Sleepless Travels Reloaded

hmm…haven’t updated in awhile.
i was in singapore for 4 days and couldn’t connect my laptop to the net.

so i’m kinda behind on updating this blog .

nevertheless, here is the entry at last. these were taken on the 15th of december.

my family set out pretty early to find the LRT (inter city light rail train system) station. we got majorly lost. i did manage to take alot of car shots tho. this is the area around petaling jaya…i think. we were trying to find the taman jaya LRT station.
the scenary here is quite typical of malaysian outer suburbs, as far as i can tell.

well, we found our way to State (the unofficial name of the suburb centre; because there used to be an old famous theatre there called…….”State”) at last. we had some wonton noodled n curry yong tau foo. delicious. the wonton noodles r supposed to b quite well known, n was recommended to us by my aunt.

malaysian “restorans” are different from singaporean hawker centres…which are sort of their equivalent. usually, the eatery is a corner shop. there may be like..5 stalls there, and none of them operate in built-in premises. in singapore, the stalls are built around the perimeter of the eating area, up against the walls of the area. all tiled n concreted up and evrything.

but in restorans, they just cook n do evrything in moveable stainless steel stalls. they aren’t stuck to the walls, they form a sort of barrier between the outside of the shop, n the patrons eating within. it’s like one big open space where u can clearly see how evry1 is cooking…..

hard to describe. and, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words (tt was corny )

the wonton noodles were really nice. it was really cool watching the woman flip the noodles n mix them up…so fast. i tried capturing a motion shot of it……..but my noodles arrived, n eating took priority over capturing good photos XD

ok, from there we took the LRT into KL city centre. of course i think the singapore MRT system is better…….but the m’sian LRT is a good start. i mean, it is kind of dodgy (very dodgy) at times…inefficient implementation n all……………but i guess tt’s the malaysian way.

all these shots were taken from inside the LRT:

the last one is ashot of the national mosque. it doesn’t really look like a mosque coz there’s no dome …well i couldn’t see it from the LRT anyway. but it’s a huuuuuuuuuuge building! n i guess the muslim latticework all over the facade…n the shape of the doorways..kinda gave it away. i quite like the building. it definitely screamed out “muslim!” to me. they certainly expressed the purpose and aim of the building very well. i thought it was quite admirable how the building told me it was a muslim religious building just by the way it looked. - i had no idea what building it was beforehand.

ok, we got to klcc at last. “Kuala Lumpur city central”, i think, is the unabbreviated form of the name.
it’s this huge complex. it’s located under the petronas twin towers. so it’s offices above, big brand name shopping centre below. it’s very hard to shop there coz there are alot of posh boutiques, like gucci, armani, etcetc. the kinda of store that don’t carry alot of clothes. where clothes are laid out on tables instead of packed onto hangers. yes. so it’s all so laid out n spacious that one doesn’t even need to go into the store, coz u can see evrything thru the expansive glass windows of the shop. not like i can afford any of that stuff anyway. there’s cheaper stuff tt’s just as good outside too!!

oh, n a word about shop assisstants in malaysia - they r bloody annoying. once u step inside, they get up n trail around right behind you. so u can feel their eyes on ur back all the way. usually i just ignore them, but it got really frustrating today. oh well. i think it was the lack of sleep. i guess it’s good customer service in a way, as you can get attention immediately (in australia, u sort of have to hunt for the assisstants)…..not.
i prefer having to hunt for my assisstants. ah. also, the stores here look overstaffed. i guess i’m not used to it.
maybe it’s because wages here r much lower than in australia, so they can afford more sales staff in malaysia? hmmm.

anyway, here are some photos of klcc:

i should really go to sleep now .