I’m back at work! After a great weekend in KL I am sitting at my desk again writing down the last two days while I am waiting until my “Familiarization Program” starts at 9am. I will learn more about Quality Management and the Processes involved with it during the next two days. The girls say its just boring and nothing to learn but I will see.
Alright then: Friday I stayed at work until 5.30pm which is one hour more than I am supposed to work. This happened to me because I went to production after lunch without really knowing what we were going to do. Well I found out that we were going to validate a machine for two hours. You know the rest… But somehow it was also good because I drove home with the motorbike/scooter during the 10min it didn’t rain that afternoon.
At 8pm Dominik came over and we watched the Simpsons movie until we left the house and went to the bus station by taxi. By then it rained so heavy that we were really scared that it would ruin the whole weekend.
As I already told you we bought the expensive tickets and we were really impressed how great it was! It was a normal size bus but only 18 seats in it. That means that there are 6 rows with 3 seats in each. The seats are the size of business or first class seats in an airplane and after watching “X Men 3” I slept the whole trip. We arrived at Puduraya Bus station in KL at 4.55am which surprised us a little bit because we were told that the trip could last from 4.5h until 6h. To arrive exactly after 4.5h, the shortest amount of time given is not usual here.
After asking some taxi drivers where to go we found our hostel (Green Hut Lodge) at around 6am and at the Petronas Twin Towers at 6.30am. You can get free tickets to walk on the SkyBridge between them but since it was a weekend and there are only around 1000 pieces a day we were told to be there early. But 6.30am was definitely too early and so we went to an Indian restaurant to get some Roti Canai with Bananas for Breakfast. We went back in line afterwards and were able to receive tickets for the second elevator at 9.15am after watching a Petronas commercial movie. But hey it was in 3D!!! (And the glasses looked exactly like my sunglasses; so somebody asked me later if I had stolen them inside!)
The view from SkyBridge was quite impressive because you can see the entire city but since it is the most magnificent building in town there isn’t much else to see, except maybe the KL tower ( Fernsehturm), so it was not bad at all that we had to leave after only some minutes up there. After we went outside again and taking the obligatory pictures in front of the towers we decided to start our sightseeing tour. Luckily we passed a sightseeing bus (KL HopOn-HopOff) and decided to enter since it was only 17RM for students. We passed several buildings and important spots of the city like the National Mosque (which we were not able to enter due to prayers), Chinatown with the Indian Sri MaraMariaman Temple, Lake Gardens with a Bird and Butterfly Park, the National Museum, KL Sentral (Train Station) and of course Merdeka (Independence) Square. Except the last one with an impressive and supposedly largest flagpole in the world the spots were not really interesting.
We were back at the hostel at around 5pm and met with Julia (a girl from my college doing her internship in KL) at 6pm to have dinner. Afterwards we went to the Twin Towers again to see them lit up at night. After taking some more pics we went to the Beach Club which is located in the “biggest” party street in KL. It was quite interesting there then besides being an interesting Club/Bar it is also a pickup point for hookers. So at a certain area there will be the lonely “white guys” and they are being followed by many Asian girls with rather gigantic breasts compared to the rest of their body.
Yeah and of course there was a live band playing again and the lead singer looked like one of the guys from Lordi but was singing backup for songs from Rihanna, Black Eyed Peas and Shakira.
Next morning we had breakfast at 11am and went to the Batu Caves later on. In my lonely planet it says that it should cost 20RM one way but since we made the experience earlier that you cannot bargain with taxi (teksi in malay) drivers we paid 70RM for both ways. We still don’t know if it was a rip-off or if everybody pays that.
Well anyway the Caves with the 272 steps to get up there, all the monkeys and of course the 65m golden statue of an Indian God or something were really impressive. The cave is around 100m high and during Thaipusam in January one million Indian people from all over the world gather there.
Back in town we decided to see the biggest Mall called “Times Square” which is even more impressive and bigger than the “Mall of America” in Minneapolis. It’s a 12 floor Mall with around 900 shops, three cinemas (including one IMAX), an amusement park from the 5th to the 10th floor with a rollercoaster that included a loop and something like a freefall tower.
Our bus was supposed to leave at 4.30pm and so we had to get back to the bus station but the bus didn’t leave until one hour later and it took us quite long until we finally arrived in Pulau Pinang at around 10pm. The bus was rather old and had to struggle very hard at every little hill. The seats though were also very comfortable and big and so a nice trip took a good end!
In the end it was a really nice and interesting trip even though the sightseeing spots were rather boring. I hope you all enjoy the pictures and can see that we really had a great time.
I wish you a great start into the new week and hope everybody is doing fine.
All the best from B.Braun 5 (the building I am sitting in)
Robert
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