That appears to be true. It's happening to me. 😀

@@PlanetDoug haha now you know why most malaysians feel defeated and fall into the most obese haha

Tanah Melayu = Malay States. Keretapi Tanah Melayu = Malay States Railway.

Ah! they still use that coin/tokken?? i though its already gone

@@kanzai12 Yes, they still seem to use them. Perhaps they have to keep the token system for tourists like me? 😎

@@gingerteddy618 Thanks for the explanation. 😃

Ramly burger you ask the vendor to custom to your taste.

Thank you. 👍 I think I'm just entertained by the small things in life, so it's fun for me to walk around the streets of a new place and see new things. Actually, this new hobby of mine - shooting video - has helped with having a positive attitude. I find I'm smiling a lot more and enjoying a lot more things. 😃

Thank you very much. 😃 If you get a mangga susu from that particular shop, you will definitely have to share it. I think I could have finished it easily on a normal day. But on that day, I'd already had the pearl milk tea and the iced tea. So that giant mango smoothie came as a bit of a (pleasant) shock. I wasn't expecting anything quite so large. The movement of the crane was also my favorite part of the timelapse. While I was sitting there, I honestly thought the cranes didn't move at all. They moved so slowly that my eyes didn't pick up on it. It was only when I saw the completed timelapse that I saw them swinging around and actually moving construction materials into place. That gives me an idea that if I finish my quest for a new camera and get one with a timelapse function, I should go back there and film just the cranes at the top on a timelapse with a telephoto lens. With my smartphone, I can only get that very wide shot. Will your trip be your first time to Malaysia? Or are you a regular visitor?

The Cycling Canadian It will be my first trip to Malaysia (but not my first one to South East Asia). 2 weeks only - just enough to get a taste. I wish we could go longer. But we have a more traditional life style than you. ^^

I'm glad you ended up watching the whole thing. 😁 I worry that my videos are far too long. But it seems to suit me. I've actually gone over my videos and cut out lots of stuff to make it 15 minutes long. But at the last minute, I put everything back in again. 😂

aka... Malaya

Rain Fore or disvalues men

Thanks. I always enjoy a good timelapse myself. It's as much a surprise to me as anyone when I see the final video. The clouds didn't seem to be moving at all when I was sitting there. And I never saw the cranes move. I thought the construction crew had taken the day off. 😃 But on the timelapse, you can clearly see the cranes swinging around, the elevators going up and down, and, of course, the clouds building and moving. I'll figure out my camera situation someday. I found a camera store today that does sell the Panasonic G85, but they have to import it from another country. If I decide I really want it, they can get it for me in about two weeks.

I agree with you. In my case, too, I don't have a very good sense of taste. I like simple, basic food, so I probably couldn't tell the difference between ordinary food and food from a "famous" restaurant. And it suits my personality to just wander around and snack on whatever I stumble across. It's more fun that seeking out the famous places. 😃

Street food are da best

Thank you. Thanks for watching. I'm glad you enjoyed it. 😃

Thank you. I appreciate it. It's fun to make the videos, and it's even better knowing there are people out there who enjoy watching them. 🙂

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the videos. I'm still here in Kuala Lumpur, and I'm having a very enjoyable time. But it is getting hotter every day now. 😎

@@PlanetDoug if you can, try explore east Malaysia. Life is more relax there with beautiful islands, mountains and beautiful greeneries. My beautiful home state ❤️

Thanks for the background. That certainly makes the snack I had more interesting. At the time, to be honest, it didn't seem that special. It wasn't bad or anything, but there wasn't much flavor. It was only after several bites that I even started to taste the fish. Then again, I do not have a well-developed palate. I'm a bit of a caveman when it comes to food. 😃 I think I was supposed to have it with the hot sauce, but as I said in the video, I didn't know how to get the hot sauce from the tiny plastic bag to the food without making a huge mess. I think the vendor gave it to me in a "to go" package, and he didn't realize I was going to sit at the table and eat it there.

Not being a foodie, that's about the best I can do. 😄 When it comes to food, I'm a simple man. Of course, this whole 5-snack challenge wasn't about finding the best and tastiest dishes. It was just a goofy and fun thing that I hoped would encourage me to stop just walking by all these food and snacks stalls. And it worked out well. I'd walked past places selling hot corn multiple times, but I'd never actually tried any. I'm really glad I finally tried some. 👍

Thank you. 👍

Thank you. It was like a little game for me - to force myself to try at least 5 different snacks. I enjoyed it, and I did it again a on my next shopping trip. 😎😄

I appreciate that. I know these videos don't fit the standard KZfaq mold. They're much longer and slower-paced than the typical KZfaq video. I worry that they are TOO long and TOO slow. 😃 But with the Time Stamps, people can jump around if they want. They don't have to watch all of it. I'm glad you don't mind the slow and steady pace.

I agree. For me, a slow & steady approach is the way to go.

kat mana warung ni? nak try jugak

Thank you. I've tried quite a few more foods and drinks in Malaysia, including another mangga susu. The second one was even better than the first one. 😃

A Arbieye di apartment putra ria bangsar

Thanks!

Awesome! Thank you. 😁

As I mentioned in my message, I find I'm dropping things and doing other absent-minded things all the time now. The hope is that shooting video will become second nature eventually, and my brain can get back to making sure I'm on the right train and not dropping things or forgetting things. I imagine they do deliver those mangga susu by car. I noticed the sign where they had a promo for when you order 10 at a time. So they must routinely handle large orders. Nobody is carrying 10 of those anywhere by hand. 🙂 Your description of the fish sticks doesn't exactly make them appealing. Fish parts and unpurchased fish? 😂 I'm going to have to work on my adjectives for food. Descriptive terms don't easily spring to mind. I'm a bit of a simpleton when it comes to food as you know. To be honest, I was pretty tired when I shot that time lapse, and it was kind of a relief to lie down and rest on that cement. I could have taken a nap there, I think. It was funny because it was right beside a giant glass wall beside the MRT, and I was in full view of the hundreds of people riding up and down the escalator. Everyone was a bit curious why this foreigner was spread out and apparently sleeping in the park. Perhaps life had gone very wrong for this poor fellow.

Thank you. 👍🙂

Thanks! 🙂

Thank you. 🙂

You're right about KL Sentral. The wait time looks to be from 15 to 30 minutes between trains. That's according to their online schedule. But it's a different story at the old Kuala Lumpur Station. The regular schedule has a full hour between trains. And right now with the upgrading work, some of the trains have been cancelled. So the wait can be 2 hours now. That was true for me. My train was at 10:44, and the next train after that was at 12:41. There used to be a train at 11:45 or something like that, but it isn't running right now. Not that it mattered to me, though. I wasn't taking the KTM Komuter to get to Mid Valley fast or even conveniently. 😀 I was just doing it for the fun and for the experience. I'd kind of explored the LRT, MRT, and the Monorail, and I wanted to add the KTM to the list.

Thank you. 😄

I don't know if the camera shopping will have as good an ending as the Casio hunting. It may not come across in the videos, but I actually know quite a bit about the various cameras available, and there really isn't a single camera model that ticks all the boxes for me. I think this year, a bunch of new cameras will be released, and one of them might be the perfect one. But it might not be available until a year from now. The Panasonic G85 that I've been thinking about is actually a good option. However, it's difficult to get really excited about spending that much money on a camera that came out three years ago. It might not have that "new car smell" anymore. And the other main option for me (the Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II) came out four years ago. So they're both kind of old, especially when you consider how fast camera technology is advancing now. Yes, it's been fun to try some new snacks and foods. But with my relatively low interest in food, I had to come up with the 5-snack challenge to trick myself into trying new things. So far, it has been successful. I actually went on another 5-snack challenge on my next shopping expedition, and I shot some video of that as well. (Another rather leisurely video. 🙂 ) I think ice kachang and cendol would be very challenging for me. I see cendol all the time, and it strikes me as a frighteningly colorful mixture of stuff that really should never be mixed together. 😂 And it is all on top of a bowl of shaved ice. It's a very foreign concept to a fellow like me. But I'll have to give one a try and see how it goes. Travel plans is a big question. I've been so busy that I haven't really come to grips with making final decisions about what comes next. My poor brain can only do one thing at a time, and I've been putting off making travel plans until I get the camera/computer thing settled. I still plan to visit Myanmar before I leave Asia. But I haven't decided on the timing of that trip yet. Yes, I've been to all three of the countries you mentioned: Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. They were three very different experiences. I went to Vietnam decades ago when I first started backpacking around Asia. I had no idea what I was doing, and it was a big adventure for me. And Vietnam was very different back then, too. It was still relatively closed off. It was impossible to go anywhere north of Hanoi into the mountains. That was all restricted. And even to travel between Saigon and Hanoi, I had to get a police permit for every single town I wanted to stay in. I had a great experience there particularly because I was so young and inexperienced. Just sitting down at a typical food stall on the street and ordering some noodles was a huge adventure for me. Everything was new and exciting. Some of the pictures from that trip are on my blog here: www.thecyclingcanadian.com/photo-galleries/vietnam-photos-2/ As for Cambodia, I went there on a short cycling trip. I was working full time in Taiwan at the time, but I managed to convince my bosses to give me a month off. And I went to Cambodia. In retrospect, it was a bit too much to go through all the effort of preparing a touring bike and bringing it to Cambodia and then cycling around for such a short time. Plus, the bike was not a true touring bike. It was the city bike that I was using in Taipei, and it did not stand up very well to the tough roads I faced. But I still had an interesting time there, a highlight being Angkor Wat, of course. Maybe I got lucky, but the mood was just right and I found Angkor Wat to be amazing. I think having my own bicycle helped a lot, as I could go to Angkor Wat early in the morning on my own and explore anywhere I wanted to go on my bicycle. I still had a film camera in those days, and taking pictures wasn't as easy. It was also much more expensive. But I did quite a few pictures. A lot of them are on my blog. And I kept a journal. I'll put a link to the photos and the journal here. You can check them out if you are interested. Photos: www.thecyclingcanadian.com/photo-galleries/cambodia-galleries/ Journal: www.thecyclingcanadian.com/cambodia-bike-trip/ And my trip to Laos was completely different. Unfortunately, things did not work out on that trip. The problem was that I just went there as a normal backpacker, and I wasn't ready for that. By that point, I had done long cycling trips through two countries in Africa and I had done a lot of other interesting things around Asia. So, traveling through Laos by bus along with hundreds of other foreign backpackers just like me felt weird. I didn't like it at all. The atmosphere also seemed to be all about drinking and partying and "tubing" in places like Vang Vieng. I think Laos would be a great place for a cycling trip, but I just wasn't in the mood to be part of the herd of backpackers going to all the same places and doing all the same things. And, as you can probably imagine, I'm not exactly the type to enjoy getting drunk and tubing down a river with rock and roll blasting from the shoreline. 😃 I'm not sure if I would return to those countries. I think it would be worthwhile and quite a different experience to go on a long bike tour through Laos and Vietnam. But there are lots of countries in other parts of the world that I haven't been to at all, and I might focus on them instead. One of my mild resolutions for 2019 is to make an effort to visit new countries rather than revisiting old places I've already been. (I'm not sure if that will actually happen, but you never know.)

Thanks for the information. It's nice to know the names of the snacks. 😃

I just couldn't get over how big it was. 😃 I went back there a few days later and had another one. It was just as big and just as good.

I still haven't purchased a new camera or a new computer yet. But I'm slowly figuring out which ones to buy and where I can find them. 😎 In the meantime, I can keep trying new snacks as I shop.

Thanks for the info about the snack, and the warning about snatch thieves. I try to be careful, but I definitely do tend to just go wandering anywhere I want without thinking about it. 🙂

That makes sense to me. I can see extreme heat and extreme cold on two sides of the glass would apply an uneven pressure, and it would break more easily. Most people say that people are breaking the windows by throwing rocks, but I have trouble imagining that many Malaysians doing something like that.

I'd actually been to Mid Valley quite a few times before, and I've been to all the camera stores there. 😃 The Olympus center is particularly good. I really like the sales staff there. They're really helpful, and they know Olympus cameras very well. On this particular trip, I was interested in one specific camera - the Panasonic G85 - and I understood that Key Color sold them. I knew they sold Panasonic cameras because I'd seen them there before. I just assumed they'd have the G85, but I guess it's too old, and there is no demand for it. So they don't stock it. I learned today that, in fact, the G85 kit that I'm interested in (with the 12-60mm lens) is not even sold in Malaysia at all. Only the kit with the 14-42mm lens is available here. To get the 12-60 kit, they'd have to order it and have it shipped in from outside Malaysia. Takes a couple of weeks. I'm still hemming and hawing on the direction I want to take. Perhaps the universe is telling me that the G85 is not the way to go... 😄

I often pass by Taman Jaya LRT station, so maybe I'll have the chance to try an original Ramly Burger. Thanks for the tip. 🙂

I should have been able to figure that out. I guess I wasn't thinking clearly. 🙂

I guess I got lucky with that bit of video. The area around these apartment buildings is actually pretty dirty. There are lots of junk cars just rotting away. And the garbage bins aren't big enough for all the people living there, so the garbage spills out and blows around all over the place. So it's not very clean. 🙂 But I guess this particular lane looked better.

ktm management dgn some workers cam garam(gampang n haram)

Staf kTM ok kot....cuma KTM je yg xde budget dr gomen tuk buat pape like rapidkl prasarana

panzlithium nas daily maybe

Indonesia vs malaysia...

You're right, at least according to what I read on the Internet. I find it hard to believe, but there are 25,000 Ramly Burger outlets. 👍

That's interesting. I was just at the Chow Kit market and I think I saw signs there for daging as well. I'm not sure, though, if they said lembu or not. I'll have to look for that word in the future. Thanks for the tip. 👍🙂

It's true that I'm usually an organized person. Some would say TOO organized. But I certainly don't feel organized as I explore Kuala Lumpur with my camera. I feel kind of disorganized as I try to hold on to my camera while drinking a giant mango smoothie and that sort of thing. It gets complicated. 😃

ingtkan sbb orang duk baling !

@@afiq929 haha. 😅

I didn't realize that. Next time, I'll ask for lots of ice. 🙂

@@PlanetDoug 😀 In McDonalds, if you order cold Milo with no ice, they will charge extra. I think 50 sen

Even for me, it felt like something was missing - especially with so many fried foods at the same time. It needed some sauce, I think. 😁 Next time I will figure out a way to have the hot sauce and not get my camera and my hands messy and sticky.

Thanks very much. I appreciate it. One twist, however, is that the kit I'm interested in isn't sold in Malaysia. At least, this is what I was told at another camera store today. As far as I know, the G85 comes in two different kits: one kit has the 14-42mm lens. The other kit has the 12-60mm lens. I'm interested in the 12-60 kit lens, and that is the one that isn't available here. The guy at the camera store I went to today said that they can get it, but it has to be imported from somewhere else. It takes about two weeks. I'd consider getting just the camera body, too. All my Olympus lenses will work on the G85. It's just that the 12-60 is supposed to be a pretty good lens, and it is much cheaper when it comes as part of the kit. I'll be interested to hear if any stores at Mutiara Damansar carry any G85's at all. It's a bit of an older model now, since it came out in 2016, and stores don't seem to stock it anymore. 🙂

@@PlanetDoug Yeah that's why I wanted to check them out first. There is however a large stock of them in Singapore, could be a KTM Sleeper trip?? There are people who know people who know people who can make things happen so lets see first :)

I went back to that same spot and had a second mango smoothie. It was actually better than the first one. 😃 And it still cost just 5 ringgit. What parts of Malaysia did you visit on your honeymoon?

The Cycling Canadian only KL whole 7/8 days. Stayed at JW bukit bintag, roamed around the city had some relaxing time and some shopping, didn’t do much exploring. Should have though

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. That's an interesting story. Another reason for a broken window. It seems like those poor windows don't stand a chance. 🙂

I saw that Ramly Burger on Google Maps near KL Sentral. I made a mental note that I should check it out the next time I go there. Is it open only at night or during the day too?

In the video, I said it was an otter. That's because it looked exactly like an otter to me and it swam like an otter. But I did some research later, and now I don't know what it was. I'm not sure if there are otters in Malaysia or not. And if it wasn't an otter, I have no idea what else it could have been. 🙂

I I spoke to a local person who knows a LOT about trains, and he also said that those windows in particular are very expensive to replace. And that's why the broken ones are left for so long and not fixed. It would cost a lot of money to put in a new one every time it gets broken.

I'm not a fan of the hot sun either. In fact, the hot weather in Asia in general is the hardest thing for me to adjust to. But in my head, I think I flipped a switch that just accepts it. There's nothing I can do about the heat or humidity, so I just walk around whether the sun is beating down or not. I recently went on a bike ride around Sumatra, and part of that was accepting that I would be drenched in sweat all day every day. I knew I couldn't fight it, so I just accepted it as part of life. 😂

White people turned red every time they set foot in Malaysia. I think it is due to lack of melanin.

Thanks for the tip. I've actually been to Low Yat Plaza a few times. The All IT Hypermart is a good place for me because they have lots of small items for same as well as computers, and it is low key. Sometimes the sales clerks in Low Yat can be a bit aggressive, so it's not always comfortable for me to shop there. But it's an interesting place. 👍🙂

I'll probably still be here in early April. But I'm making plans to go to Myanmar for a month, and then I will return to Kuala Lumpur after that. You can get in touch through the Cycling Canadian Facebook page when you come here in April. If I'm here at that time, it would be great to meet up. 👍😃

That's interesting. In my head, I thought "tanah" and "keretapi" went together. That's why I was puzzled. "Land Railway" seemed like an odd thing to say. 😄 But "Tanah Melayu" makes more sense:

It was not the whole malaysia though only peninsula malaysia

Before 1963 Malaysia was not even exist...Malaysia is a federation consists of Tanah Melayu, Sabah and Sarawak

@@PlanetDoug TANAH MELAYU mean MALAY LAND /The Land of Malay ..After that also call as MALAYA..Now change to MALAYSIA.

@@PlanetDoug KTM (Keretapi Tanah Melayu) mean Railway of Malay Land

I often wonder how people feel when they move from anywhere in Asia to Europe or North America. I know that in cities in Canada, there are almost zero food stalls or snack carts or even markets anywhere. Going out to a restaurant is expensive and reserved for special occasions. But in Asia, you can't walk twenty feet without coming across someone selling some kind of delicious food or drink right on the streets. When people move away, they must miss that a lot.

🔹 I always end up looking for the wrong thing in the wrong place. 🙂 In this case, though, there doesn't seem to be a Sony, Canon, or Nikon camera that suits my needs. I've done a lot of research, and there isn't one camera model that combines all the features I want like Panasonic does. 🔹 Later this year, Sony might release a Sony A7000. And if that camera has effective IBIS and some kind of articulating LCD screen, it might be an option. Unfortunately, it will likely cost $1,500 US just for the body.

Maybe they are pushing people toward using the prepaid cards, but they still keep some tokens for tourists like me. A lot of foreigners ride the KTM to go to Batu Caves every day, and I think most of them would rather just buy a one-trip token. Since they are just visitors, they wouldn't want to buy a prepaid card or Touch N' Go card. Anyway, they gave me a token. So it worked out for me. 😎

It actually did start to rain before the timelapse was finished. It wasn't a heavy rain, but I had an umbrella with me, and I covered up the phone with my umbrella until the end of the timelapse. I think if it started to rain really hard, I'd have to turn off the phone and quit. But it was okay. 👍

Rasyid Muhammad wasn’t it Malaya?

@@lipton3120 Tanah Melayu is the Malay version of Malaya

@@volivepAS I see. I've always thought it's also called Malaya in BM

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Sorry guys, you could not comfortable with this comment, but I just answering his question... 14:30

Thanks. I don't actually speak Malay, of course, but maybe after spending time in Sumatra and here in KL, I've picked up a bit of the accent. That surprises me though, because I've never been good with languages. 🙂

I think the malay language is one of the easiest language to learn. We've got Bangladeshi foreign workers whose been here less than a month, yet could already understand here and there. Plus its very useful if ur travelling around SEA (indonesia, singapore, brunei etc.)

I don't think so, at least not on this trip. But my plans might change. 🙂

Borneon states nvr join Malaya Federation,they FORM Malaysia Federation together.. wt SG..

@@rash_a_agil Thank you for the clarification.

That makes sense. Thanks! I just used Google Translate to try to figure out what it meant, and I got it backwards. 😃

@Leonard Carr Oh yes, I've heard. It is run by the state operator, isn't it?

Tanah Melayu = Malay States.

Of course, there are Ramly burger stands all over Kuala Lumpur. You can run into them almost anywhere. I think you can even type Ramly into Google Maps and it will show you the location of some of the more popular places. But the one that I went to is just outside the Pasar Seni MRT station. Kind of across the street from the large Travelodge Hotel and beside the Lavana Hotel and the Vinny Jaya Banana Leaf Curry House. You can easily find all those places by typing them into Google Maps. 😁

I actually took the ETS to Penang a couple of years ago. I really enjoyed it. I think I spent the whole time in the coffee shop on the train. 🙂

Maybe it's not broken but has been made like that for a purpose . Incase there's an accident , you can take the glass breaker right next to the windows to break it easily to get out from the train hahaha . Not really sure either they crack it for a purpose or some stupid malaysian throw rocks/things on the windows

Someone also suggested it might happen because of the extreme temperature difference between the air conditioning inside and the heat outside. And then when the train moves from side to side, it puts pressure on the window, and it breaks. It's possible. 🙂

@@PlanetDoug Yes your theory was right but the thing is , why only a few of the windows that were cracked and not all since the other windows facd the same situation as the crackdd windows . Im not really sure about this but everytime I take the ktm as my ride , I can see in every cabin , there would be a cracked window atleast one in the every cabin hahaha

Thanks for the tip! I've actually been to Low Yat Plaza before. It's not always the most pleasant experience, but I have found items there that I wasn't able to find anywhere else. 🙂