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Kuala Lumpur: Bombcheck!

Monday, December 4th, 2006

Yesterday, I could have eaten at a Chili’s. Or a CPK. Or a TGI Friday’s. Or an Outback Steakhouse. Or a roadside stall selling awesome chicken-and-rice cooked in a claypot — which is where I did eat. And it was awesome. Then I bought a fresh-squeezed guava-apple juice for $0.25.

Yesterday, I went to the Museum of Islamic Arts, the only one like it in the world, and I saw some amazing Koranic calligraphy, as well as some cool artifacts from across the Muslim world. I also learned about many a famed Arab scholar who, to my Western-orientated-and-edumacated self, were amazing to learn about.

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Penang: Amaza-craza-Malaysia

Friday, December 1st, 2006

Penang is amaza-crazy. Georgetown, the main town on the island here, is an old colonial town, a place where huge naval ships used to dock and drunken sailors would wander the streets, causing a merry ruckus. You can sense the history and atmosphere that used to be here.

But it’s different now. Rents were raised a couple years ago, so now more than half the stores you see are closed. All the streets in the districts — Little India, Chinatown, Pakistan Avenue — are crowded; not with people, but with cars. What used to be neighborhoods of dusty alleyways alive with bustling commerce, now is filled with the sound of passing motorbikes and car horns. A few pedestrians wander by, passing in front of steel-gated shop shadows. The cars zoom past, on their way to the big Western shopping malls.

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