After some last minute flight and hotel reservations, the trip to KL seemed to be confirmed. The arrangement was to meet Ming at the airport when he arrived and proceed to check in for our flight to KL.
27th Aug.
Went to the airport to meet Ming who arrived on SQ flight from Hong Kong. Together, we proceeded to Air Asia counter to check in for our flight to KL. 50 mins' flight and we arrived about 5:15pm into KL. The LCCT has certainly expanded in size since the last time I arrived at the terminal. With the current influx of travellers travelling on budget carriers, business is blooming for Air Asia! Took a cab ride to town which took about 1 hour and cost only M$74! I actually expected the cab fare to be higher!
Arrived at Capitol Hotel - my favourite hotel! Went for dinner with Ben at Jalan Imbi area...had Hokkien noddle, yuen yang, fried beef and vege. The meal was delicious!
Back to the hotel and Nelson came by for a chat.
28th Aug
Did not sleep well ...in fact, hardly slept! Went out for a walk around 1am..... still a lot of people at Bukit Bintang! Went back to hotel and watched video on the MP4 given by Ming. Suddenly heard a loud noise and after checking the room, found leakage from the floor above. Managed to change room, at 4am in the morning! Ming was still half asleep when we moved! Hahahahaha!
Went to McDonald's at 5am for early breakfast - so very early!
Took Ming to the nearby shop for prata. He was surprised to see prata with curry...such a heavy meal for breakfast, he reckoned! We only had 1 prata each!
Showed Ming Starhill gallery (he enjoyed the decors of the various restaurants) and Pavilion (where he bought some charcoal bread, jelly and even jams!)
Back to the hotel where we met up with SP for lunch. Went to The Federal Hotel's Chinese restaurant for tim sum buffet. Well..... don't waste your money!
SP was kind enough to give us a lift to KLCC. From KLCC, we took the MRT to Central Market and from Central Market, we walked to Chinatown and then walked back to Hotel. Ming managed to get some interesting souvenirs from Central Market.
Nelson and Alwin came to fetch us for dinner. Dinner was somewhere in PJ . The restaurant was very crowded but we managed to get a table. The food was not bad! We had salted egg coated crabs and fried pig throttle!
Then, Nelson drove us to Alwin's place to pick up his car and drove us to 65 for drinks. Did not stay long as we did not enjoy the place, anymore.
29th Aug
Ming wanted to have toast for breakfast and we ended up having pancake! After breakfast, we went over to Times Square for a look-see. Took a cab ride (M$25) to Mid Valley and had Leong Tau Foo lunch. Ming is not into fish and some pieces had the fish meat taken out because he did not like the taste! Nelson and Alwin came to fetch us to The Curve and we managed to spend some time walking around the place before we set off to Bangsar for dinner - Korean BBQ!
Dinner was great and the company was wonderful! The owner even gave us some extra dishes!
Dessert was at Sakura.... and then we called it a night.
30 Aug
After breakfast at nearby cafe, went to MetroJaya to do last minute shopping before we went to Jalan Imbi for Bak Kut Teh and then back to hotel to check out and proceeded to airport.
Arrived back at Singapore and checked in to Golden Landmark Hotel. Went home to drop my luggage before bring Ming to Heeren. Ming wanted to check out this shopping Mall. Raymond came to meet us and we then went to meet up with Gerald for dinner. After some discussion, we went to Eng Seng Coffee Shop for Pepper Crab. Raymond commented that it was a good meal! He must have enjoyed the crabs prawns and the noddles!
Gerald drove us to Marina Barrage for a night stroll & view before we ended up at Chinatown for dessert!
31 Aug
Malaysia National Day! Er.... its a working day in Singapore, though! However, I was on leave! Brought Ming for a walking trip around his hotel...Arab street....and then to the Wholesale market, to Albert Court, LaSalle and then to Raffles City Shopping Centre. Unfortunately the shop he wanted to visit already closed down. We had lunch at the food court and he enjoyed the Laksa dish....spicy enough! Walked over to the Art Museum and managed to visit a few galleries FOC (before 2pm)! Then, afternoon tea at The Cathay before I took him to Chinatown and let him 'loose' on his own! Hahahahahaha!
Met up again for dinner. Went to Swissotel Merchant Court for the famous buffet at Cafe Ellenborough. It was a delicious meal - chili crabs, fried fish (big fish), crayfish, sashimi, oysters, lots of desserts, including durians!
Gerald managed to join us for coffee at the end of our meal!
01 Sep
Went to meet Ming at the hotel and helped him checked out. Bade him goodbye and safe trip back to Hong Kong!
These few days have been good for me....it was a good trip to KL. Ming was a great travel companion, fun and easy to get along! Hope he enjoy the trip too!
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