It is confusing that Malaysians drive on the other side of the road! In cars also. And since I have not been to the UK yet, my brain couldn’t map this new bit of information easily. While crossing the street, I keep looking at the wrong side and was almost hit a few times. Felt a bit like an idiot!
I proceeded with checking the central market. A bazar that has a lot of crafts and interesting items. I resisted buying a lot of cheap interesting stuff like wood work and pieces of art and decorations.
I appreciate crafts… I feel that the time required plus the attention given by the craftsman give the object its soul. After walking, I needed to refreshen a bit. I ordered "white coffee" Which is surprisingly coffee with milk! 😀 plus a sweet that looked delicious in the menu called "Gendol" or something like this. When it arrived, it looked very disgusting!
It has these green noodles that move like worms everytime you put the spoon. It also has beans. First time for me to have beans in sweet. When the ice coffe underneath melted, these green worms looked like swimming in brown diarrhea. Despite all these horrible thoughts, the taste was actually good enogh to overcome the visual signal! I ate the sweet to the last bit!
I left the central market to check the national mosque. A big construction that is nice but not impressive. However, cleanliness and care are obvious in many places you see on Malaysia.
I contacted Jirka again and agreed to meet in the KL tower.
I arrived there sweating from every inch in my body. But the view up there was worth it. My phone was out of battery so i didn’t take photos. But Jirka who was there already did and will send me later! We started discussing. Our impressions about the city. Too big for him. He says the optimum size for a city is 100,000 inhabitants. I asked him, per what area!? He said "the reasonable.. The reasonable European standards". I cracked making jokes about his "European standards".. We had an interesting conversation about Russia and the current situation regarding Crimea! He had to leave.. I stayed a bit more watching the city from the top and relaxing a bit! Then started the way back home. The mission is to take an urgent shower to recover my self-respect. I got lost in the metro since I was misguided by some super-intelligent worker.
At home, I rested a bit. Was supposed to join around 30 couchsurfers for dinner but was too tired to go there on time. Decided to rest more, then eat something in the neighborhood which is very typical anyway! I Found a restaurant with a lot of chairs and tables. All the restaurants in the neighborhood are only outside. No seats inside! I asked them "till when are you open?" They said "we never close"! The restaurant works 24/7. Impressive. I ordered mango juice. He said "big?" I thought "who knows when will be the next time I drink a fresh mango juice!"and agreed. He brought me later one liter of mango in a huge glass that looked like German bear glasses! My kidney spoke to me!
Had my dinner and juice and went home in peace. Need to grab some sleep before tomorrow. I spontaneously decided to go to "Putrajaya". Let’s see 😉
