A Visit Into Mahathir's Two Penises

It is bright and shiny.

That is what k0k used to call Petronas Twin Tower, and I was there on a mission to hijack the building by posing as a student attending some meeting there. Well, if you think I am that free to have nothing better else to do by doing that, then you are as wrong as a dead as ikan bilis. I was actually there to see one of my aunt, who is currently working at Tower 2 of the building, although it was still well-within her working hours that time. As you might not know, outsiders who have no business-related job with the companies based in the two towers are not allowed to go up the building just like that. However, I was already in KLCC and I know that my aunt is working there. So, I gave her a call and asked my aunt whether I would be able to sneak into the building.

Calvin: Hey, I'm at KLCC now. I go find you can arh?

Aunty: Harh? Want to visit me? But you also not the staff here. They see your face like small kid, sure won't let you in one.

One of the entrance to Tower 2.

Me? Small kid? Speechless...

Anyway, after persuading her and getting some information regarding the company she is currently working, just in case the security staff asks me the reason I am going into the building, I went to the receptionist and handed my identification card to get a visitor's pass. They were rather strict towards outsiders who are entering the building, as I was required to have to stuff to go through x-ray scan. Good thing that there was no bodycheck on me.

There were quite a number of places for the elevators, depending on which floor you are going to. Initially, I had problems to locate them but in the end, I found the one that I wanted to head to. This trip to the tower was an unplanned one, as I took a detour on my way back to Taiping since it was still early. I have once visited the sky bridge - the one that connects the two towers at level 41 and 42, but I reckon it would be different experience altogether from a different spot. How different was that? You shall see it later.

The sky bridge, located on level 41 and level 42. Only the one on level 41 below is opened to the public.

There were not much difference actually, but I tried to be funny by attempting to go as high as level 81 - the highest you can go, out of the 88 floors. I asked my aunt whether that is possible and she said yes. If you follow the free tour to the sky bridge, they will only allow you to go as high as level 41; that is the sky bridge and that is all about it. I thought of seeing Kuala Lumpur from the highest point possible but sadly for me, there was no observatory deck at level 81 and when the door of the elevator opened, I only saw offices.

While I waited for her to come down to level 42, I wandered around the open area, ignoring the walking staffs there. Almost everyone there were wearing their coats, carrying the briefcase. In contrast, I was only wearing a black t-shirt and a jeans, carrying a black bag behind me and holding on a huge blue plastic bag. No wonder they gave me some weird looks, although I continued ignoring them and enjoy the panoramic view of the city.

My sixth sense tells me that Zoo Negara is located somewhere in the background.

Kuala Lumpur Conventioan Center at the bottom left and Mandarin Oriental Hotel on the right.

KLCC recreational park and water park.

What I saw was almost what you get to see from the visit to the sky bridge. Anyway, I was there just to know how is it like from inside the tower. Several minutes later, my aunt came to see me and we chatted a bit; could not chat too long because she will be in hot water if her colleague or boss sees her coming out from her office just like that. We did not just talk, but we camwhored there as well. It was super awkward because people were busy walking around and we two clowns there still camwhore like no one's business.

Need I say more?

My youngest aunt. She looks more like my sister.

My aunt followed a work-trip with her company to the Netherlands last month for several days and she brought back some food and souvenirs for us. But no, she did not bring back a windmill though.

Chocolates with nuts and apple pies.

Decorative stuffs and sea shells.

This is an entry about the Twin Tower and I realised that there were more other unrelated pictures, compared to pictures of the two towers. Here are the rest of them.

Merdeka mood decorated the building.

Twin Tower in the day.

Twin Tower at night.

Talking about the elevators in the two towers, most of them do not stop at every floor. In fact, the one I took went up directly to level 42 without any stops halfway through the journey. That is why when I took a look at the electronic board, it showed XX.

Mystery floor.

Worried that something might not turn out right, my facial expression turned into something like this.

Wooottt??

Baby said I look like terkejut with mata terbeliak =.=

Calvin Meeting Kevin And Kae Vin

I went down to KL over a couple of weekends ago, mainly because I had some event with my juniors in PPKTJ (Pusat Persediaan Kajian Teknikal ke Jepun), the place where I did my foundation studies before I went to Japan. I took the chance to meet up with several friends, also bloggers which I got to know them through the blogsphere. First was Kevin a.k.a. Taugeh, whom I came across through the Penang Hokkien (PGHK) Podcast. The link to that site was given by one of my former secondary classmate a few years back and I used to listen to their weekly new topics, mostly hilarious with an overdose of crappings inside. There was one time when I became their guest in one of the shows and that is when I got my nickname Ker Lor. Translating it directly from Hokkien would mean Chicken Road. What a silly name, of all name, right?

Here is the story behind the nickname. Most of the time, they will require you to give yourself a nickname and as I told them I did not really mind about that, and when I asked them just to call me Kero, given by another friend of mine, Beve not very long ago, the host of the show misheard it, as Kero and Ker Lor share a certain degree of similarity. From there, the nickname Ker Lor was born. The topic when I was in the show was Ban San (Market) but I will not be talking much about it here. Just listen to the show, if you are interested. Guess what? I have just given out another opportunity for people to laugh at my silly talking in the show. However, it was my first time, so I guess it was not that bad.

Back to this guy Kevin, we were suppose to meet for lunch at The Summit in Subang but I had something on earlier. I don't like to mention this, but I made him waited for more than two hours. How ironic is that, when I always talk about other people for not being punctual for meetings and appointments. Good thing was that he was patient enough to wait for me and we headed to the food court almost immediately to have our super late lunch. We didn't want to waste much time looking for food and just settled for KFC, although it sounds quite lame. Initially, we planned to have our lunch at the famous mamak at SS2 but we didn't give a damn about it, because we were already too hungry at that time. After having some chats while eating, we took a picture together before we leave.

Kevin and me after we finished our meal at KFC.

During my three days stay in KL, I crashed at another friend's place whose name is almost the same as mine. Not Kevin, not Kelvin, but Kae Vin. What a unique name, isn't it? So, how did we end up knowing each other. It is complicated, according to him. Not that complicated, actually. Apparently, he was blog hopping and ended up at my blog, saw and was attracted by my super huge face at the header, which is no longer there anymore today, left his first comment on an entry about sakura and the rest is history. As he is having his exams in a couple of weeks' time, we didn't really get to go around many places, just had several meals together. Nevertheless, it was great getting to know a new friend although we just get to know each other for barely four months. It was not about how long we had known each other but to me, the more important thing is how we connect to each other, as we clicked almost immediately. I better stop here or else it could end up sounding rather gay.

Anyway, thanks a lot for accommodating me for two nights and driving me to places although you were rushing for your assignments.

Kae Vin meeting Calvin.

We were supposed to head for dinner one night and one of my course mate, Yow Keong who was with me for the same event wanted to hitch a ride to the nearest LRT station at Wangsa Maju. Since it was on the way to our dinner's place, he tagged along with the two of us. During the short conversation in the car, one of Kae Vin's course mate happens to be Yow Keong's secondary school classmate. This friend, which I will refer to as Mr XX, is practically everybody's enemy. People just cannot stand his attitude and dislike the way he bring himself around his friends. It was funny hearing to the two of them before they started their conversation, as they were making sure neither of them are Mr XX's spy. By the way, I just found out that Kae Vin also know the sister of my secondary school's classmate, Shin Yau when they attended a Malaysian Idol event a couple of years back.

Seems like everyone is connected in some ways.

It was rather interesting to hear to the stories between Kae Vin and Yow Keong about Mr XX, and that is when I saw something for the first time. Kae Vin told me that his younger brother and him share a similarity despite their many differences and that would be the way they laugh. I saw him laughing while he was driving one evening and I have to say it was really different than usual. It is not that kind of laugh that is so loud like an ambulance, but more to something like a giggling person. With my limited vocabulary, it is just hard for me to describe his way of laughing. That is what I remembered the most about this boy. Now I know why his nickname is specialhuman.

I thought it should be much better to have it as special-laugh? No offense, though xD