KL Bucket List

So, my employer hasn't paid me since August last year. Obviously money is becoming a problem. So much so that we are leaving KL and heading back home to Australia in June.

Apart from 6 months in sunny Texas, Queensland, I have spent the last 8 years here in Malaysia, largely in 2 different jobs, although with a few smaller consulting/contract gigs thrown into the mix. I have been freelancing since Feb 2012, so recently passed the 4 year mark doing that.

It has been wonderful, particularly with regards to how much time I get to spend with my family, but in all honesty, I was not financially prepared to freelance, and that, coupled with my fucking employer not paying me, well, we are in the shit financially. Probably could have done a better job of it.

Anyway, more on that another day. Today I was going through my checklist of things to do before we leave KL, and decided I should make my own bucket list, as I can't see me coming back here anytime soon. If we do get overseas, we'll take advantage of better countries than Malaysia quite frankly.

Without further ado, here it is:

1) Night out at Changkat Bukit Bintang
2) Card night with the boys
3) Session at La Boca
4) Session at Cathy's
5) Visit Kinokuniya bookshop one last time
6) Eat dim sum
7) Eat pork noodle
8) Eat beef noodle
9) Eat banana leaf or chicken rice
10) Eat nasi lemak
11) Have chee cheong fun
12) Do one of my big walks, to Changkat or Desa Sri Hartamas
13) Do another big walk to somewhere new, try Malone's at Jaya One
14) Buy some Chinese jerky
15) Visit Uncle Chili's, where I met my wife!
16) Go to Lipis and have a beer with Harjeet
17) Eat satay
18) Eat rojak
19) Eat sosej roll

There it is, my KL bucket List! I wanted to post it today because I noticed that I came up with 19 items, and have exactly 38 days left in which to do them. That's one every two days... A bit of a challenge, although I can kill multiple birds with one stone on a number of them.

Also interesting that 10 were to do with food, 6 with booze, and only one with shopping! Well hardly surprising, food and social life are definitely highlights of this place. I love the malls, but a mall is a mall, anywhere really, and I know I get ripped off a lot here anyway. Kinokuniya on the other hand, is possibly the best bookshop I have ever been to, anywhere in the world, so it must be visited again before we go. And both my walks will end at pubs, so it could almost be 10 food and 8 booze.

I'll take some photos of my journey through this list....