Asia Trip

Hello Everyone,

As I stated on my last blog, I am living in Mont Kiara, Malaysia. It is a suburb of Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia reminds me a lot of the US because it is such a diverse country. The landscape is beautiful there are trees and flowers everywhere. My allergies are in full force.

There are a million malls here just like in Thailand; of course I have tried my best to go to as many of them as possible. I have even been shopping in the PETRONAS towers I have to say, I have taken shopping to a new level:-))). The PETRONAS Towers are beautiful. No, I have not been up to the top, and I never will. I have a fear of heightsL.

I have not tried too much of the food here. I am sure the food has beautiful flavor, but I am really tired of trying different food. I just want American food.

I found a really good salon that could manage to do my hair very well. My friends that know me know that is a big deal. It is really a cool salon. They use shampoo that requires just a few sprays of water, so you do go to the shampoo bowl until they are ready to rinse your hair. While they are shampooing your hair, they give you a head massage. OMG!!! I think I will go to the salon today. The cost of this service is only $15 dollars. The only problem is that they do not have pedicure chairs just like in China. They use buckets to soak your feet. I think I will wait until I go back to Thailand before I get another pedicure.

When I arrived in Malaysia, I went to a beautiful modern apartment. It was small but pretty, but it had major problems. To start with, there was no hot water in the entire apartment. OK, I had to flip a switch to turn on the hot water; however, the hot water never came the first day. I could not take a shower without hot water. Luckily for me and my colleagues, the next day I had hot water in the shower; however, I did not have hot water in the bathroom and kitchen sink. I found out that they did not build the bathroom and kitchen sink to ever have hot water. I was told that is very common here in Malaysia to not have hot water in the sinks. I took out my toaster, there was no handle on the toaster to start it. The washer was outside in a closet on the balcony. I turned on the washer and the water started to come out of the back of the washer. The washer had never been hooked up. The ironing board was only about 3 1/2 feet high. The iron was basically low, medium and high, no steam. I only stayed in this apartment 1 week. It goes to show that looks can be deceiving.

I have moved into another apartment it is better, but it still has its problems. I will tell you about it on another post.

I hope you like the pictures. SamLow I have a special one for you:-).

Until next time.
Chae