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The end of book one

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Just as Michael Corleone  in the Godfather part 1, as Mad Max at the end of Mad Max 1, as Axel Foley in Beverly Hill’s Cop 1, as Luke Skywalker at the end of Star Wars: A New Hope, as Danny Ocean at the end of Ocean’s Eleven, and most likened to us, as Troy Bolton from High School Musical 1, we are, just as all of these long living and most important fictional characters did, leaving S.E. Asia and going to Australia as of 20:15 today.

I was going to write a proper entry about us leaving, but everything came out sounding over sentimental and cheesy, I feel that by comparing myself to things that don’t exist you, the dear reader, can impose your own image of our departure firmly in your mind. Hum the music from The Hulk T.V. series as you do, the sad sounding classical piece where Dr. Banner walks away from the camera, turning back every now and then to wave goodbye. Goodbye Asia, Goodbye!

Ways to kill time in Melaka: Being made examples of

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Melaka, while being a lovely(ish)  town, is kinda small to spend more than say, a well used 48 hours in. This is our third day here now, still two more left, and already entertainment is running thin.

For lunch/dinner we chomped through a ludicrous amount of sushi at SushiA, this pretty sweet restuarant that gives you 50% off of all the sushi on the moving conveyor belt. This meant that we got to eat a tenner’s worth of sushi for a fiver. Considering the relative cheapness of sushi out here in comparison to sushi back home, we ate about 40 quid’s worth. It is important to note to all of you non-sushi lovers, that there is something that occurs that Lauren and I have dubbed ‘sushi sickness.’ This occurs suddenly, but when you get to your ninth or tenth plate of the raw stuff, you suddenly get that horrificly warm production of saliva in the back of your mouth. The type that feels like your throat is being lubricated for an immediate stomach evacuation. Needless to say, after our sushi-a-thon today, I suffered for at least 45 minutes after with sushi sickness. Luckily, Lauren remained unaffected.

One sit down and cup of hot milo later (that’s hot chocolate to you and me,) and we were ready to move on. We had spied colourful looking stalls that you could create your own stickers in with your own image on them. Time and time again we had walked past these, making half-true promises about ‘going in there at one point,’ and ‘it’ll be a right laugh.’

Today was that point, it was a right laugh.

We had so much fun, in fact, that the lady asked if we’d mind her using our photo’s as examples on the shop window. Lauren literally clapped with delight. My personal favourite is one where Lauren and I are imposed, at different distances from the camera and looking in different directions, with Daniel Radcliffe, aka Harry Potter. The use of direction and distance makes the sticker look like a Christian rock sleeve. It is one of the most perfect things I have ever seen.

Other things we have done in Melaka have nearly all revolved around eating. Lots of it. There’s an awesome Krispy Kreme doughnut type place near out hostel and were on at least one doughnut a day. Thinking about it, it’s nearly time for our fix soon.

The sights in Melaka are much more looking than doing attractions. There’s museums for everything. Want to know about what all them kid’s in the internet cafe playing online shooting games are doing? Go to the Melaka Youth Museum. Always wondered why people got tattoo’s? Head to the Enduring Beauty Museum. Want to know if your toilet habits are normal? Run along to the Malaysian Defecation Appreciation Museum. (So maybe the last one doesn’t strictly exist, but you get the idea.)

We did find a rare, and awesome, bookshop earlier in one of the malls that sells ‘classic’ literature for a quater of the price of all the other books in there. I picked up some Oscar Wilde and Henry James, and Laurenzo got herself F. Scott Fitzgerald and  John Buchan, enough literature to keep us entertained through the most humdrum bits of the next few days at least, and much more importantly, enough ‘proper’ authors for me to namedrop and feel even more smug. I did an English degree donchaknow?

Having two lunches is NOT overindulgent!

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Two great things happened this afternoon. The first, and definately the one that shall be revisited before too long, is that Lauren discovered that in the arcades here they have Karaoke booths. Like a sit down booth where you have ... [Continue reading this entry]

Deepvalai, the festival of lights…

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
...is making our time in Malaysia significantly more difficult! Now I'm not at all suggesting that Hindu's, Sikhs and Jains should re-arrange their important festival so it doesn't mean Lauren and I cannot get the bus we wanted from Melaka to ... [Continue reading this entry]

Melaka

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Got on a bus that was nicer than the room we had had in K.L. and made our way down to Melaka. Had a brief stroll around the place earlier, much less noise than K.L. (don't get too excited though, ... [Continue reading this entry]

Megamalls, dissapointments and an ‘ohmygoshIthoughtIwasinLondon’ moment

Monday, October 20th, 2008
Another day another megamall in Kuala Lumpur. Today we went to the Time's Square one which boasts it's very own theme park. Admittedly it looked a little more Peter Pan's Playground than Alton Towers, but it was still cool to ... [Continue reading this entry]

KLCC and me

Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Killing time in the KLCC megamall again today. Original plan was to watch Tropic Thunder at the cinema, but aparently films come out at different times over Malaysia (it came out today in Penang, we asked) so we're off to ... [Continue reading this entry]

Petronas Towers, obligatory photographs and uber consumerism

Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Visited the Petronas Towers today, got that obligatory photo of the skybridge so that's a big one off the checklist. Didn't actually go up the skybridge though, theres all sorts of effort involved in that and the view from the ... [Continue reading this entry]

Oh Lordey Lord, please stop a’ rainin’ on me

Friday, October 17th, 2008
Seriously, it was absolutely lashing it down when we got into KL at around half 4 today. We were meant to get here at 2:30 but the driver was nothing short of pure evil. For real. First off, he yells at ... [Continue reading this entry]

Trekking with Yen

Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Yesterday the weather managed to hold off long enough in the morning for me to go for an unofficial trek with Yen, a man who, it is very clearly stated on the noticeboard of our guesthouse, is 'in no way ... [Continue reading this entry]