Third day in Kuala Lumpur

The third day was not as good as the first two days. I had a swim in the hotel swimming pool in the morning. That was good, the water was nice and the pool was nearly empty. I could use 'front crawl' without bumping into or being bumped by others.

It was pouring with rain when we went out. I made a mistake by going to Puduraya trying to catch a bus to Batu Cave. We should have gone to the Central Market to get it. However, it was raining so heavily that we changed our mind. We went to a shopping centre instead. It was 1 Utama. We walked around to kill time.

We were cheated by a taxi driver from Kelana Jaya LRT Station to 1 Utama. He charged us RM 15. At first I said RM 10, then I said what about following the meter. He said if by meter, it was RM18. So, deal. When we went back from 1 Utama back to the LRT Station, we took a taxi with a meter. You know how much? RM6.7, arrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!

The evening was great to end the day happily. We walked to Changkat Bukit Bintang where there were lots of western restaurants. We found an Irish one. We had Guiness Pie and Fish & chips. It was a great contrast to the night at China Town. It was fantastic too.

Changkat Bukit Bintang

An Irish Shandy

We walked towards the street where we could take a close look at Menara and Petronas Twin Towers. Had a few photos of them. Quite happy with the photos!

Second Day in Kuala Lumpur

On the second day, we went to Genting Highland. We took a coach from the bus station (Puduraya), the coach was comfortable and cheap. We went from KL to the foot of the mountain. Then took a cable car up.

Inside the station

The view from the cable car

We had had something to eat before we entered the theme park. We had a few children's rides (the adult ones were too much for me).

The ride behind us could turn you up-side-down. Too excited...

It was very foggy there. Sometimes the invisibility was very low. We could not see things 50 metres away. We both enjoyed the 'bump bump boat' though :-)

After playing in the theme park, we went into the casino. We played with the poker machine, lost a few dollars and left for Kaula Lumpur Central. We got off at Petalling Street where China Town was. We had our dinner in the street. It was great: good atmosphere, cheap food, good food...

First Day in Kuala Lumpur

Met Shirley and her family at 10:00am at her hotel lobby. Fei Gor drove us around. First, we went to Zoo Negara. Meal Time for the hosts.

The next place we went to was Melaka. It took two hours to go there. Melaka was an old city in Malaysia. Recently, the tourist industry has grown rapidly. We could see the old part and the new part of the city.

The old part...

...and the newly developed part.

We had a ride on the revolving 'Gyro Tower', enjoyed the bird's eye view from the tower...

Today ended with a loud 'bang' of a gun shoot. A guy shot a bird down from the sky with a big rifle next to the car park. He would have a big dinner in the evening.

Kuala Lumpur trip

It took four hours to Malaysia by plane. We reached Kuala Lumpur at about 3:40pm. Then we took an airbus to KL Central, the journey was about an hour. We then walked to the Monorail station from KL Central, bought two stored value tickets for RM 20 each. Finally we arrived at Jalan Bukit Bintang at about 5:20, Great! Very smooth journey :-)

Nightmare started when we arrived at Bukit Bitang. It was crowded and busy at that time of the day. I had a rather rough map on my hand but no idea about the direction. I asked a lady at an open store which sold souvenires. She did not know where the hotel was. So we tried to walk around the area to look for the hotel. We walked past a five-star hotel. I stopped and asked a man with uniform who was supposed to be working there, assumed that he must have known. He pointed at a light brown building in the front. We were happy and thanked him. When we reached the hotel and found out it was wrong. We looked for Royale Bintang and it was Royale Chulan. Arrrrrrgh!!! Stupidly, we spent one and a half hour walking around the area and finally reached the hotel exhaustedly.

Don't laugh at the signs in China

In my old posts, I have laughed at the signs in mainland China. After 1997, Hong Kong is getting closer to her mother land in some way - English standard. I saw this sign on the wall of a club house of a private housing estate in Hong Kong. Pay attention to the English version.

In the dictionary: 'beware' means to be wary of, or cautious of...

Examples such as: beware of the dog; beware of his waspish wit; beware of the icy patches on the road; or in Hong Kong, we always see 'beware of pickpockets', on the bus.

I don't see why we have to 'beware of our own property' Will our own property attacks us or harm us? :-)

A new 'era' - no plastic bags

Starts from today, if we go to the supermarkets or chain stores, we have to bring our own shopping bags. If not, we will be charged 50 cents for each bag. I support protecting the environment. I am not very very keen on protecting the environment I admitted, but to a certain extent, I am.

I don't like the idea of taking our own bags to shop because I can reuse the plastic bags from the supermarket for putting rubbish in. I always ask,'What do people use to put their rubbish?' If people do not have plastic bags from the supermarket, they will buy plastic rubbish bags.

So, that is my point. I use plastic bags from the supermarket at least I can reuse them. If I don't have plastic bags from the supermarket, I have to buy plastic bags for only one purpose - to put rubbish in. In this case, we are not protecting the environment by fulfilling the demand of one of the 4 R's of Recycling - reuse. Can somebody work it out for me?