A Run In With The Po Po in Tanah Rata

I guess it time for another update. I am back in KL. My last couple of days in the Cameron Highlands was a lot of fun. On my last day, I learnt how to ride a motorbike. It took me a while to get a grip on changing the gears and going up hill. We zipped around quite a bit and saw a couple of tea plantations, farms, butterfly house (which was unbelievably depressing and I have now discovered that I have a ridiculous fear of them) and beautiful scenery. All in all it was a pretty successful trip with me only clipping a wall, nearly running into oncoming traffic three times, and getting stopped by the police. They just pulled me over, made a joke about arresting me and asked for licence. When I reached for it they just laughed and said they were messing around with me, but thought it was funny to watch me ride a motor bike - nice to the Malaysian Police have a sense of humour.

I came back to KL with an American I met in the highlands. He was in KL for a day before going to Singapore, so I decided to play tour guide.

Since then I haven't been doing a whole lot. I met up with my diving instructor Ruben and a few other CS members. I have been staying at a hostel, but will start couch surfing with a new host, Hunch tonight.

However last night I put my bag in my room for a couple of minutes while I went to the bathroom and my ipod, money, watch, underwear and a few other things were stolen. Am waiting at the hostel now for the police so I can file a report. COmplete pain and I was totally frustrated. But I have been lucky so far...