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old school buds

Armand — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:21:00 +0000

Despite my short transit in KL, I still manage to meet up with a few of my high school mates from back in the day we all went to St. Thomas, Kuantan

Meet up with Nil who is looking more and more like Yusuf Islam everyday. Thauffeq at 6’3 (approx jason kidd height) is damn big here and dominates like shaq in Malaysia and D-d my future business partner, also shaqir and his buds.

4 teh tariks, about 2 boxes of cigarettes later I have 2 hours left to pack my stuff and fly off to Indo.

Batu Caves – Monkeys and Overpriced Roti Canai

Armand — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:36:48 +0000

And those MONKEYS i told you about…

Roti canai is awesome, at batu caves its about double its price, e.g anywhere else its about $1-2rm, at Batu Caves its was $3-4rm Tourist spot tricks.

Melissa’s a monkey.

Teh tarik is off the hizz

Batu Caves

Armand — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:26:57 +0000

Just over 10km outside of KL you’ll find the Batu Caves, a sacred place for the Hindu’s in Malaysia. Discovered in 1892, The caves mainly consist of limestones and hungry monkeys. Its a 272 step climb to the top, so make sure you have filled up with over priced /tourist priced Roti canai at the bottom. At the top you will find peace – temples… and a souvenir shop

It poured down that day and the steps were really narrow and slippery, only ancient Chinese women with binded feet would be comfortable with these stairs. I had to side step all the way down while taking photos of monkeys, MikeP would have been loving it.

At 42.m statue of the most popular Tamil Hindu deity Murugan (tallest in the world of this deity). Yup, That’s Whats up.

Should have done a rocky pose.

A souvenir shop in a fricken cave, man!

cool.

Around Town, KL

Armand — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:39:00 +0000

Just a few touristy stuff.

Istana Negara / state palace, Kuala Lumpur

can’t pass the gates

Just like in Britain, uniforms and all. But in the 40c heat!

Tugu Peringatan Negara, Malaysia

below the soliders says:

“Dedicated to the heroic fighters in the cause of peace and freedom
May the blessings of Allah be upon them”

Parliament

Some nice old school buildings around Merdeka square, heres Sultan Abdul Samad Building

Menara Kuala Lumpur – prob not worth the fare up there….?

always building…

but ya can’t beat the Petronas Twin Towers

Pasar Karat, KL

Armand — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:47:00 +0000

Parallel to Petaling Street is a China Town hardly seen by tourist in KL. In a back alley there is a thriving ‘Market of thieves’, a Junk market that opens from about 4:30am and gone by 10:00am. They call it Pasar Karat (rust market).

Everything is displayed on the floor. But the place is packed. Its like a flea market, where you can find anything second hand, old ornamental collectable, antiques and watches that were probably stolen. Theres electronics, Traditional medicine, vcds and dvds, T-shirts and even toys so old I wouldn’t even touch.

I see a chiense man spewing in a red bucket, next to him a malay man massaging traditional herbal medicine on a lady’s foot. Across them a plastic sheet lays with nic nacs spread out, the stuff you would find in a dumpster. who the buys single felt tip pens and half working head phones?

There are stories of people taking home a 29’ LCD screens, 80gig ipod and nokia N95

From what I’ve heard this market started from a family of thieves, and today there is a syndicate collecting $10 ringgit from each vendor.

I took photos descretely, as you would when taking shots of potential stolen goods/crap.

First Stop. Petaling Street, KL

Armand — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:50:00 +0000

When Im not staying at a friend’s house in KL Its usually at a backpackers, most backpackers in KL are located at center of Kuala Lumpur’s original Chinatown.This time though id step it up and stay in an (average) hotel, funny thing is its nextdoor to the backpackers i used to saty at. Once you step out side of the air-con sanctuary its Petaling Street – probably the most ghetto, steamy, sweaty, smelly etc etc part of inner city. Petaling Street goes off. Its is a great place for locals to get some goods (cheap clothes, fabrics, hookers, souvenirs, electronic items… ) at bargain prices and tourists to get ripped off. A lot friends were like “why stay there? soo dangerous lah”, “very very dirty place, better stay in proper place lah”. Sure they got shiny buildings and air-con malls, the streets is the essence in asia.

KL, Malaysia – just briefly

Armand — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:27:00 +0000

I didn’t even stay a day in KL, too hot, malls malls malls…Off to Jakarta!

Petronas towers

LV

Sauber Petronas

MTR airport express

KL Sentral – one day you can catch a train to europe from here…maybe