After barely catching enough sleep due to the change in time zones, I was to go with Jo Ann and her friends to Batu Caves for the day. She came to fetch me from my hostel at around 7am and then gathered everyone else up. I became acquainted with Aqid and Afiz, and of course, Faizal again, and the first thing we all did was head for breakfast. We had local food, of course - something called nasi lemak, with beef rendang and teh tarik. Pretty spicy and delicious. Then we went to the Batu Caves, which was truly amazing stuff. There was this temple to the side where we had to take our shoes off to enter. Surrounding the place also, were monkeys. I had never seen monkeys like that on the street before, I
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