13th Jun 2006 1:44 AM
Hey guys, just to let everyone know what i have been upto on last few days abroad.
headed down to kuala lumpur after we finally said goodbye to koh samui, had a in the arse getting to malaysia though, literally was about 5 minibuses over 15 hours grrrr.
then as i go to get the currency i had set asisde for malaysia i find that about 300 pounds worth of cash in various currencies has been stolen!! grrrrr bad is locked all the time and so it can only have been taken by hotle cleaning staff in thailand. not amused!
and at the travel agent in surat thani a crazy old thai coupoe came in and started shouting at everyone, then when some tried to take them away everyone starts waving knives about! a bit nervous when your trying to look invisble stanging next to all this and hoping that neither of the knife wielding nutters has any grudges against farang.
but once we got into malaysia took a nice vip bus down to kuala lumpur, although the driver had set the air con to "cryostatus" and us in our beach gear were freezing to death!
managed to lose the details of the hostel i had booked so had to find other accomaation at 5 in the morining, but a tout spotted us with big bags and headed our way so was alright.
Kuala lumpur is an interesting city, no problem with english, nce and relaxed and a few things to keep yourself entertained.what struck us immediately was how small the place was. is about the size of southampton??? so having the petronas towers there was a little odd and they looked out of place. hotel was next to a huge 10 floor mall which put west quay to shame and it even had an indoor theme park! was a good place to blow the odd hour if bored.
also nearby to us was a another mall that just seemed to cater to all things geek, hundreds of tech shops software, games, components, toys, memerobelia. picked up a PSP version 1.5 for easy pirating arrrggghhh! cool place its nie to find anime shops where you can find entire series of cool anime for about 5 quid, in the most high class mall in town.
The china town area has some good place to get some fake shopping done, slightly better quality fake wathces han china so picked up a couple.
but other than the shopping and walking around not too much to do there, was a large queue to get up the petronas towers, so didnt bother and had been up enough high things in other cities.
then it was time to head to singapore, manage to get a train ticket for a sleeper whcih was nice as have had good exeriance with the sleepers in china, no so much luck here though. 10 times more bumpy and loud.
ah sinagpore, slightly odd place, evceryhting seems fairly sedated, we are based in a nice hostel next to china town, although as china towns go this one has no resemblance to china. looks more like bournemouth! and no grat interest there. the rest of singapore seems to be a huge network of malls lais out aas such that you can walk acrross the entire city without ever seeing the sun. but that requires spending proper money which i was willing to do.
went down to the zoo as its supposed ot be one of the best in the world, definately didnt disapoint. very cool with loads of exhibits where the animals arent fenced in and can come up and say hello. then went on the night safari where they show a bunch of nocturnal animals ona little tram ride, was cool but a little dark (i realize the irony).
errr nightlife also a little sedated, not much going on. although last night we did end up at the infamous "four floors of whores" just a big building which is a bunch of bars all packed to the brim with prostitutes, was entertaining for a while but just begins to irritate after a while, and drink is expensive!
yeah, we have dumped our stuff and will head over to the island just off the coast, where you can do various crazy stuff. inlcuding see pink dolphins (somehting that cute cant possibly exsist!),
then its off to the airport for our 3am flights home.
ARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
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