Abused blogger syndrome
// August 23rd, 2006 // No Comments » // Malaysia, Personal
This is where you leave the country to work on a project in a far-away-land and then get insanely busy and don’t update you blog often enough. You then get SMS messages and emails from both sets of parents complaining about the lack of info!
Admittedly, I have been lax in my blog updates, but unless you want a daily dose of ‘Got up, skipped breakfast, went to office, worked hard, fell even further behind from the schedule, went back to apartment, passed out’ you’ll have to wait for something more interesting to happen.
As is happens, since I last posted, I’ve been to Brunei and gotten drunk (which is quite an achievement given that Brunei is a dry state), toured the Empire Hotel (that’s where Bill Clinton stays at when he’s in town) and watched the most gorgeous sunset across the south China sea (but no photo due to dead phone battery – DOH).
Back in KL I’ve discovered a drinking buddy from one of the vendors we’re working with, so some normality in the Friday-night-out-for-a-beer stakes has returned (photo’s coming soon). We’ve been exploiting insider information to locate the clubbing district and an open air bar on the 34th floor of a tower looking across to the Petronas towers. Luxury by local standards, regular pub prices for us. 50 ringits cover charge (about £7.70) to get in – no problems. Then you realize that a local restaurant will give you a plate full of food for about 5 ringits. Hmmm eat for a week or get into the bar? No contest.
I’ve also adopted the local custom of leaving bottles behind the bar. This is something unique to the East and is where, instead of buying drinks all night, you simply by a full bottle of your favorite tipple (Vodka, naturally) and pay for mixers as you use them. When you’re done, they mark the side of the bottle so you know how much is left and you leave it behind the bar. The next time you return you simply ask for your bottle back. The only problem being is that you need to have something left in the bottle at the end of the night – I need to work on that 
In other news…
My laptop has died and has had to be rebuilt – so I’ve lost most of my abilities to check mail, upload photos etc etc. I’m slowly rebuilding it so should be back up to full steam soon.
I might be getting broadband in the next few days (I’ll believe it when I see it!) so hopefully that will also help in the update-frequency-rate.
Gathering by the emails and SMSs from home, life is ticking along with a gratifying level of normality.
And before I forget, work friend Rashni has given birth (2 weeks late) to a bouncing baby girl, Maia. Many congrats.
Phew, I guess quite a few things have happened since my last update. I promise not to leave it so long next time
Hugz
-Adam
PS Instant noodles again for dinner tonight – No wonder my body hates me.
