Posting beneath misting air-con fans at a Starbucks (I know, I know, but it's the closest wireless spot in Bukit Bintang) in the Golden Triangle, a tangled matrix of electronics hawkers, food stalls, foot reflexology parlours and the occasional pimp sidling up J. B. Bintang street. Started this blog so as not to repeat myself in the steady stream of e-mails I've finally started answering after recovering from a 32-hour stop-over flight through Sri Lanka, sweltering heat and work-fatigue from our month in the UK.
So friends/family, check up here occasionally for picture postings and news and semi-hysterical ramblings about how amazing the food is...Tess has gone to the Lake Gardens to scope orchids and exotic birds, and I'm supposed to be completing this job (the 'working' vacation continues) for Kasan and Camilla before the fact of finally having no outstanding obligations sinks in...then we're probably off to Melaka, then Johore Baru to see family and score some proper seafood, then back to KL to pick up Klachinsky, then probably Pulau Pinang or Langkawi or one of the islands off Mersing and probably my first string of hangovers on a blur of white beaches in MY...
Didn't take too long to get used to KL though this city --- already amply large in childhood's eye --- has gotten MASSIVE...I keep thinking of an ex-girlfriend I didn't know too well who started suddenly making a huge wad of money and developing a smorgasbord of unfamiliar physical landmarks and beauty spots (many still being implanted overnight) while packing on a lot of lateral and vertical weight in the process. KL is eating and spitting herself out at a rate that's hard to imagine, so much so it's proved impossible to get a grasp of any cardinal points, never mind her sprawling topology criss-crossed by LRT lines and causeways and pollution and dust.
Oh yeah, and she loves shopping, though her gadgets are not quite as bargain-basement as we'd innocently imagined (our brief stint in the UK, factoring currency conversion and the cost of breathing in Englyndde [even with free rent] has already stripped our pecuniary circumstances by a good half, so we've been hawkishly eyeing our pocket-books...a trying thing considering the constantly beckoning spectre of Jalan Alor and its pasar malam [night market] delights nearby).
There's a burgeoning independent music scene we're just starting to clue in about, and in a couple days we're going to explore Petaling Jaya and a number of interesting looking art venues. Tonight, God permitting (Tess has struck a case of the runs), we're going to see how un-fashionable we are at Zouk's, one of the jumpin' nightclubs located who knows where...maybe we can up our quotient somewhat by name-dropping a couple of Canadian bands, as the coolbies've already clued in to the Arcade Fire and such.
Will post some pictures soon as I get my new battery charged (I think my former was nicked out of a side-pocket while we were waiting to cross at a traffic light)...if I haven't already written you, I'll try soon, as it's a toss-up how things'll be once we leave the capital city (most internet cafe's dribble -56k connections with fugitive keyboards)...
Soon...
K
So friends/family, check up here occasionally for picture postings and news and semi-hysterical ramblings about how amazing the food is...Tess has gone to the Lake Gardens to scope orchids and exotic birds, and I'm supposed to be completing this job (the 'working' vacation continues) for Kasan and Camilla before the fact of finally having no outstanding obligations sinks in...then we're probably off to Melaka, then Johore Baru to see family and score some proper seafood, then back to KL to pick up Klachinsky, then probably Pulau Pinang or Langkawi or one of the islands off Mersing and probably my first string of hangovers on a blur of white beaches in MY...
Didn't take too long to get used to KL though this city --- already amply large in childhood's eye --- has gotten MASSIVE...I keep thinking of an ex-girlfriend I didn't know too well who started suddenly making a huge wad of money and developing a smorgasbord of unfamiliar physical landmarks and beauty spots (many still being implanted overnight) while packing on a lot of lateral and vertical weight in the process. KL is eating and spitting herself out at a rate that's hard to imagine, so much so it's proved impossible to get a grasp of any cardinal points, never mind her sprawling topology criss-crossed by LRT lines and causeways and pollution and dust.
Oh yeah, and she loves shopping, though her gadgets are not quite as bargain-basement as we'd innocently imagined (our brief stint in the UK, factoring currency conversion and the cost of breathing in Englyndde [even with free rent] has already stripped our pecuniary circumstances by a good half, so we've been hawkishly eyeing our pocket-books...a trying thing considering the constantly beckoning spectre of Jalan Alor and its pasar malam [night market] delights nearby).
There's a burgeoning independent music scene we're just starting to clue in about, and in a couple days we're going to explore Petaling Jaya and a number of interesting looking art venues. Tonight, God permitting (Tess has struck a case of the runs), we're going to see how un-fashionable we are at Zouk's, one of the jumpin' nightclubs located who knows where...maybe we can up our quotient somewhat by name-dropping a couple of Canadian bands, as the coolbies've already clued in to the Arcade Fire and such.
Will post some pictures soon as I get my new battery charged (I think my former was nicked out of a side-pocket while we were waiting to cross at a traffic light)...if I haven't already written you, I'll try soon, as it's a toss-up how things'll be once we leave the capital city (most internet cafe's dribble -56k connections with fugitive keyboards)...
Soon...
K
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