a nightmare would be a life without you

Carrie Finally Blogs
Tuesday, December 07, 2004 11:05 AM

I'm back from Kuala Lumpur the land of incessant honking cars, bad air pollution, cheap food, and pirated goods. It is also the land of cheap chewing gum. =)

Actually, I've been back from KL for about two days now. Pretty long time, been resting, going out with my dearie Wei Sheng and kinda lying low for awhile. My back hurts rather badly and my legs are almost all gone, my waist feels thicker than usual, but I'm finally pulled magnetically to write. Okay. I'm actually pulled by guilt to write. Wei Sheng has been blogging while I play and eat (alot of seafood) and I should start blogging like usual and NOT procrastinate like the lazy bugger that I am now that I'm finally back after four days of holidaying over the causeway.

I won't go into really cool details about my trip to KL although I wrote in my trusty conventional black plasticy covered note book diary, I won't post them out here. There are way too many I Love Wei Shengs and I miss my dearies in my written diary entries. Not much KL holiday content. More like me pining away my Malaysian holiday nights. =) But I'll just sum it all up.

After like 8 hours of travelling on coach reading CLEO (Yes, I took Cherlynn's advice and got that thick mag) and just staring for hours on end at the vegetation and lack of it for about 220KM all the way to KL. Spent the first day going totally insane, jumping beds, messing around in our newly checked in (but horribly smokey smelling) suite. It was cool, with a TV on a swivel which enabled us to watch the TV anywhere in the suite. And the beds were great, the toilet was with two rooms... It was all in all the coolest hotel room ever. Went to roam the streets of Malaysia's Chinatown, also known as Petaling Street and also known as the country's cheapest haunt for the teens wanting to wear fake branded goods.

Petaling Street is a mini Singapore Chinatown. Yes, it looks like Chinatown, feels like Chinatown. Almost felt at home there. The streets were chock-full of teens (mainly Ah Bengs and Ah Lians), and ang moh tourists. Oh right, and there were the Singaporean tourists. You could really identify the Singaporeans. They spoke with the Singlish accent and there was the inbuilt unmistakenable bargaining skills.

That place was bustling, smokey and really really crammed. Loved the seafood (read: giant yummy juicy prawns), loved the cheap clothes (all almost less than 5 Singapore dollars if you bargained hard enough). Learnt how to bargain from my father. =) Never seem TOO interested in their stuff and they will beg you to take it for cheap. Hehe.

Yeah. Basically that was it for the day. Spent the second day in the huge indoor amusement park. Okay. It wasn't huge. It was rather small, but the rides there are KILLER material. Thrill rides were painful, the family rides were cute. I enjoyed the roller coaster so much I rode it like more than 6 times. But after playing most of the rides I got sick, vomitted and stuff. So my dad sent me back to the hotel suite while my sister played like mad until late. Went to Petaling Jaya AGAIN. =) And then went to eat Long John Silver back at the Berjaya Shopping Centre. Yeah. Dirt cheap food. I think the cheap food was the highlight of the trip. Spent most of the trip eating. I bet I grew fat.

Third day was spent visiting the Twin Towers. Yeah. The Petronas Twin Towers known as the tallest towers in the world, or so the brainwashing video said. Took loads of photos. Blah. Went shopping at the shopping centre near the Twin Towers. It was the only shopping centre I saw which had a Billabong store and a Quiksilver store. I was pleasantly surprised. Haha. But I didn't buy anything. My dad didn't let me go in. =C

Ate at Kenny Rogers' and well, the chicken was great. =D Haha. And then we went down to Petaling Street. Yesh. Again.

Sheesh. My sissy threw her worst tantrum. I got pretty pissed with her for the first time on the trip. Left her to rot and didn't talk to her. It worked out in the end.

Forth day was spent packing up and checking out, loitering at the arcade and eating at that cool noodle house at a monorail stop nearby. Even though it was the last day, my sister still pissed me. Oh well. It worked out fine as usual. Everything was okay at least until my sister realized she lost her handphone. =X Yeah... AGAIN!

My dad controlled himself. I could actually imagine if it was in Singapore, he would blow... Like a balloon and burst in her face. But well, my dad contacted the hotel and they found it in the hotel suite on the bed. Oh thank goodness. =C I cannot imagine my dad exploding every few seconds. Kinda hectic. Finally boarded the coach at about 3.15pm. Yeah, and it was straight home after that. I already read CLEO like hundred of time during the bus ride to KL so on the bus ride back to Singapore. So... What did I do?

Hehe. I spent the whole trip back looking out the window and staring at signs, greenery and the lack of it. Thought of my dearie all the way home. Missed him a whole lot during the four days. I couldn't call because I had no cash and I couldn't use the IDD hotel phone because my dad didn't allow me to. But I'm really dumb, could have gone to a public phone or something, but it just didn't cross my mind. =C I really missed him a whole lot those four days. I kinda got VERY homesick from the second day on and everytime I thought about Singapore (which was mainly when it gets quiet and before I sleep), I'd start missing my dearie all over again. Teared every night, and my nose was always blocked at night (even if I didn't cry). Eventually cried in the bath on the third night. Rather terrible. Had nightmares too.

Well... =) I never loved Singapore more. I now truly appreciate the beauty of Singapore. The system and the sight of high rise flats make me happy. It's like all the small things... The streetlamps that I now realize I appreciate. It's strange. Really. That I never noticed all the small things about Singapore before. I now do, and I now realize how stupid and thick I have been never to love all this about Singapore. =) And most important of all, I now really realize how much I miss Wei Sheng and how much he means to me. I love you dearie... MuackxX!

Spent yesterday with my dearie. Watched alot of bands jam at Orchard Jam. I loved spending time with him. =D I wanted to tell him how really really alot I missed him, but I just kinda didn't say it. Kinda weird that I didn't just say it... ... But I really wanted to tell him that.

**carrie** (loves Wei Sheng and just Wei Sheng and no one else and hopes we will never be apart)

P.S: I actually watched Channel News Asia during my stay at the hotel. Learnt about Taufik's win and rejoiced.