Darkschunt 
Friday, January 27, 2006
Today, Thursday, well, it's actually more of a Friday morning right now, headed to KL Tower with ScreamingSour and SydneyBoy. We got off at the Dang Wangi station and then nearly died on our hike to the base of the Kl Tower. They need to install some escalators which would take us, like, all the way from KLCC to the KL Tower. That's what we need!
Anyway, we were mucho thirsty after the long, dusty hike and, according to the lady at the ticket counter, there was a MacDonald's up on the observation deck so we headed up right away. We then walked around, looking at the view. It was cool and I felt touristy too, heehee. Never realized there was so much greenery around KL. There was also loads of smog. ScreamingSour and SydneyBoy made inquiries about a McDonald's. Turns out there was a McDonald's on the observation deck...in 1998. Obviously, the ticket lady hadn't been up on the observation deck since 1998.
Nothing to do but to just hang around, peeping through the free binoculars and taking pictures while waiting for the sun to set...which it didn't. ScreamingSour and I talked this over and realized that in all our years living in KL, we have never once seen the sun set over the horizon...just over buildings. This was our chance to watch the sun set properly! So we waited...and waited... and saw the sun turn orange and go behind a cloud. Then the cloud become a haze of smog. Which turned slightly orangey at the edges. And then it grew dark. And the sky was dark and that was it. We came to the conclusion that, contrary to the rules of science and natural law, the sun just doesn't set in Malaysia. It just kind of turns orange and melts behind a cloud or something. No sunsets in Malaysia. Nu-uh.
So we turned our attention to observing the Luna (Lunar?) Bar through the binoculars and spied on a group of guys and girls sitting by the pool on the hotel roof. We also turned the binos on the Twin Towers and ScreamingSour found a window where she insisted that there was a guy on his knees doing Muslim prayers. I looked through and said no, he was trying to hide behind his desk. SydneyBoy looked and said no, he was picking up a piece of paper or something. ScreamingSour said that must be his prayer mat.
We also saw Japanese tourists and other various tourists dressed in batik, as if they had just come fresh from the batik factories. ScreamingSouor tried to surreptitiously snap a pic of the Japanese tourists in their batik clothes but they saw her and thought she was trying to take a picture of the view and very kindly moved out of the way for her. So later I stood in between her and the Japanese tourists and waited until she had her camera ready and jumped out of the way at the last minute and she snapped 'em. They gave us a very odd stare after that.
We also saw this tourist guy dressed in blue batik whom we shall call the Blue Boy. He was just basically sitting on one of the seats by the windows, looking out in this very forlorn manner. Both ScreamingSour and SydneyBoy surreptitiously snapped pics of him in this forlorn, depressed, completely and literally blue mood. Then he rose and went to the next seat and continued his forlorn contemplation of the city below. Then he rose and went on the next seat - and the next. Perhaps, we thought, he had lost his wife there and was thinking of her. "Faizah! Faizah!"
Although we've never heard of anyone dying on the KL Tower. Sunway Lagoon, but not the tower.
Anyway, we finally got tired of snapping pics and looking out windows and headed down. All the restaurants below were kind of crappy and overpriced so we decided to head over to KLCC and have dinner at Burger King. I tried the Swiss Mushroom Double for the very first time, which was delish. And SydneyBoy made an observation which I have never noticed before: that as you hit the button to refill your Cokes, you get to see the Coke syrup and carbonated water swish out together in a mix of brown and white into your plastic cup. I have never noticed that before and I've been hitting those buttons since forever! Anyway, they wanted to get a pic of that so SydneyBoy kept refilling the Cokes while ScreamingSour snapped away until they got a nice pic of the syrup and carbonated water swirling into the cup. Brown and white - like our city "river". Lol. Then we left the cups full of Coke behind as we searched for a restroom and discovered the most amazing baby-changing rest room. It had this amazing screen door with the most beautiful poppies painted on it, and when you hit a button the door slides open to reveal this totally posh baby changing area with a low wall painted with those pretty pretty poppies and a kind of plan pen area with these white armchairs in separate cubicles with curtains to close em off, like places to rest. And a full-length mirror. The baby-changing area was way posh-ier than the other rest rooms.
While riding the LRT back to Kelana Jaya, I happened to glance down and notice that our LRT trains were built by the Bombardier company. They're this Canadian company that makes like, railways and stuff like that. And that reminded me, they're also the same company which are going to assist the construction of a railway which extends from China to Tibet. But Tibetan organizations the world over are protesting against Bombardier's involvement in the railway. This is because the railway would only serve to increase China's dominion of Tibet, for the railway would only further assist the population trasnfer of Chinese settlers into Tibet, therefore further marginializing Tibetans socially and economically and further threatening the survival of the Tibetan culture and society. According to the Students for a Free Tibet organization, the railway would also facilitate the exploitation of Tibet's natural resources for use in China and increase the speed in which Chinese troops can be deployed in Tibet and facilitate the expansion of Chinese army bases, nuclear weapons stockpiles and missile deployment sites in Tibet. Chinese leaders themselves have admitted the railway is a politically motivated project. So this is a pretty big deal, the railway would only facilitate China's further exploitation of Tibet. Therefore, it is imperative that Bombardier should not assist this railway project which, according to SFT, is "considered by Tibetans, supporters and impartial observers alike to be the single-most devastating project being carried out in Tibet today."
Free Tibet! Help campaign against Bombardier's involvement in the China-Tibet railway! Learn more at http://www.studentsforafreetibet.org/article.php?list=type&type=62#background and do help to take action!
Anyway, we were mucho thirsty after the long, dusty hike and, according to the lady at the ticket counter, there was a MacDonald's up on the observation deck so we headed up right away. We then walked around, looking at the view. It was cool and I felt touristy too, heehee. Never realized there was so much greenery around KL. There was also loads of smog. ScreamingSour and SydneyBoy made inquiries about a McDonald's. Turns out there was a McDonald's on the observation deck...in 1998. Obviously, the ticket lady hadn't been up on the observation deck since 1998.
Nothing to do but to just hang around, peeping through the free binoculars and taking pictures while waiting for the sun to set...which it didn't. ScreamingSour and I talked this over and realized that in all our years living in KL, we have never once seen the sun set over the horizon...just over buildings. This was our chance to watch the sun set properly! So we waited...and waited... and saw the sun turn orange and go behind a cloud. Then the cloud become a haze of smog. Which turned slightly orangey at the edges. And then it grew dark. And the sky was dark and that was it. We came to the conclusion that, contrary to the rules of science and natural law, the sun just doesn't set in Malaysia. It just kind of turns orange and melts behind a cloud or something. No sunsets in Malaysia. Nu-uh.
So we turned our attention to observing the Luna (Lunar?) Bar through the binoculars and spied on a group of guys and girls sitting by the pool on the hotel roof. We also turned the binos on the Twin Towers and ScreamingSour found a window where she insisted that there was a guy on his knees doing Muslim prayers. I looked through and said no, he was trying to hide behind his desk. SydneyBoy looked and said no, he was picking up a piece of paper or something. ScreamingSour said that must be his prayer mat.
We also saw Japanese tourists and other various tourists dressed in batik, as if they had just come fresh from the batik factories. ScreamingSouor tried to surreptitiously snap a pic of the Japanese tourists in their batik clothes but they saw her and thought she was trying to take a picture of the view and very kindly moved out of the way for her. So later I stood in between her and the Japanese tourists and waited until she had her camera ready and jumped out of the way at the last minute and she snapped 'em. They gave us a very odd stare after that.
We also saw this tourist guy dressed in blue batik whom we shall call the Blue Boy. He was just basically sitting on one of the seats by the windows, looking out in this very forlorn manner. Both ScreamingSour and SydneyBoy surreptitiously snapped pics of him in this forlorn, depressed, completely and literally blue mood. Then he rose and went to the next seat and continued his forlorn contemplation of the city below. Then he rose and went on the next seat - and the next. Perhaps, we thought, he had lost his wife there and was thinking of her. "Faizah! Faizah!"
Although we've never heard of anyone dying on the KL Tower. Sunway Lagoon, but not the tower.
Anyway, we finally got tired of snapping pics and looking out windows and headed down. All the restaurants below were kind of crappy and overpriced so we decided to head over to KLCC and have dinner at Burger King. I tried the Swiss Mushroom Double for the very first time, which was delish. And SydneyBoy made an observation which I have never noticed before: that as you hit the button to refill your Cokes, you get to see the Coke syrup and carbonated water swish out together in a mix of brown and white into your plastic cup. I have never noticed that before and I've been hitting those buttons since forever! Anyway, they wanted to get a pic of that so SydneyBoy kept refilling the Cokes while ScreamingSour snapped away until they got a nice pic of the syrup and carbonated water swirling into the cup. Brown and white - like our city "river". Lol. Then we left the cups full of Coke behind as we searched for a restroom and discovered the most amazing baby-changing rest room. It had this amazing screen door with the most beautiful poppies painted on it, and when you hit a button the door slides open to reveal this totally posh baby changing area with a low wall painted with those pretty pretty poppies and a kind of plan pen area with these white armchairs in separate cubicles with curtains to close em off, like places to rest. And a full-length mirror. The baby-changing area was way posh-ier than the other rest rooms.
While riding the LRT back to Kelana Jaya, I happened to glance down and notice that our LRT trains were built by the Bombardier company. They're this Canadian company that makes like, railways and stuff like that. And that reminded me, they're also the same company which are going to assist the construction of a railway which extends from China to Tibet. But Tibetan organizations the world over are protesting against Bombardier's involvement in the railway. This is because the railway would only serve to increase China's dominion of Tibet, for the railway would only further assist the population trasnfer of Chinese settlers into Tibet, therefore further marginializing Tibetans socially and economically and further threatening the survival of the Tibetan culture and society. According to the Students for a Free Tibet organization, the railway would also facilitate the exploitation of Tibet's natural resources for use in China and increase the speed in which Chinese troops can be deployed in Tibet and facilitate the expansion of Chinese army bases, nuclear weapons stockpiles and missile deployment sites in Tibet. Chinese leaders themselves have admitted the railway is a politically motivated project. So this is a pretty big deal, the railway would only facilitate China's further exploitation of Tibet. Therefore, it is imperative that Bombardier should not assist this railway project which, according to SFT, is "considered by Tibetans, supporters and impartial observers alike to be the single-most devastating project being carried out in Tibet today."
Free Tibet! Help campaign against Bombardier's involvement in the China-Tibet railway! Learn more at http://www.studentsforafreetibet.org/article.php?list=type&type=62#background and do help to take action!
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