memoirs from kl

Mood: satisfied
Song: mr brightside
Newest infatuation: clubbing
Secretly craving: a decent haircut
Wish i were... a better dancer!

Ok so now im back from malaysia, kl to be more specific, and sipping on a can of coke and reading saving fish from drowning by amy tan. Im planning to get a haircut in the near future and will be gng for harry potter tomoro! But bak to the more important stuff, like what happend in kl! hehe

So day one:
woke up early, took a cab to golden mile and was super excited. The bus ride was long but when your on the way to your holiday destination it doesnt really bug u. We took pics n pics of ourselves, some turned out pretty cool too!
The bus went via second link so immigration was really easy and more importantly, fast...
Finally we arrived in kl, and honestly i was really excited, in a way it felt good to be out of the rigidity and uniformity of singapore. a refreshing change.
First thing we did was buy the tix bak, chek into our rooms and then go eat!! we were so famished! so our first lunch (as u can see) was in lot 10 foodcourt. the food was ok, good but not great, but the best feeling was the fact that we had a choice of what to eat. no more running to the indian and malay stalls only... we could actually eat what we wanted to. so, i had thai (no surprises there). Then as normal huan beings, or girls more like it, we hit the shops. And no doubt each of us had something in our bags! I bought a white belt, somethin id been craving for sometime... the best part, it makes my waist look slightly thinner (cos the belts thin hehe). So thank God for optical illusions.

The next thing we did was get a foot and back massage. It was simply awesome. I felt parts of my feet that i never felt before (cos they hurt!). But it was a great way to get pampered. The back massage was good too. Thank goodness the lady massaged me, else i would hav felt completely awkward.

After a shower and getting dressed, we went bak to lot then to buy the gold bags.The rest of the day/evening we spent at klcc and eventually had dinner (mr teppenyaki, we were too tired to photograph it!) and watched a movie. Valiant, the carrier pigeon... a super british comedy which was amazingly cute at the same time. Definitely knocks the eggs off chicken little. :-p

So for some after dinner fun we went to planet hollywood fer dessert. Amazing yummy ice cream... and we actually danced to a coupla songs before this sudda tried to break our trinity heheh... More accurately, we danced till everyone was off the floor... the dance floor was empty except for a drunken group of friends... hehe...So then we scooted off to our rooms and gossipped, chatted and photoslutted till we dozed off....

The next day S woke up at 8 due to the clock that lives inside of her, and so we were all up and out by abt 930... we had breakfast at the indian coffeeshop place... the teh tarik was really good... :) So , immediately after breakfast, we hit the shops again. This time at BB Plaza. I made my most significant purchase there... earrings!!! Cute and colourful and simply me hehe...!! After a while we went back to klcc, to shop this time. So many cute shops there but i ended up with nothing really... But lunch was nice too.. Arabic, or atleast faux arabic. :-P... After that we did some serious shopping at Isetan, picked up a couple of cute tshirts, fell in love with a jersey jacket that dint fit, and desperately looked for a black top. After the depressing yet funky shopping from there we went bak to lot ten to grab a coupla things we'd seen before. I ended up buyin a black top with red thingies in front. Am gonna wear it for the next clubbing event hehe.

After that we went to the .... market. I cant remember the name of the place, but thats where u can get all the baju kurongs and kebayas. It was nice to see the unglitzy part of kl. it reminded me of pettah. a nicer version tho. We took the bus back to lot 10. The ride was interesting cos it gave us a tour of the central part of kl... very much like fort and pettah. There was some sort of nostalgia. Finally we got off in the middle of the road (something we usually do in lanka land) and dumped our stuff in the room before we headed out again...

Our next destination was times square. At first the place seemed so huge and voluminous, it felt like a waste of space, but once u get used to it you realise that although u can get lost, u feel that u can breathe there. We did a bit of last minit shopping... i bought the black top with sequins... i just love that top! Dinner was at kenny rodgers... nice for a change... We kept feeling the rollercoaster as the whole place was vibrating.. it got a bit irritating... When S n W went to the loo they came across a whole row of restaurants that we simply missed seeing... so we vowed to come bak there the next day for lunch. The last purchase of the day was the pink purse. A bit dirty but hopefully that can be gotten rid of. Or atleast it wont be seen. *fingers crossed* By then we were so freaking tired instead of walking back, we took the train (or monorail). Its this cute little thing that looks like an lrt. So effectively in the day we experienced all forms of kl transport.

Once we were back we rested for a while and waited to get ready to go to zouk. God's kitchen was gonna be playing and although we dint know who the heck the were we were quite excited to go. J J M K n R all came down specifically for this show so it was bound to be a good experience. But, once we were all glitzd up and ready to go there was a traffic jam. Imagine a jam at 1130 in the nite? So naturally we were all pissed off but we ended up having a nice chat with the driver. Finally when we went there, it was a super anticlimax. S forgot her ID and the bouncers were being really strict about entrance. So naturally she got pissed and we all made a detour back to the hotel to get her passport. Lucky for us the cab driver was smart and took us through the highway and so we managed to get bak in half an hour. Apparently they were being strict cos the cops had raided the place the nite before and found lotsa underage ppl. But we dint know this at the time so i guess it was reasonable to get pissed. But one lesson to learn is, go nowhere without id... for clubbin atleast.

But eventually we were in. We bought tix for velvet and zouk, but ended up not going to velvet cos zouk was indeed awesome. It took me about 45 minutes to loosen up but after mr brightside i suddenly felt connected with the music... and after that, it was pure fun. Eventually we went up to the front stage and danced like crazy on that small peice of stage but it was good fun. There were a few hitches like the big fat guy who gave me his namecard, but once that was thrown away, and once J (a guy) litterally gave him the butt the loser dude was outta site. S got smitten for this cute green guy... and took a pic with him. He was cute tho... really quite cute. It was so easy to get lost in the music and everyone was having a great time. I had an awesome time. Never in my life had i felt this comfortable in a club before (not like i'd been clubbing much) but it was like being unleashed. I suppose its the company and the fact that u know no one else but your friends. At the end of it all the dj was throwing out tshirts n cds. R got a tshirt and J got a cd, and i almost got a tshirt, but i got a scratch instead. The arabian dude who was dancing sluttily wit a girl he'd just met snatched the tshirt from me... The effing b!

So the nite eventually ended, everyone had a good time and we went to buy food cos we were freakin hungry. I needed to buy antiseptic too. Finally we came back, showered and hit the sacks. Man were we tired.

The next morning S woke up at 8, as usual, and went back to sleep. I woke up, put meds on my knees and went bak to sleep. The next thing i know it was ten thirty and time to pack. My things were a mess. I had no idea what i had bought and where they were. So it took time to get organised. Finally everything was in the bag. But i had this feeling that i had left something behind. But after checking the room thoroughly, i was satisfied that all my precious shoppin was indeed inside my bag and so we checked out of the rooms.

As promised we went back to times square for lunch, had Baoz paus. I usually dont like paus, but these were really yummy. We had thai steamboat for lunch. We couldnt figure out where the thai part came in, but the steamboat was yummy. I ate till i could burst. After that we went on another round of last minit shopping. I dont think i bought anything. But i was looking for shoes, but i decided to come bak to sing and get a decent pair. I bought more chewing gum and then we were off to get our bags and go to the bus stop.

Our bus was supposed to leave at 330, and boarding began at 3. But at 330 there was still no sign of the bus. We spent our time buying fruits like jumboo, raw mangoes and ambarellas. I had finally satisfied my cravings for these fruits. :) So while i was preoccupied eating all of these yummy things, the bus driver came and escorted us to the road where the bus was waiting. It had gotten late so couldnt get bak in the queue. We boarded the bus, relieved that we were out of the steamy hot and sweaty station.

We were damn tired, after all the shopping and the dancing and the lack of sleep. While i was listning to S's ipod, i dozed off. I remember the moment i dozed off. I could feel my eyes shut, the earplug drop out of my ear and then after that everything was a blank. The next thing i remember is that it was 630 and we were in the middle of a highway with foliage on either side. Wf told us that we had stopped a coupla times but i couldnt remember anything of it. I had been in a deep sleep. In a bus that s a bit bouncy and jerky i must have been really tired to sleep so soundly. It was about an hour before we stopped again, and this time we all needed to pee badly. But yucks, the toilet was the grossest toilet id seen. Even worse than the indian toilets in the remote villages. There was puke everywhere and it smelled terrible. But when u gotta pee u gotta pee. So after that disaster we went to buy our dinner. Burger Ramly it was. Awesome burgers that really tasted healthy. Potato wedges, corn and chik peas to go with it and u have a western meal. But this was really yummy. It was waffles with blueberry and peanut butter fer dessert. We bought some of the fish crackers from the mart and off we went into the bus.

On the way back we jabbered and slept until we came to Johor. It was a messy place. I had no idea where it started and where it ended. We went through immigration which was another debacle, on both sides. In malaysian immigration there was this long messy queue and people kept nudging us to go to the top of it. Its damn pissing off when old men lie to go thru a queue. Especially when they try to get their hands on u. To top things off, S had lost her white card, probly at zouk, and was pissed off already. So that the old lecher got a well desrved peice of her mind. But in the end all was ok and we were out of malaysia. In singapore immigration, just before we entered the building, a siren went off and the place was under red alert. Some idiot probably tried to smuggle something illegal into the place. I mean illegal in singapore, you're bound to get caught. You've gotta be really stupid to even try it. So the doors were all locked and we were standing outside for a good 20 minutes. Finally when they did open, things were quite smooth sailing. Wf went home directly from there and S and i got back into the bus for the last few minutes of the ride. It felt rather long, cos the bus driver dint know where the stop was. Ironic as it was the passengers had to direct him where to go. But eventually we reached golden mile n S n i said our goodbyes and i was in a cab on my way bak to nus... It was an ironic end to the trip cos i left my sweater in the cab.

To sum everything up, the trip was awesome. We had good fun shopping, eating, talking and clubbing. We learnt a lot about culture, the subtle difference between places and people, and more importantly, how to get along with each other. It was an enriching experience that has left me feeling more independent, more confident, and more capable. For a person with little self esteem, a trip like this can do wonders; more effective than shaped eyebrows. We were lucky to be safe all the while, and even though there were little glitches along the way, we lived and learned through them, and most importantly, had fun.