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Published: July 15th 2007
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Me and Larry left the jungle as expected.
Since the last week ahs been a city blur, i amthrowin together one blog !
first off Kuala Lumpur. Simple. Big city, not bad to be honest it didnt really have any effect on me at all. best thing about it was that we stayed in China Town, ate some great satay, bbq pork and rice ! thats it really, walked all around, but spent most of our time at Petronas Towers. Not that we wanted to, just kinda ended up there from day to day.
So the architecture of it ..... Petronas to me is uninteresting, about the only thing interesting about it is the fact that its so tall, but after that its pretty dull really. You know they talk about the great use of classic muslim design on it ..... my comment back ....'maby thats whats soo wrong with the architecture of dubai'. anyway enough about that !
second off singapore .....
Singapore .... what to say about singapore .... I HATE IT !!! .... there i said it i bloody well didnt like it, if people want to know where the bigggest shopping
mall is its this city, not in the city, the whole f***ing place is one big mall ! everrywhere is linked by horrid mall's ..... ansd as you can tell i am probably going to go off on a rant right now !
MY RANT ABOUT SINGAPORE ! (i am using capital letters because i have had a shit day!)
BEFORE YOU GET TO SINGAPORE YOU HEAR ABOUT HOW BEAUTIFUL IT IS AND HOW CLEAN AND SAFE BLAH BLAH IT IS. AND IF YOU READ SCARY PLANET (formerly lonely planet) YOU ARE WARNED ABOUT HOW STRICT IT IS. BEFORE I CAME HERE I POSTED SOME COPIED DVD'S OFF TO OZ CAUSE I HAD SOME DODGY SOFTWARE AND MOVIES I PICKED UP ALONG THE WAY. WHY DID I DO THIS YOU MAY ASK ! WELL IT'S ILLEGAL TO BRING PIRATED DVD'S INTO SINGAPORE AND THE PENALTY IS STEEP ($200/DVD). NOW GET THIS IS YOU BRING IN PORNO DVD'S YA CAN GET THE DEATH PENALTY ...... NO SHIT, I WAS READING ABOUT SOME POOR NIGERIAN GUY WHO WAS BRINGIN IN A FEW HUNDRED PORNO DVD'S IN AND HE WAS CAUGHT (they have sniffer dogs here that can smell them !
dont ask how ! google it). NOW THAT POOR BASTARD GOT THE DEATH PENALTY, EVEN WITH PLEAS FROM THE NIGERIAN EMBASSY ETC. LOOKIN FOR A BIT OF LEINANCY. NOW YOU MIGHT THINK THAT THE COUNTRY MUST BE QUITE CONSERVATIVE ...... YES YOU MIGHT THINK SO, BUT THEY ARE JUST AS DIRTY MINDED AND FILTHY AS THE REST OF US ! MABY EVEN MORE SO ! I HAVE NEVER BEEN TO A CITY WHERE MOST ALL THE HOTELS OFFER 'TRANSIT' TIME WHERE YOU CAN PAY FOR THE ROOM BY THE HOUR ! THIS PLACE MAKES ME SICK, NOT BECAUSE OF ITS VICES, BUT BECAUSE OF THE HYPORCRISY (no spell check).
THE CITY IS CLEAN, BUT IT HAS NO CHARACTER, NOW FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO ARGUE THAT SHOPPING MALLS ARE THE NEW FORM OF MARKET !, BULLSHIT THERE AINT NO MOM AND POP STALLS/SHOPS AND IF MOM AND POP OWN THEM, THEY SURE AS F*CK DONT WORK THERE ! THE CITY IS LIFELESS, AND DULL, EVERYWHERE LOOKS THE SAME, ARCHITECTURALLY I SPOTTED ONLY ONE OR TWO BUILDINGS I LIKED.
I WAS TRYING TO USE A METAPHOR FOR WHAT I THINK THE CITY IS, I WAS TRYING TO LIKEN IT
TO A TYPE OF PERSON. AT FIRST I THOUGH IT WAS 'YOU KNOW' THAT GIRL AT THE PARTY, WHO IS GOOD LOOKIN, BUT WEARS TOO MUCH MAKE UP, AND YEAH YOU MIGHT GET OFF WITH HER, HAVE A GOOD TIME BUT UTTERLY SHE AINT INTERESTING ENOUGH TO STAY WITH ! BUT NO ..... THATS NOT SINGAPORE. I KNOW WHO SINGAPORE IS.
SINGAPORE IS .... 'THAT GUY' YOU WENT TO SCHOOL WITH. THE GUY WHO WAS FAIRLY GOOD IN SCHOOL, GOT GOOD GRADES, BUT WASNT VERY CREATIVE, NEVER GOT INTO TROUBLE BY THE TEACHER, WAS A BIT OF A NERD, AND WAS NEITHER HATED OR LIKED ........ HE WAS THE GUY YOU HATED, BUT IF YOU LISTED OUT THE REASONS YOU HATED HIM, THEY SEEMED PETTY ! ANY WAY THATS SINGAPORE. I HATE IT, BUT LISTING THE REASONS SOUND PETTY, THE CITY WORKS (works well), IT LOOKS GOOD (a little too good, too clean). ANYWAY THATS WHO I THINK SINGAPORE IS.
So my rant is over, i think. what did i do here .... not much, as i said the place is like one big mall, and is generally quite uninteresting. prices are the same as back in oz,
which is shit cause our budget is real small now ! Larry is pissed off with me cause i ordered too much for dinner and it came to $50 (singapore dollars) all up. Hey It wasnt my intention to spend that much, the only extra i ordered was bombay potatoe and a portion of onion baji ! anyway she is in a mood tonight, and i am sure i wont hear the end of it.
In fact all day we have been getting on each others tits ! the sight on her was annoyin me earlier on, but since i was bold at dinner (for ordering so much) i cant be angry. I dont get it, 2 people can never be as angry as each other at the same time ..... well this time its larry.
anyway movin on ..... rapidly !
The only redeeming quality for singapore as far as i can see is 'Little India'. Larry hates it, but i cant go into details, just ask her under her comments ! ( here her link to her site www.travelblog.org/bloggers/larros ) Anyway i think little india is great. its the only dirty'ish part of town, its
overcrowded, the food is great and it doesnt feel like your eating in a bloody mcdonalds (as all the other places make you feel). We are staying in a hostel in little india called the 'prince of wales'. its pretty much one of the cheapest places in town. also which is kinda surreal, they show episodes of 'father ted'. The guy that owns the place is aussie. he asked me if i had seen it before, i said ya. he was curious why they never made any more episodes ...... i had to break the news to him that Dermot Morgan (father ted) was dead in real life ! christ the guy is dead almost 10 years ! anyway ! the place is good anyway, has air con, and is clean so no worries there.
well tomorrow we get the hell outa this place, and are on our way to indonesia.
first stop sumatra !
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i hope u never go to tokyo ruairi!!! did ya see the awesome cars these people get around in tho???