Monday, October 31, 2005

Sorry

I apologise Josh that I haven't actually blogged anything to do with what i've actually been doing here in Malaysia yet but I just haven't had time to do a proper blog entry. I've been kept very busy in my time here. And right now, being midnight, I don't think I can face a big blog entry either. So i'll talk about some of the things i've done here so far other than the shadowing/helping out in the hospital.

So the food here has been excellent. I haven't yet found one thing I don't like. Oh and nick, they have a lot of Japanese owned supermarkets here it seems (well they may not have that many but I went to 2 in 3 days...........................bought Hello Pandas which made me happy! and pocky................ but I couldn't see any qoo). There are also A LOT of shopping centres which are all massive compared to Brent Cross. I've had some fun exploring those. I've even been to Ikea...................which was exactly the same as the London Ikea, but unfortunately I didn't see the ice cube table light there that I saw in London's Ikea and wanted to buy.

On Saturday morning I went to a market which was cool. It was quite different to the UK markets (I guess mainly because there was no one screaming at you to buy their produce). There was loads of fresh fruit, veg, fish and Malay sweets (which I enjoyed eating) amongst other things. But the markets don't seem too tall person friendly, the spiders above the fruit and veg stalls seemed to reside at eye level for me. I was however succesful in avoiding them.

I've seen a bit of KL from the car (such as the 2 tall towers) but have yet to explore it.

I did however explore the area around where i'm currently staying (I move into the flat next week after the festival called Hari Raya). I'll post pics from that tomorrow as I just spent half an hour uploading one pic and then the internet disconnected on me. So i'm too annoyed to try again now.

Saturday, October 29, 2005

Wise words of the Yam Yam.

These are what my yam yams (those breadsticks which you dip in chocolate) told me:

horse - gallop away!
duck - go for a swim!
mouse - do not be timid!
owl - only in the night!
elephant - jumbo!
rabbit - eat more carrot!
bat - only in the night! (hmmmmmmm I think my yam yams are getting lazy with their wise words)
snail - snail mail?
cow - muuuuuuu! (wow i thought cows went mooooooooooooo)
goat - you are lucky today!
cat - say meouw!
sheep - wool sweaters!

Wow, what an educational snack!

Friday, October 28, 2005

A walking, talking mosquito bite

One thing i've had confirmed, having been here for a few days, is i'm attractive...................unfortunately only to mosquitoes. So the title of this blog entry is my description of me currently.

Half an hour after leaving the airport I already discovered my first mosquito bite. Now I have them on my legs, feet, arms, shoulders and even 2 of my fingers (one finger even has 2 bites). And I have taken measures to combat the evil mosquitos. I guess i'll have to try harder. They're crafty buggers, I haven't actually noticed any of them yet.

But I already knew that one characteristic i'd inherited from my dad was a predisposition to mosquito bites (thanks dad), so it was kind of expected.

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Plane food

Ok, i'm not going to make this into a 'complaining about plane food' blog entry because everyone knows that plane food, in general, isn't good. But the food on the flight this time confused me.

I couldn't work out what a lot of it actually was. There was thin strips of yellow stuff which looks like it could have either been potato or some sort of weird shaped pasta, but it didn't seem to be either. Then there was chicken in some strange brown sauce. I've never tasted a sauce like it before (and thats not meant in a good way..............ok I guess I am complaining a bit here). And the 'salad' sidedish didn't have any vegetables in it. It was actually thin strips of ham and cheese with the odd gherkin thrown in (well I don't know if it was actually thrown in....................).

For breakfast there was an omelette surrounded on one side by some red sauce and on the other side some yellow sauce. Neither sauce tasted of anything so I don't know what it was.The omelette itself was ok. There was also a roll which was nice and a cake. I guess the cake was a carrot cake because it had strips of carrot in it. But it didn't taste of carrot. It tasted of coffee. And then there was a carrot on top, which I inititally thought was marzipan and therefore tried to eat, but it turned out to be plastic.

So anyway the food was definately interesting and provided me with something to think about on the journey (ie. what the food actually was). Can't say I dwelled too much on it though.

Woof!

On the 13 hour plane journey from Munich to Bangkok (I went from London to Munich, Munich to Bangkok and then Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur) a man in the seat to the left and one row in front of me got out a PSP and started playing it. In retaliation I decided to get out my DS.

In retrospect this wasn't the best idea. As soon as I started shouting out 'lie down!' and 'shake hands!' (to Helga my dog) people started to look at me funny. In reply to me exclaiming 'sit down!' one person felt the need to tell me they already were. She didn't look to happy when I told her I was talking to a dog.

So, a warning to all those with a DS, do not play any games that require the use of the microphone. Thank god I don't yet have (and therefore wasn't playing) Pheonix Wright Ace Attorney (a court game). I don't even want to think about how people would react to screams of 'objection!'

Saturday, October 22, 2005

'Dancing in the street'

Is it national dance at a bus stop day today? I've seen at least 5 different people at different bus stops dancing.

Friday, October 21, 2005

Photos



These were taken after the explosion. It happened underground and so luckily the only damage to my parents office was to the sign (caused by the fire coming out of the ground). Oh and it now also stinks outside my parents office.

The day of misfortune

Well this is my 100th blog entry and its certainly an interesting way to celebrate that fact.

Today started with a gas explosion outside my parents office while they were in it. Apparently first there was a power cut and then, a short while later, a loud hissing sound followed by a very loud bang. They are fine but haven't been allowed back into the office since (the buildings in close proximity to the explosion were all evacuated). You can still smell the gas. If I can be bothered, later I may post a photo of the fire outside the office taken by their mobile not long after they were evacuated.

And just now some idiot decided to pour coke through our letterbox. Great.

Who knows what else the day has in store. I'll just have to wait and see.

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

British Weather, you shall be missed! part 2

Now there is hail coming through the fire place.

British Weather, you shall be missed!

My mum's impeccible sense of timing was in full force today. She just phoned me up to ask if I could quickly rush to take the DX to the DX box (or should that be bag). The DX was expected to leave within 10 minutes of the phone call.

I rushed upstairs, put on my jumper and ran out of the house (actually thats a lie, I walked out, I avoid running as much as I can). Then I realised there was a storm raging outside so I rang the doorbell to be let back in.

Once inside I put on my coat (which is a first since I got back from the Czech Republic!) before again shutting the door. I rushed to the office, picked up the DX and DX key and then walked quickly to the DX place.

The storm was raging. There was lightning, thunder and a torrent of rain, just how I like it. Oh and who can forget the wind, providing a light breeze to enhance the storm.

And, while making the walk to and from the DX place, all I could think was i'm going to miss the British weather.

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Revelations of a chav

*This scene was witnessed on a bus journey*

Woman 1: You know what?
Woman 2: Yessssssss?
*pause*
Woman 1: You know what?
Woman 2: Yesssssssss?
Woman 1: You know what, I don't owe that bitch a tenner, I owe her a fiver!
*Woman 2 looks shocked and confused*
Woman 2: Yessssssssss?
Woman 1: Cos she only gave me a tenner, that bitch!
*pause*
Woman 1: But, you know what?
Woman 2: Yesssssssss?
Woman 1: I suppose I did keep her change from when she bought me that drink...............by accident of course..............so I guess overall I owe her a tenner, that bitch!
*Woman 2 looks overwhelmed with information*
Woman 2: Yessssssss.

New Look

I got bored. So I thought i'd change my blog's template.

Friday, October 14, 2005

Its Raining Earwigs!

An earwig just fell from the ceiling onto the floor right next to me. Is it some kind of sign, like that the world is about to end due to earwigs raining down from space? Is the world about to be flooded by earwigs? Or is an alien that happens to look like an earwig about to attack London? Forget avian flu, we need to prepare for giant earwig aliens!

What I find more disturbing is that, not only did an earwig somehow managed to get onto the ceiling, but that it managed to survive a fall from such a great height! Maybe the earwigs around my house have mutated, giving them super earwig abilities (such as invulnerability and sticky feet) as well as suicidal tendancies, not a good mix.

Monday, October 10, 2005

The daring discman!

I just thought i'd make a quick blog entry about my discman. This discman has survived many a dropping on the floor. That in itself is good but nothing that amazing because i'd be incredibly annoyed if it broke after falling on the floor (even if i've managed to drop it quite a few times now). My friends discman, which I was the first to drop on the floor (not on purpose), stopped working after that and it was the same model as mine. But anyway this blog entry came about because I just dropped my discman into the sink (yep, pretty stupid of me!). The sink did have some water in it but somehow its still working. So i'm very relieved. However I don't plan on using it near the sink again.

I didn't know I had that!

I decided to clean up my room a bit this evening. Its funny how much stuff you find out you have but had completely forgotten about.

Apparently, contrary to what I told Nick just last week, I do have a spare pair of glasses. I also have a pair of sunglasses which I have a memory of losing while on holiday in Spain. So, unless my room was situated in Spain back then (which it was not), my memory is wrong. Maybe i'm just confusing it with the time I lost my sunglasses in Penang. Those sunglasses haven't turned up so I take it that memory is real.

I also found a piece of slate. This may sound like a weird thing to have in your room and initially I was confused also. But then I remembered this was a piece of slate I picked up while on my first school trip with Highgate school in year 6 when we went to Wales. We had visited a slate mine and gone underground which was pretty cool and then i'd taken a piece of slate for some reason. So i'm keeping it.

Just when you thought a piece of slate was weird I then found a piece of some sort of jar or something. This also carries memories as I had found it in year 3 with my friend Stewart. We had been digging in the playground and found this ceramic piece and apparently I still have it. Damn that was long ago! I even remember the exact spot we dug it up at. I also remember all the theories of what the school was built on that the find encouraged. There was of course the common belief that the school was built on an ancient burial ground (and that as a result the toilets were haunted). But people also started believing the Romans had once lived on the site (incidentally we had just been studying the Romans) and, even more stupidly, that ancient Egyptians had been living on the site many years before the school was constructed. We had recently also studied the ancient Egyptians.

I found a wallet full of Czech crowns (koruna), useful for when I go to czech even if it is all small change. And I also found 20 Brunei dollars which I should give to Nick.

I was also shocked at the amount of different eczema creams I found. I thought i'd almost run out but I have about 4 different, and full up, creams. And I find them just as my eczema has been not too bad for a while.

I found a lot of crap (such as a chuckie from the rug rats pencil head which is broken anyway and broken rubbers and pencil sharpeners) which have joined all of my, now useless, schoolwork from the last school year.

But my room cleanup isn't yet finished. In fact, ironically, at the moment it looks even more untidy than it did prior to the cleanup, mainly because alot of the stuff I am sorting out is still on my floor. Who knows what i'll find next.