yet another year of CNY, an exact repetition of what happened last year, and the year before, and on and on...

ive been away from work since thursday, whereby i spent some time with Rieko (a japanese gal whom i met in NZ) who was forced to stopby in KL en route to Nagoya because she's flying with MAS...so she thought she should take the opportunity to check out the 'big donkey' of SEA...

Prior to our rendezvous at her hotel, i was squeezing my brain out trying to think of somewhere to bring her, you know, somewhere to impress her of the city...it was hopeless, the places that i always hangout at are shopping malls and more shopping malls...im sure she can get alot of those in japan...not a very brilliant idea...

so yeah, i thought i should bring her to the twin towers, and sure enough, she was totally psyched of the idea of witnessing one of the most famous icon in the world...good, so far so good, she's still happy...

what followed is alot of 'oohs' and 'aahs' when she saw Isetan and all the japanese goods at the supermarket, she went: 'gosh, i feel like im back in Japan already!'...and then we passed by Kinokuniya in Isetan, and she cant resist to go through all the books there and exclaimed at familiar names, and at the price tags too...'you guys sure have very expensive books here', she said...i was like: 'yeah, tell me bout it...'

i brought her to savour some malaysian food at 'little penang', well, at least i attempted to, because we have barely sat down for 10 minutes when she told me she's not into oily food, so there goes malaysian food...at least not those found in the restaurant, the menu was all about 'nasi lemak', 'char kuew teow', and the like...

we left Suria without dinner and headed for LakeTitiwangsa to go on a ride on the ferris wheel...on the way there ive had the chance to show her our infamous malaysian traffic, and of course, the courtesy of our malaysian drivers... it was just so unfortunate...

'Eye on Malaysia' is a complete flop, i hereby urge anyone who hasnt been there but planning to go not to waste your time and money on something equivalent to nothing...it was a major disappointment, and i was utterly embarrassed...we waited for what seemed like forever in the queue, got in the gondola after having some crazy fan blowing moist air straight into our faces for ages, took a ride to the peak and found ourselves staring at hmm...was that istana budaya? hey, i just caught a glimpse of the twintowers, and look, dark waters of lake titiwangsa, how fascinating...all these through raindrops-stained glass...

i then drove her back to JalanAlor and we had some street food for supper...the next day we went to do more sightseeing at Chinatown, KL's bigben, centralMarket, museum, and Midval...i would love to have shown her somemore outdoor thingy but she was having such a hard time with the heat when we were walking in chinatown that i told her we can forget bout BatuCaves and LakeGarden...

it was all good though, she told me how much she's enjoyed KL when we parted farewell at KL central, oh yeah, she cried too...i think she was moved that ive taken my time to show her around...

im feeling good...