KL 1 Week September 3, 2010 An intense week of training, networking and adventure in KL. View fullsize My snazzy hotel room on the 30th floor of the Westin Kuala Lumpur. View fullsize The room had a drawer full of deluxe teas and (real!) ground coffee for my own coffee press. View fullsize The view from the top. The 2 tall buildings in the background are Berjaya Times Square, the mall / office complex with the roller coaster. View fullsize You can see the mountains in the background. View fullsize We had a group dinner the first night ... View fullsize ... at a Thai restaurant! Not what I traveled 700 miles to eat! View fullsize They did have a neat tea light display though. View fullsize After the group dinner, they took us to a group bowling event at the Times Square mall visible from my window. View fullsize Super-snazzy shoe, fit for any fashionista. View fullsize I joined the Japanese gang to try my arm at bowling for the first time in some large number of years. View fullsize After 6 rounds, I had bowled a 32. I think there's some room for improvement. View fullsize Anyone Japanese here? (The American woman who's not me was one of the organizers.) View fullsize The hotel's breakfast buffet is so big that it needs a map and a diagram showing how to walk to each station. View fullsize More breakfast buffet dining. No shortage of tables. View fullsize The continental breakfast area was like its own little store. View fullsize Just like a pastry shop! View fullsize The lobby. Still not light out. View fullsize Durian vendors hang their wares in KL... what a funny way to display them. I guess you have to buy a whole fruit. View fullsize There's a street famous for its street sellers. Diners literally eat in the street. View fullsize Fellow newbies from the SE Asia system (here, Filipino + Jakarta x 4). View fullsize A larger group -- the SE Asia and Australian newbies. View fullsize Most of the street vendors sell Chinese Malaysian cuisine. View fullsize Our huge pack attacks the local meal. View fullsize Crunchy greens and Malay-style fried rice. View fullsize A stingray! Didn't know people ate them. View fullsize The Indo cohort again (plus one from Singapore). View fullsize The aftermath! View fullsize A busy kitchen. View fullsize Looks just like in Thailand! View fullsize Deceptively large chicken wings? View fullsize Fancy lights adorn the palms along a posh downtown main street. My hotel's right there. View fullsize An emergency meeting over lunch with my "case team" to resolve some issues before the afternoon session resumes. View fullsize A western dinner! Egg salad sandwich on funky crusty bread. View fullsize We ate outside the restaurant, cafe-style ... in the atrium of a mall. View fullsize First Starbucks since my Sittingbourne trip... only when I can expense it. View fullsize A street band taking a break during their evening gig. View fullsize Huge sales throughout the city, to celebrate Malaysia's independence day. In the background: Uniqlo is coming to KL. View fullsize A teamwork game we played one afternoon. Build a secret structure -- but who's the spy? View fullsize The conference room in which we spent 5 straight days. (This is half the total group.) View fullsize Colleagues from Delhi, Jakarta and Beijing puzzle over how to assemble the block structure View fullsize To play this game, you need a striped shirt! View fullsize The hotel's central breakfast / lunch buffet area from above. View fullsize On the last night, there was a group dinner at a Malaysia restaurant. Here, the vegetarian appetizers. View fullsize On the left, my case team's "coach" from the Seoul office (he just finished his MBA at MIT). View fullsize The veggie dinner. The dishes were definitely different than Thai food, but I can't put my finger on how. View fullsize Colleagues from China and Singapore. View fullsize Group shot of our dinner table... India, Indo, KL, Sing, Bangkok, China all represented. View fullsize A colleague from India, whose brother came and taught a session -- and they were indistinguishable! View fullsize Don't mess with us newbies. View fullsize The Australian table in the background. View fullsize A subset of the larger group taking the elevator up to a 33rd-floor bar downtown. View fullsize This hotel (not the one we stayed at) converts its pool area to a club at night. View fullsize It's 100% worth going for the view alone. View fullsize The big, green park at the base of the Petronas Twin Towers. View fullsize You can't buy a better view in KL! View fullsize The Blue Team after our final presentation, plus the head organizer (on the RH end).
