Surabaya (updated but not finished!)

Hey everyone! Heres a short little synopsis of whats been going on! Currently im In Kuala Lumpor, Malaysia, its pretty awesome here , nice mix between Jakarta and SIngapore. Not too Dirty, Not to clean. Plus alot of people speak english. My last week in Java went from amazing to complete crap. When we arrived and meet up with Halim things were excellent. He took us all over town got our train tickets and feed us! The next day he even got our plane tickets changed for free so we could go with him to Yogja the next week. Excellent. His house was awesome and they let us stay in their childrens room. Two little girls who were both cute and feirce. Well some Sihk has to use the only computer in the Hostel ill finish later ... ( as i hesitently back away form the computer while frowning) grrrrrrrrr.....Well Now im somewhere completley differnt (Panang) waiting for a bus to Phuket,Thailand. Back to Surabaya.

The next few days in Surabaya were complete pampering. Halim and Donna took such good care of us! Most fo the days were spent in traffic, huge malls (Super Malls even)and excelltne cafes. Very reminiscent of America ehh?
We took some really cool bike rides though. One through the "Marine Zone" where we saw 50 Marines jogging in unison. We also went by lots of buring trash piles with people digging in them for stuff. The other bike ride was a Night Ride. "Nightriders" Halim called it. It was pretty cool, even though Halim took a little spill right by his house. It only be cause he was kind enough to let us ride the good bikes. Probably the best part of Surabaya. We also had luch with Donnas Parents, very kind folk. Halim is an Architect so we often went to his projects, which were quite intereesting. The hierarchy here is internesting. The Chinese rule buisenss in Asia. The locals are the workers. Its a strange dichotomy.

Okay now to the good stuff. Matts gonna hate me for this paragragh. Besides having our first fight in a mall (Aww how cute). He threated to leave in a random burst of excitment. (Read - Lame,Petty, Squable over Matts constant criticism of himnself and others)It was cute. The other things was his constant babbleing over his ex-girlfriends (More on her later)emails. Overly analyzing certain words an phrasings. AAAAHHHHHH. That was annoying.

The last few days were pretty cool besides all the crap in the last paragraph,
we went to a cigarrette factory. Although most of the smokes in Indo are "kretek" or clove smokes. Pretty good actually and really cheap. There a picture of Matt trying to look sad in hios little cart they had at the museum for people tp pretend they were poor. Pretty fucked up. Also a great book entitled "Smoking is Good For You". The last two night we went out. Going out with Halim is a pretty fun expereince. Beside him not letting us pay, he took us to some prety upscale bars. The first being Java Jimmy's in some fancy hotel . There was a really lame cover band and it was pretty dead.

Next came the best bar experience ever. "Kowloon" It means 9 Dragons in Mandarin. We arrive to a shady parking lot full of hookers and sketchy Chinese guys . The experience was straight out of a movie. Walked in right passed secrutiy. Moving quickly in to a huge mostly empty dance hall playing the loudet techo ive ever heard. Pace quickens as we are ushered into the back room. Theres a live band very similar to the 5,6,7,8's, but Chinese, playing awesome rock'n roll covers as we step up to the bar. Glasses are poured, tahu & tempeh are quickly shoved in front of us. I finally take a momonet to absorb the surrroundings. I notice that there are many, many very young Chinese girls sitting around. Then i see some duck back into another back room, with older men. So shady. We were in the coolest bar in town. Hands down. Talk a bout a cultural experience. Words cant describe the experience there. We sat for about one hour jsut sitting and watching the band and the obviouos brothel happening. Shit was hilariuous.

The last night was just as interesting. We went to a bar called Colors for the FHM Sexiest ladies party. HAving seen posters everywhere in Asia we figured , why not. Hob-nob with the sexiest ladies in the World. Sweet. We get there and it costs 10$ to get in and its totally packed. We walk in, are handed smokes, a condom, and drink tickets.
Get our free beer and sit next to the stage. What ensued was basically a pep-rally with less clothes. A bunch of girls came out danced in unison (think flygirls) and then poured whiskey in screaming males mouths. Pretty disgusting actually.

Well the bus is going to come to take me to Phuket, Gotta go. I swear ill catch up on this thing. I know no one reading this thing knows Autumn Estes, but i just found out some old bad news thats new to me ={ RIP Autumn.