Bintang Warisan Kuala Lumpur

... centres. Met up with Howie, a mate of Mike's from uni, late that night for a few beers over the Arsenal-Chelsea match and then some great Malay end-of-night food in Chinatown. Fried tofu, chicken and rice if my memory serves me correctly. Not a chance of getting up for the skybridge the next morning...

More city-wandering the next day, mainly around Bukit Bintang - a huge shopping area with some ridiculous shopping malls. The ...

... which is a great little arts and craft market. Spent far too much money in there as unlike Chinese markets, the Malaysians don't hassle you when you're browsing, which makes the whole experience much more pleasurable. After lunch had a look around Merdaka Sqaure the oldest part of KL and saw the world's tallest flagpole at 1,000 metres high. Then wondered back towards Times Square for final supper in KL before heading out to Pulau Langkawi tomorrow.

... met a couple of scouse lads who had just left Thailand (where we were headed next) so got some really good tips from them for our next excursion. The next blog will be about our travel to and experiences in Ao Nang in Krabi Province in Southwest Thailand.

Real Time Update... Kate and I are sitting beside a beach in Sunflower Bar on Phi Phi Don Island in Thailand. It's 19:15 on 5th of November 09, which reminds us... Happy Bonfire Night everyone. Enjoy all the fireworks!

... expensive cocktails and then out for an Italian meal. I'm not sure if I will remember how to cook when I get back. Today we went to Chinatown and picked up a few bargains its hard to know what to buy in case it is going to be better /cheaper in the next place I go to. And I seem to be getting through money rather quickly. Tomorrow I go to Bali.

... La-ees-ee-ana and Oklahoma!" I pretty much lost it after hearing that and in order to not offend the guy I said, "This is such a funny situation! How small the world is, can you imagine three Houstonians in KL!?" and soon after that Michael couldn't hold it in either. I then glanced over to the Chinese guy who was super confused to the point where he wasn't even going to ask. A little while after that we continued talking to the Chinese guy who ...

... some pictures of the peacocks but gave up since they were running away from me. Nice guy at park put some small birds on my shoulders and the other people were photographing like I was another big bird.
Took another cab back to the hotel, this time it was RM 7 for some reason. Took a rest then headed downstairs for the next round.
Caught a cab downstairs near the KL Sentral station; did not go to the coupon counter this time as I needed to hire ...

... A quick walk through the park, to the Towers themselves followed, and a chance to dive into the giant shopping mall that is under them. A leisurely stroll back seemed in order, but the hotel had other ideas as it lays on a shuttle-service between the hotel and the mall, (a golf buggy!), for its residents. Time for food and drink. All of it complimentary; cocktails, spirits, beer, flowing endlessly, together with a selection of food that ...

... have gone back to China for a flying visit, back to the Perhentians for some more beach time, and down to Singapore to meet up with a friend of mine. Not in that order. Anyway, i'll bung all my photos from KL here just to keep up the blog. I'm flying to Melbourne on Wednesday, so the next entry will be from there and will probably be the last!

... out of line since I was near the front since in my head they had to start moving again soon, but I also was growing exponentially more annoyed. I wanted to shout out! I don't even know what I wanted to shout, I just wanted my voice to be heard. Everyone was crowding around me and everything was stopped and moving in closer and closer and taking more and more time and I was losing my patience. I had enough. I got out of line and went to another line. Of course when I did this, my line ...

... structure raising an eyebrow (at least they are honest about it) it was a fantsctic afternoon of parrots, toucans and all things birdy. So all in all, a good few days - met lots of nice people and had a good explore around an interesting and developing city. Would be really intrigued to see what it is like in five years time - might have to make a return visit.

Up next - a respite from the heat in the Cameron highlands