Room with a View!!
As promised I'm putting some captions.
All of these pictures are from my mid-semester break. I travelled to the rainforest and Kuala Lumpur. The highlights were walking through the canopy of the rainforest (5om above ground, and it went on for 500m!) and the Chinatown night market in Kuala Lumpur.
During the day in Chinatown, there are tons of booths out with basically the same wares that are available at the night market. The main difference is the night market is actually on the street, and their prices are unlisted. So a smart shopper could look at the prices during the day so they wouldn't get hoodwinked at night. Here is an example conversation (paraphrased) between me (henceforth "Me") and a night market guy hawking t-shirts (henceforth "NMG"):
NMG: Hello! Friend! Hi! (he steps in front of me) You want t-shirt?
Me: Yeah, I guess.
NMG: OK OK come look! Hey mate, hey amigo!! Where you from?
Me: Canada.
NMG: Oh! Canada! Special price for you! (I took this to mean a higher price than normal)
Me: How much for this sweatshirt?
NMG: I give you my best price, 90 Ringgits (about $30CAD).
Me: Oh, that's okay then (then I start to walk away).
NMG: Ok wait wait! I give you even better price, 80 Ringgits! (I am still walking)
NMG: 79 Ringitts! Best price!
NMG: Ok, fine, lah, how much you want it for??
Me: I'll give you 30 Ringitts.
NMG: No way! No profit that way!!! (he turns away)
Me: Everywhere else sells them for 30 Ringitts.
NMG: But I have better quality. Look at my quality!
Me: It's the same quality everywhere in the night market.
NMG: Okay, okay, 30 Ringitts.
Me: Actually, it doesn't really fit very well, I'm going to keep looking...
NMG: Okay, you want 25 Ringitts?
Me: Okay, fine.
Phew! Repeat that for several times per item. It always panned out like this unless you didn't buy something, in which case they acted either really angry or hurt. But it was kind of fun once I got used to it.
Anyway, this is the view from Petronas Tower. In the pictures below you can see the Skybridge between the two towers - that's where we were.
Another view:
Cia, Tyler and I on the Skybridge:
All of these pictures are from my mid-semester break. I travelled to the rainforest and Kuala Lumpur. The highlights were walking through the canopy of the rainforest (5om above ground, and it went on for 500m!) and the Chinatown night market in Kuala Lumpur.
During the day in Chinatown, there are tons of booths out with basically the same wares that are available at the night market. The main difference is the night market is actually on the street, and their prices are unlisted. So a smart shopper could look at the prices during the day so they wouldn't get hoodwinked at night. Here is an example conversation (paraphrased) between me (henceforth "Me") and a night market guy hawking t-shirts (henceforth "NMG"):
NMG: Hello! Friend! Hi! (he steps in front of me) You want t-shirt?
Me: Yeah, I guess.
NMG: OK OK come look! Hey mate, hey amigo!! Where you from?
Me: Canada.
NMG: Oh! Canada! Special price for you! (I took this to mean a higher price than normal)
Me: How much for this sweatshirt?
NMG: I give you my best price, 90 Ringgits (about $30CAD).
Me: Oh, that's okay then (then I start to walk away).
NMG: Ok wait wait! I give you even better price, 80 Ringgits! (I am still walking)
NMG: 79 Ringitts! Best price!
NMG: Ok, fine, lah, how much you want it for??
Me: I'll give you 30 Ringitts.
NMG: No way! No profit that way!!! (he turns away)
Me: Everywhere else sells them for 30 Ringitts.
NMG: But I have better quality. Look at my quality!
Me: It's the same quality everywhere in the night market.
NMG: Okay, okay, 30 Ringitts.
Me: Actually, it doesn't really fit very well, I'm going to keep looking...
NMG: Okay, you want 25 Ringitts?
Me: Okay, fine.
Phew! Repeat that for several times per item. It always panned out like this unless you didn't buy something, in which case they acted either really angry or hurt. But it was kind of fun once I got used to it.
Anyway, this is the view from Petronas Tower. In the pictures below you can see the Skybridge between the two towers - that's where we were.
Another view: Cia, Tyler and I on the Skybridge:
posted by Colin at 8:46 p.m.
2 Comments:
What a beautiful view!
Stolie
http://funkybrownchick.blogspot.com
I look constipated
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