Wednesday, October 8, 2008

First thoughts on KL


I am about to venture out into the city to go uptown to the IBM site. I think that means that we are not in the KLCC (KL City Centre) where the Patronas Towers (famous from that movie with Sean Connery and Catherine "I'm a pretzel watch me bend" Zeta-Jones). I can see the towers from my hotel, but edge on so that they look like a single tower. Interestingly, it looks as if they turn out all of the office building lights in the KLCC over night - that or the fog/pollution is so bad that  I can't see the buildings during the night. Not sure if that is because of energy costs or just energy grid reliability.
The trip into my hotel was fine - KL is one of those wonderfully advanced places that has a direct access train link from the airport to the city, and my hotel is right beside the train station.
I'll post pictures of the hotel room later - it is entirely open concept, which means that you stand in your "waterfall shower" and can look out over the sleeping area and out the windows if you really want to. And a note about "waterfall showers" - the water really does come out of the ceiling, which means that standing IN the shower trying to fiddle with the taps is not a good idea if you are still wearing your pyjamas.

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