Malaysia collection

I am not a photographer, but like to take photos, and print them out. I did a collection of this Malaysian trip. Share with everyone. 

Capitalist Pleasures

Third week in Malaysia, I have got used to the heat, crowds, risk of being bitten by mosquitoes, and partying every day! 

Malaysia is not always 35 degrees, if you get up very early about 6 am, then you can have two hours of cool weather before the day actually starts. I find, Malaysian people have the habit of wandering around in shopping malls, they  don't actually go there for shopping, but because it is full of extremely cold air conditioners; lots of food in case they get hungry and it also a place for socializing, fun and pretty much everything. 

This special shopping mall-centred consumption brings many various businesses located in shopping malls, like rock climbing centres, video game arcades, cafes, bars, Karaoke, ice skating, roller coasters, roller skating, sandy beaches and concerts.....This shopping mall centred life is very exotic for travelers, apart from the heat and food. 

Bookstores are the part of life Malaysian people usually miss, up on the top of KLCC, there is a Japenese bookstore, full of Malay books, English books and Chinese books. Interestingly, the Chinese books displayed in the Chinese language area are imported from Taiwan and Hong Kong and those politics books on the shelf are the ones which are banned in mainland China. 

MA Lai si yaaaa

I am trying to make a lovely story about this Malaysia trip,  but unfortunately, things are not quite come in the way I expected. Every day unexpected things occur, besides this bloody hot, greasy, sticky weather, minds not work properly.  I did have wonderful Roti Canai, shopping, lime juice, nothing to complain, but no matter what you have experienced, there is something wrong.

unexpected numbers of traffic cones in front of a toll station

Roti Canai, Malaysian adapted Indian bread, crispy, dig with curry sauce, normal restaurants offer two types of sauce, one is normal, one is spicy, better roti canai restaurants offer more than two. 

To eat roti canai, you must order lime water too! Little green lime much much smaller than normal egg-sized lime, Malaysian lime is like eye-ball size;-)  

A huge commercial "sculpture" thing standing in between the high ways. 

Mega Mall, so called the biggest shopping centre in Asia, or maybe South Asian. The most impressive thing of this shopping mall is not the mall itself, but the parking spaces, Zone ABCDEF, each one has four floors(underground), end up thousands of thousands of cars parking inside. I went there during the lunch time in middle of the work day, and had to park at the bottom bottom floor.

Shopping mall is busy, the gaming area at the top floor is really amazing! Full of adults.

Oh by the way, be careful of the mosquitoes!!!

A panic travel, panic drinking and a panic shop

Something about China, okay, how about supermarket?

I landed in Malaysia this Thursday,  ran for a party on Friday night, nearly passed out, it was DJ David Guetta, we drove one and half hour to Sepang F1 International Circus in KL(the way people call kuala lumpur)  I was desperate to toilet that had to get into the nearer male restroom  as we all drank something in car already, which turned out to be a normal thing in KL, if you are desperate for something, you can do it just because KL. It is an amazing city, which 70% Malay, 30% Chinese and Indians. However Friday night, there are more rich students from Middle East than us(Chinese, Indian, Londoners)

3am, as it said to be finished on ticket, ended just on time. When 7 of us walked drunkly to the cars, a lady found out she had lost her Prada purse, well honestly no one had seen she taken it out the whole night, and no one had a clue why, how and where it happened. So this lady ran back, searched everywhere with hopes, came back empty handed. I hope she could find it maybe in her room that she might forget to bring it with her, but some other friends say, better she never finds it, otherwise I will hate her, wasted 2 hours to search the whole stadium including the bins!

Arrived home just before the sun rising, 6am! Oh dear, with hang over, I need food, so I ran to the little supermarket close to where I live(finally supermarket!)  Malaysian supermarket may be a bit different the ones in China. There are Tesco, 7-11,Carrefore, so it’s more combined all. Well in Beijing where I live, Carrefore is more popular, Wal-Mart is huge, 7-11 only in certain places such as westernised apartment compounds, or SOHO(where a lot of companies locaed).  Same as British supermarket, Chinese supermarkets have the same arrangement, but we have more counters that the chefs are cooking and selling. Counters sells sea food as well.Oh gosh that area smells fishy! Supermarket in Shanghai are very westernised, because Shanghai is not too much China, it is probably the most westernised city in China. You can find Japanese supermarket, Chinese supermarket, and purely western supermarket as well, price is a bit higher but food are the ones you can find in UK, exactly the same, sweeties, cheese, tomato soup tins, ketch up, even bread.

Different things, I would say there are two main differences, first one is there is always an area selling western imported food in Chinese supermarkets, cheese, snacks, etc. Second difference is supermarkets in China are always busy, and sometimes can be very crowded, have you seen trolley jam? Well you can see it every supermarket at weekends in China. Last year, crowds rushed into supermarkets and bought all salts, in whole China, I bet they are still storage them somewhere at homes.

Chinese panic-buy salt over Japan nuclear threat

Beijing supermarkets run out of salt after false rumours circulate that iodised salt can help ward off radiation poisoning

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/17/chinese-panic-buy-salt-japan

Beijing subway crowds VS. London metro crowds

London metro can never beat Beijing subway crowds. I don't know what the exact difference between "metro" and "subway", we are used to call it subway in Beijing, and in london it's called metro or underground.

Above is Beijing subway every morning during the rush hours, probably from 7am to 10 am, and rush hours in the evening during 5pm to 7pm

It's 2 RMB for a ticket, about £0.2, no matter how long you take the train to.

Rush hours

In London metro, music players are quite good, passengers slow down to have a little bit relax.

Beijing has this.

and this

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