Our time in
KL was a little different from the past weeks. Instead of sightseeing, we
pretty much stayed ‘close to home’ in order for Olive to have more concentrated
time to work on her thesis. This has paid off as the last time Olive Skype’d with her advisor, her advisor expressed amazement at the progress Olive has made, great feedback to
receive.
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| BlessingsHomestay - our home for a week in KL |
Our
accommodation in KL was with a Malaysian family. They have turned their home
into a guesthouse called 'BlessingsHomestay'. Their house, like all the ones we
saw on their street, had a remote-controlled front gate which opened into a
courtyard containing numerous potted plants and a metal chair swing. It also
had some lattices and trees that provided a fair degree of privacy, and a
covered area with ceiling fans overtop of a large table, ideal for Olive to sit
and work on her thesis and for us to enjoy our meals. We both felt a bit out of
sorts in KL, not anything to do with the country or accommodation but rather a
combination of dealing with some sort of virus and some fatigue after doing a
lot in Singapore. Other than the day mentioned below, we did not do much beyond
exploring the local neighborhood, called Bangsar, and its many eating-places. A
unique aspect of this house that we will remember was a central indoor
waterfall and a fishpond full of fish.
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| Sampling food at the Sunday Night Market |
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| We went from booth to booth to try their foods |
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| Lots of fried foods |
The day
that we did go out to do some sightseeing, we decided to splurge a bit. We jumped
into a taxi for a 15 minute ride downtown, grabbed lunch (2 platefuls of
chicken biriyani & 2 sprites), stopped at a barbershop so I could get a
haircut (an Indian barber who used a straight razor and included a head massage
with the cut), visited a dentist to get an assessment on a toothache, dropped
in at a roadside shop to each get a 30 minute back, neck & shoulder
massage, stopped at a pharmacy to pick up a large tube of ibuprofin cream (for
our aches & pains!), enjoyed coffee and dessert at Starbucks, browsed a
bookstore and bought a Sudoku puzzle book, walked through Chinatown and ordered
Chinese food for supper and lunch the next day, then took the skytrain back to
our place. In the evening when I added up the days expenses, the total came to
the equivalant of Cdn $75 for everything!
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| Strolling Chinatown on a rainy afternoon |
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