Leaving aside the matters from the previous post for a while...

Here I am... in KL. This is our family's choice of end-year vacation for this year.
Yeah. For people who from KK who always travel there, this is nothing new. But for our family, it is. At least, mostly, to my siblings. We are only an average family - we can't afford to travel overseas.

I had mixed feelings on the day we were to leave Sabah. I'm going to miss my cats, I'm going to miss watching several TV programmes... Most importantly, I'm going to miss 4 days of piano practice. Hmmm...

Oh well... Tomorrow we'll be returning to Sabah (ureshii!). Our flight is around 4am so we'll have to be at the airport very early. We'll reach KK around 6am, return home and get ready to go to church. I do wonder how exhausted we will be when we show up at the church...

Anyway, this post isn't going to be entirely about 5W+1H questions... What or where we'd eaten. I'm bad at describing that. I just want to write[type] down some things that caught my attention.

Following will be an encounter of someone not familiar with KL.
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Taxi... I remembered a couple years ago how [disadvantagedly] my mum and I fell prey to tout(s) (they also call them ulat = slug, I think) at the KLIA airport. They brought us to a comfy car (can't remember what type) then drop us off at a petrol station where we'll have to take the normal cab. At that point, I've grown slightly suspicious of these people (they are *ehem* b-u~m_i@s) but as it was surprisingly hot that day, I only think of reaching Melaka as soon as possible. Didn't think much about it.

But, actually, you have to care and think much about taxi fares. My family don't use taxi much in Sabah because we have a car. The only time we need it is when my dad's not home (out station) or the car sent to the "workshop" (should be garage)... My mum usually straight-away asks how much to _________? The taxi doesn't use the meter thingy at all... and I'm not even sure if it has one...

Ermm. Back to the topic.

We met another one. After traveling on foot to Suria KLCC (I never imagine it to be this huge and so crowded!) we decided we want to return to the hotel with taxi. As we consist of 5 person, we should be on two taxis. Then this taxi driver said he'll sent us all in his taxi with a special price and he'll take responsibility if anything happen (What can happen? I'm curious.) Then this driver turned out to be a Sabahan! From Sandakan. With his erm... [semenanjung] slang, I thought he has been in KL for at least a year. But, no~ he's here for 6 months already! Wow. A person who can change this fast must be a really opportunistic creature. His character has been decided - he is a taxi sagishi.. haha.. I'm glad my dad didn't call him the next day to bring us to the zoo.

Today we did met two nice taxi drivers. The chinese one talked a lot about many things. He said he had been in Sabah before. And from his conversation with my mum, he seems like someone who paid attention to happenings in Sabah/Sarawak... but it might also be because he read newspaper a lot. Hmm. I was surprised when he suddenly exclaimed (he raised his voice) something about the zoo in Singapore.

The indian taxi driver we met on the way back to the hotel from Mid Valley also talked a lot. He and my mum talked (or should I say discussed?) mostly about politics. This uncle seems to have strong opinions on some politicians and "people up there".

I'm not saying that the *ehem*.... are bad, opportunistic taxi drivers... but so far this is what I'd seen and experienced... Imagine paying RM 50 for a trip that will just be around RM 20 if you are on a taxi with meter (thingy. I don't know what they call it in english). I don't know you, but I'll be angry with myself for being fool enough to be swindled. I can buy a book at Kinokuniya with RM 30!

Speaking of books... I finally "met" Kinokuniya! I've brought several books from them online and I love how fast they get my books ready - The fastest I received the book was the next day after my order was confirmed!

I love Kinokuniya! I can be there all day. If only I have the cash...

Since recently, books have been my big weakness. I want to buy books I want to read, books I think good to read, books I'm not sure if I'll read... and books I'd read with beautiful covers (lol)... People say "Don't judge a book by its cover." I have my own saying derived from that: "Only judge a book by its cover when you already read it."

I also went to Mid Valley's MPH bookstore. The feeling was almost the same when I was at Kinokuniya but lesser. There's book everywhere. I feel like I'm in a book heaven! If only they open at the 1Borneo... *smiles dreamily*


~ Finally own a Lat/NST 2009 calender (from Kinokuniya). Can't find this anywhere in Sabah (or maybe it's only me who missed it). Lazy to order via post too...
~ The other pic is my MPH shopping bag. A piano score (book) and some notebooks. Nothing special.

~ And... my Kinokuniya shopping bag.

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