3 posts tagged “kl”
Chancing upon the song, friend and I would reminisced on how Ms. Lavigne's London concert, shortly after her first album Let Go came out, was attended by rather dodgy-looking older men blatantly leering at the teenage girls in the audience. I guess we're now both at an age where merely listening to the teeny-bouncy song is almost a guilty pleasure, although one must say the song really grows on you the more you listen to it.
... some phones are more equal than others. Tri-band GSM phones sold in the United States, yours truly included, operate at frequencies of 850/1800/1900 MHz, while those sold in Europe and Asia have the 850 MHz replaced with 900 MHz.
Result? Coverage can be uneven if the cellular operator has a mixture of 850/900 and 1800/1900 MHz transmitters. Which, apparently, Maxis does in Malaysia. There are areas where my phone gets a signal strength of low-to-none, especially in lower floors of tall buildings, or the outskirts of KL.
It is most ironic when such a thing happen near Maxis service centres, like the one at KLCC (a.k.a. Twin Towers)..
Arrived in Kuala Lumpur early on Saturday, after my Air Asia flight got delayed, initially by two hours (6 PM -> 8:05 PM), which they were nice enough to announce via text message (not e-mail, though, which caught a friend out a few days earlier). Got to the airport early, just in case there's traffic, and was just settling in with a newspaper at a departure lounge when suddenly at around half past six there was an erroneous announcement that the flight is now boarding. It was not -- the departure lounge was not even open yet!
Uneventful flight -- apart from a further half an hour delay in boarding (plane has not even arrived by the revised departure time) and another half an hour or so waiting for a take-off slot. The low-cost terminal was surprisingly decent, and arriving at night means short lines at immigration. First time since secondary school Malay oral exam that I have to use Malay for official business, and do Malaysians speak faster than Singaporean Malays!
Had a late night/early morning bak kut teh, and did a bit of sightseeing/shopping today. Malaysian transport infrastructure is surprisingly good -- the highways, and the LRT monorail, which unfortunately does not extend much beyond the city centre yet. The centre does get congested, but that's unavoidable, I guess. Saw a bus from a curious company, Durian Burung, but alas I forgot my camera. Some other time...
