Day 5: Tea time with Dan
I thought it would be nice to give Melissa, who has been doing an excellent job with our team's blog, a break for a day and would write a bit about my day instead. Day 5 in Malaysia started much the same as most of my days here. Waking up early and heading down to the hotel's pool in order to get my daily Pelotonia training in. Since the local roads and traffic habits don't particularly lend themselves to cycling around, a morning swim is going to need to do for now. After my swim I grabbed a quick bite to eat, and then we loaded into the shuttle bus, and went into the office for the day.
Our hosts at WD have been most generous during our trip, and have been extremely helpful. Today we had a nice discussion over lunch with the VP in charge of materials for Asia, who offered some experienced based insights into some of the challenges that we are facing. After a busy day at the office working on our project, we once again loaded into the van, and zipped through traffic back to the hotel.
We decided to head back to the Sunway Pyramid mall for dinner tonight, as the variety of options available there is for practical purposes, limitless. We chose a local tea house and Chinese food establishment called the "Paradise Inn", after comparing the menu's of several nearby restaurants. The one problem I have found thus far with food in Malaysia is that it pretty much all looks delicious, and it is usually hard to decide what exactly I want to order. It is also, generally speaking, very reasonably priced. I eventually chose a beef and onion hot pot meal, along with Oolong tea, and a mango based desert. As with every local meal I have had thus far, I was not disappointed in my choice.
As Melissa mentioned in a previous post they take their shopping malls very seriously here in Malaysia, with a wide variety of experiences available under one roof that you generally don't find in America. One of these experiences at the Sunway mall is an indoor archery range, which is across the way from the Mui Thai gym, and bowling alley, and nestled next to a jewelry store. I wasn't about to let such a unique experience pass me, or my team by, so after dinner we headed up for some relaxation/archery practice to top off the evening.
We then made our way back to the hotel so that we can prepare for another full day of amazing experiences tomorrow, before we fly to Singapore on Saturday. With so many new and different things to experience, one could easily become distracted and lose focus during a trip like this, but thankfully my team continues to do an excellent job of staying on target.
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