Alas, it was inaudibly closed. I regard this as an embarrassment for a premier tourist spot to close for 5 days though it was holidays. Almost certainly we thought it was due to the charge-free entrance and lift, for we made our lengthy walk to the neighbouring aquarium that remained open and still charged 28 bucks on the second day of Aidilfitri.
The modestly advertised Aquaria was not a downer nonetheless not too enthralling. Yet my baffling obsession towards deep sea creatures was satisfied though a little. Miss Tan led us in a fine time looking for an obvious angler fish that was tagged as good in camouflage but all we discovered is a piece of 4-legged charcoal with barely noticeable moving gills resting just next to a standing red coral. Her mama must have told her that the most dangerous position is in fact the safest one.
Magnificent movements in every direction
Come baby come, it's time to eat.
Something fishy in the aquarium!
We stopped by the famous-only-to-foreign-tourists palace's front gate.
Acting class I - Frightened yet desperately excited countenance
Acting Class II - Petrified Body
A few fine days later, after multiple shopping sprees in the abound shopping malls in the metropolis and a visit each to the car workshop and the university, Miss Teo insisted to pursue her first visit to the skybridge after a failed first attempt. That very misty morning we headed to the city center once more and this time Kim has replaced Miss Tan who was apparently fed up with the suppose-to-be-in-disguise black angler fish.
It was a few minutes past 8 am in the morning as my bone-jingling wira ran past a saga with passengers who were obviously heading to the same destination as ours. Contentedly we walked up the car park to the tickets distribution counter thinking that we will get tickets at ease. See this picture and you will know how awful the big O our mouths would be at the crime spot.
After a 5-day closure, it was definitely not a good day for us to jointly grasp the tickets and agitate the already-disturbed planned trip of the many foreign travelers that we believed had stayed back a few days just to pay a visit to the icon. But well, it’s Miss Teo’s, my accommodation provider, maiden visit. We were not going to give up, taking turn to line up for nearly 2 hours and ended up seized four four-hour-later tickets.
The twins, as unforgiving as it has always been.
Patient WCK among the impatient hundreds of flockers. Check out the crowd, it's already after the officers requested only one to line up for a group. They are too slow in distributing the tickets!
From the top of the bridge
Another one
The bridge itself
Lightning strikes on KLCC
The group that managed to get a pass to the bridge!
The group that didn't make it to the bridge
After nearly a week in the capital, I drove back to Penang with Mr Tee and Miss Lai, with packs of hard-earned-money-turn-into fabrics and price tags. (Miss Lai too!) Mr Tee’s 9-month service exchange in the States left me and him much to catch up that the long arduous journey felt short.
Reached Penang soon after lunch time. Unpacked, napped, dined, and desserted, that was a pretty and lazy Sunday before November looms.
