Malagaysia

1/52 WEEK PROJECT - Malaysia:


We went on a tour of Malaysia with some other HongKongers (through one of those touring companies (because it's cheaper)) on the holidays; THE FIRST WEEK OF 2012 :D Each day had an amazing amount of food which was good. Asian food is always better, seriously. And cheaper (HK$8 = AU$1!! edit: hk food is approximately AU$4 per meal (assuming equivalent serving size)).

Anyway, it was a great experience...mostly eating but I was very relaxing. Learnt that Malaysians are..."lazy" as the tour guide called it. Everything's really chill and relaxing...she told us not to worry if they took a while to do things; it's so hot everyone just wants to have some major siestas. (apparently Spain or something is like this too!) Having the ability of just letting things run their course and not worrying too much seems like a good thing - I'm adopting that ASAP.


scumbag tour guide story: she brought us to this place where we were going to eat some spicy malaysian stuff. she told us the equivalent in Chinese of "When in Rome, do as the Romans do!"...and that all Malaysians eat with their hands and that there wouldn't be cutlery. She taught us the way to smoosh the rice up and mop up the curry and chicken and whatever. Everyone was like 'LOL okay let's try it'. When we get there, there are two small basins to wash hands; everyone lines up. We get to the tables.

There's. Cutlery. On. The. Table. No-one used their hands to eat. LOL. Damn tour guide...anyway now TO THE PHOTOS


Apologies for the poor quality of the photos; I used my iPhone for everything...the rest of my family used actual real cameras :(

 IT'S A WING OF A PLANE. the clouds look pretty. PRETTY HANDSOME HURHURHUR oh wait I'm not trying to hit on my readers. anyway...

 ONE MAN. ONE PHOTOGRAPH. STRADDLING THE WORLDS OF SKY AND FIELD.

(ps It's my dad being pensive. The fields have these things called 'Fire Dragon Fruit' (PRETTY COOL RIGHT) and they're really sweet, but making everything red. the colour goes EVERYWHERE (hands, lips, shirt, piss etc)

View from the 5-star hotel lobby. SO DAMN RELAXING and my sister and I splashed around in the pool being kids again just for a bit :) Also the breakfast buffet was quite nice.

PROUD THAT I CAN UNDERSTAND THIS. lol malaynglish

 Cool story: The head of this village had 4 wives and had 18+ CHILDREN with them (not each of them!), at least 10 with the first one. He's allowed 4 because he's Islamic so it's okay. We all got to meet up with him and drink some sour tea. Anyway this picture depicts the house we were in. THEY MOVED THE ENTIRE BUILDING BECAUSE IT WAS DAMAGED SOMEWHERE ELSE. LIKE. THE WHOLE THING. ON BAMBOO STICKS. major ridic.

awesome cat don't need yo company

IT'S A COCONUT GET IN THE CAR

 I do not like durian. My mother + aunt + grandmother do. They bought a lot and ate it all. SAH SMELLY :(

 CHICKEN IN A BUN. (they wrap a chicken curry in foil inside the bun. didn't get a picture of that as I was too busy nomming everything. EVERYTHING) Seriously try this if you're going there.