Simplicity in Diversity; Malaysia

Due to the lack of free time i’m simply posting emails I write to here. Hopefully later on I will get around to posting different things here.
I/We have been getting so many emails it’s getting hard to respond to everyone! For Mr and Mrs Jordie Jen emailed you this morning so hopefully you got that by now. It’s 8:47am our time and the weather is wonderful. It is relatively warm and humid but not uncomfortably so. Serina and Effindy’s condo has wonderful views of the city that I will have to take pictures of today and email/post to the blog. Pretty soon I will start posting to the blog to tell about day to day activities and you all can check there, it will save alot of time on my end. In case you forgot or didn’t know the address is: http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Globalksp

Last night I went out to dinner with Serina and Effindy to a local “cafe” that was somewhat buffet style to be general. You got a plate of rice then they added a bunch of different sauces for the curry then you chose what meat you wanted. It was quiet a variet from shrimp, to mutton, squid, fish, chicken, and other things that I couldn’t recognize. And to my delight everything is spicy!!!

America is everywhere here. McDonalds, Dove, Sony, KFC, you name it it’s here. Everything is in English and everyone speaks English to some degree. The traffic is just what you would expect from a tropical Asian country: motorbikes and craziness all on the left hand side.
This morning Effindy made cappucino (they would fit in nicely in any city setting, if you get my drift) and we had coconut jam which tasted nothing like coconut but was delicious. We’ll be going downtown with them today and going site seeing while Serina and Effindy do some things they need to get done. Then we will meet back up with them this evening after finding our way around the public transit system and go out to dinner with them and Saras and her husband who is also part of the Malaysian Nature Society. Julian and Yeen are friends of Serina and Effindy and also are members of MNS and own a dive shop on the island and that’s who we will probably get SCUBA certified with as they came highly recommended. Well I must be going, much to do. Jen says hello to everyone. Check the blog and here: Kyle’s Galleries for the pictures and videos which I hope to have time to put online soon. We miss you all!

From hot, humid, and beautiful Kuala Lumpur,

Kyle
Friday 9:00am

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