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I spent the whole of last week at the Renaissance Kuala Lumpur accompanying Tomi as it was his first week at Schlumberger and they had an orientation course there. It was nice having to walk 10minutes to reach my office. sheer bliss i tell you. and there was an olympic sized pool that i managed to explore, and the title of this blog signifies the number of laps that i managed to swim each time i was at the pool. with the last day i was there, having an actual holiday on my own. it was Saturday when i replaced Tomi to go for breakfast at the restaurant. And he had his international driving test to attend.

Then i rushed to Taman Bahagia via LRT from Dang Wangi, which was a 5 minutes walk from the hotel, to meet Grace and show her the new house that we moved in on Oct 1st with Soo Hooi, Ling, Thana and a boy named Ralph who's studying in KDU who's sister was the former tenant of the house. more about the house later, this article is dedicated to my own holiday in Kuala Lumpur.

I just showed Grace around the house, then moved my things that were lying in the hall into the room, which Ralph used to occupy but i couldn't put my things in the last time i was there because he was still moving his things from his old room(our new room, Our meaning Thana, Grace and I) to his new room downstairs, which is as small as the store room in my Klang house, because of its huge built in wardrobe. nice boy, being able to keep the house clean, so we're not complaining. he even allows me to call Tomi using the landline he paid for when using Streamyx, which is best for me using iTalk after much dissapointing survey on IDD rates to Qatar. back to my holiday in KL, which i havent had time to elaborate.

after putting things away to welcome the others who were about to move in, we left the house after 1/2 hour and i went back to the hotel, still thinking of how good breakfast tasted, which leaves me time to elaborate further, for the benefit of those surveying and sourcing out places to eat or to spend a night in Kuala Lumpur if you happen to have the means to indulge in more luxurious accomodations, or it could be as simple as one person surveying the next place to stay when visiting KL on business trips;p hope this would be beneficial to my older circle of readers who are now still excited over the business travelling activities that may come rarely for some people and very frequent for others, leaving some sense of envy but i like the term "dengki" which means the exact same in Malay. back to my story

Breakfast was, in the order of arrangement, an array of dimsum, miso soup, hongkong porridge, bacon, pancakes, waffles, sausages(like those we ate at Chennai, for those who went with me), bacon, leftover Sahur food like fried noodles, vegetables, nasi lemak, baked beans, omelette station, muesli and cereal bar, fruits, cheeses, juices, milk, an array of yoghurt and assortment of bread and pastry which i dont really fancy, rather be stuffing myself with Nasi Lemak, which i seem to always have a craving for, especially early in the morning, accompanied by a cup of steaming coffee, 1 teaspoon nescafe, 2 tablespoon creamer, and half a teaspoon of sugar. blissful i tell you! would have loved to stay longer, but i had to fulfill my obligation of meeting Grace, where it was 45 minutes later than i promised in the first place.

i reached the hotel, did my devotion and went down to the pool to prevent myself from being depressed alone in the room, thinking of Tomi's departure the next day. it wasn't that sunny to begin with, and i didnt bring my sunblock to slather myself with, so i settled for my daily faceblock only. then i dipped into the cold water and chilled there munching on apples along the way when i took rests from each 10 laps. there were all sorts of tourists there, enjoying the sunny malaysian weather, where Malaysians try their best to avoid, unlike certain people like me, who think getting a tan is more beautiful than spending tons of cash on bleaching your skin in one way or another. think its just to accept the way you are and eventually there's the inner beauty that makes every girl unique. that's what Dove is trying to buy is with. haha.

all in all i spent 2 hours by the pool getting a nice tan and body aches from swimming too much but it was fun and therapeutic and better than being couped up in the room in tears.Tomi came back 1 hour later and we went about doing last minute errands before making our way back to Klang via KTM komuter, bags and all, part of the experiences that we cherish dearly, as i seem to take the mundane and unconventional events in life like taking public transportation and roughing it out in the jungle or backpacking to be one of the most romantic things that you get to do with the person you love, or even friends, but that would not be rendered as romantic but mere fun. haha. I still owe a blog on farewells. See if i have the inspiration the next time. enjoy!