ok.. here i am. safe and sound. pilot on plane last night must be dreaming of his EVO 7 parked in KLIA cos he drove the plane close to speed of sound. 800-plus kmh i believe. arrived KLIA about half hour earlier than the scheduled time of 11.40pm. had to circle above the airport and go real slow in order to make the schedule. chap didnt bother braking much on the runway too. heard passengers comment, wow why is this plane going so fast?

airplane pilots are overpaid bus drivers. instead of plunging into ravines on the North-South Highway, pilots just crash into mountains, oceans, padi fields, runways, et al. i have a slight fear of flying. i think i need to be in control of the vehicle at all times.

bought in the past few days: shorts, traditional wooden shield (half-size only), tuak, buah salak, some fragrant wood said to drive mozzies away, and a Smiley toy (three-eyed as in Evolution, so rare lah!) which is now hanging at the rear-view mirror.

i need to sleep. too bad i'm not gonna get any. too much fun stuff to do around. time to do the shisha tonight... it's in the air... strawberries and apples and oranges... yeah!

taaa

hi guys! in Miri at the moment, couldn't resist updating my blog! heheh there is a dearth of Net cafes here, and they don't have the exuberance and noise and energy of the gaming cafes back in the Valley.

miri is nice place! a true-blue Kay-Elle dude could never get used to it though. here's what i found: nice beaches. clean, unbelievably so, public bathrooms and toilets. traffic-less roads. HUGE roundabouts! so quaint. clean air. and ALL that distinguishes it from the cesspool i call home.

only one trait i don't like that seems entrenched in Malaysian culture: rude, uninformed, disrespectful service. or rather, the people who should be 'of service'. jeez will malaysians ever learn that the customer is the one putting grub on their tables?

and so i look forward to another 2 days of beaches, waterfalls, and clean air. it is rather hot though, this place being by the sea. the people do not seem to be in a rush for anything. takes some to get used to.

lovely tan i'm getting laaaah!!!!

ec.