lala @ Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Okay, it’s time to blog again. Means that I’ve got nothing much to do now.
I just returned from KL over the vesak day holiday. It was a little let down cos rol fell sick on the 2nd day. Blame it on the bus air con which was blowing directly at rol. Poor rol didn bring his jacket and was sneezing away. And I couldn’t lend him my jacket cos you know, my resistance level is much lower. His temperature shot up on the 2nd night and I got so worried, I thought the fever was going to burn his brain. He didn’t eat anything for more than a day and we skipped breakfast on the 3rd day too. What’s weird was that he miraculously recovered after lunch on the 3rd day. Then he complained of not recovering earlier and missing out on all the good food. But at least we managed to see whatever we planned to see and shopped wherever we wanted to shop.
First day we reached KL at abt 3pm. The first thing that struck me was the heavy pollution and dirty streets of KL. The air was bad with all the smoke from cigarettes and cars’ exhaust fumes. Taxi drivers were calling out at the entrance of our bus offering us taxi rides. The bus terminal was crowded with people pushing around. People were sitting along the streets and stairs waiting for god knows what. Our hotel (Ancasa) was only 2 roads away from the bus terminal, but it seemed like an eternal walk. Okay maybe not that bad, but you get what I mean. After we checked in, we took the LRT to KLCC to shop. It’s as if we stepped into a different world. KLCC is posh and clean and huge, nothing like the dirty streets of Puduraya. We proceeded to Aquaria KLCC, to see KL’s collection of sea creatures and weird animals. Their collection is so much better than our Sentosa, REALLY! Wait til you see the photos I upload onto facebook.
But it’s a high class shopping area, so there isn’t much to buy. Guess what I bought there.. Body shop and Giordano stuff. HAHA.
Second day despite running a fever, rol and I went to Bukit Bintang (smth like Orchard Road) where all the malls are located. We popped by Sungei Wang (smth like Far East Plaza) and Lot 10 (there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in there, PLS AVOID GOING THERE). And of cos Times Square. Did I mention that it’s gigantic, with about 10 levels of shopping area? It’s easily the largest shopping mall in Southeast Asia. Yes I know it still can’t beat Shoe Mart in The Philippines. Bukit Bintang area is where we spent most of our money and I satisfied my A&W craving finally!! I loved their curly fries. Did I also mention that there’s a lot of trans around in KL? They come out early in the day, my goodness. I saw two in Body Shop as sales assistants and a few along the streets of Bukit Bintang and in Sungei Wang. Ultimately GROSS!!!
Third day we just stayed in our hotel room, packed our stuff, checked out at noon and went to walk around Chinatown. Because the weather was scorching hot and humid, we settled ourselves in a Chinese restaurant and spent our remaining money on simple Chinese fare. That is the only Chinese restaurant in Chinatown and it’s fully air conditioned! And the food’s pretty good too.
Then we went back to the hotel to collect our luggage and left for the bus terminal to go home. The worst part was the traffic jam at the MALAYSIAN CUSTOMS. The bus slowed to a crawl at about 1 km or less away from the customs. There we stopped and crawled for about 2.5 hours. It was so heavily congested that many other passengers from other buses couldn’t take it and so they left the buses and walked to the customs. By the time I reached Kovan bus terminal, it was 11 plus already.
Hmm come to think of it, KL wasn’t this bad the last time I went. Rol had lots to complain abt too, like the structure of the LRT, the lack of traffic rules, the pollution, the weather etc. Im so glad Sg is not like that.
Where shall we go the next time? Hong Kong again? Maybe Taiwan.. Japan would be even better.. haha.. dreamingggLabels: KL Trip
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