We arrived in KL yesterday afternoon. The flight on Air Asia was was better than I expected. The plane, a brand new Airbus A300 was good. But for some strange reason Air Asia do not allocate you a seat number so the passengers were like a mob of wild animals fighting for the “best” seats. I didn’t really understand what the “best’ seats were, until we arrived in KL and had to join a l-o-n-g que to get through customs. (It took almost 1 hour!!!) So the “best” seats are at the ones right beside the door so you can get in the Customs line first. While sitting on the plane we heard a familiar voice. Loud, non-stop talking, and loud laughter…. who is that? I know! Sounds just like John Ngo! Same Malaysian Mandarin accent, same volume, same high speed talking… couldn’t be?!! And no it wasn’t, it was some middle aged Malaysian guy. Pity, ‘cos John could have shown us around KL and helped us do a bit of Real Estate Investment too!!!   hahaah…

Checked out the food stalls last night…. wonderful!! (All the Malaysians back at CCC are wishing they were here too…. food, foood, food.)

First impressions of K.L. Malaysia; The thing that strikes me about this place is that it is REALLY, REALLY Multi-cultural! Far more multi-cultural than HK, Thailand, China, or Taiwan. There are heaps of whites, blacks, Arabs, Indians, Asians….. (what else is there???) Every kind of people you can imagine are right here in the center of KL. It is also very multi-lingual. Today is a public holiday; Deepavali, an Indian festival. (Wouldn’t it be great to be a Malaysian, you can have Chinese, Christian, Muslim, and Hindu holidays!!! …….. I wonder if Atheists have holidays? Maybe another good reason not to be an Atheist!!! Nothing to celebrate!)

We are going to rest a bit here in KL. Have a few old friends to catch up with, so will introduce them to you soon. Here in Starbucks Malaysia you can get all day broad-band with your coffee, not like HK… they only give you 20 minutes, and then you have to pay. Got a pre-paid SIM card this morning, can you believe it, only RM$8.50, including RM$5.00 air time. (RM$8.50 is only NZ$4.20, which is sooooo cheap! But the NZ$ is sinking fast….. so sad for us!!) It took about 4 and a half minutes to get the SIM card and get connected to the cell-phone network, cheap, efficient, and fast… wonderful!!