A random assortment of Thursday activities

I woke up late again today and smashed yet another iced coffee. How I'm going to go with drinking hot coffee when I get back to Aussie is beyond comprehension right now. Sleeping in to try and get up at a normal Aussie time is not working, probably because Malaysia is current two hours behind. Think that's a FAIL.

Anyway, I had the choice of going to Genting Highlands or Malacca today. I chose Genting, so got the Monorel to KL sentral with the intention of buying a Genting Gold pass which includes bus transport, cable car, theme park entry and something else for RM60.  

On the Monorail I met English former expats John and Annie, who were killing time before they could check into their hotel. They'd lived in Penang and Singapore in past working lives and have been in Aussie for a few years. They were stopped over in KL on their way back to the UK for a visit. They were bored and not much was do-able due to it being the first day of the Hari Raya holidays, so I put them on atrain to Mid Valley Mega Mall. 

Genting was sold out - no buses back and no packages left, so I figured I'd just go do some more malls. I thought I'd go back to 1 Utama so I caught a train to Kelana Jaya, where I'd been in 2007.  Once again, there were no buses to 1 Utama in sight so I caught the free shuttle bus to Paradigm Mall. I stopped for a good Malay breakfast of kaya toast and coffee before discovereing Tesco!

In Tesco I decided I needed badminton shuttles, Ipoh white coffee mix, a four outlet power board, highlighters, notebooks and some random food items to take back to Melbourne. After a nice lunch at Nandos, I caught the bus back to KJ and then another bus to Sunway Pyramid.  Sunway Pyramid is wiggidy wiggidy whack - there's an ice skating rink in the middle of the mall and a bunch of random themed shopping areas with fake pyramids and fake sphinx and fake everything. There's even a fake souk next to the ice rink. 

I did the obligatory lap before committing to a location, bought a learn the harmonica set and a second copy of a great NLP book, a feng shui book and some shoes.  I didn't buy much else because I was followed in shops again - ugh. 

I got the bus back to KJ station, the train to KL Sentral and the Monorail to Bukit Bintang. It was pretty late by this stage and I was hungry and grumpy, so I walked around trying to find something to eat. I settled on 

a bowl of Kolo Mee at Sarawak stand in the basement food court in Pavilion mall, bought a dharma book and bag at Pavilion and caught the monoraill back to the hotel.

Once again the front desk is out of 50 sen pieces so it looks like I'm taking all my dirty clothes home to Melbourne. Awesome.  Packing commences and I start feeling sick.  I'm think, dude, WTF was in my kolo mee? Cramps, bloating, metaclopramide and buscopan tablets later, I'm going to try and sleep this off. 

Final day in KL tomorrow - this will be interesting!