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Detailed travelogue on visiting the remotest inhabited islands in the world (Tristan da Cunha and St Helena), also South Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia. Very interested read, and indexed.
Remotest Islands in the World St Helena, Tristan da Cunha + S. Africa, Malaysia, mor
Larry2006-05-27 03:20:07
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4:55pm. With the time
now 4:55pm, I asked the man for directions and thanked him as I left (the
cinema is located upstairs in the building directly opposite the Market).
With the rain coming down hard, I was out in it for just a few seconds as I
darted across the street to the annex building to catch "The 6th Day" with
Arnold Schwartzenegger (RM8/US$2.11). Though the movie was pretty bad, it
was interesting to note the almost-empty theatre (with only 3 other people
inside), probably due to the fact that someone could already buy and own the
movie on pirate VCD for less than the cost to come to the cinema and see it
once (as both "102 Dalmations" and "The 6th Day" were hot sellers at the VCD
stalls). The small theatre had only mono sound, but the projection was
sharp and wasn't bad for the price. The movie was shown with both Malay and
Chinese subtitles, but just as the ending credits began to roll, the
projector was immediately turned off (the norm for much of Asia).
When the movie finished, I walked back to the main Market building for
one more quick look (the rain had now become only a light drizzle). Up on
the 2F was a shop selling bootleg CD-ROMs, but they were asking RM20...
stalls in nearby Chinatown ask only RM10, and stores elsewhere in the
country asked only RM4-6 for the same CD-ROMs. Also on display were plenty
of bootleg PlayStation games, as well as pirate GameBoy cartridges
(including a "19-in-1" cartridge for an extremely expensive RM189/US$49.74).
As the rain was letting up, I decided to leave the Central Market and
head to nearby Chinatown. It was now about 7:15pm, and the area around
Jalan Petaling was bustling. In the evening, the area is closed to traffic
as stalls set up in the middle of the street to sell everything from fake
Rolex watches (RM50/US$13.16 first price -- I didn't bother
...
See photographs from:
Indonesia Gallery
,
Malaysia Gallery
,
Singapore Gallery
,
South Africa Gallery
