For my 5 days stay in KL, I had an £80 budget including accommodation (£40) and food. I managed 50RMB maximum a day but you can easily manage 25RMB (£5) a day depending on what you do. For a day, breakfast would be included in your accommodation presumably, lunch would cost 5RMB if a simple sandwich, food and a drink would be roughly 11RMB for dinner, 10RMB for transport, up to 20RMB for any tours or day trips with paying entrance, 10RMB saved for taxi trips and the rest for naughty snacks when you're hungry.
I'm actually here longer than it feels. Highlight of today was the Genting Highlands which they call the Las Vegas of Malaysia North East of Kuala Lumpur.
Taking the 10.30am Genting Express bus (one comes every hour) for 4.30RMB (or MYL4.30), I sat in seat 28 and waited to leave and it left bang on time. It was 30 degrees today and I was stuck in a freezing bus. I tell you, I really don't like Air Conditioning. I'd rather strip naked in the heat. Actually no I wouldn't, but shivering in the cold? you know what I don't actually know. I'll stop here.
As we were climbing up the hill, my ears kept popping!! But we were going higher and higher and higher. We arrived Genting Highlands skyway station at 11.30am to catch the skyway cable car WHICH I WAS SO EXCITED FOR (main reason why I went, no not really, well is that bad?) it goes 2 miles up above vegetation (longest South East Asian cable car - one of the fastest in the world). At the top are 4 hotels, one being the largest in the world with over 6,000 rooms (nightmare!) and apartments. Basically, it's a very large resort with world's leading integrated leisure and entertainment. Opened in 1971 with continuing construction (they are still building stuff today) by Tan Sri Dr Lim Goh Tong who passed away in 2007. He passed on the reigns to his second son. What about the first one? hm awkward.
They have an indoor and outdoor theme park, shopping malls, theatres and concerts for mega shows including cabaret and casinos arenas. They have three large Casinos but you must play if you enter so I pretended to search for a game and quickly left before I was thrown out. You also had to be 21 but I got away with it so no surprises. You weren't allowed to take photos which is an obvious rule but I was so tempted to video a group going crazy over their win!! A lot of people were 'gambling' and chewing gum and smoking while fidgeting with their belly button. They all looked high!! There were no windows at all so it was dark with loads of waste-of-electricity lights (again is this an obvious point?). You were also allowed smoke in there as well as in the lobby out in the hall. If that's not weird then do excuse me again as casinos don't actually appeal to me so I don't know much about them. Funny that there are loads of ATMS and Western Union exchange centres located around the casino. In one of them, there was a restaurant called 'Good Luck' - scary no?
When I was there the AGT winners illuminate (evil name) were performing as guest appearance at the Times Square Plaza. They flash body lights in the dark and dance, whoopee do. So the famous First World Hotel has a Plaza and two towers. Everything is expensive man and the entrance is like an airport! In this area they have the world biggest indoor theme park and pretty much everything else. Maxims is one hotel, Genting Grand is another with a 'Vision city' Arcade that play RnB music!? isn't that crazy? Resort hotel is also another but I saw no difference.
When walking along the halls to reach to the next place, they had a unisex hairdressers and beauty spa. Again, you will see everything, anything for you. You can't really walk outside as its one big resort with a million slow escalators taking you to different floors within the building. Apart from the mountain view, outside is actually appealing. This may be to do with the clouds hogging up my view. I made my way back to the skyway station to buy a ticket to return to land (which by the way costed more than my transport back to the city?!). Problem was, it started to rain!!! And when it rains, it beats your head hard a million times per second and it starts to thunderclap and lightning flashes. So there's me thinking whether I'm actually brave enough to sit in a cable car for 20minutes while there's a 'Storm' happening!! I went on it anyway as I had to catch my city bus in time and I couldn't see a thing. Fog, clouds, fluffy stuff or whatever was blocking my view! My car was wobbly and I did not dare move. From time to time, I could see the forest below me but I nearly cried when my thoughts became evil and disturbing. I made it to the other end anyway but it was one of the most uncomfortable feelings I have had to go through. All I had was my faith, it's all i still have now!
I caught the bus back to KL Sentral but ofcourse it was still raining and I was uphill by the cliff edge. But hey, I fell asleep and I arrived already! I walked to Brickfields AKA Little India and strolled the double street. I was gutted to not be able to head to (the real) India but it was a nice alternative going there. Literally, you would have stepped into India. The people are local, the shops and eateries are Indian and the street design has been created in an Indian manner. The men looked on but in a keen way so I had to hurry on. I moved on and strolled passed so many independent vendors and shops, I passed another shopping mall which had Next!? If you stand and wait to cross the road you will be waiting for ages. People usually dodge the cars and run across but obviously me being well behaved, I would wait up to 11 minutes to cross. I saw a hearing centre and a man trying out his hearing aids at the front door step for the first time. An audiologist was clapping his hands next to the man's ears and asked him a question. I stood to watch this and was pleased to see the people of Malay getting the assistance they would need. Weirdly after seeing this, I saw two men signing in Malay by the road but I was too far to catch what they may be saying or to approach them. They were extremely expressive and unlike England, people walked on and did not take notice! If I had signed dramatically in the middle of London, I'm pretty sure I would form a circle and people would look on and clap 'bravo'. You English people suck, learn about deaf people and look away. It's 2K15 and you all still confused/fascinated by this 'disability'.
Anyway, I had noticed that there are so many job vacancy notices and some even inviting walk in interviews!? Everywhere I go there is work available; even application posters on doors and buses. I had wondered what the employment rate was in Malaysia so I planned to find out. From there, you could walk to Tun Sambanthan station which would take about 10minutes. The train was packed so I had to wait for another 2 to squeeze into. I took the monorail to Huang Tuah and walked all the way to Bukit Bintang.
People on their motorbikes tend to wear their jackets on their front leaving an open zipper on their back. I don't get that. I've seen that a lot as well. It's definitely better to walk or take public transport than drive or take a taxi as the traffic can get really bad and annoying.
People really smoke cigarettes here but whenever I pass one, I find that it really stinks! I don't smoke at all so being in a heated city and someone is smoking next to you, you'd wanna cry and end up suffocating.
Anyway.
So the evening comes and every day I like to go somewhere different for dinner and this time I went to Imbi, Jalan Bulan road opposite Beraya Times Square. I ate at Khalid Curry House for 6Ringits. I had Roti Chanai Plain and chicken rice with soup. I was by the road up a level with a colourful view. I popped into The Berjaya Times Square mall and found that it is manly Asia franchise and brands. You do see international my recognised brands here though like Baskin Robbins, Sony and Adidas. I found Krispy Kreme and VERY naughtily I bought the Oreo doughnut and OH MY GOODNESS, it was just painstakingly GORGEOUS. It melted in my mouth with a crunch and I wanted to cry. Seriously. It was 60p so I'm not allowed cola tomorrow. I went into Plaza Sungei Wang for a quick stroll but unless your phone is broken or you need a charger, don't go in there. Pointless. It was stupid hot when I walked back out heading back to to Bukit Bintang. I went to view the Pavilion KL across the road which is a shopping mall. On my way there I saw Debenams!? Oh come on?! Pavilion has exclusive designer boutiques and restaurants over 7 floors but of course I didn't go to all the floors. They actually have loads of shopping malls here, almost for no reason though and they all look the same. Starhill gallery, Lot 10, Low Yat Plaza, Midvalley Megamall and Fahrenheit are two other shopping malls right next to each other. Well it's a 5minute walk apart but still?!
It's my last day tomorrow so I'm going to stay local and head to the last must-see places. The good thing about staying this long is taking my time. I am leaving at a good time and I am able to see everything in the list which you don't get to do often!
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