Penang to Singapore

So, we made it to Thailand late last night.  We had some time to blog while we were in the airport, so we'll probably post a few times in the next day or so to get you all up to speed. :)

Penang to Singapore
6/27/2011

After two full days in Penang, we made our way back to Singapore.  Since our flight was around noon, we had to leave the hostel relatively early.  After another breakfast of toast (smothered wwith Nutella that we had bought... :)  ) and coffee, we packed our stuff yet again and headed out to catch a bus to get us to the airport.  The bus was just down the road from the hostel, so it worked out fine.  In case I hadn't mentioned it before, our hostel was on "Love Lane".  Aww, how nice... :)

Where we stayed.. :)

The flight was supposed to land 20 minutes early (not bad for a 1:20 flight), but we had to circle the airport a few times before we were able to land and then we were stuck on the tarmack waiting for other planes to get out of their gates for us to pull in.  But, our captain (who seemed a little peeved at the delays) kept us posted on what was going on, so it wasn't as annoying as it could have been...  Once we got off the plane, we caught the subway to our hostel.  The Beesy Bus was booked, so we had to either catch a bus or take the subway.  The subway was easier, faster, and cheaper, so that was an easy decision.  By the time it was all said and done, we made it to our hostel around 3:30.

Now, a quick explanation about our time in Singapore.  The BioDesign program I will be doing at Stanford next year just started a new program in Singapore, called the Stanford Singapore BioDesign Program (SSB for short).  So, I contacted the SSB Fellows to see if they would be available or interested in meeting up.  They were very excited about the possibility, so we started planning a few months ago.  Then 2 weeks ago, they tell me that there is a big conference in Singapore and invited me to tag along with them for some of the festivities.  In fact, Dr. Thomas Fogarty, a world-renowned surgeon who invented balloon catheters, was going to be part of the events.  In fact, the SSB program was actually hosting Dr. Fogarty during his whole visit to Singapore!  So, I was floored about the opportunity to hang out with the SSB fellows at these events, but the only problem was that I didn't bring nice clothes!  My travel shorts, T-shirts, and Vibram shoes wouldn't cut it...  So, one of the SSB fellows (Henry) generously offered to let me borrow some pants and a button-up shirt for the two days.  Which is where the actual story picks up. :)

So, when we got to the hostel, I checked my email and Henry offered to drop the clothes off at our hostel so I wouldn't have to find him in the middle of Singapore.  So, Bridget ran out and got some Tandoori chicken (an Indian dish) and a 2-liter of Sprite for lunch/dinner/snack while I waited for Henry.  After we got the clothes handed off, Bridget and I headed "out on the town", so to speak. :)  We took the subway downtown and planned to wander around and walk back to the hostel.  We got off the subway in Chinatown and started our self-guided tour. :)

There were some nice temples mixed amongst the restaurants, condo buildings, and discount shops.  There was even a night market going on!  The prices weren't as cheap as Malaysia and we didn't buy anything.  We grabbed some dinner at a Korean restaurant just outside of Chinatown on our way to the more fancy area of downtown Singapore.

We didn't have a chance to wander all over the fancy downtown area, but we made it to the Marina area.  There were tons of restaurants and hotels lining the canal (Singapore has a small river).  The bright lights strung across the bridges danced on the water as ferry boat tours passed by.  We walked past the "lion-mermaid" statue that is quite famous in Singapore.  It sprays water out its mouth too, which makes it a little more interesting.

Lion-Mermaid statue

Across the bay was the Bay Sands Resort.  This is a hotel and casino, an "integrated resort" as Singapore calls it.  This is comprised of three buildings with a skydeck on top, connecting all three buildings.  It looks like someome took a big boat and dropped it on top of these three buildings.  Seriously!  Check it out below!

Bay Sands Resort (click to enlarge)

Across the bay from the Sands is the Esplanade, which is a cool performing arts center.  It actually looks like a Durian, which is kind of funny.

Esplanade

And the rest of the skyline was amazing.  So many tall buildings with lights all over.  It was pretty neat.

Part of the skyline

And a few other random pics, just for good measure. :)

Cool angle pic

Us out on the town! :)

By the time all of that excitement was over, it was like 9:30PM, which is really close to Bridget's bedtime, so we headed back to the hostel for some sleep.  The walk was probably 20-30 minutes, but everything was so new, that it was still a nice walk.  :)

So, I've decided to stop my shoe tally for a few reasons.  First, the vast majority of people I am around don't speak English (or don't want to talk to me), so they just point and stare, smile, or giggle.  Second, since I'm more concerned with looking at the sights and not people-watching the people people-watching me, I miss most of the people who are interested in my shoes.  So, the finally tally is heavily skewed to the point and stare/smile/giggle category for the people who don't talk to me and heavily skewed to people-think-I'm-cool for the people who talk to me.  And that's a wrap. :)

Next few days...

So, I must apologize, but the blogging for the next few days may be a little delayed.  So, there just so happens to be a Stanford-Singapore BioDesign partnership that was started by the Stanford BioDesign program I will be doing next year.  Anyway, I contacted the Singapore fellows to see if they would want to meet up, and they invited me to tag along to some events with them in the next few days.  So, I'll be hanging out with them for a little while, which will, unfortunately, make for boring blogging for all of you...  So, Bridget may pick up the slack and blog during the next few days.  So, just a heads up...

Over and out for tonight...
~ Jeremy

Penang Day 2

In Singapore again right now.  Back to blogging about Penang...

6/26/2011 Penange Day 2

We planned a hiking day for today.  Since we'd gotten up early in every location we have been, we decided to continue the streak. :)  So, we got up at 6:15am, grabbed some breakfast at our hostel, and caught a bus for the other side of the island, where there is a small national park (supposedly the world's smallest).  So, we rode the roller coaster bus for about an hour before being dropped off at the park gate.  The interior of the bus was decorated like a rainforest, so that was cool.

Rainforest-themed bus!

 The park entrance was free, which is always nice. :)

Read to go!

Unfortunately, the canopy walk was closed.  That would have been really cool.  Oh well.  Maybe next time... :)  So, we hiked about an hour and a half from the park entrance to a spot recommended by the park ranger.  There was a nice beach with some sand and rocks.  We took some pictures on the rocks, which were pretty cool.

Beach + Rocks

Us on one of the rocks. :)

The hiking wasn't quite as extreme as Tioman, but it was still alot of fun.  Here are some random pictures.

Cool long-exposure shot of a little waterfall... :)

Up and over the tree roots!

This trail was cut by the people dragging trees out of the forest for canoes and buildings...

Looking good on the trail! :)  Actually, we were dripping in sweat by this point...

After hiking, we got some lunch at an Indian restaurant/stall next to the park.  I got curry chicken and rice and Bridget got an "omelet".  Her omelet was similar to what we had for breakfast before we left Tioman.  Anyway, both were very good.  The curry chicken wasn't too spicy, so that was good.  It's always hard to tell before risking a tongue-scorch...

Curry chicken and potatoes...

Bridget's omelet

After lunch, we caught the roller coaster bus back again.  By the time we got back, we were both in need of a nap, so we both slept for around 2 hours.  After the nap, we got dinner at the Chinese restaurant we ate at the first night.  It was just as good the 2nd time around. :)  And a nice gentleman even serenaded the restaurant with his saxophone skills. :)

Dinner fit for a king and queen

After dinner, we went back to the hostel and packed our stuff.  I kind of helped while Bridget did most of the real packing. :)  Bridget went to sleep after the packing and I finished up some blogging.  After writing the last bit, I also hit the sack.

Penang Day 1

Moving right along...

Our first morning in Penang started a little late due to all of the excitement of the previous day.  We moseyed out of our 12 bed dorm around 9:30am and got some breakfast.  The standard toast and coffee.  But it was decent.  No peanut butter this time... had to settle for strawberry jelly.  But at least it was pretty good strawberry jelly. :)  After breakfast, we walked around Georgetown, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site.  This basically means that the buildings and older stuff has been preserved or restored to what it looked like before.  So, some of the buildings look (and are) pretty old.  So, that was interesting.  We got to walk around an old military fort called Fort Cornwallis.  Still not sure where the name came from, since the guy who built it was named Francis Light.  But Fort Cornwallis it is nonetheless.  They had a bunch of rooms with placards explaining the history of the fort and all.  Pretty interesting.  They still had some cannons mounted on the wall, which used to be surrounded by a moat! :)  The walls were built double-thick with sand between the two walls (I assume to absorb the impact of incoming cannonballs, but they never explicitly said that).  And the built a pretty tall lighthouse to guide boats through the harbor.  Here are some pictures.

Power lines are totally in the way...

Wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of an "exchange" with this row of cannons

Where the moat used to be...

Bridget in a wonderful red dress posing next to a poster of a man with a wig

After walking around Fort Cornwallis, we continued on around the city.  And it was hot.  Like really hot.  We did our run-from-shade-to-shade thing again.  The sun was overbearing and the humidity felt like it soaked everything.  But the soaking was probably just from my sweat... Anyway, we stopped in on a little coffee shop and got some white coffee.  It wasn't very white and was really sweet (despite asking for it with no sugar).  Tasted more like a mocha from McDonalds than a plain coffee.  I'm still investigating that one...  Anyway, I guess some dude in Ipoh (another city in Malaysia) invented the white coffee awhile ago and it's been popular ever since.  Or so goes the story at the restaurant.  True or not, it was good coffee.  And Bridget got an Oreo shake thing (hardly coffee...). :)  But the cool temperature of the restaurant felt good.

Old Town white coffee sign

A typical street block in Penang

After coffee, we walked to a big mall to check things out.  The prices were really cheap, but we didn't buy anything.  We don't have a whole lot of room for new stuff and we've heard the prices in Thailand are even cheaper, so we're being patient until then.  But there was quite a selection.  We grabbed lunch at a little food stall in the mall.  We got some chicken and rice to share.  It was good.  Now, by this point, you may be wondering if we'll ever get sick of rice dishes.  After contemplating this for a few seconds, I don't think so.  When it's this good, I can keep eating and eating it. :)  It wasn't all that exciting to look at, so no picture... :)

After the mall, we were walking back to the hostel and saw a man on the side of the road selling durian fruit.  This fruit has quite the reputation of smelling awful, but people like the taste of it.  I saw it called the fruit that "is shaped like a hedgehog and smells like compost."  The smell is actually so bad that it is banned on public transit and in many restaurants...  But that just means we gotta try it.  So, we had the guy crack it open and plop the edible part in a plastic container for us.  We carried it back to our hostel and sat outside and gave it a try.  Honestly, I didn't think it smelled that bad.  It had a sweet kind of oniony smell.  Definitely unique, but I've smelled much worse.  Anyway, we both tried some and I didn't think it was bad.  Bridget wasn't a big fan, so I had a couple of spoonfull.  The edible part is buried inside five cavities within the spiky shell.  The fruit is surrounding large seeds.  So you kind of have to scrape it off the seeds with a spoon or knife.  And it has the consistency of soft butter, I would say.  Anyway, we ate our fill and tossed the rest in a garbage can outside of our hostel. :)  But definitely worth the experience!

The street man pulling the edible part (banana-shaped parts) out of the spiky shell

Bridget quite successfully faking a bad-smelling face before trying it

All better! :)  We tried a can of "100 plus" which is like a Gatorade.  It was pretty good.

After our durian adventure, we sat for a bit of rest and then went to the national museum.  It was only 2 blocks away, so it was easy to get to.  And it was cheap to get in, so we were set. :)  The only problem was that we only had 50 minutes to get through the whole thing.  But we made it just as they were closing the doors.  In case I forgot to mention previously, Penang is an island.  It is off the northwest corner of Malaysia and isn't very far from the mainland (there is a bridge that connects it), but it does have its own airport.  Since its on the coast, it was pretty central to all of the shipping and trade routes in the area.  Merchants would sail here when the winds brought them east, do their trading, hang out in Penang, and then sail back when the monsoon winds took them west.  Penang has a natural deep harbor, so all sizes of boats could dock here.  Which is good for trade and all, but kind of wreaked havoc on the civilization to some extent.  The British occupied Penang for quite awhile and there were numerous skirmishes and attempts to take it over by other people (including the natives when the British didn't honor treaty agreements - but that's getting a bit too historical...).  Anyway, since it was a trade hub, it did encourage alot of differnet people to come here to work.  There were the native Malay, Chinese, Indians, and several others.  And they all brought their own culture and religion, so Penang has quite a cross section of different people.

Anyway, before I start in on another history lesson, we made it out of the museum at 5pm when it closed. We went back to the hostel again to figure out our next adventure.  We decided to head over to a different part of the island for dinner and to visit the night market.  We caught a bus and rode the roller coaster road over.  And it felt like a roller coaster at times.  The road wound around the island's edge not too far from the shore, so it was full of zig-zags and ups-and-downs.  Pretty cheap fun too, I guess... :)  Anyway, we didn't exactly know where the market was, so we got off in the middle of the town (it was really just along one main road).  We went and got some dinner first.  I got squid and Bridget got chicken.  The usual. :)  But the sauce was really good.  I think it had a hint of barbecue, but Bridget didn't think so.  Regardless, it was good.  And as I was about to take a bit of a harmless-looking green pepper, I realized it was the same thing that fried my mouth back in KL - the green rocket.  These bad boys make the "hot" red peppers taste like ketchup!  So, I quickly scanned my plate for more and moved them aside.  I warned Bridget too (she had already done so - I guess I'm the slow one).  But here's 2 quick pictures from dinner.

Dinner is served!

The green rockets!

And I got another white coffee with no sugar and it tasted the same, so the mystery continues... duh duh duh... :)  Anyway, after dinner we stopped by a convenience store (of sorts) and stocked up on some supplies for our hiking trip the next day.  Some water, Nutella, crackers, and M&Ms.  Yum. :)  But more on the hiking trip on that day's blog. :)

After stocking up on supplies, we hit the night market.  Lots of cool stuff.  There were stalls lining the side of the main road for almost the whole city!  But pretty standard fare. :)  Still fun to walk through.  After perusing for a bit, we caught the bus back to our area.  Our bus got stuck behind a really slow van and our driver kept trying to pass him, but would get cut off.  So, finally there was a large shoulder and the van kind of moved over onto it a little and our bus driver hit the gas and we flew by.  Pretty exciting buses around here! :)

Us on the bus

 Once we got back, Bridget was hungry, so we got a quick snack from a street vendor.  He made this little crepe things with stuff in them.  We waited for a good 20 minutes until he had a chance to take our order.  He had so many orders that he couldn't keep up!  He was pourin' and flippin' and packagin' and sellin' like crazy!  But one rule of thumb around here is that the busy stalls are the best, so we figured it would be worth the wait.  And it sure was.  I didn't really eat too much because he put coconut in the batter, but Bridget really liked them (much more than the durian).

Super crepe-man hard at work

After checking what time the national park opened the next morning, it was lights out to get some sleep before our next adventure!

KL to Penang

So, I'm here in Penang (pronounced "pea-nang") and realize that I'm two days behind (again...).  I apologize.  It just takes so much time to have adventures to blog about that I don't have time to blog...  I'm sincerely sorry (well, kind of..). :)  Anyway...

6/24/2011 KL to Penang
We got up at a leisurely time since our flight was at 3:50pm, so we didn't need to leave the hostel until about noon.  But we got up and packed and went around for some last-minute pictures in KL.  Check them out below.

Our bunks at the hostel - I had the purple one...

Petaling Street is a huge daily street market just a few blocks from our hostel

A very ornate temple right behind our hostel

But, the coolest part was that we had lunch at this beef noodle place that was amazing!  We both got a huge bowl of noodles and beef.  I got white, fat noodles, and Bridget got more spaghetti-like noodles.  We both liked our own noodles, better so there wasn't any trading... :)  Luckily the chef was a "Beef Noodle Specialist", according to his sign out front. :)

Noodles! :)  The chopsticks are for the noodles and beef and the white spoon for the broth.

After lunch, we hopped on the train to catch it down to the central bus station to grab a ride out to the airport.  The train ride was only a few minutes, but the bus ride was about an hour.  KL has two airports: the normal one and the "low cost carrier terminal - LCCT".  The LCCT is much further from the city center, so everyone has to take a bus or get a ride.  Needless to say, we were at the "LCCT" and honestly weren't expecting much.  But we were definitely wrong.  The terminal was clean and the lines were nonexistent.  We were joking with each other at the security that we must not be in the right place because there wasn't a line!  We just walked up, passed our bags through, and voila!  We were done!  It was fantastic!  The whole check-in and security was less than 30 minutes (probably closer to 20 minutes).  And once we got to our gate, there were several restaurants, free WiFi, and lots of bathrooms really close. It was really nice. :)  We boarded the plane from the jetway, which was kind of fun (and really hot).  The plane carrier was AirAsia, which is one of the low cost companies here in Asia.  But the plane was nice - didn't have a row 13 for superstitious reasons. :)  The only downside of cheap flights is that you have to pay for any beverages or snacks.  But since our flight was only 45 minutes, it wasn't a problem. :)

Getting on the plane

Once we got into Penang, we made our way to the bus stop.  There was a little confusion on which bus to get and where to get it, but there was a nice lady from the bus company to help us out. :)  While we were riding through the city, Bridget struck up a conversation with a Canadian girl.  It turns out she and her husband were visiting Penang for the weekend.  They are living in Thailand and teaching English at a school in Chiang Mai.  They chit-chatted for a good 40 minutes of the 60 minute bus ride.  When we got off and were parting ways, we discovered that we were heading to the same hostel. :)  So, the four of us became fast friends.  After dropping our gear off, the four of us went out to dinner.  We got some great Chinese.  Penang is known for its good eats, and we weren't let down. :) 

Dinner is served!  Chicken, Squid, and veggies!

After dinner we just wandered for awhile, exchanging travel stories.  It was a really good time.  But the night was quickly approaching, so we called it a night after a little while.  But not before taking a quick picture (of course!).  :)

Travel buddies! :)

Hopefully I'll have a chance to write some more tonight, but we'll see... :)  It was an early morning  ;)

KL Day 2

This morning, we got up early on a special adventure.  We read in the guidebook that the Petronas towers in KL give out free tickets to go up in the towers and see the city. 

Petronas Towers - pretty impressive! :)

The ticket giveaway starts at 8:30am, and the line starts much earlier.  The tickets keep coming until they run out for the day.  So, we got up early, grabbed some more toast and coffee at our hostel, and took off for the Petronas towers.  We hopped on the subway and rode it 4 stops away to the KL city center.  We rushed to get in line and made it at 8:25am.  And then we waited.  And waited, and waited some more.  By the time we made it to the ticket counter, we had waited over an hour.  But we got tickets!  The only disappointing part was that they weren't free (We had to pay about $3.50 each, still not bad) and we wouldn't get to go all of the way to the top.  As shown in the picture, there is a skybridge about halfway up, and that is where we got to go.  It was quite a bit more expensive to go all of the way to the top, so we just went for the skybridge since it is high enough to see pretty much the whole city anway.  Oh, and we would have to wait until 1:20pm to get our visit.  Since it was only 10am by the time we left, we had some time to kill.

Some quick history on the KL city center.  The old futbol stadium was located in the downtown area, and when it was torn down, the city had a contest amongst developers to design something to replace the area.  I forget how much land was available, but it must have been quite a bit.  Anyway, the winning entry proposed building residential and commercial buildings (including the Petronas towers) as well as a large park.  So back in 1995, construction began on the towers.  The supports for the buildings were drilled over 300' below the surface, and the foundation is over 15' of reinforced concrete.  Since the buildings were going to have a skybridge linking them, they had to grow exactly straight up or else the skybridge wouldn't fit.  So, surveyors measured the buildings twice a day to ensure they maintained their direction.  During the build, they finished a floor every 3-4 days.  At the end, the towers stand over a quarter mile above street level (452 meters) and have 84 floors.  The elevators climb at 15-18 ft/sec, so it can climb almost a floor a second!  Due to the fact that the buildings are so tall and are linked with the skybridge, engineers had to build sufficient damping into the structures to keep them from swaying too much.  The final buildings sway less than 30" at the top of the buildings!  Pretty impressive!  The skybridget is a double-decker bridge connectiong the 41st and 42nd floors.  The 41st floor bridge is the one we would get a view from.  It is around 350' above street level.  Anyway, so we were pretty excited, but still had awhile to wait.

So, another tall structure in KL is the KL Tower.  This space-needle-looking building has a restaurant on the top and is quite the tourist attraction.  It's not as tall as the Petronas Towers, but has an observation deck at 1000', which is higher than the petronas towers sky bridge by quite a bit.  However, it cost quite a bit more to go up the KL tower, so we just took a few pictures and moved on. :)

KL Tower

The KL tower is right next to a nature reserve, so since we hadn't walked in dirt for awhile, we decided to see what was there.  We were first greeted by this friendly sign warning about all of the dangers.  Definitely our kind of place! :)

Danger, just what we had been looking for...

The "hiking" wasn't very extreme and we didn't see anything cool, I mean, dangerous.  So, that was good, in a way.  All we did see was a little lizard scurry off the trail and into the leaves.  But the stuffy air and spider webs were a nice reprieve from car exhaust. :)  Well, we walked around for a little while then headed back towards the Petronas Towers.  We grabbed lunch at a little restaurant off the main road.  We got sandwiches and smoothies.  Not really "Malaysian" persay, but good nonetheless. :)  It was the "healthy option", so we figured we were good. :)

Lunch is served - complete with Malaysian flag toothpicks! :)

The main road had advertisements for McDonalds and KFC on the monorail supports, which we thought was kind of funny.  Also, there just so happened to be a zillion motorcycles stopped at the light, so that made the shot doubly cool. :)  I actually think the cars stopped where they were supposed to and the bikes just drove between the cars and stopped in the crosswalk, but whatever works I guess. :)

Looks like a motorcycle caravan, but its just normal traffic in KL...

Anyway, we made it back to the KLCC and walked around the nature area for awhile.  The indoor mall had all kinds of expensive stores (Gucci, Tiffanys, Prada, etc.).  I couldn't even pronounce a few of the store names, which means they must be really fancy (i.e. expensive).  Needless to say, we didn't hang around long. :)  We walked outside and watched a water fountain show and then walked a lap around the park.  It was hot and sunny, so we kind of just walked from one tree to another to stay in the shade.  It must have been pretty funny to watch because we kind of traced a zig-zag across the path as we went. :)  But we got some good pictures there too.  It really was nice, just too hot for us.

Petronas Towers

Cool metallic animal sculptures in the pond in the park

Anyway, after wandering a bit outside (and then coming in to cool down in the AC), we finally had our tour of the towers.  We took an elevator from the basement to the 41st floor in roughly 40 seconds.  And our guide had a perfectly scripted message that lasted just 40 seconds.  Perfectly rehearsed too. :)  Once we got off the elevator, we got to walk along the skybridge for about 15 minutes.  It was a great view.  The clouds were much higher than we were, so we could see really far.

The park below

Us :)

The road below

The skyline

The curvy-metallic Petronas Tower 2

After the skybridge, we headed back to the hostel via the subway again.  Bridget wanted to take a nap and I needed to catch up on the blog.  So, we hung out in the hostel for awhile in the afternoon, and then headed out for dinner.  About a block from our hostel, we saw the hostel manager (a cool guy named Jeff) walking down the street.  When he saw us, he invited us to join him and a friend for pizza.  Since we didn't have any specific plan, we joined them for some pizza and pool for awhile.  The pizza had some kind of seafood on it, but it was good.  And Jeff and his friend were pretty good at pool.  I lost to both of them pretty soundly (I left 5 balls on the table when I played Jeff... pretty dismal showing).  But it was fun hanging out with them.  Since we didn't want to impose too much, we took off soon afterward and went to the central market.  We bought some belts for Bridget (for $1.60 each) and a cool wooden thing.

After our shopping, we dropped our purchases off in the hostel and walked to Merdeka Square again because we heard it was all lit up at night.  I took my nifty camera tripod-thingy so we could set the camera down and have it take night shots.  If I just hold the camera, the image is blurry because it needs longer exposure due to the low light.  So, we got some cool pics down there.  The square itself wasn't really lit up, but some other things were.

Cool night shot 1

Cool night shot 2

Lights hanging from the trees, which are hard to distinguish from the actual tree drapings during the day...

Us in front of some tree lights

KL Tower all lit up (Petronas towers in the lower left corner too!)

Our our way back from Merdeka square, we stopped at an Indian-Chinese restaurant and got a late-night snack.  Bridget got noodles and I got sweet-and-sour chicken.  I thought we were sharing when I ordered, so that's why I got chicken. :)  The only way I know it was Indian-Chinese is because when I asked for chopsticks, the waiter politely informed me that "only Chinese restaurants have chopsticks" and we were in an Indian restaurant. :)  Oh well, so much for "blending in"... :) 

Bridget stretching before our late-night snack

The food was really good

Iced Coffee, which in KL means hot coffee with ice cubes in it... :)

After dinner, it was lights out for both of us.  Another exciting day in KL came to an end.