so ended up not going to macau with chris (who was chasing after his woman) and instead hung out with pretty much everyone we'd met in hong kong. we all partied in lkf and had a good time, then i went home. ended up finding thayer kind of late the next day, as he ended up spending the night there and we had some communication troubles. got out fine and flew off to kuala lumpur, malaysia, where we met chris's friends dave and farhon. farhon lives here with his family and has been most gracious about letting us stay at his house near the city, and dave is our travel buddy for the remainder of the trip. KL is vastly different than HK; the majority of it is super open suburbs, huge highways with no cars, and vast, empty plains and rolling hills with occasional monster architecture. they're really into planning here, so like in a game of sim city, they've built convention centers, government buildings, and other public infrastructre long before it's needed or before people have built houses anywhere nearby, planning for the empty space to be filled in. i guess you can do that kind of stuff when you have a king who builds crazy palaces for himself. the buildings are impressive though.
each day is basically us waking up at 1-2pm, being fed by farhon's mom and maid, getting a ride to the train station or city, seeing the sights and hitting the night scene, then arguing with cab drivers for the fare back to suban jaya (the suburb we live in) and getting lost on the way back here because none of them know how to navigate in their own town. we've met a few people, no one that interesting. seen the petronas towers and KL tower, chinatown, some really, really shady bars with 70% hookers and she-males. this last night we've gotten a sweet hotel in downtown so we don't have to deal with the transit bullshit we've gotten tired of. the cab drivers here are a real pain; they won't use the meter because the government set the price too low, so you have to haggle them down from a ridiculous price every time, only to get lost every single time.
the downtown isn't bad, but the bars haven't been stellar and they're kind of spread out. we all much prefer hk. the weather is quite a bit cooler, but still tropical. this hotel has a sweet 4th floor patio pool that's right on the edge of the building (the water waterfalls over the edge) and we had a great time swimming when a downpour came around. gonna go out with farhon tonight (the only day besides sunday we've done anything with him, because he's been working), then club until i meet up with an interesting iranian girl we met earlier. then tomorrow we're off to bangkok, which spending a single night in can make a hard man humble. toods and clubs
