first draft update a quick update while i prepare to get my act together to write a proper entry.

Three days in Kuala Lumpur:
-Tons of distant relatives whose names I couldn't remember
-awesome airport
-stayed at a nice hotel run by shady chinese people in chinatown
-chinatown is dirty and crazy
-beautiful skyscrapers
-humongous malls teeming with asian hipsters and white men (replete with starbucks, coffee bean, CPK, borders, etc)
-lots of bones, no knives (this was the biggest source of culture shock)
-terrible jetlag
-read kite runner, thought it was good

Jakarta so far has been a lot like college:
-lots of drinking and partying the second night I was here ("networking")
-lots of drinking and poker the third night i was here (networking)
-frisbee on sunday afternoon
-a movie this afternoon

also:
-terrible traffic system
-humongous malls
-amazing movie theaters (lazyboys, blankets, drink service for the cost of an american movie)
-lots of family
-lots of motorcycles
-lots of pollution
-lots of slums
-humongous houses everywhere

I leave for Bali in two days to play frisbee - i'm really excited about that.

the plan for after bali:
-continue working to learn as much of the language as possible whilst jobless
-find a job
-find an apartment

should be easy, right?  ¶ 8:11 AM