...continuation

1/15/08
12nn
my current location: hotel room, sutera harbour

im supposed to check-out now, but i was allowed to do a late check-out as requested. thanks to bridget! im thinking of requesting for a later check-out, coz i just learned my flight's delayed for an hour and a quarter. i hate waiting at the airport. so anyway, im just gonna write about the holiday.

i know this is supposed to be the continuation of the previous blog, but a lot have happened since, that i dont think i can do the same format. it's just crazy! ok, let me try.

Day 1 / Night

After dinner, I decided to experience the night life in KK. The lodge owner recommended 3 bars. Shennanigans (the bar of Hyatt Hotel), Cocoon (just across Hyatt) and another bar (I forgot what it's called, but about 10 mins walk from Cocoon. Shennanigans was just alright. Just buy a drink from the entrance and you can get in. Band is ok. Cocoon is the same thing, but I think they had better band that nite. Not as crowded as Shennanigans but after what happened to my mobile phone in Embassy ... I dont think I wanna be in a crowded place. I probably spent an hour in Cocoon, enjoyed the music, had a little chitchat with the bar owner. He's Malay/Indian I think and he went to me coz he thinks I'm not a local and he's glad that I chose the bar. He made me feel really welcome, which was very nice. I think it's my hair. I love my hair!... hahaha!!! Then I hopped to the other bar. Here, I gotta pay 20MYR and when i finished paying ... he handed me a stub and a calendar .. with a boy in it. Only then that I realized it was a gay bar. I still went in to get my 20MYR back so I ordered a soda .. I cant get drunk in a place like that. Good thing there was a contest going on ... some silly talent show, so everyone's attention is to the contestants. I stood beside a table of 2 european blondes who were enjoying the funny antics of the fat gay people on stage. Then she talked to me to share how much she's enjoying it. I just nodded and whispered to her ear a question: is this a gay bar? ... hahaha!!! i think i was there for about 10 mins when she told me she and her friend are gonna go out to get some midnite food, so i took the opportunity to ask whether i could go with them. that was my escape! we ended up hanging out in waterfront and talked for about an hour about lots of things. these 2 women were so cool! they're about early 30's i guess. one was from wales, a nurse, and the other one was from ireland, a radiographer. it was fun hanging out with them, and i wish i had taken a photo, but my phone ran out of battery. we talked about the desperate housewives' comment about filipinos in the medical field, which they both think is very rude and out of line. since they're both in the medical field, they know how much contribution filipinos give to the field. we talked about krispy kreme. politics. sabah. diving. probably the highlight of the nite was when they found out im filipino coz all the while they thought i was from south america. hahaha! again, i think it's the hair!

HAHAHA!!!

After the midnite snack, they both wanted to go back to the other bar to check who won the contest, but I decided to pass and call it a nite. It was cool to have had the opportunity to hang out and chitchat with 2 european chicks in a foreign country. When I was walking back to the lodge, I was thinking and realizing that getting up and talking to a chick isnt really that hard.

My holiday was starting well ... :)

...more next time.