Food in KL

I'm going to soak up all the great and cheap Indian food here until it starts oozing out of my skin pores and nostrils! Oh, and the occasional authentic Chinese food too!

In KL

I was going to update with a cheerfully upbeat entry, but this dude in this internet cafe keeps saying in the most imaginally annoyable voice: "Hellooo? Hello? I can't hear youuuuuu. What are you eating? What are you eating? Helloooooo? What are you eating? Helloooo? I can't hear youuuu. Can you speak louder? Can you speak louder? I don't know. I don't knowwww. Hellaww? Hellooooo? What are you eaaatiiiing? Hellooo? I can't hear you. Uh, I don't know." I swear, this has been going on for the past 10 minutes!

I'm in Kuala Lumpur now, Malaysia, also known as KL. It's amazing what a salad bowl it is here. The US is truly a melting pot, all the more clear if someone comes to KL. As I waited in line to I check out of my hotel this morning, the receptionist was speaking in some sort of accented Mandarin to another customer, then spoke English to me, then replied in Mandarin to a dude asking for directions, then got a call and replied in Cantonese, and then spoke Malay to a Malay couple. That's 4 languages if you don't even count the accented Mandarin that was probably some other regional dialect.

And finally, he says "Byyeeee...byeeee. I love you...I love youuuu. Byeeee" 20 minutes of torture I tell you! And I was looking forward to this downtime to catch up on internet doings.

20 minutes of blogging laced with trying to change my flight...checking email, confirming invites on facebook, reading the bbc about Hugo Chavez, and reading Wikipedia about Sophie's World, one of my new favorite books. A bizarre, but clever philosophical fiction. I'll have to update my favorite books list on my righthand sidebar.

Kuala Lumpur Batizado

I take an intermission from my pictures of Pathompat Sports Days 2006. But do look forward to them! I've got some amazing pictures. Too bad I messed up my downloads, so I've lost all my AVI movies =(

Here are pics from Kuala Lumpur. I didn't visit any well-known tourist sites or rush around between historic monuments and the whatnot. I just went to Capoeira workshops and the Batizado. That's what my travelling is turning into.

I'm off on another trek at the end of December by sea and land, from Siam to Vietnam. Land and sea is the way to go...let's me feel like I'm actually travelling, unlike when you take a plane, it feels like all an illusion where you step into a magical machine which shakes you around which the speakers tell you is called "turbulence", and the windows are actually computer-simulated flying scenes which the stewardess tells you to keep open while landing so that you'll believe the entire conspiracy.

I leave for Cambodia again (yay!) cutting through Sihanoukville and Pnomh Penh, and then go to Ho Chi Minh City. This time I'll make sure I see the killing fields...I missed them last time.
Laila (left) and Mehti (right)















Me and Andy trying to be gangsta.





























Maculale dance at the Vivo Brazil party.







Open Roda just outside a Kuala Lumpur shopping mall.