Twisted soul: Jopay in KL

I was done with my original post when I accidentally deleted it. Imagine how pissed I was earlier after it happened. Anyway, I am trying to rewrite it again.

Jopay, one of closest friends in college, arrived here in Kuala Lumpur last Friday early morning as the first leg of her Southeast Asian tour. She took the red-eye flight going to Kuala Lumpur and needless to say, we barely slept when she arrived. Its been 4 years since we last chatted in our PJs and its fun to remind me once again what its like to be in the dorm again.

Jopay and I has a lot of things in common - we're both only child and had been brought up conservatively. In other words, we grew up as good girls. We even considered of going inside the convent at one point in our life. We also grew up in Bulacan. We went in the same college (Science) in UST in the same year. For the past 4 years in the dormitory, our nights were spent in chatting about how we spent our day at school, our classmates and professors, our dreams and of course our crushes (notice that its on the plural form haha). Even though we're working now, we still share the same experiences - our taste of "yuppie" independence and getting out of our shell, our dreams of travelling the world with our parents, getting a graduate school degree (she's a defense away from it), the pleasant and unpleasant things that we encountered in the corporate world. We only get to meet on dinner but its still not the same when we chat in our PJs while sitting on our bed with our pillows.

On her first day here in KL, I was not available to explore the city with her so she did it on her own. It was amusing to hear when she told me how she haggled her souvenirs at Petaling street, how she climbed the grand staircase with 200 steps at Batu caves, how she mingled with the other solo travellers for them to take her picture, how she was awed by the marine life in Aquaria KLCC, how she negotiated the fare in the cab and how tired she was getting around KL. At 7:30 PM, Mars and I met her at KLCC to take a picture of the Petronas towers at night. We ate dinner where Jopay had Nasilemak and a bun of Roti boy. After that, we went to the fountain area outside Suria KLCC to have a good view of the tower and spent 30 minutes sitting at the park, observing the other tourist while taking their pictures. We went home at around 10:00 PM. Needless to say, Jopay and I spent the night chatting, catching up the four years when we left the dormitory. We slept at around 4 AM in the morning.

We're supposed to meet Gen, Issa and Zari at the Asia Jaya station at 7 AM but Jopay and I woke up at 6:45 AM for our Putra Jaya. Dormers as we are, we were able to take a bath a dress up in 30 minutes. We need to catch the flower float parade at 8 AM. I will tell about what happened in Putra Jaya in another blog.

We arrived in KL Sentral at around 4:30 PM and booked a ticket for her to go to Singapore which was scheduled to depart at 10 PM. After that, I treated her in Secret Recipe where she had a chocolate mud pie (too bad the chocolate indulgence is "already finished"). Then we went to St John's Cathedral (which ironically has the same size as the UST "Chapel") to hear the anticipated mass. The mass ended at 7:30 PM and went to Mydin to buy her pasalubongs. Needless to say, we were such in a hurry packing up and downloading pictures from her camera when we arrived home at 8:30 PM and fortunately, we were able to catch the train.

Overall, it was a nice to be reminded again of how lived my college life and honestly, it is one of the things that I miss while working in Malaysia - getting in touch with my old friends personally. I hope that more people would come and visit KL in the next couple of months =)

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