Finally I get around to showing some pictures,

It occurred to me today that there aren't a great deal of pictures of KL on my blog.
So to give you all a general idea of the city and it' surroundings I've gone through mine and Vanessas pictures to find some of the more realistic jobbies.

My brain is a little bit too fried from staring at computer screens all week to go into great detail about recent events - well in fact the ajority of it has been being stuck in a little aircon edit suite fixing a TV movie to make it nice. A lot of brain bleeding fine tuning has been going on, and it's taken ages.

(On a side note, I can hear the newspaper recycling man coming down the street - he's got a little rubber horn on his truck that goes Hoh-hee-hoh-hee-hoh-heee and a looped tape, in a very jolly indian accent that goes "all paper, paper lama, old battrie, bettrie lama" hoh-hee-hoh-hee-hoh-hee.
It's a pretty disinctive sound of KL, these guys go all over town and collect recyclables I'll try and record him sometime and put the MP3 on here.)

So these top pictures are all taken around the Chinatown part of the centre, it's a nice mash up of old shop houses, some British colonial style stuff and lots of big new sleek towers. The big shame is that most of this area is very badly maintained, it's dirty with the scuzz of air pollution (from buses, cars and the haze that drifts over from Indonesia when they burn great tracts of rainforest to make pasture land for burger companies).
This is the primary area where tourists come and stay, it's full of dirty rotten guest houses with cockroaches and smells to make you gag - which makes backpackers feel like they are having a truely "authentic asian experience". Hmm, not quite necessary in KL which is basically a first world city where nice hotels don't cost very much at all. But that's how it goes with the Apex-supersaver round the world ticket and the gap year round the world traveller, in order to be origional and have your own special authentic travellers experience you have to do exactly what everybody else is doing. That's why people read the lonely planet, to make sure that they have an origional and fun time without ever having to think for themselves.
Anyway, rant over back to KL.

The ariel shot is taken from the top of the KL tower (which is you typical tall tower constructed for tourists and phone companies) which looks like a big pinapple on a stick. It comes with obligatory revolving restaurant on top.
At night it looks like a big pinapple covered in fairy lights.

You can actually have a short elephant ride at the bottom of the tower, which is a bit odd cos I don't rekon malaysia has any elephants, but there you have it.


On the mid/top right you can see a brown bulding with two big towers poking up - this is Berjaya Times Square (near to Bukit Bintang). It's an enormous shopping centre. I only mention it because it's got a theme park inside it too. You can go on one rollercoaster which cruises above all the shoppers walking 2 floors below you with all their purchases.







This is just some bird that got in the way of a nice photo.












How sweet and innocent Malaysia can seem sometimes. No kissing in the park.
Ahhhhh.
Isn't that quaint and just a little bit backwards.

It's a wonder how the populace perpetuates itself isn't it.

Well a girl is born with a special flower, and when she is married she gives that special flower to her husband.

(This sign could also be a warning to people with bad hair-dos from going out in public.

After taking this photo I gave Vanessa a peck on the cheek. Aren't I such a rebel
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