Hello again audience! Part 2

First thing's first. The reason why you don't see me in any of my pics so far is because I'm the one taking them. I'll see if I can post some pics from my mum's camera with me in them, or I could just show you guys later when I come back to NZ. Depends on how lazy I am.

This part of the update will probably be short, let's see how it goes aye?

I forgot to mention that when I went to my numerous relatives' places there was always special CNY snacks available, most importantly pineapple tarts. One aunt of mine is famous for her homemade pineapple tarts:

Drinking water in Malaysia is normally boiled water or prepackaged, hence the airline style water in this pic with YET MORE FOOD:

The food on the left is some kind of deep fried fish paste while the one on the right is grilled glutinous rice with a dry coconutty curry filling wrapped in banana leaf.

On the same day the above pic was taken my Uncle and his family who travelled to Malaysia a month before us was due to return to NZ the next day so we went together earlier that morning for breakfast. We had roti canai and some kind of yellow sticky rice with fried chicken and sambal.

okay this blog post has gotten weird since I went out for dinner halfway through writing this so I can't quite remember the structure. So I'm gonna stop chatting and just show you pic of random place from this morning's travel along with pics of my dinner tonight. You can guess what's what :p

 Have Batman.

Hello again audience!

Finally! I have some free time AND internet!
The past few days have been pretty hectic. So far we've gone to the "Golden Triangle" of KL's most upmarket shopping malls, hence the reason we bought NOTHING from them due to the crazy prices. Chinese New Year is in full swing and the decorations in all the malls are stunning. I'll see if I can show some pics, hang on:

A Chinese ocrhestra playing in one of the malls:

Please excuse the poor quality of some of the pics. My phone's camera ain't exactly the best.

There was this one dude in one of the malls dressed as a Chinese god or something and everyone went's photo crazy when they saw him. My dad included:

....Okay so my aunt just came in and brought me food while I'm typing this so I've taken the liberty to take some  pics of curry puffs:

and this amazing bun from Rotiboy which has a layer of cookiedough on top and cheese inside. May sound weird but OH SO TASTY.

Just finished eating them now...right, where was I before the food came? Oh right the malls and stuff...

So yeah we went to heaps of malls and my feet are still complaining about all the walking as I type. But the experience was still fun. Met an old friend I was looking for for ages, a nice frosty mug of A&W rootbeer:

 On the third day in KL we went to an undergound food court that was awesome. You felt like you've travelled into some mystical world, it was like a maze in there.

 I wished i took more photos but I was too busy getting lost :p  There was this coffee shop where they make your drinks in a unique way. The place was really nice too:

Later that night we reunited with my aunt and her family and went to an Indonesian Padang restaurant. Have more pics:

 As the days went on we went and visited all my major relatives as per CNY tradition. Ate food at Every. Single. House. So I basically had 2 lunches and 2 dinners in a single day as it is customary to eat at the house you visit on that day. Regardless of how freakin full you already are. 

We visited the house where my late great grandmother (whom we call Ahtai) used to live with my grand uncle and his family. I felt abit uncomfortable since I still have some anger at the way they treated my Ahtai. But thankfully the visit was a cordial affair. My granduncle had recently gotten a leg amputated due to diabetic complications and now uses a fake one. He looks so much older now, more frail and skinny. I noticed that despite the hustle and bustle in the house in this festive season, no one interacted with him much. He was just sorta left there on his own. I don't really believe in karma but his current state of being ignored by his own family is much like the way his family treated my great grandmother. Maybe if he had actually treated his own mother with some respect and love and encouraged his family to do the same...ah well let's just move on.

Here's a pic of his front yard where we ate:

Second pic is of an altar they had since they're Buddhists. Ironic no? Compassion and all that.

Oh before we went to my grand uncle's we visited to other  uncles' places. This one was where we had our second lunch:

And this one was where we had our first dinner, no food pics, just his apartment and the view they had from their balcony:

Suffice to say that night was one to remember, whether for good or bad I don't really know. Oh and as some of you know unmarried folks get little red packets of money from married folks during CNY, here was my loot by the end of the day:

Got about RM100+ which is pretty decent. Bought two nice shirts with that moolah.

Ok I think I better post this now as part 1 of my latest update. Part 2 coming soon!

Photos!

Hello once again folks. My apologies for the late updates. Been moving from one living quarters to another, most without internet.

As an apology, there be pics yo.

The pics above is the view from the first hotel my family and I were staying in. It was a really cool and fancy place. The A/C was set to snap freeze however, but other than than it was awesome.

This pic shows just how many levels there were in this fancy mall connected to our hotel. Loved the giant Chinese lanterns there. There were more floors below ground level too.

This was the bigass cherry blossom tree inside the mall. They were really getting into the Chinese New Year spirit over there.

After the initial night of shop browsing we slept for the night and in the morning had breakfast at this nice restaurant in the same mall. The people working there were very pleasant and hospitable. And the food was epic delicious.

My mum and I ordered Mee Goreng Kampung:

And dad ordered Nasi Lemak:

Each meal came with a choice of drink, we all chose Teh Tarik which is a special tea with condensed milk that is "stretched" until frothy:

Each of our meals cost RM 6.50 which is less than NZ$ 3.00!!! Cheap and SO DELICIOUS!

Later on we reunited with Aunty Hasna and her youngest son Hafiz (technically my uncle) for lunch at the same place. It's hard to describe everything so just look at the pics:

Ok that will be all from me for now. Will update again when I can.

See you then!