I am retiring from making any more attempts to go up The Infamous Petronus Towers. Two days ago on a family trip there, it was third time unlucky. First visit there I had my wallet stolen, second time The Towers were closed and then the third? All the tickets for the day had been sold. No amount of polite pestering from me could persuade the ticket sellers to magic up a few more tickets. Instead the extended Lawrence Clan went out of the main buildings and strolled out the front to take a few photos.
On the way back in three blokes sidled up to me and asked me, in very hushed tones if I wanted to buy either a Samsung Tablet or i-phone 5. Having been burgled and pick-pocketed I take a dim view of such dodginess. The phones offered to me looked extremely real, so much so that they most likely were and I am sure that their source could only have been from pick-pocketing. As in many places in Malaysia there were loads of security guards walking around desperately looking for something to do. The one thing they chose not to do was challenge these dubious traders. Far be it from me to even think that the security fellers might be deliberately ignoring what is going on right underneath their noses?
Yesterday evening I took my parents back to KLIA to get their night flight back to England. Along with a good Malaysian friend we saw them safely off into the immigration area and on their way. Departure hall are certainly much more glamorous than arrivals and sitting in the KLIA departures hall sipping a glass of lemonade I started to ponder … and ponder… and started to wonder if you could arrive at an airport terminal, with only your passport and credit card and leave on a plane fully equipped for wherever you had chosen to head off to?
Lawrences spent most of today in the Cosmo Theme Park, Berjaya Times Square, with a colleague and his children. It was my first experience of an indoor rollercoaster and it was also much enjoyed by all of us. And here’s another thought. Berjaya Times Square sounds much better when said with a Yorkshire accent.
Finally we had Edwin’s ipod fixed today. Edwin had managed to lock it and forgotten the PIN number so I was pleased when we found a guy called Mr Boon who could repair it. A real Boon for technology.