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The best part of being in KL or Malaysia would be the food or the variety we could get even at odd hours. If you think about it, eating in KL isn’t that cheap anymore but who is to complain if you compare them with London. Inflation is hitting us badly huh… so whenever I travel and make the conversion back to our ringgits, its not that expensive eating out in places like Singapore or Hong Kong and even Japan - of course dont go to the hotel restaurants and order whale meat la… My point is that Malaysia isn’t cheap like it used to be and without the hawker stalls as our life savers, I will be broke!

Tribute to the many hawkers stalls in Malaysia - thank you for your effort and keeping the price affordable.

I had a friend from London come visit me a couple of days ago. My friend being single he wanted to see the sights & sound and also the Malaysian women. Me being me - I didn’t know where to take him apart from eating! Well basically when he first arrived and I picked him up from Sentral, we went to an indian restaurant at Sri Hartamas - Yatra. We had our tea and coffee and went back to my place to put his stuff.

At night, we headed to Bangsar as I thought its where the action would be and boy was I wrong - or was it just the ramadan month that is making the places so quiet. We walked around and had a couple of beer at some pub - can’t remember where but there wasn’t much of a crowd. We then had dinner at Madam Kwan and headed to Taman Tun Plaza (the new place with loads of pubs) - went to a couple of pubs - found that there was this particular pub where loads of older men doing funny stuffs with HOT HOT filipino waitress, so we picked a quiet pub or rather an empty pub and watched the Singaporean Grand Prix’s practice session. After that we headed for more drinks at Breakers at Sri Hartamas (some pool place with mainly teenagers in them). And before we headed home, we stop by Devi’s corner to have our roti canai and tea.

Day 2  - lunch at Devi’s Corner, Old Town kopitiam for tea and later went to Solaris for Japanese dinner - this shop serves pretty good ramen. After dinner we went to Masjid India (massive crowd - I think it was last minute shopping before the raya holidays), bumped into a pub cum indian restaurant at Dang Wangi - the owner was running a restaurant downstairs and illegally running a pub upstairs. Pretty dodgy but it was kinda fun - the pub upstairs had even a disco ball and an indonesian girl (who acts as a restaurant waitress in the afternoon, GRO at night) serving you.  Other than the dodgy-ness, people were friendly, owners were cool and later we headed to the Asian Heritage Square - On a saturday night this place is dead. We didn’t feel like paying cover charge to enter an empty place, we headed back to Sri Hartamas and decided to hang out at Black Hole - a couple of drinks later and after watching Man U win, we headed to Souled Out for more drinks…. and finally to Devi for late night makan…

Dont ask me about the rest of the days…. I didn’t really realise that KL is so boring. Unlike Bangkok or Jakarta or Singapore where the city is so lively! He didnt want to go to shopping centers - is there any other places to go other than shopping centres?

The last time he was here with his french gf - Sabine, we didnt do much as well - drink, smoke and be merry…

I bought a Belkin slim backpack for my notebook and I have never been so impressed with this bag. I never thought I would be buying a notebook bag that looks like a backpack. It feels like going back to secondary school carrying one of these but the backpack proved all my theories wrong.

The Belkin slim backpack is very practical, allowing me to lug my slim notebook, cables, mouse and other stuffs around with ease. The belkin has a lot of compartments and a pouch to put all my cables in place - exactly the way I like it. Overall it is a highly recommended backpack and moreover it looks good. Comes with different colours as well and I got mine for  RM160 - cheaper than most backpacks or notebook back.  I got it at lowyat.net from a friendly retailer. Highly recommended.

front view of the belkin slim backpack - nice colour eh?

Inside the belkin slim backpack. The part that protects the notebook is made of velvet. Real nice quality and feel. Compartments inside are well organised - I am able to put my pen, passport, cable pouch, mouse, etc and organise them really well.

Pouch that comes with the belkin backpack to organise your cables.

The back of the belkin slim backpack - highly padded strap and a slight curve on the back allowing air flow to your back.

Just an update that our Hero is now 4 months and 3 weeks - and also 19 kg. He has grown so fast…

Yes I also bought the Nikon D40 and I am currently learning on to use this DSLR camera. I am quite satisfied with it. Here is a picture I took…