Dirty laundry heaven

I've heard Martin pop the question "Where have you been all my life?" twice. Once to me in a restaurant in Warsaw, shortly after we started dating, and once to the frickin' laundry service here in Kuah!







So what's there to love? A few things, it's just so convenient, super cheap only 3 Rinngit per kilo (6 SEK or 2 PLN), speedy delivery with a smile plus you get everything back perfectly folded just like your mom (read Martin's mom) used to do it.

Dinner conversation

Today we met three kind souls (one very sleepy one). We were relaxing with a Tiger beer and some orange juice, just waiting for our take away dinner. While we're admiring the cute baby you see in the picture the man with white mustache declared with great pride in his voice that "I'm sleeping with her grandmother". Now that's what we call an ice-breaker.





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Our local fruit dealer, prices are bananas!

Night market in Kuah

This evening we went to the night market (pasar malam). The market focuses mostly on food and gets our stamp of approval. We recommend it if you want to try samples of real Asian dishes. Everything is dirt cheap, around 1-3 Ringgit (2-6 SEK or 1-2 PLN). It's nice that it's a night market, cause when the sun sets it's not so frickin' hot anymore.

One really tasty little dish that we wanna single out is the doroyaki (see second picture from the top). It's a sweet Japanese cake with different fillings like coconut milk for example, they were delicious!

We also bought a couple of DVD's, you get new stuff (like Avatar and Sherlock Holmes) for less than 7 Ringgit a piece so we suspect that everything may not be a 100% legit, but what the hell. For that price the subtitles can at times be a little sketchy. For example when Robert Downey Jr tells Jude Law that he "made a rapid recovery", the subtitles said he made a "radical copy", but that's Malaysia for you. Charming.

Half Swede half Poolish

This morning we took it real easy (vacation style). Just went down to the pool and let Nelly play around some. She was skeptical at first, like she always is but then she lit up.











It is an interesting neighborhood we live in! It feels like we got into a little society of its own, which created its own rules and if you happen to ignore them or misunderstand them, you will get a gentle yet determined warning so you behave next time. Our neighbors are nice and they insist on always greeting one another when there's an eye contact. It seems like it is important to them to keep the feeling that they know each other a little bit. They learned our names right away and they use them often, so you "almost" get a feeling that you belong. Not that we have any problem with any of this it's just ... I don't know sometimes it feels weird to be forced to be nice to strangers all the time (god I'm Swedish). It really is a closed apartment complex where we live, I'm not gonna go so far and say it's like in that movie "La Zona" but you never know what's gonna happen if you suddenly broke one of all the unwritten rules they have here.

Everyday people

We have moved out from Westin where we had our wedding. We're still in Langkawi but now in a 3-room apartment at the Chogm Villa apartment complex. This will be our base until 22nd March. But from here we plan to make several short trips. More on that later, when we know, you know. Life now seems much more like everyday life to me. For example today I had to drop off all the dirty laundry we had, it cost us 5 SEK per kilo (2 zl). Then I had to go grocery shopping. When I got home Beata made us pancakes.

Tonight we're just gonna stay home and chill, we have wine and we borrowed a couple of dozen DVDs from Rob our nice host so I think we're all set. Tomorrow we'll rent a car so that we can start exploring the rest of this beautiful island.

Picture below is our view from the balcony.