... Nah , not my story.
Neither did i go around the world , nor did i spend 80 days traveling.
A short trip to our "across the sea neighbours" - Malaysia and Singapore turned out to much more fascinating and awesome than what i had expected.
Well, I'm not here talking about the must see places or any tourist information as u can easily find better people to tell u about that. Just google.
Lets go Malaysia first.
First thing one is likely to notice in this nation is the LARGE airport - it has a rail system inside its building!
Nice huh?
On the flight , we were offered lots of cool drinks and little food. I wondered why.
In the airport , EUREKA! , i found myself the answer!
Superb toilets and breath-taking wash rooms!
And who can resist showing off their investments??!! Hence the cool drinks onboard!
Fresh strawberries, Dark chocolates and things i could not recognize made a walk in the airport rather a pleasure.
overall 9.99 out of 10. (9.99 because i did not like their strategy of drinks :p, every thing else was real good!)
It's a 75 km drive from the air port to the city. On the way we pass by unpopular buildings like the incometax department and toll booths. And soon the landscape changes from pure green trees to shiny blue sky scrapers. Putrajaya - they call it. the city which they claim will take the architectural world by storm! seemingly so.
But like most other beautiful things, a visit to Putrajaya is expensive! ...We let it alone.
We steadily moved into the country's capital - Kuala Lumpur.
I was Stunned. The towering sky rises and marvelous architecture apart, the first thing Indians are likely to notice in the city is it's incredible cleanliness!
The 75 km drive was having it's toll on me already. It got sickening and monotonous ... u know... i'm not used to perfectly smooth roads without pot holes!
Finally we arrived at our hotel ... nice and cozy. I was already liking malaysia!
We spent the next few days looking around a few buildings and nodding to every thing our guide told us...
not much sight seeing to see in this city :-( . however , the city was of a different type... so just liked looking around.
The place that caught my interest was a street called " Little India". It really was very 'Indian' and i felt as if i was home. One can find anything he/she finds in India - Samosas , vegetables, pirated CDs n fake Nike/Adidas shirts :p and ofcourse many INDIANs.
It didn't take me long to discover malaysians' favorite word : "Laah".
It goes like this :
How are u Laah?
I am fine Laah!
U like KL laah? (KL = Kuala Lumpur)
uff!
The last day at KL turned out to be a lil boring.
i dont know why... perhaps it was getting monotonous or maybe i was excited on going to our next destination - Singapore.
Oh! btw... we visited a place called Melaka sometime during the stay at KL. Decent historical place.
But what was more interesting was it's name - u swap the 'l' and the 'k' and u have the name of one of my classmates :-p !
overall rating : 7/10. (don't ask for reasons, it's MY blog!)
We then head towards one of the most hyped countries of the world.
Singapore looks small on a map , but for a one city nation it's big enough.
Lots of places to see!!
I wonder how they have a zoo and a safari inside that small island!
I just LOVED this place! awesome!
Stupendous technologies everywhere - automatic toll , high tech train tickets... So cool!
Btw... here's an intersting statistic : 77% of singaporians are chineese, 12% malay, 8% Indians and only 3% Locals!! :p.
And as a result Chineese food is all around.But chineese restaurants that dont serve veg food. :p
We went into one of the eatery and asked for VEG food - and the waiter went " Are u sure??" holding an absolutely confused face!
There's nothing much i would like to add about the experience about Singapore... It really was tooo cooooll!! the sight seeing places are superb, well complimented by a clean, safe , tourist friendly atmosphere. For more see my FB photo album.
over all rating : 9/10 (i was tempted to give a 10/10 , but there is always room for improvement u see!! :-p )
Very soon i landed once again on a runway. This one was much more bumpier. The air hostess then called out "My dear Guests , Jet Airways now welcomes you to Baroda...."
That marked the END of a short but enjoyable journey.
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