day two, trip two

After a fantastically quiet sleep I got up with nothing paticular to do. My uncle and I went to a nearby Indian place for 'roti chani' (curry sauce and fluffy unleven bread) and 'teh tarik' (special tea poured between two metal cups from a great height to fill it with air) for breakfast. I'm not normally into flavoursome food in the morning but I certainly wasn't complaining.

Everything here is done very slowly. Well, it is with my uncle. He has a walking stick and doesn't walk quickly i nthe first place, but it takes around twice the length of time to get somewhere as it should cos if he sees something interesting he stops and tells you a story or description about it. (This is all well and good but when it happens in the middle of crossing a road I must confess to getting a little anxious.) I love it. It's chilling out to the max. You couldn't live in a more relaxed way here if you tried.

He introduced me to the train and busses on a trip to KL. We went to a shopping centre for a wee minute but spent the longest length of time sitting people watching and talking (purely to give my uncle a rest of course.) People here are a lot less cautious of strangers than in Taiwan so we ended up talking to a few randoms too (a few of which just wanted to know where i got my perm and touch my hair cos it looked so real...)

We came back and sat outside reading, for what seemed like a few seconds, till my cousin got back from work. Him an his girlfriend took me out to a huge night market to find material. I didn't get material, but I did get some of the best food I've eaten in months. Man the food's good here (and it had shrimps in it again.) More vegetables, less oil and more spices.

It's far more developed here compared to where I live in Taiwan, but there's something I miss about the place. There's something really appealing about the lack of foreigners in Taiwan. It helps you to forget that you are one.

That said, I'm really enjoying spending time here (incase you hadn't guessed.)