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So the day kicked off with Gen and Evonn taking me to George Town kopi and foor bar to get me to have a traditional Malay style breakfast. And i have to say it was a tad experimental, would have been weird even if it had been served in some hipter food joint in Soho. Right, the main part wasn't actually that strange, it was what you could put with it. Big bowl of savoury porridge and then a selection plate of sardines in a black bean topping, peanuts with dried anchovey shavings, and some sort of salted jam with lumps of orange vegetable in it. This was the 18+ certificate level of savoury taste, so used to having sweet breakfast.
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After working most of the afternoon on consultation with Gen and reviewing video interviews to come up with another Sabha documentary, Monty kindly grabbed some excellent takeaway caramelised pork dish with rice, so big nommed through that.
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So the next bit will perplex you a little, so a person travels 5000 miles away from home to experience a new exotic land and culture and spends part of it going to the cinema to see a hollywood blockbuster. Yes that's right folks, yours truely went and did just that, well, forgive me a little as Avengers is a damn good film and they gave me a free ticket for it (even when it has been sold out everywhere for a good week or so since it's been out). I'll make up for the lack of seeing local culture a little later, honest. Shot some pool at the local club with Monty Mel and Nigel before...
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Next part of the night saw me down a massage parlour, not that sort you filthy minded harlots! The chinese foot rub kind. I would love to say that it was amazingly relaxing, and it was for about 80% of it, the other 20% was made up of the feeling like the lady doing it was trying to dig in an inch sized drill bit into the middle of my foot just above my heel. Apparently that meant i have a problem in my stomach or lower intestine, I just think she was being a sadistic cow.
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After that, some late night (1am) dinner, involving a lot of embarrassing chopstick usage with small dumpling things. I will prevail with that skill somehow, but it's hard to see the efficiency in it. Once finished with that debarcle, I was shown my new gaff, a simple but still pretty nifty 1st floor studio flat. It didn't have a kitchen but who cares when you have a kettle and decent tea making facilities. I could be in a card board box in a gutter and still be happy if i could still create a decent brew. I'll be fine here, especially as i will be saluting the guards as they salute me as I walk past them everytime. They love it!
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Mum Thanks for more details of the menu of the day (:o> I'm not surprised the masseuse thought you had a problem in your stomach and intestine, after eating that concoction! Great post - we salute YOU!
Auntie Rol I can't say I like the sound of breakfast, but this is the kind of detail that makes a blog worth reading!
Abz owwwww! the foot thing sounds AGH!!! Have you felt better since though?
W d Roch This problem with with your gut,how does it impact(impact, get it!)on your toilet arrangements,oh yeah hows that going?Lovely to hear your news.