The Saujana Kuala Lumpur

... Was a little bit wierd rocking up by-myself, but I soon made some friends.<br> <br>Spent most of the evening with some women from Norway who were absolutly battered and insisted on pulling me up to dance every time I sat down at the bar. There was a Canadian band singing and the music they played was perfect to get up and have a boogie. I also met a very nice couple (Polish woman and english man) The reason we got talking as she was wearing a rather ...

... powder-like, and said "What is that?" to which the man held up a nut. Pointing to the ground powder, the dumbfounded woman replied "But they're small...". How does this woman find her own mouth to eat so much, I wonder?<br>The next day I headed to the Lake Garden, to the West of Chinatown. I initially asked about the Hop on, Hop Off bus service, which involves buses picking you up at a point on a circular route, and taking you round the city for a hop off ...

... put your feet into a fish tank full of Doctor fish and they come and nibble away all your hard skin. It feels very very very strange, and slightly ticklish. I made Dan do it too and they opened a cut on his foot and made him bleed.<br>Apart from this we just wandered around china town's market and caught up on some Internet.<br>Our flight to Cambodia left ...

... to find English speakers, nothing further than the reality! Most of them speak English better than me and the ones who doesn´t are skillful enough to make themselves understandable&#8230; Such a nice surprise and again a good punch in my face&#8230; I have to say that I say KL as a little London, a very cosmopolitan city with all the modern resources mixed up with a good pile of tradition and of course as any developed city ...

... stage of a full blown cold. Crazy ride back to Klang. Robina's brother drives the car as if the highway is a race park and he wants to win the race. Finally,the well deserved sleep. <br><br>07/25/09<br>Sick like a dog. Decide to stay in bed. Doing some work, answering emails. Updating my travel pod. Steffi went to Melaka and the graduation ceremony of Robina's brother ...

... to the dorm which was completely empty. No one was there except one bed with a white laptop and IPOD.<br><br>I fell asleep-freezing again-my blanket was gone. I woke up around 1 am to feel something warm and fuzzy clunk on top of my shoulder. I woke up startled. The worker guy was walking past me, &#8220;Didn&#8217;t mean to wake you. Thought you were cold.&#8221; &#8220;Thanks.&#8221; I said half-asleep and unravelled it and went back to sleep.

... estimates of time based on my previous experience at Amsterdam airport - one of these was to allow 1/2 hour for passport control. Noni, using her EU passport perhaps took 5 minutes through the control and waited at the other side for me to gloat how little time it took and how 1/2 hour was a poor estimation, however she got to wait another 25 minutes for me and even though it sucked taking that long, I do like being ...

... for a bus into the centre, so we picked up a couple of tickets and headed for the centre. We had already made reservations for a cheap hostel in China Town, so once we arrived we got on the metro without any hassle or haggle for a tuk tuk! That was quite refreshing! We made it to our hostel, which I have to say, first impressions reminded me of walking in the stairwell of an NCP carpark after the weekend, however ...

... Muslim dress, with only a slit for their eyes. Most women wear Bourka's. The majority of restaurants in the area we stayed, Bukit Bintang, were traditional Halal restaurants, where Muslim's go to eat specially prepared food. There are mosques here that are magnificent buildings, but it was like arriving into the Middle East. Men looked at Niamh in a blatantly staring way, and we put this down to the fact that she's an unmarried woman ...

... but at the same time it was nice being able to do what I want, when I want, or being able to go and eat at places wherever.... I am very excited to be in the Philipines. I know very little about this country and sure I am going to gain alot of insight on the culture and the geography. The diving is worldclass here and has some of the best world war 2 wrecks on the planet!! <br><br>Not much more to report. I have sort of been lazy when it comes to ...