Sunday, February 05, 2006
Chilling Out in KK
Firstly - apologies for the intermittent updates to the blog. It's taking a while to work out the internet connections and at the moment with all the team building sessions to find free time to do them. I'm probably being a bit too fussy with all the photos and layout also, so what i'll try to do for a while is go in and give a quick text update for each day and then later on refine with pictures and details when i get a block of time with a faster connection. OK? Good...
Onto the action. Sunday was a bit of a late start (combination of jet lag and last night's visit to a bar that Albert owns - you'll have to ask me about the story with that one!). On that subject, beer, wines and spirits here are very expensive. They seem to be about the same price as the UK which is way OTT for the locals and relative to the cost of food! So the Tiger is being tamed in modest installments...........
We had earlier planned to go to a nearby resort hotel and make use of their pool facilities for the afternoon. The rest of the group had already left an hour before so Nick (my roommate) and i set off walking for the "big white hotel complex with a red roof" as we had been instructed.
An hour later in the midday heat we reached the hotel only to find it was the wrong one. Our one was actually another 10km further on so we jumped in a cab and joined the others.
We had a good afternoon there, Nick and El winning 1st and 2nd in a melon eating contest (pic to follow!).
Returned late afternoon to do some shopping and sort out the SIM card situation. Their are phone shops everywhere in KK, so very soon had a new Malaysian mobi number that lets me call the UK for about 4p/min. People at home can also call us here for 2p/min using a special access number from http://www.bestminutes.co.uk/index2.php
Sunday night was a team meal with all 11 people (the final 3 having arrived during the day) and a chance to get to know everyone a bit better. Later that night watched Chelsea beat Liverpool 2-0 from the comfort of a stool at the Bed Bar (1st half) and the Cock and Bull (2nd half) in town.
Good day!
Onto the action. Sunday was a bit of a late start (combination of jet lag and last night's visit to a bar that Albert owns - you'll have to ask me about the story with that one!). On that subject, beer, wines and spirits here are very expensive. They seem to be about the same price as the UK which is way OTT for the locals and relative to the cost of food! So the Tiger is being tamed in modest installments...........
We had earlier planned to go to a nearby resort hotel and make use of their pool facilities for the afternoon. The rest of the group had already left an hour before so Nick (my roommate) and i set off walking for the "big white hotel complex with a red roof" as we had been instructed.
An hour later in the midday heat we reached the hotel only to find it was the wrong one. Our one was actually another 10km further on so we jumped in a cab and joined the others.
We had a good afternoon there, Nick and El winning 1st and 2nd in a melon eating contest (pic to follow!).
Returned late afternoon to do some shopping and sort out the SIM card situation. Their are phone shops everywhere in KK, so very soon had a new Malaysian mobi number that lets me call the UK for about 4p/min. People at home can also call us here for 2p/min using a special access number from http://www.bestminutes.co.uk/index2.php
Sunday night was a team meal with all 11 people (the final 3 having arrived during the day) and a chance to get to know everyone a bit better. Later that night watched Chelsea beat Liverpool 2-0 from the comfort of a stool at the Bed Bar (1st half) and the Cock and Bull (2nd half) in town.
Good day!
// posted by storri @ 10:07 pm 
