Thursday, October 04, 2007

Catching up from KL

Ok so I finally get to update my blog again. I am in KL right now and it's 12:36am. I just came back from buying a very lame cheese sandwich and 2 kitkat bars from 7-eleven. This friggin hotel doesn't have room service after 10:30pm and they don't change foreign currencies. I asked the guy at the desk what the fucking forex exchange rates list sign behind him is for then, and he says it's only for information purposes. So in essence, it's so you know how much the going rate is, and now you have to haul your ass to somewhere else where the rate is most probably different than the hotel's - ok got it.
At least the wifi at the lobby was decent. But it was the fucking wifi that made me skip the 10:30pm curfew on food anyway. I was checking emails while they were clearing the tables - and it didn't even occur to my sorry ass that it's probably closing time. Of course, it's probably because I was reading the reports from Manila saying that there were major failures in the test run. And my senior engineer who lead the development is in Singapore on training, and I'm stuck here for some leadership training.
At least the hotel is quite near the Petronas towers so we have a nice view. I'm gonna get together with some former colleagues from my previous company. Our KL office was the biggest back then. Now everybody I know has moved into other companies or have been sent elsewhere on a project. But at least there are a couple of ones that are ok to meet and have a few beers for old time's sake.
I got upgraded to deluxe room, and it is essentially a 2 bedroom condo type layout. The elevator sucks though - they have attached an ELID security before you can press a floor button, and my card doesn't work too well. I had to get out on 9th floor and walk up to 10th through the fire exit stairs. Well there ya go - we shall see how all of this pans out. Will be posting some pics soon... ciao for now!