KL menjerit - Part 1

Even though I didn't plan to leave Singapore for the June holidays, I ended up across the causeway all the way up to KL.

Colleagues of mine were in Sabah - a group of them were climbing Mount Kinabalu, rafting and what not. I was on MSN with some of them the night before the flight and next thing I know, the next day I found myself on a bus to Larkin. I met up with Yazid, Syam and Sidah and we were headed to KL!

When we reached Puduraya, we all letak bag then we're off to KLCC.

We first had to navigate through the city's rail network made up of the KL monorail, star line, putra line, ERL and KTM commuter. Sidah spent her Monash years in KL so thankfully we had someone who knew her way around.



I'll have to write the route down so that I won't forget the next time.

Puduraya --> Plaza Rakyat - Masjid Jamek (Star) --> Masjid Jamek - KLCC (Putra)

The first thing we did there was to try and get up to the sky bridge. Unfortunately...



.. so we just walked around and shopped. The shopping mall was a lot shorter than I expected until I remembered the towers are mostly offices.



After all that walking, the most memorable part about the mall is the toilet.



All toilet bowls should be fitted with that mini water cooler thingy.

By the time we got back to Pudu it was dark.



The streets were still alive though.



We took our bags and met up with Irzam, Sidah's friend from her uni days. He and his wife, Mariam had kindly agreed to put us up at their house while we were in KL. Irzam had parked his car at Bukit Jalil station so we were taking rail again. To think Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta Jones had waited at the same station.

Thanks to Mariam and family for putting us up for the two nights. I wished I had pictures of Bilal, her cute son but they're with Sidah. It was a nice little house in USJ 24.

The next morning we left with Irzam on his way to work. As such we arrived at KLCC bright and early to get our hands on tickets we missed yesterday.



We queued at 8.30am and got 1pm tickets to go up those high speed lifts. We spent the rest of the morning outside in the park.










We had lunch at Chilli's with a view.





We were so starved but the orders took their time to leave the kitchen.





By the time I was finished, I was so hyped up that I could have climbed up the towers.



Turns out we had to watch a video before we stepped on the lift.



The view was great...but then that was it.



Next up, Times Square!