Out of a suitcase.
I spend (at least) one night in a hotel room, in some part of the peninsular, every bloody week. It's fun, interesting, and then after a while you start to compare classes between what they call 'five star' hotels and 'four star' hotels.
Oh because I'm an executive, I get a room all to myself when I travel. I don't share. So I get to prance around nekkid in the romantic lights of my room and admire the creases of my stretch-marks in the huge mirrors they have in these rooms.
Plus hotel rooms also usually have bathrooms with wall-sized mirrors, and these are extremely helpful when you're doing your self-breast examination, or any self-bodily examination… you get to see everything, literally.
(Yeah, the mirrors in my house are tiny. Sniff)
I've been to places to visit power stations. To attend workshops. To attend meetings. To organize press events. To attend dinners.
But this Friday is different.
I'm going to Ipoh. There's a hockey match going on where international teams are vying for the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup. The semi-finals (two matches actually) will be on Friday. So yeah that's where I'm going and that's what I'm going to go to Ipoh for. To watch two hockey matches.
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I have NEVER EVER WATCHED HOCKEY IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!
May 7th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
Aiya.. why go when I am not around.
After sometime, you’ll get bored with the all-to-yourself in 5 star hotel room thing.
May 7th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Can we see your stretch marks?
May 8th, 2007 at 2:41 am
Hockey games = highly overrated. I’ve been to three LA Kings (LA pro hockey team) games sitting right behind the glass and they weren’t all that exciting. The only things that get the crowd excited are fights and brutal checks into the glass. I did see one guy get checked right through the glass once which was a bit disturbing, but luckily he seemed to be fine afterwards.
May 8th, 2007 at 9:51 am
Jeff: I guess the hockey you know over there is VERY different from the hockey we know here. Like football. the hockey over here is played on an astroturf, sorta like a synthetic lawn, and not on ice. A small round ball is used sintead of a puck. Helluva difference dude!
May 8th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Whoa, that is very different. That sounds a lot like what we call lawn hockey here. Do they still engage in checking and break out in fights every game?
Oh well, I’m surprised that I’m able to understand so much Malaysian English considering how different American English is compared to UK/Australian/Singlish. I guess every once in a while, I’m going to completely misunderstand what is going on.
By the way, what are the biggest sports in Malaysia? In the U.S., its American rules football, basketball, baseball, and then possibly hockey.
May 8th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Jeff: It’s lawn hockey. Biggest sports here? Well, most of us are into football… or soccer to you. BUt the funny thing is that we’re into the English Premier League or some other European League (i.e. Spanish La Liga or the Italian Serie A Leagues) and seldom pay attention to the local/national leagues. Sad huh?
May 8th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Don’t agree.
Biggest sport is definitely badminton. Football is played mostly by guys, but EVERYBODY knows how to play badminton.
May 9th, 2007 at 1:14 am
Two words come to my mind reading your post, Claire:
Hidden. Camera.
May 10th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
Vinc: YEa… BAdminton is pretty big but we don’t seriously pay attention nor do we go all out at 3 a.m. to watch a badminton match eh?
May 14th, 2007 at 10:48 am
So what happened in Ipoh and the hockey match ??