Phantom ShoZU post strikes again

January 28, 2008 at 11:17 pm | In Urbanista | 1 Comment

Posted by ShoZuSince ShoZu is taking the liberty of posting on mynokiablog without my saying so, I might as well write something myself.

I’m at  KL terminal 1 airport lounge heading off to Bangkok, then to Koh Samui. Total of about 5 hours travelling.  For those who don’t know, it’s a bit like travelling to Glasgow from London to get to Brighton (it’s closer to London)

I’m guessing it’s more to do with difficulty booking tickets rather than intentionally having to go via Bangkok first.

Next stop, Koh Samui

January 28, 2008 at 7:29 pm | In Event, Urbanista | No Comments

Posted by ShoZu

Off to the airport again in a few hours, this time to Koh Samui (via Bangkok)

So earlier today, I found my way to the Menara tower, the 4th tallest tower in the world, so it was easy enough without any bearing or knowledge of the area to find it. Just keep heading in the direction off the massive tower. I did though manage to find myself in places where it somehow just disappeared, but I eventually did find it.

Posted by ShoZu

With some confidence in getting to the Menara by foot, I thought I could do the same with getting to China town. This time though, I did use Nokia maps, which downloaded the Kuala Lumpur area over the air and allowed me to sort of find my way around (mainly used it to check I was going South East). Thankfully, even with ShoZu, Sports Tracker, Maps, Camera all on simultaneously, the N82 managed to handle them without me having to worry about too much multi tasking. Came across a film crew on the way. . . I tried to think of positive thoughts in NOT succumbing to getting a taxi driver to just bring me to China town, like “I probably would have missed that weren’t I on foot.”

SO..I kept on looking for China town, getting frustrated that the Maps app wasn’t correlating with the printed map I got from reception the longer I didn’t see the buzzing China Town scene. A girl waiting for a bus was kind enough to tell me where I was on the printed map, so I could make my way to China Town (It was on the printed one only). I showed her a picture I had taken of my last known location and Amazingly she said that was China Town. Haha, I had been there and never knew it. I just assumed it was the streets leading up to a big Chinese Town that I had seen in movies.

Followed the monorail track for most of the way back, eventually getting on it so I could get to the hotel quicker. The last station was still about 40 minutes away from the hotel and I just happened to be on the longest stretch of road where Taxis couldn’t stop.

It’s been an amazing two days here in KL. I just couldn’t get over the breathtaking architecture they have here. Not just because they’re tall like the Menara and Petronas Towers, but their shape and form is exquisitely captivating, you just can’t help but stare in amazement of their design.

As I’ve said, next on the list is Koh Samui. I’ll finish off packing my things now and get this posted.

Btw Apologies for certain random pictures being uploaded with no next. ShoZu’s being a bit annoying there.

Menara Tower and Possibly China Town.

January 28, 2008 at 7:39 am | In Urbanista | No Comments

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Posted by ShoZu

Hey guys,

I’m inside the Menora tower’s Internet Cafe (Receptionist told me there’s no such thing in the whoole of Malaysia) posting this, as last night’s sports tracker upload went wrong. I spent some time selecting which photos to upload, deleting the ones I didn’t only to find out after a call with Christian that, well, not only have those been uploaded but there were also duplicates.

Apologies to the guys running the Nseries site, swarmed with all those pictures. It takes a while to sort them out on the sports tracker site as it isn’t the friendliest of interfaces. There should be an easier way to view a larger list of “workouts” and also to edit photos (perphaps something like the Facebook album interface?) I can only delete one at a time, and then wait for the whole page to load up again.

So, early morning Christian and I tried to do a podcast. He’s working on that at the moment and will be up some time. I really have time to sleep after that, so just stayed awake, watched an awful film called The Perfect Marriage, with the most peculiar looking lips from Sophie Gendron that just distracted you from the 1 microgram of plot the film musters. Breakfast was nice, except for this extremely salty paste I mistook for Tofu and thus bit a huge junk. Lack of sleep and perhaps a huge surge of sodium caused me to pass out till about 1pm where I made my way over to the Menara tower by foot. Apparently I almost missed it as the guard at the base said they close in 5 minutes, however the staff here say they are open till 10pm. Hmmm…

I’ll try to make my way over to China town by about 5pm. There’s not much of a “Beacon” to head towards like the tower (No directions needed, very much like a visual compass/poles thing going on there).

The picture here is uploaded from Shozu taken from the Observation Deck.

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