Wednesday, 7 November 2012

The Jouney Begins......


My adventure started at Heathrow terminal 4 where I checked into the business class lounge about 12. The check-in desk girl accidentally told me I was going to Manila which I found quite funny considering work did mention they might send me there at one point during my discussions of trying escape England. I was greatest by a cup tea and was the only one in the lounge. At around 1 the food came out and people must have been able to smell it as with 10 min it was starting to get busy. Full of quite charters its all a bit boring really. People just sat reading the paper or in their phones and Laptops avoiding eye contact at all costs. I feed on the posh free food whilst watching bargain hunt on the TV. I’m quite upset with myself though that I didn’t take the opportunity to have a complimentary massage by good looking French girl. Feeling a bit tired and extremely full from my 10 courses it took me a while to start on the free drink in the lounge. Too many spoilt kids floating around for my liking. Some people clearly earn too much money and over feed their kids with posh chocolate cake! The rich get richer, the rich also get fatter in my opinion. They should consider paying for a good gym membership and not that chocolate cake desert. Another thing I noticed was lots of chinos and matching Louis button bags going round. Anyway I sat there until 5 min before take-off when I boarded the plane and sat in my well…..bed as it goes.

The plane took off and I was immediately greeted with a bowl of nuts and orange juice with the option of a newspaper which I declined. I picked up the food and drinks menu and told myself I was going to go through the whole list but I only managed once meal and 10 whiskey and cokes. Annoyingly the guy in front of me had managed to start his film 2 min on the plane ahead of mine. My only hope was he would break before me and go to the toilet. Much to my disappointed he didn’t and I ended up fast forwarding mine by 5 minutes to get in front of him. I got through 3 films in the time it took to get to Dubai where we changed over.
I tried to sniff it to see but all I got was cool minty sneeze

As soon as I got of the plane you could feel the heat hit you. Again I rushed through to the lounge where I relaxed with a chicken biryani which was stupidly hot with no warning, guess I better get used to it. I also see my first toilet with a hosepipe and even now I’m still sure what really goes on with those things. Anyway back on the flight, feeling slightly drunk I decided to sleep but asked the flight attendant to wake me up before breakfast. Gutted they had sold out the Farmhouse so I had to have a blueberry pancake before touch down in KL.
So how does this work. Turns out ill be seeing many more of these but not quite as nice as this one
 

Getting off the plane I had a long journey to get to passport control at KL and my luggage. A short monorail journey and I made it. At which point I realised I didn’t change any money so I then proceeded to the cash exchange. Coming out of the airport I jumped into the taxi and asked for the meter. It should have been 80ringit but was 130 in the end to KL as somehow the taxi driver got lost for an hour trying to find my hotel. In the end after I first thought he was just running the meter up but he started to get quite pissed off which when I decided to phone my manager in KL and get him to give directions. Not really what you want on 5 hours sleep and boiling heat in a foreign country. Finally I got to the hotel, my apartment and passed out on the bed where I slept till 1pm the next day.
Clearly MILF has a different meaning in Malaysia!
 

 
Sunday was quite boring, I went for a walk round the shopping mall and tried to get my baring’s round central KL, which I managed to a point. I’m 30seconds walk from the strip of bars which is handy or maybe not so much for my liver. It turns out KL is quite a lively place in the evenings but expensive for a beer. Being a Muslim country I they don’t drink so they tax drink highly.  Experienced my first KL “shower“.  When it rains here it really rain and boy did it rain. Got soaked with no umbrella walking home to my apartment. Being the outgoing and willing to try anything I thought I would try some local cuisine so I sat down to a Subway followed by a KFC later in the day. I also managed to find the office building so I was ready to go in the morning…….or did I……………
A KL "shower"
 
 

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