One Day in Kuala Lumpur

I only spent one day in KL, but I can tell that I fell in love with this city! Good vibe, delicious Indian food, amazing Islamic Arts Museum - there's definitely more to KL than just Petronas Towers! 

Nevetheless we started sightseeing with Petronas (of course!). During the day they look just like any other skyscraper, but at nightime - really impressive. They basically shine, i've never seen a builiding so bright! We walked around downtown and after a brunch we took LRT (subway in KL, interesting system for a single ride - tokens) and got to The Islamic Arts Museum. There is a reason why it is so high on Trip Advisor's To-Do in KL list. The entrance with student card is only about 2.50 SGD - great experience for such a small price. Later we visited the National Mosque - pay attantion to the opening hours for non-Muslim tourists to avoid unnecassary waiting. After sushi dinner we spent a little time in a Berjaya Times Square Mall. FYI it has 10 levels of retail stores, but even more impressive - there is a theme park inside! Rollercoaster in a mall? Only in KL! In the evening we hit the SkyBar at Traders Hotel - great view of the KL skyline at night. Perfect end of an amzing day: concert of Backstreet Boys in front of Petronas Towers - all these amazing childhool memories coming back (still can't get 'I want it that way' out of my head!)

Good morning KL

Petronas Towers in the background

Kuala Lumpur Tower

Fountain in front of one of many shopping malls

Petronas again

So worth seeing! Especially the architecture part
is really good

One of many great models of mosques

In the National Mosque of Malaysia
- wearing appropriate clothing

Both girls and guys had to wear violet robes

Main Prayer Hall

Taking break from great Indian food you can get
in Malaysia. (You can't have Indian for breakfast,
lunch and dinner). Sushi gluttony!
Singaporean accent - Tiger beer

In front of Petronas

Petronas at night. View from SkyBar

Backstreet Boys!

xoxo

Ewa

Mosaic Music Festival: The Beatroots

Mosaic Music Festival is an annual music festival in Singapore. A 10-day feast for all music lovers! The range is quite impressive - you can find there almost everything from indie and folk to hip hop. The concerts take place in a couple of venus, however I only got to go to the ones at Esplanade Music Station - free of charge concerts of more local bands. There were also international artists performing (for instance Julia Stone), but these concerts were ticketed.

I made it to two concerts: The Beatroots on Tuesday and Arajua Saturday. As for the latter one - too heavy and emotional for a Saturday night, still good soundtrack music. As for the Beatroots - sooo good! The lead singer has an AMAZING voice and great energy. If you like 'Of Monster and Man' - you will love them! They are pretty new in the business, so go check them out! Trust me, it's worth it!

https://www.facebook.com/thebandbeatroots?fref=ts

The Beatroots 

Nadina's hidden talent

I missed playing piano!

xoxo
Ewa

Wonder Full: Light and Water Show at Marina Bay Sands

Wonder Full is a "spectacular light and water show just by the famous Marina Bay Sands". To my mind it's not the show itself that makes it spectacular, but the Singapore skyline and.. bubbles! Actually bubbles were the best part of the show, for about 5 minutes we were basically surronded with them! As for the show at some point it got a little boring, still it was a great free (!) entertainment!

The beginning of the show

Nice light effects

Singapore skyline

With lovely Nadina

Bubbles!

More bubbles!

Bubble attack

Blizzard in Singapore

xoxo

Ewa

NUS: Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library

There always comes a time when one just HAS to go to the library. There is a whole lot of downsides to that, but.. every cloud has a silver lining - we have a really nice business library! (I would still prefer not to spend time there, at all)

Almost like CIA

No more loans for 4 weeks, just 2 hours
or overnight (if you borrow the book after 8pm!)

One of the rooms in the library.
Love this comfy chairs!

Veeraj is pretending he is studying hard

Well, he is not pretending anymore...

Another room in the library,
it only gets full in the midterms/finals time

Local girls working on a group project in a discussion room

xoxo

Ewa

Ipoh: cave temples & white coffee

This is the rest of the pictures from the day we spent in Ipoh, Malaysia. After Ling Sen Tong we visited Kek Long Temple. It was enormous and therefore quite impressive! I will always remember great local people, who worked there - they helped us to get a taxi (so far we walked, but the city centre was too far). That's how we met a local taxi driver, who thankfully spoke really good English. He showed us where to eat, told us the history of the most famous sights and gave us an insight in the situation in Malaysia. So glad we met him!

The gate to Kek Long Tong Temple

The entrance to the temple

Enormous grotto inside the temple

Like a local - the foot refloxology
path on the other side of  the temple

With our driver of the day. Great man, we got to know
so much about Malaysia from him! White coffee
to go - it originated in Ipoh and is super delicious! 

Delicious soup in Old Town White Coffee restaurant.
A place to eat in Ipoh!

Railway station

Town Hall

In front of Wat Mek Prasit, Thai Buddhist Temple

The entrance to Perak Tong Temple

The view of Ipoh from the top of the hill
at Perak Tong Temple

This is the end of pictures from Ipoh. Next post will show the other side of an exchange, stay tuned!

xoxo
Ewa

Ipoh, Malaysia: Ling Sen Tong temple

Malaysia, day 1

We set off from Singapore around 10 pm and after 10 hours of super comfortable bus ride (after the Philippines anything that does not include sitting on the convertible seat in the cetral row is considered comfortable) we mafe it to Ipoh. Frankly speaking the buses to/from Malaysia are probably the best ones I've ever seen. The seats are enormous and look like business class on the plane. We arrived at 6 am and spent 2 hours in McDonalds waiting for the sunrise and eating breakfast. Then we set off to the cave temples - main attraction of Ipoh. First one was Ling Sen Tong.

Hello Malaysia! 

The gate to the Ling Sen Tong temple

As I am super busy with midterms and presentations that's it for now. More post coming soon (if I survive)!

xoxo

Ewa