There were two remaining points on my KL itinerary: Take pictures of the Petronius towers from the Skybar at the Traders Hotel and have dinner at the night market in K.G. Baharu. I did not manage either task but there still was adventure to be had. I did not think I was dressed well enough for the Skybar. My thongs and feet were filthy and my pants had soaked up so much dirty water from the batu caves that there was a ring around my caves. Besides from what ...

Last night I had a dream. My yard extended out, surrounded by a wooden fence with a large gate facing the rear of an adjacent home. I walked out of my home to find the gate open, giving me a view of the neighbor's yard. There was a kid playing on a red plastic slide. A moment later the son's father appeared holding what was clearly a dog chewed leather briefcase. He started berating me that my dog got into his basement and ate his $6000 bag. It was a collec...

I tried to make the 10:30 AM bus to the Cameron Highland but entering the bus station dripping with sweat, I was told that it was full and I had to wait two hours for the next bus. This gave me two hour less time in the Cameron highlands but afforded me two extra hours in the Penar bus station. It was just the opportunity to journal, try my first pit toilet in Asia and hunt for postcards in the second country without either a postcard shop or post office to be ...

For dinner it was back to Jalon Alor. Ana from the Lazat cooking school recommended that I go to Restoran Sun Chui Yuen (the only restaurant on the street with yellow table cloths) for dinner and try the chicken fish. Being sold by the kilo and not by the dish it may have been the most expensive thing on the menu. The host came by and was almost apologetic, presenting my with an 18 inch long fish with a massive racket sized head and telling me that though it w...

The Lazat (delicious in Malay) cooking school was about thirty minutes or so outside the center of KL, in a suburb of the Taman Tun District. Chris, my driver, picked me up promptly at 7:40 AM before heading to pick up my classmates at a much more posh hotel than the one I was staying. It was kind of funny but the cost of the class was 280 Ringit (about $90) and a night at my hotel was about a third of that. On the drive to the school we passed a skyscraper t...