jaredce (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} jaredce) wrote,@ 2006-05-26 23:32:00 |
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5 star KL part 1
it's been a big break. i'm still in malaysia, ive had a tummy upset where my bera has been a bit wet. so lets start from sunday morning. keeping Travel log and not updating everyday tends to lead to large updates.
Sunday morning, wake up early, my stomach is playing around as i lie in bed trying to get my barings. I get up, shower, dress mull around a bit, then promptly goto the toilet where i let some huge ones out.
we packed the night before, well semi packed. so after the toilet we're running a bit late because i took some time as i really wasn't doing a bera like normal. i realise i'm not ready and we really need to leave so i kinda grab whatever i can find and run for the door. my g/fs mum (yes i know how you feel morgan it's just that my g/f doesn't like me using her name so err yeah i know.) is taking us and my g/f's mum is a bit of a speed demon enjoying the fast lane, she says if she has to go slow she falls asleep (hmm good to know, i feel so safe).
so penang airport is on the island and is about 45mins away, my g/f's mum is speeding down the highway whizzing in and out of cars and motorcycles. Malaysia (Penang at least) is littered with motorcycles/scooters. for every car on the road there is probably 10 motorcycles. we get to the airport probably in 30mins my stomach is still flipflopping as we drive and i'm staring quietly out the window hoping to god i don't poop my pants or something. we have 20minutes left to check in and run to the gate and board or we miss the flight. we hit the checkin counter for air asia, asias answer to easy jet. theres a long Q it would seem everyones trying to check in large items, and we're thinking shit, what if we miss the flight. however we get there we just have hand luggage and so we just present our coupon number and get our boarding cards.
now i don't think i told you this but airport security here is really really lax, basically we have a few handluggage items. in heathrow everything would have to be scanned from your wallet and pocket change to your liquor packed hand luggage. over here we put one thing on the belt and just get waved through, the metal detector beeped, my pockets full of stuff, sling bag on my shoulder, i get patted down and said "ok". if you want to hijack a plane this is the country to do it from. we're at the gate and in the Q now. soon we're on board ina nice exit aisle seat, i must say air asias seats are very nice, fully leather (or leather like), good bit of leg room (though i was in the exit aisle seat and it was a 40min flight).
As soon as we're in the air and the seatbelt sign is switched off, i'm back in the toilet, damn i'm missing that hose already. 30minutes later we land back in KLIA.
Ok well it would seem that KLIA is a huge airport and we're 40mins from the main terminal by a 3ringit bus ride (like 50p). my stomach still not well.
we reach the main terminal, head to check into the airport hotel but decide against it, now instead of taking the 9ringit bus to KL Sentral we take the 35ringit monorail thingy to KL Sentral (never let a woman be in charge of transport plans). it's a nice ride actually the toilet (i'm getting familiar with these things now) were nice and clean too. that took god knows how long, about 40minutes (is this feeling like an episode of 24 to you, steve i'm disapointed with you, here i am in the beautiful malaysia waiting to watch 24, DH, Lost and so on with you and it seems you're already ahead of me).
from KL Sentral it was off to another state, Selangor to goto sunway pyramid and sunway lagoon. Sunway pyramid is a pyramid shaped shopping mall with spynx's outside. sunway lagoon is a theme park with wet and dry rides. Anyway it was another 45minutes or so from KL Sentral to Selangor. from there a 10minute taxi ride to the pyramid. Once inside we located a pharmacy so i could take some pills, we then went and picked out cheap clothing like long sleeve shirts so we wouldn't burn in the sun. Diesel clothing is extremely cheap here. we then checked into the hotel for 290ringit for the night, it's a 5 star hotel and we had a wonderful room which had a kitchen and a great view and a great bathrom and other stuff, it was awesome.
once checked in we took a bag of stuff down to the lagoon and damn was it a great day, the first ride we went on my g/f decided we should ignore the "you wil get wet" sign and go on anyway claiming it said "you might get wet". might,will whats the difference we did get wet and so we decided to change into our cheap wet ride clothing.
it was a long day and we were pooped by the end, we just wanted to eat and goto bed.
it's been a big break. i'm still in malaysia, ive had a tummy upset where my bera has been a bit wet. so lets start from sunday morning. keeping Travel log and not updating everyday tends to lead to large updates.
Sunday morning, wake up early, my stomach is playing around as i lie in bed trying to get my barings. I get up, shower, dress mull around a bit, then promptly goto the toilet where i let some huge ones out.
we packed the night before, well semi packed. so after the toilet we're running a bit late because i took some time as i really wasn't doing a bera like normal. i realise i'm not ready and we really need to leave so i kinda grab whatever i can find and run for the door. my g/fs mum (yes i know how you feel morgan it's just that my g/f doesn't like me using her name so err yeah i know.) is taking us and my g/f's mum is a bit of a speed demon enjoying the fast lane, she says if she has to go slow she falls asleep (hmm good to know, i feel so safe).
so penang airport is on the island and is about 45mins away, my g/f's mum is speeding down the highway whizzing in and out of cars and motorcycles. Malaysia (Penang at least) is littered with motorcycles/scooters. for every car on the road there is probably 10 motorcycles. we get to the airport probably in 30mins my stomach is still flipflopping as we drive and i'm staring quietly out the window hoping to god i don't poop my pants or something. we have 20minutes left to check in and run to the gate and board or we miss the flight. we hit the checkin counter for air asia, asias answer to easy jet. theres a long Q it would seem everyones trying to check in large items, and we're thinking shit, what if we miss the flight. however we get there we just have hand luggage and so we just present our coupon number and get our boarding cards.
now i don't think i told you this but airport security here is really really lax, basically we have a few handluggage items. in heathrow everything would have to be scanned from your wallet and pocket change to your liquor packed hand luggage. over here we put one thing on the belt and just get waved through, the metal detector beeped, my pockets full of stuff, sling bag on my shoulder, i get patted down and said "ok". if you want to hijack a plane this is the country to do it from. we're at the gate and in the Q now. soon we're on board ina nice exit aisle seat, i must say air asias seats are very nice, fully leather (or leather like), good bit of leg room (though i was in the exit aisle seat and it was a 40min flight).
As soon as we're in the air and the seatbelt sign is switched off, i'm back in the toilet, damn i'm missing that hose already. 30minutes later we land back in KLIA.
Ok well it would seem that KLIA is a huge airport and we're 40mins from the main terminal by a 3ringit bus ride (like 50p). my stomach still not well.
we reach the main terminal, head to check into the airport hotel but decide against it, now instead of taking the 9ringit bus to KL Sentral we take the 35ringit monorail thingy to KL Sentral (never let a woman be in charge of transport plans). it's a nice ride actually the toilet (i'm getting familiar with these things now) were nice and clean too. that took god knows how long, about 40minutes (is this feeling like an episode of 24 to you, steve i'm disapointed with you, here i am in the beautiful malaysia waiting to watch 24, DH, Lost and so on with you and it seems you're already ahead of me).
from KL Sentral it was off to another state, Selangor to goto sunway pyramid and sunway lagoon. Sunway pyramid is a pyramid shaped shopping mall with spynx's outside. sunway lagoon is a theme park with wet and dry rides. Anyway it was another 45minutes or so from KL Sentral to Selangor. from there a 10minute taxi ride to the pyramid. Once inside we located a pharmacy so i could take some pills, we then went and picked out cheap clothing like long sleeve shirts so we wouldn't burn in the sun. Diesel clothing is extremely cheap here. we then checked into the hotel for 290ringit for the night, it's a 5 star hotel and we had a wonderful room which had a kitchen and a great view and a great bathrom and other stuff, it was awesome.
once checked in we took a bag of stuff down to the lagoon and damn was it a great day, the first ride we went on my g/f decided we should ignore the "you wil get wet" sign and go on anyway claiming it said "you might get wet". might,will whats the difference we did get wet and so we decided to change into our cheap wet ride clothing.
it was a long day and we were pooped by the end, we just wanted to eat and goto bed.
