I am back in Kuala Lumpur now. I can tell I am getting closer to the Equator, as the humidity has spiked, and the vegetation is thick. Even the grass is more like moss.
I had my first experience with the budget airline "Air Asia", when I flew from Phuket to Kuala Lumpur. It was a new experience for me. Everything about it was budget. When I bought the ticket, they charged for all the items that would normally be considered as part of a regular ticket price. You want to check luggage? There is a fee for that (even for one bag). Want seat selection? That's extra. What anything like water or coffee? That's not free, either. And in fact, when it came time to serve snacks to my row, they ran out of everything but rice. And I was in row 4.
When I was in line for check-in, which was agonizingly slow, I was informed that my luggage was 7kg over the impossible 15kg limit. I was told by the grinning check-in girl that my penalty would be about equal to the cost of my flight. I asked if I could buy a ticket for my luggage, as it would be cheaper. She didn't get it, and said the flight was full. I will get to experience the joy that is Air Asia again, as I fly with them to my next destination: Sabah. Sabah in in East Malaysia on the island of Borneo.
KL is a nice place. I quite like it here. The people are quite nice, and the city is very modern. This seems to be a 'shopping city' like Hong Kong or Singapore. So many malls, always crowded. I am not sure if I could live here, though. I think I would miss pork too much. This morning, I had chicken sausage and turkey bacon with my breakfast. Pork is my main meat, you know. Mmm....pork.
I was hoping to spend more time outdoors shooting photos of KL, since I didn't really get to shoot much on my last visit. But it's been raining a lot here, and today it's quite heavy. The weather report is not too promising. It might be a mall day.
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