The two towers of KL

After three days in George Town I took a two hour bus to Singapore and got there safe and sound despite the heavy traffic on the motor way.
I had looked trough the guide and made my mind up that I would treat myself to a good hotel in a central location and got of the bus terminal and started walking.
Got to the hotel thirty minutes later (I only got lost once) and walked up to the counter. The portiere looked me up as I was standing there with my rucksack and clothes that needed a wash and when I asked if they had any available rooms he instantly replied “No, but there’s a cheap place around the corner”. I looked at him a bit stunned because I always been told that money sees no color but apparently they had higher standards in this particular hotel.
Walked out and the cheap place was indeed around the corner. The good thing was that it was really clean and nice and had a very friendly staff. Turned out all the rooms were full but they had an air conditioned dorm for a tenth of the price I had intended to pay at the hotel so I happily went for it.
After tucking my stuff under the bunk bed I headed out to one of the malls near by to check out the local shopping and it was the most insane thing I’ve ever seen. Not only were the place massive, had ten floors and probably hundreds of shops. This mall even had its own roller coaster inside and I kid you not, it was a big one.
Coming from a pretty sleepy place like George Town this couldn’t be more of the opposite side of the coin and I stood there in awe watching it all. Walked around the mall for three hours but still didn’t get further that level seven and decided that I would make a braver attempt at the top the following morning when I had some more energy.
Went out, got some food and then watched football at the hostel with some really nice people from Switzerland.
The following morning I woke up early and headed for the Singapore towers. I was told that they were the currently tallest buildings in the world and getting closer to them I had to admit that it looked really impressive. All that steel and glass reaching towards the sky certainly makes you thing about how they manage to get it happening with safety and everything else in mind. Walked in and it was equally impressive inside. The main difference from the mall I had been to the previous day was that this one pretty much only stocked designer shops. Gucci, Prada, Rolex, you name it and they had it there.
Must admit that I wasn’t too interested in most of the stuff being a backpacker and all but it did look fantastic.
Walked out and was approached by a lot of dodgy guys showing me fake Rolexes telling me “I got it from inside, buy now for good price”. Don’t know why they think anyone would go for it but they certainly were unsuccessful with me, mama didn’t raise no fool.
Walked around the city and china town for a while until the rain started at which point I decided to have dinner. Sat down in a little tiny place but they served the most beautiful dim sum (still doesn’t match Lido’s because the taste is so different but it was good).
The next day was spent in the BB plaza, another mall where I was checking out prices for camera equipment. Turns out they had very decent prices and I decided to upgrade my camera since I’ve got into the whole photography thing a whole lot more since starting this trip. Decided to go for a manual lens Panasonic FZ30 and they threw in a tripod, bag and two gigabyte memory for 280 pounds in total.
Spent the next day trying to get to grips with my new camera and then sobbed like a baby when Sweden lost against those stupid krauts.
I had met a lot of people that said they found Kuala Lumpur too imposing but I had a great time. Go there and enjoy!