finally, the power adapter site we use is:

Electricity Around The World: http://www.kropla.com/electric2.htm

Singapore and Malaysia are both 230V, 50 Hz and use the English power plug (rectangular blade)

Our next entry will be from the road!