i know, i know. i've dropped from weekly blogging to.... bi-monthly. i'll make it up. here's a summary of all that's gone on since september! please excuse my photo effects. the new photo editing service in flickr is more fun than the old photo editing service, and now i've gone overboard.
we celebrated halloween! it was a spooky time indeed. i learned that tearing a haunted house down takes significantly less time than building one.
i attended my very first marine corps ball, with my most delightful boyfriend. it was a fun time indeed.
i tried out a new restaurant called "circus" with my friends, and faced another case of what i call "malaysiafication," aka when a simple dish is ruined for no reason. salads are frequent victims of this. i ordered french onion soup. simple. so easy i could make it! i think what everyone looks forward to in french onion soup is the cheesy goodness on top, right? instead i got an egg yolk. and no cheesy goodness. everyone else enjoyed their food, and the cocktails were good, if not a bit expensive. that's typical though.
after weeks of me whining pouting begging politely asking, my compliant sweet boyfriend finally took me to the aquarium. the aquarium is located semi-underground, in klcc. we arrived right before the piranha feeding fest was beginning, so it was delightful right from the start (i mean, as delightful as you can feel watching fishes attack other fishes). because fishes make me SO EXCITED i was pretty happy about this. and as you can see, we saw bruce AND crush, so that was even better. we saw so many sharks. it was a pretty good aquarium. the only thing that really stood out to me is how different safety is outside of the us. this isn't something new to me, as i noticed it my very first day in budapest on my very first trip abroad. nobody cares about safety like america. in the case of the aquarium, you could easily stick your hand in numerous fish tanks, which had "please do not put hands in the water" signs all over them. who is to stop you though, when you can do it right there?? and it's not just accessible by adults, but also children. just kind of crazy to see. i guess people obey the signs though, or else i would imagine the tanks would be covered by now.
deepavali, a major indian holiday, came and went. the numerous beautiful rice/sand displays also went. i think i enjoy that holiday (not just for the four day weekend it brought).
thanksgiving also came and went. i had two dinners. i missed home more than i have the entire time here, i think. blah.
i actually do have more to post about (including doing the most touristy thing to do here in KL), but i'm a little tired and it's a little past bedtime. more later!
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