That's Entertainment

Our arrival at the KL Tower yesterday proved to be a signal for the heavens to open and release torrents of rain. We sent the kids up the tower to view the capital through the greyness while we grabbed an overpriced cup of tea down below. They weren’t up there for so long though and soon descended to munch through two packets of oreos which Mak Ndak had sensibly brought along.

After that it was off to Times Square, an extraordinarily large mall with little to recommend it other than a fairly decent Borders Bookshop and an indoor roller coaster. Oh, and there’s a sort of amusement park with lots of improbably noisy machines, which proved to be a good spot to occupy the troops for a while. One curious feature of this mall is the fact that it’s obviously too big to fill up. It has ten floors, but beyond the sixth floor there are lots of vacant spaces and the massive eating area situated at the top is distinguished by its lack of customers.

Like so many malls it has a distinctive hollow raw echoey quality. I suppose this must be a good thing since so many people flock to these places. Like the vacant lots. Somebody, somewhere knows what they doing. Or possibly not.

And the late, breaking news today: we’re just back from watching Prince Caspian and the price of petrol in Malaysia will be shooting up from 2.00 tomorrow morning.