Cheap and delicious

This place may be dirty, noisy, hot, and crowded, but the people are friendly, the food is good, the prices are cheap, and there is great nightlife. It's the most exciting place I've been and it was easy for Maurice to talk me in to staying through the weekend. It's the kind of place where anything can happen. I tried to sleep in, but the guesthouse guys kept waking me up and asking if I was going to the National Park, then later if I was going to pay for another night. Eventually they left me alone, and I was able to sleep until 12:30. Unfortunately, the bowel situation his not been solid since I got here, and I was still feeling queasy from last night. I wanted some Western food to settle my stomach, so I went to Planet Hollywood and paid RM40 (US$10) for a little pizza and an ice tea. Ouch. Dinner was better because Maurice and I had a ton of sushi for RM20.

Tonight we went to the place across the street from where we were last night, which is where all the locals go. I couldn't get in last night since I had sandals on. The place was a big step up, and was packed with impossibly beautiful women, and very few Westerners, I think I saw three besides us. Strangely, Latin music is huge here. They play lots of Santana and a song I never heard before that's in Spanish. Nothing too exciting happened. A slightly annoying thing did, though. I pointed out a woman I thought was attractive, so Maurice goes over to talk to her to "help me out." I didn't want him to do that since that never works, and sure enough it turned out that she was from Hong Kong, a place Maurice had been (and had another girlfriend), so she was into him. Maurice is a machine. He wasn't interested, though. We stayed until the place closed at 4, then had Chinese food. I learned it's hard to eat mee soup when you're drunk.