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# Malaysia Madness
Saturday was fine. Did practically nothing the whole day, which is a good thing, and then went for Hillsong concert at KLBC. What's that? I had no idea either. Where was it, in KL, duh...
Apparently in the heart of KL somewhere. Reached church first, said hello, there was this friend of Melissa. Melissa has changed even. I mean, the Melissa i knew was Mei Ling's sis, but now it's Sheryl's. Anyway, we had a little discussion adn soon were off to i-don't-know-where.
And we ate at i-don't-know-where too. Some Thai place APPARENTLY, but their fried kuey teow betrayed them. Or i have been spoilt by great Thai food, courtesy of Jean. I don't know, but it was so not worth it. RM7 for a plate of fried kuey teow which stayed in my breath for the whole night.. at least i think.. Yup. It also served insane RM15 Tom Yam soup, which was apparently nice, with some crab leftovers in it. Yup, the pieces look like they have alraedy been crushed by some other guy's hammer and thrown into the soup. But it was good apparently and some people were melting from drinking it.
Soon we went over from the allegedly "Thai" restaurant and into KLBC. Kuala Lumpur Baptist Church for the uninformed (aka ME). Along some Jalan Alor in KL, which is apparently (notice i use apparently a lot? That's cuz all i know is what other's say, cuz? I DON'T KNOW KL!) a famous place to makan.
So we went in, waited for Christine and Vee Nee to arrive but they were a little late, so we went in first. Oh, gripe of the day, they were selling All of the Above at only RM33. That's about $5 cheaper than what i bought it for.. But at least i love the album!! Point of Difference still rocks!
The auditorium was rather small.. or was it cramp? I dunno. EXPO CHC spoilt me i guess. The quality wasn't too good either, but then again, CHC must have spoilt me. So all it was that night was praise and worship, with one short testimony and an offering that seemed out of place.
Met Chi Yee, as shall I say David there. Who's right now, doing i dunno what since he's graduated from St John's (Form 6) The band was ok, but it didn't really go into full blast i guess? Or some would put it as "it didn't take off" Only one song from All of the Above, without the crazy electric guitar part (which i've come to love) it was Hosanna. The rest were from United We Stand, Mighty to Save or albums from time unknown. One Way is still their hit song. This Hillsong team needs an update! Hehe.
But what i learnt is that i need to teach myself that it shouldn't be about the songs. Yup. Remind myself that.
After the concert, we left, but it got me thinking a little how Malaysia is so different from SG.
Malaysia in.. erm... Red?
Singapore in white? haha
It's cheaper to go by car to an event
The only logical way to an event is by public transport
People queue to get into events
People queue to get out once it finishes
Life starts after 10 (for the average mamak goer)
Night ends at 10 (everything closes down)
Not totally related to the event
A movie costs RM8 (Ocean's 13)
It's $7.50 if you're lucky
A can of drink here is RM1.60
It's $1.10?
KFC rocks
KFC pebbles
I love my friends and miss them!
I love my friends and miss them!
I love my friends and miss them!
Okay, i'll fast forward to Sunday. Reunion. Just about the time we were supposed to go out, it started to rain. Not only did Shaun come back from the UK, he must have brought the weather along cuz it rained cats, dogs, the night safari, and every other animal in africa. It was so bad, the water rose to my doorstep within 30 seconds. So if you're reading this blogpost, by the end of the next paragraph (if u read as slow as me), your ankle would be covered in water already.
And as if the rain wasn't bad enough, my handphone credit has expired. So yeah, pretty much all alone, communication wise. So i jz waited and finally Yeo came, and i swam to his car while avoiding random floating items. Hopefully none of them were mine. Reached there and went to Poh Lynn's house. Poh Lynn, if you're reading this, i don't know why the meeting point was outside your house, but that's where we met Shaun, or his Nissan technically... technically speaking, it's his mom's Nissan, but not the point. And by now, you'd be drowning in that Malaysian rain.
Okay, from May Lynn's house (they're twins) we set off for Kanna Curry House. Funny name i know, but it's a mamak and the waiter's have name tags. LOlz. Ok, to my surprise, Jamie was there, with Chia Ling, and long lost friend, Jolene. So long and lost i forgot when was the last time i saw her.
See Tho, Dom and I had umbrellas but Shaun and Michelle didn't so we offered to shelter them to Kanna. When we reached, we were quite wet anyway but we soon got down to being ourselves. After 30 minutes or so into the conversation, we start to introduce Michelle to each other. Or rather, Shaun did to those other than c2 and JL.
We had a rather nice time, found out Jolene's doing Food Science in Monash (which i had to embarrassingly ask to find out its in Sunway), Michelle's in HELP, doing some Commerce course. We've concluded business is for men. Commerce is for women.
Interesting bit of conversation, Jolene's phone decided to take a swim so she had to get a new one (apart from her bag which can now double as a water bottle since it drowned her old phone). But unknowingly for Jolene, the phone has a bimbo curse on it and some of it has passed on to Michelle. Haha. And of course Jolene herself was in the below average ranking for brightness today as she struggled to find the camera on her phone. Not the button, the actual camera. How? Go figure... No.. i think u wouldn't be able too. Haha.
Soon, after lots of crap talking and Shaun having to down a Masala Milk, we paid the bill which was not carefully done so we were charged one plate of fried sotong and one drink less. Oh well, that's why we love mamak's ryte?
After mamak, went to C2's for Mahjong and poker. Interesting time of mahjong, i only won twice, but when i did, it was rather big, so i think i had the most money. Poker too, somehow i stayed out at the right times and did have enough money. But it was nice to see Michelle turn from almost broke to make JL the broke "Bangladeshi worker" (think building the wall) and finally the game ended with Shaun going bust first. Hmm.. he should have taken up Michelle's 10% interest per hour loan. Haha, girlfriend but still knows how to do business. Haha, commerce student what.. what to do ryte?
So after an interesting time of mahjong, in which we either taught, or confused Michelle, and poker with one tutorial round of blackjack, i come home, kick some GDI butt and blog here. Cool? Not quite.
Church camp tmr! Yaynesses!!Labels: Chia Ling, Dominic, Hillsong, Jamie, Jolene, Kanna Curry House, KLBC, mahjong, Michelle, poker, See Tho, Shaun, Yeo
the story ends like this;
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