It all started with a rainy day.

Huh?

Well.. what I mean is, our plan to go to KL started with a rainy day. Ching and I were bumming at Fong Seng and lamenting the lack of excitement during our term break. One thought led to another and suddenly we were going to KL! We dragged Sharon along and it was done J Arrangements were made at the “fragrant” Golden Mile Complex and off we went, the week after.

Here we are, the first photograph of the trip. Just completed our bak kut the breakfast on the first morning of our arrival.

This was one of the several twin tower photos I took, while waiting in the dreaded traffic.

Petronas Dreamin’

I’ve no idea why, but I had this fascination with the Petronas Towers.. it was really odd, because everywhere I was, wherever the twin towers were in sight, I’d try my darndest to take a picture of them. Very odd. Guess I was hoping to capture Catherine Zeta-Jones hanging on for dear life there. Odd.

Anyway, how could I *possibly* leave KL without taking a photo against it? Even though we didn’t manage to visit the towers itself, I was satisfied with this shot taken at the KL Towers, also an impressively tall building.

corn, red bean or coconut?

The smoggy look in the scenery of Klang (left) is probably a result of the overnight fireworks display that had taken place virtually throughout the entire skyline you see.

The mosque on the left was taken just because it looked nice.. we just stopped at the petrol station for 2 minutes, snapped and left.

Molly… (hope I remembered your name correctly)

As you can see for yourself, we were all fussing over this adorable mutt, which supposedly resembles an equally adorable (except for in the Scooby movie) Scrappy Doo. For a non-dog lover like myself, Molly was a wonderful representative for the dog species. She’s simply irresistible!

That’s the end of our journey.. Last photograph of the trip taken while waiting in the train at the KL Central Station (where the Amazing Racers were!). It had been a good, relaxing trip aided greatly by tremendously hospitable hosts. *thanks*

My verdict for this trip: Overall good. Things cost relatively less over in the Malaysian capital but there were many things we probably weren’t accustomed to. Buildings and some practises like the pasar malam were common in Singapore, but it had a different air in KL. Perhaps it was that there were more cars on the road, a different spoken language. Or that it just wasn’t home.

Oh yes, a tip for future travellers between Singapore and Malaysia. If possible, take a coach to travel between the two countries. While the scenery may not be anything to shout about on the coaches, it was much faster than the miserably long train ride. We took a 2pm train from KL and arrived in Tanjong Pagar at 12 midnight.. it took 10 hours because of the crawling pace the train was moving at as well as the long, unexplained breaks at stations. Perhaps if we were more proficient in Malay it would have helped, however we weren’t. So, my advice is, take a coach.