Water Lily Kuala Lumpur

... guess, his brother-in-law to come and get us. He arrived and said that he would take us to our hotel for RM25. I balked but conceded and he told us to follow him.
We went outside, up some stairs and down some stairs...with ALL of our luggage. Once we catched up to him, I assumed he was just waiting for us in a restaurant. Was I friggen wrong!! We had to go thru the restaurant, thru the the kitchen and out the back door. Now ...

I arrived safely in Singapore which must have one of the most efficient baggage systems for a large international airport as my bags arrived at the carousel at the same time I did. I was met by my friend from Kuala Lumpur who had come down to meet me and catch up with a former work colleague from her time in Beijing. We ate out at the Newtown Circus hawker centre and had a mixture of local dishes such as carrot cake, which didn't involve carrots, and curried stingray which did involve ...

... trying to figure out how to get chips off me. genius! I gave him a few chips for entertaining me. haha.

The weathers pretty nuts here. Its proper hot all the time, about 27 degrees at night and sunny in the mornings but there seem to be mental thunderstorms every afternoon. The rain is a welcome break from the heat though and the lightening is wicked to watch. I saw the Petronas towers get hit by lightening the other day that was pretty gnarley.

It seems that im not ...

... chatting. At the end of our day, Keith and I were paid in abundance with smiles and hugs. These children were precious, and I found it really hard to walk away, wanting to bring them all home with me.

That night we went back to the Chinese Emperor's Temple to meet up with Ang and several other couchsurfers to see the elaborate celebration marking the last night of their "vegetarian fast". We saw the ...

... time I travelled overseas was when I was in the Navy, and before that I was 15, so the procedure was not exactly fresh in my mind. After checking in, and paying an exorbitant amount for breakfast, the wait for boarding commenced. Thank god for my ipod.

After a short 6 hour flight, I arrived in KL… and wow, was I lost… I jumped on a bus that would apparently take me to the city.. And it did - after ...

... i sitthvora attina. slengdu hondinni i einhverja att an tess ad horfa og heldu afram ad borda/lesa blad/eda gera tad sem tau voru ad gera. Eg var litid buin ad sofa sidustu 3 solarhringa, fara i 3 flug, sveittari sem aldrei fyrr, med bakpokann sem var ad drepa mig, simalaus og enginn tarna i malasiu virtist hafa ahuga a ad adstoda.

Eftir ad hafa villst, svitnad, hlaupid um allt mallid, sest nidur og gefist upp og prufad aftur fann eg langthrad internet kaffi. Sendi Simoni ...

... up to Penag on the west coast. We fly home from here at the end of the two months so we are not too concerned with getting everything done in two days. Probably gonna go to the Petronas Towers tomorrow with Lousia and do a bit of shopping but I will do all my pressie shopping when I get back as I cant be bothered carrying around 20 "I love KL' keyrings for two months!! Other than that folks nothing major to report. It was really weird ...

... them they brought the price down instantly, they were almost bartering with themselves, it happened several times and we were a little taken a back by their approach. Typically, still being several months from coming home at this point, I wasn’t able to go off for a shopping spree and take advantage of the one way bartering. Apart from Chinatown our other favourite place whilst here was the Petronas Towers. Its free entry, but you have to get up very early in the morning to queue ...

We got a late bus to KL last night so that we'd be in plenty time to get to the airport today for our flight to Medan, Sumatra. We were in KL almost exactly 7 years ago to the day when we last went to Australia. We must have had a lot more cash back then cause we drove by our hotel last night and it seems to be the swankiest joint in town! This time we ...

... but shouting things, really loudly (we couldn't understand him) and his spasms became more frequent and more violent. People were starring at him with disgust, and people moved away from him, and at one point a women got off the bus and seemed to protect her child from the man! Poor guy. I felt so bad for him. Took make things worse, some people were laughing at him too, and not behind their backs either, but literally laughing at him in his face, I ...