Weekend in KL

I’ve spent the weekend in KL with Jonathan. (I love Air Asia!)

I had a really fun weekend shopping and being silly! We stayed at the Novotel Hotel which is next to KLCC and Bukit Bintang (the shopping area). We literally wandered the malls non-stop all weekend marvelling at how disturbingly cheap everything is!

My favourite mall was probably Suria KLCC, but I also really like Pavillion (it reminded me of Paragon in Singapore, very slick looking). I didn’t actually buy that much, Jonny bought a lot more than me… I bought a really nice bikini from Quiksilver (and in Asia there is always some promotion or other, so I got roped in… buy a bikini and boardshorts and get 30% off plus a free pair of quiksilver flip-flops! Sweet! So although I didn’t technically need the shorts or the flip-flops, why not lah!)… I also bought a pair of Nike+ Trainers (Nike+ is the ipod range… Will bought me a device to sync my ipod to my trainers to record speed, time, calories burned etc, but didn’t realise that you need the special trainers to match).

Anyway, Jonny bought a camera, headphones, work shirts and trousers, trainers, a new pair of prescription glasses… We had a great time wandering the malls. It reminded us of Singapore life. We pretty much grew up in malls like those. We also ate lots and lots of yummy asian food… Huge prawns on dry-style noodles, pepper crab, a big dim sum lunch at the Shang Palace (Shangri-La), hawker food at Chinatown (Wanton Mee and Char Kway Teow), jack fruit, yellow watermelon, mango, papaya, pomelo, fish balls from Old Chang Kee, sugar cane, crysanthemum tea, winter melon tea, grass jelly… the list goes on. It’s been an indulgent weekend!

Here is a pricture from outside our hotel… It’s of the Petronas Towers at KLCC.

On Saturday night, we went out to Bangsar Baru. 9 years ago, Jonny and I went to a swim meet at the KL International School, and although we were both extremely underage, we went out with other people from the swim team to Finnegans Irish Pub in Bangsar… (Expat kids tend to rush the whole going out scene by the way). So we decided to go back and check it out for nostalgic reasons! It was exactly the same, and we even remembered where the 15 and 17 year old versions of ourselves had sat!

 

We also decided to go to the cinema during our time in KL… Golden Village cinemas! I love cinemas in Asia, the aircon blasts way too strong, the seats are so comfy, and the price… it came to the equivalent of £2… Makes me sick!

Anyway, I had a great time just hanging out chatting with Jonny in KL. We always act so silly together! This weekend we both dragged our well-practised Singlish silly voices out of the closet!! We always used to put on a Singlish accent to annoy Mum back in Singapore, so we do a pretty believable version! Can lah… Cannot what… Wah…

I like KL, but it does have an unfinished feel to it. It’s WAY more developed than Vietnam… it’s almost like Singapore, but just an unpolished version. It’s as if not much thought has been put into things. There are loads of shopping centres, but no logical way to how they are positioned within the city centre or how the floors and shops are laid out. I think some people might prefer KL to Singapore because it’s much less rigid and more like old Asia (with the new bits thrown in)… but me, I still have my soft spot for my cushy Singapore!

Anyway, I’ve been doing far too much… I’ve been leaving a massssive carbon footprint with all my flights everywhere. Once I get back to Hanoi, I’m going to get back into the hospital life, and stop flying around like a madwoman!!