This is exactly the type of person you love to meet on a holiday, someone who could provide you with local history and information. Enjoyed this video very much.

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Absolutely, this is what I love about the towns I visit … I meet people of all different races, religions and ages and learn something from all of them

This guy Richard is amazing. The stuff he was talking about deserves to be documented and recorded. He has excellent knowledge and speaks english very well.

@marcoroams

8 ай бұрын

Totally! He was a great kind to meet for this kind of video

I'm not a big fan of Johor Bahru, but people from my country Singapore love to go there to eat and buy stuff. What amazed me in this video is that old uncle, he spoke and understood you better than the younger people! I loved when you get to talk to the people while you’re traveling especially about the history, btw I’m the history nerd who likes to message you sometimes on IG lol I told you before I was addicted to your travel shows, also I like that you’re compassionate and honest traveler. 😊

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! Yeah I love meeting the local characters. Who are you on Instagram? I will know you for sure, I just don’t recognise the name on here :) Yeah I didn’t feel many vibes Bohor lol

@PhilNunez-bw5zy

8 ай бұрын

More of the show, from this side,🇧🇿🇧🇿🇧🇿🇧🇿 my friend 🙏

I like thats Old man very Nice character.

Old asian men, always have a story to say! Cool he was able to show you around 👏

Older people ROCK!!!. They have experience and wisdom. Yes exercise is a key to a long life. Thanks for sharing.

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

ALL your videos are great! Hope you feel better soon.

Great video Marco! Kind wise old man.😊

I liked listening to all the knowledge the old man shared! Ur doing a great job Marco keep ur head up!

What a wonderful human being was that old man ❤️🥹

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Great soul!!

Keep the great videos coming. ❤

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Thanks man! Will do

Big ups brother❤ Keep em coming!

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Thanks bro!

I loved this episode and I love all of your videos, I don't know why the KZread algorithm is failing you on this one! Great stuff

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Thanks so much I appreciate that! It’s been a bit harsh to me lately, I don’t even think most of my subs see my videos come up 😒 But I will just keep making my content and improving and I trust people will come back to watch these videos when they become fans.

Awesome video! Nice old man

I've been to Malaysia 2 times and I never knew any of that. Thank you for sharing!!! Very interesting

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Thank Mr Richard 😊

Thank you Marco I enjoyed every bit of this

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Next part coming today :)

Beautiful vlog as always mate 🫡

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Thanks bro

Amazing video brother. Hope you feel better asap.

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Thanks man!’

Ayyyye bro great video the old timer was ace.... ❤❤stay safe

Awesome video, I love Melakka.

Get better man! Take some mental health time. I touchdown in Thailand in 3 weeks, I'll be traveling SE Asia for a year. Videos like yours and other vloggers definitely help me out in navigating my way through a different culture.

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Thanks bro! I’m glad it helped you, and that’s so good. A year is massive, make sure you spend time around Vietnam … super super cheap, beer is 40c and you can get lunch for under $2!

@Milehighunter

9 ай бұрын

@@marcoroams absolutely! I'm gonna hit Hanoi first, HCM City last..and all the fun spots in-between. Hope you're feeling better!

Im lovin' the videos Marco you are so real and chill its great I think if you had a mic it would be so much better anyway keep on keepin on bud and I'll keep watching✌️

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! Yeah I’m looking in to getting a mic they come with their own problems too because then they make me more clear but the pick up no ambiance

Great video. Super nice old guy!

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Great old timer!

I enjoy watching your videos, your naive attitude is relaxing, no unnecessary dates, numbers, names... 😁

I’m here to like & watch. Meeting people like this is priceless. In today’s world, people don’t bother with each other, anymore. I love seeing your adventures. Uou take it all in and get enrichment from anyone you can, along the way. We forget that the USA doesn’t have the history that countries like this have. Like that building from the 1500s, Angkor wat in Cambodia from 1100, it’s so interesting to think of, how that was built in those times, and what life must have been like.

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

I couldn’t agree more! This is what I love about travelling, I do it much differently to most people, but I just go with what I feel like. Thank you for watching! 😌🙏🏽

Loving the videos Marco. As long as you’re making money and can support yourself while doing it, enjoy it mate. Travel is the best education.

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate that and you’re definitely right 😌

@behemoth0073

9 ай бұрын

@@marcoroams if you’re ever around while I’m on my travels I’ll hit you up and we’ll go for a beer sometime. Loving your videos mate keep up the good work.

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

@@behemoth0073 for sure buddy 😎

My 2nd Marco video for the day can't go wrong with this mates vids even if the intro looks a little boring who cares mate still enjoyable. Cheers mate

It's nice to see you do something nice

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

😊

Greetings Marco! We spoke last week, I finally achieved voice to text with my new dialog system. I will now be able to comment on your wonderful adventures to the far corners of the world. Great anticipation of your upcoming adventures! Blessings & Aho from the Redwoods of Northern California

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Thank you Haley! Plenty coming up for you 😊

I hope old uncle Richard have a good health, he reminds me of my grandfather who already passed away years ago. Old people really loves story telling about history and places and it makes someone interested to go the places they mentioned. Hopefully you can meet uncle Richard again The car is Perodua Axia and it have 1.0l engine, made in Malaysia

Wow. What a legend. So much history! Yo! And unrelated: you got some awesome tattoos, man! When you were driving, we got a good look at the pirate woman on your forearm. Thats some good work!

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Thanks bro!! Yeah I went to a good artist. I got the pirate girl back in 2013 and still looks good 10 years later 😊

@glitchard3685

9 ай бұрын

@@marcoroams wow! A full ten years old and those colors are still vibrant and bright! Must be some ink! Especially cause you're always out in the sun! Do you use sunscreen or anything?

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

@glitchard3685 I’m not out in the sun as much as you think 😎 and yeah I use 50+ on it

Oh ! U are lucky to get a Chinese uncle this time 😂 (was recommended u to chit chat with a local uncle in kopitiam then see u ald engaged 1 here lol) he’s from KPMG that’s why he has good mathematics😂

gives me itchy feet seeing you stay in random places!

He seems so nice!

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Yep he is! 😎

I could only hope to get around and still have a good mind when I get as old as Richard. He gets around great and still has his sense! I already feel the aches and pains from my younger rough and tumble days! If the body goes the mind may as well go too so I dont have to sit in a wheel chair and think about it! lol Cheers

What a lovely and handsome man 🥰🥰

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

😊

Nice old timer.

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Top guy!

“Y?Because I’m not a human encyclopedia.”🤣 You’re very fun to watch Marco hope you get more followers, you deserve it and love your approach to travelling. Keep it up!!

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Hahaha I’m not … but I wish I was 😅

Hi im first and can you do the next video the dom cafe i been waiting like weeks or months

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Yes buddy next video

husband ( Dennis ) here, a little late to watch your story. Mom ( wife ) and I were up near the Canadian boarder for 4 days at our camp site getting the trailer ready for winter. Another 2 trips for a day or two and close it up, off the water, on the radiator heaters and see it in March 2024. We will be in Cebu in less that a month. I'm sweating already just thinking about it.

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

That’s sounds like a nice little getaway! Yes I hadn’t seen your comment, I was starting to get worried 😅 Glad you two are doing great! Yup, Cebu will be a hot one☀️

Great old gentleman

You know the internet is bad when an Aussie is complaining about it XD Anyways loving the videos man! Hope part 3 shows some excitement in Johor Bahru (or not lol) as I'm planning a trip to Malaysia next summer!

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

😂😂😂 Part 3 is up! Not sure if exciting but definitely action packed lol

@goodswimmer

9 ай бұрын

@@marcoroams Oh man, you were not kidding XD But wow! I thought you were screwed, tow truck drivers here in Vancouver charge like $100 bucks just for showing up -_-

Melaka, Langkawi, redang, Penang, Kelantan…

Good old Richard :)

Go for the hainanese chicken rice ball mate. It will blow your mind. The asam pedas fish is pretty good too

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Will try it 😊

@klfeternal79

9 ай бұрын

Laughed my a** off at the part where you said we don’t who the statue man is, or how is arm was amputated… 🤣 He was such a nice little old man. Feel better Marco!

1:48 - "The main thing is he tried..." - just like someone with adding subtitles that should display for a bit more than just a frame :D

@marcoroams

8 ай бұрын

lol. It was intentional cause I wanted someone to pick up onto it!

Man I wanna experience this type of nomad lifestyle. Just travelling all over Asia, learning about the culture. I'm Asian myelf (Filipino) and I barely know anything about our neighbors.

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Yeah buddy go out and see it! I used to think all south East Asian counties were going to be similar, but I can confirm they are all so different

❤

I have to say that bit about most of the factories relocating to china and vietnam is not exactly true. They are now concentrated in Penang and Kulim in specialised industrial parks. Large cops like Infineon, Lam research < micron etc etc all have huge facilities in these areas.

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Ahh k. Maybe he’s talking about the industry he knows

@keangwooichoo6138

9 ай бұрын

Yep. Our silicone valley is in penang. No 7 in the world for chip making.

When you turned the camera to you both, He is so tiny compared to you. I didn't expect that! 😂

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Haha I know … I’m too tall for these kinds of walking interviews 😂

@SamanthaMoore5845

8 ай бұрын

@@marcoroams I hope you are feeling better! ☺️

that statue u saw in malacca was the statue of saint francis xavier… made in 1952.. a tree fell n broke its hand… the reason they didn’t fix it.. because some church people believe that the broken hand coincides with the story of his arm being cut off frm his corpse.. n it still bleeds.. they cut it because they believe he was a saint as when they dug his body (nine months in the ground.. the body still looks gd… 🤔)… everything was ok.. thus they decided to canonised him.. (he died somewhere in china in 1552… before that he was a jesuit missionary in malacca.. goa (india) etc… frm china his body was brought to malacca n reburied… only to b dug up again n voila.. they found his body is still intact… that’s where the idea of his sainthood came abt.. his body was later shipped to goa, india arnd 155something… bk to yr 1952… to commemorate 400th yrs of portuguese in malacca (i don’t why must they commemorate the yr u r invaded)… they made the statue n the tree decided to fall n break the statue’s hand…

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Wow amazing story! Thanks for the info 😄

@eerievon2208

9 ай бұрын

@@marcoroams 😅😅

@nanaonsafari7719

9 ай бұрын

They cut his right arm off and sent it to the Pope in Rome, its on display somewhere. :)

what a clued up man knowing all the history of the place portugese dutch came he didnt mention the british haha

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Haha yeah he knew his stuff

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

@@lIllllIIIIlIllIlI ???

aww i miss jb..

👍🏻✌🏻💙

The statue is St Francis xavier. Priest. The hand broke due to a fallen tree branch.

Malaca ❤

"The main thing is he tried..." 😅

@marcoroams

8 ай бұрын

😂

At one point you made me spit my Milo out. You are a crack up bru.

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Haha what part?

@rhettshipley4593

9 ай бұрын

This part of town looks boring as s**t@@marcoroams

@rhettshipley4593

9 ай бұрын

Also when you talk about swinging past the area then probably won't after what you said about it🤣😂🤣😂

Onya rich what a goat

Will u visit Greece & Sweden? ik u did sweden but u only filmed 1 vid, also another q what laptop do u have?

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Yeah I want to do a Greece series… I only did one video in Sweden because I wanted to see my Viking heritage but it’s nothing like what I thought …. So I just stayed in doors and ate food while it snowed lol. I have an LG gram because it’s super light

22:29 - yuuum Big Fuckin Chicken

The man knows his shit tho. Most of what he said is actually factually correct. Fun fact: The buildings in Malacca is all red, because the British painted them red because those Malaysian back then chewed on beetle nut and spit them all over the wall which made the originally white buildings, looks dirty and red in colour. The Brits said fuck it, lets paint them Red, so the Malacca Government painted them red ever since. The Japanese invaded Malaysia (Malaya at that time) during WW2, it was part of their Pan-Asia Co-prosperity Sphere, it wasn't prosperous at all, it sucked. Many people died cruelly at the hands of the Imperial Japanese, ANZACS too. They used bicycles to flank the British forces in Malaya and Singapore which is why it was so quick to occupy Malaya. The monument that Richard showed you, If i'm not mistaken is the Kuomintang monument, Kuomintang was a group of Chinese Nationalists in China that fled to Taiwan and established the Republic of Taiwan during the Chinese civil war, not sure what year it was Im too lazy to check. It was during the Communist revolution.

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Thanks man for the details! I wish I was better with history, would make these videos much better, But I hardly have time to scratch myself let alone study a new topic 😫 That’s why I reply on God Sends like Richard for my videos

maluka is the name of a big juicy tomatoe. 😀

mans living a day in tijuana and making it a movie xD

Hey mate what was that restaurant called

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

I tried hard to find it but I can’t, it’s under the Merlin hotel

Yo comment 😊

The Indian guys drunk😂

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Haha I wanted to join

Did u not go to singapore

@marcoroams

8 ай бұрын

Nah it was too hard to get in on my short amount of time

1:48 The main thing is he tried...

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

I was waiting for this comment! 🏆

Does your wife travel with you?

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

Wife? I didn’t know I had one, is she hot??

@lisaburns3138

9 ай бұрын

Don't know, you tell me lol

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

@@lisaburns3138 lol I am single, but if you find me one please send her over

@lisaburns3138

9 ай бұрын

I meant me lol

@norlizabinti4714

9 ай бұрын

Hahahahaha 🤣🤪😂

Yeah he is a nice guy and you're cool bro.. but we want to see drama, danger and inspiration.. what drew me to you was the walks through the slums.. handouts for the kids, it feels like your kind of turning into a tour guide for brochures now.. i don't know, i stopped watching a few weeks ago, nothing funny, nothing scary, isn't much going on recently dude.. i'll tune in again soon and see what you're upto, take care brother.

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

There is plenty of variety bro, I have been stuck in the tourist places to be honest, but from the next video everything takes off again, make sure you watch. Lots of drama in the next one. Then I head over to Indonesia and take you to the most dangerous areas

You need to be less negative mate.

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

??

@marcoroams

9 ай бұрын

How is anything in that video negative …