haha its been a while since i've done this, but what the hell. here's a question i've been thinking about for quite a while. if you had a tourist friend come visit Malaysia for a couple of days, where would you bring him/her/them? also assuming u have 32 hours (8 hours average sleep), and within the state (and adjacent state if count Wilayah and if you're from Selangor, vice versa), also also whenever u ask them questions like "where would you like to go, or what would you like to eat" , they're answers by default would be "anything man, (or gal) whatevers fine with me. which is a fair enough question since theres as much interesting sightseeing, touristy places in kl... as there are non-corrupted politicians.
Probably a very subjective topic for conversation as each individual has a different perception of the meaning "interesting". And same goes for the visitors themselves, however they're probably more of an exemption since most of the time, ppl who come willingly, are really quite willing to do anything. Anything that's 'generally' interesting that is. i mean, going cool shopping malls are reasonably good fun, or hanging out at cool cafe's, bars or clubs, or even maybe some avant-grade artsy fartsy convention displaying state-of-art self-inflatable sex dolls. However, i still think that sitting outside 7-11 is drinking beer and eating ramli burger is NOT interesting. neither is sitting in the 'padang' drinking beer and eating nuts. And bringing to dodgy cybercafes to play warcraft or cs is NOT cool. (although debatable depending on the visitors themselves.) Yes true enough, things like these are part of our 'cool' favourite pastimes which some of reminiscence for hours (sitting outside 7-11, or in the padang). However, imagining myself as a visitor, i'd get the impression that it'd be quite homosexual. or lame saying the least.
Gettin to the point, not trying to comfort myself by saying that i'd have all the ideas on what to do and the best places to go. I'm probably the worse tour guide there is around, and i'd probably get lost myself given the chance. i've recently had visitors from japan (one of them being my cousin) who had came to malaysia for a few days visit, and the timing wasn't the best (CNY first few days) where most of the shops and places were closed, if not almost empty. However, it was pretty cool too since they get to see what malaysians do during this festive time of the year, (asides drinking a lot and gambling like pirates) such a chinese new year cuisine, 'yee sang', tasty new year snacks and mahjong. :) also managed to crash into my neighbours house to watch the freakin longest and most unorganized lion-dance i've ever seen. to think that i almost fell asleep during the 45 minute ordeal is saying enough.
Although i didnt actually get 2 whole days, but if ever visitors would come again, these would probably be my main choices :-
day 1
1. Breakfeast at nirwana's Bangsar (or Raju's tho the service is sooo friggin fan-fuckin-tastic slow)
2. Sungai Wang! Pirated stuff arrrr matey!
3. low yat for tech-geeks alike (wow ! everything's so cheap in malaysia...peh. yea right.)
4. KLCC (for the twin towers obviously, not for the shopping complex)
5. Dinner ( it'd probably depends on how we feel after having banana leaf)
6. pasar malam, or chinatown, whichever possible.
7. yum cha session (obviously! :D)
day 2
1. chinese style breakfeast (like lil dim sum place or something, unless the visitors are from hong kong or china....then we're having nasi lemak!)
2. check out kl tower, or muzium negara or some other sight seeing shit place.
3. something recreational (like bowling, or a movie, or some shit like that)
4. Dinner! assuming we had simple road side jalan alor food or similar, i'd go for a proper restaurant dinner. like italianis or chillis or something heheh. or for the ang mor crowd, tandoori chicken naan ?)
5. chill out-i feel its important to do some proper sit-down chit-chatting while inviting some other friends along, while having drinks or desert or coffee or whatever.
if u've actually had the patience to read this far, u'd notice that i didn't include shopping malls (except sungai wang) as an agenda. Why? well, its totally up to you i guess..but for me, i just figured that malaysia being a third-world country and all, tourist would want to see third-world country sight-seeing stuff. not our largest shopping complex, or what how superiorly hot our underground car parks can get. from experience as well, the japanese have probably more hard malls with built in laser guns and shit. *shy. but of course, that's only my 2 cents worth opinion. Anyone interested in discussing this topic further? let's do this Starbucks sunday evening...hehe.
last thing: taken from suilin's
(x) snuck out of the house
(x) gotten lost in your city
( ) seen a shooting star
(x) had a serious surgery
( ) gone out in public in your pajamas
( ) kissed a stranger
( ) hugged a stranger
(x) been in a fist fight(with a close friend actually haha)
( ) been arrested
(x) laughed and had milk/coke come out of your nose (tau cheong sui and kuih lapis)
(x) pushed all the buttons on an elevator
( ) swore at your parents
(x) been in love
(x) been close to love
(x) been to a casino
( ) been skydiving
(x) broken a bone
(x) been high
( ) skinny-dipped
(x) skipped school
( ) flashed someone
( ) saw a therapist
(x) played spin the bottle
(x) gotten stitches
(x) drank a whole gallon of milk in one hour—or water(how much is a gallon again?)
(x) bitten someone
( ) been to Disneyland
(x) gotten the chicken pox
(x) kissed a member of the same sex (no im not ghey)
( ) crashed into a friend's car
( ) been to Japan
(x) ridden in a taxi
(x) shoplifted
( ) been fired
( ) had a crush on someone of the same sex
(x) had feelings for someone who didn't have them back
( ) stolen something from your job (does freebies count? if yes then 'X')
( ) gone on a blind date
(x) lied to a friend
( ) had a crush on a teacher
( ) celebrated Mardi Gras in New Orleans
(x) been to Europe
(x) slept with a co-worker(yeah,all 3 of them. guys.oh u mean sex? no then.)
( ) been married
( ) gotten divorced
( ) had children
( ) seen someone die (no, but a few aftermath cases)
( ) had a close friend die
(x) Driven over 400 miles in one day (probably more)
( ) Been to Africa
( ) Been to Canada
( ) Been to Mexico
( ) Been to Thailand
(x) Been on a plane
( ) Seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show (what the hell is that)
(x) Thrown up in a bar
(x) Purposely set a part of myself on fire (wait, to what degree?)
(x) Eaten Sushi
( ) Been snowboarding
(x) Met someone in person from the internet
( ) Lost a child
(x) Been skateboarding
( ) Gone to college
( ) Graduated college
( ) done hard drugs
(x) tried killing (cockroaches, mosquitoes and lizards)
(x) purposely hurt yourself (yea, bb guns hurt..alot)
(x) taken painkillers
(x) miss someone right now
guess im really making for all those times not spent bloggin huh ...jhahaha
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