Pocket Problems

Malaysia is very different from Singapore. One of the first notable differences is that the white lines that divide the lanes in the streets are mere courtesy lines. What I mean is that nobody can drive here! If the drivers feel like staying inside those lines they do, if they don't, they just go wherever they want, they're all over the road...it's a little crazy!

Yesterday was kind of a big deal! Several of us got up early and went to Petronas Towers. That's where part of the film "Entrapment" was filmed. Currently they are the two tallest buildings in the world. We got to go up to the sky bridge on the 41st floor. The view was tremendous. However, before getting in the elevator, that literally went up a floor per second, we had to go through security checks. Well when I went through, I set the alarm off. For those of you who know me, you know that I carry my life in my pockets. When the alarm went off I immediately thought about day one of this trip when Meg and I were boarding our plane and she was laughing at how much stuff I had in my pockets. Regardless, it turns out that my fingernail clippers set the alarm off. Again, for those of you who know me, you know why this is funny. So for the rest of this trip I'm going to try to minimize the stuff that is in my pockets to avoid setting off alarms and having to pull a million things out of my pockets at security checks. Since you're reading this, you have the internet, so you should look up these towers if you don't know which ones I'm referring to. After we visited Petronas Towers, we had some breakfast and then went to Batu Caves. This is a place where various Hindu Gods are worshiped. They were huge. We had to climb a ton of stairs to get to the main cave. On the way up, we saw this monkey steal a bag that a little kid had sit down. He got inside and ate a coconut that was in the bag. Well on the way back down, a monkey spotted Dave's water bottle and came up and just took it from him! Needless to say, it was hilarious....it was priceless! Following our trip to the caves, Meg, Alex, Dave and I went to this Irish Pub and had lunch. After that Meg and I went to KL Tower. We went to the top of the 276 meter towers where there is an observation deck. Again, the view was just amazing. Following that Meg and I did some shopping at the mall in Petronas Towers. We then met up with Dr. Kennan and took a taxi to an Indian night market. It was very interesting to see how the people gather there each week and all the things you could buy. We ate dinner afterwards and then Dr. Kennan and myself went and got a foot massage. It was, by far, the best $8 that I've spent so far. In fact, I enjoyed it so much that I went back later and got a back massage. And I enjoyed that so much that I intend on going back later tonight and getting a full body massage. After carrying my 500lbs bag, the massage was tremendous. I'm not sure what's in store for today, but I'm sure it'll be a great day. We're going to Taman Negara in a couple of days and I think that will be one of the highlights of our trip. I miss everyone back home and I'll be in touch soon! But for now, I'm off to explore more of Malaysia! So in the famous words of Forrest Gump, that's all I have to say about that...

P.S. Brian, if you're reading this, you'll be happy to know that when we got in the cab to go to Batu Caves yesterday "The Gambler" was playing on the radio and I immediately thought of you! So feel special and know that I still hate that song!