I just got back from a GREAT vacation in KL, Malaysia. I meet-up w/ a friend from BKK, ate some great food (Indian, Chinese, Bangladeshi, and a damn expensive burger), meet some nice people from all over this globe, but the thing that made it so GREAT is I bought a new camera!
It's the camera I've been talking about for the past 8 months & that's the Panasonic Lumix LX3!
Wow wow wow! I bought it at a hi-so mall near the Petronas Twin Towers. Here's the 3rd picture I took with it:
I named my new baby Sylvia (they didn't have the black model, they only had the silver one).
I took a lot more pictures w/ my Canon dSLR, but I'm having a lot of fun playing around w/ the LX3 pictures, so I'm going to post some of those 1st.
this is where I stayed in KL:
It's a great GH, the staff is superb, meet some really nice people, good location (Chinatown), it's clean & very welcoming. If I was to go to KL again without the gf I would stay here in a heart beat.
Here are a few random night shots of KL, mainly in Chinatown:
I was really surprised by the openly gay & ladyboys in KL, here are a few pretty boys hanging out near the towers:
here's a couple of notes at the GH:
if you don't want to read the notes, I'll sum it up for you. Becareful around black guys in Malaysia.
I was walking around drinking some beer with this nice kid from Germany & we ran into someone we meet earlier that day & he asked us if we wanted to see an old Chinese Temple. We were like sure. Unfortunatly we couldn't see the inside (it was 2-3 in the morning, so it was closed ) I snapped this one:
in KL there aren't a lot of street dogs, so it was surprising to see this little pooch:
she was a sweet little girl. It was sad, she wanted us to pet her, so she'd come really close, but would get scared when we raised our hand. So who know's what her past is w/ humans.
another night I heard some ominous sounding Indian music playing, I looked at a dark parking lot, & there was a red Hindu shrine in the back. So I snapped a quick picture, I was a little spooked:
This guy maintained the shrine, so I talked to him for a while:
The following night I saw him again, so I snapped another photo of him:
he had a pretty good coin collection, I wish I had some American, or Thai coins to give him.
Well that's it for now, I'll post more later.