Wednesday, November 13, 2013
‘Whatever do you want to stay in Klang for?’, the driver picking us up at the airport said, ‘Our capital KL is much nicer!’
Whatever for indeed. Well, Klang is the seaport 40-50km southwest of KL and where Sterlin was supposed to have arrived at during the night. Turns out that the container ship is hovering just outside of the port; we’re hoping that it will dock tonight. And being here will make it much easier for us to sort out all formalities getting Sterlin through customs and released to us.
Arriving in Malaysia was very easy: from landing to meeting our driver was less than 30 minutes, and we even managed to buy a local sim card during that time. We checked into the Première Hotel. We don’t know Klang (it’s got a TESCO where we got dinner for tonight), and hopefully we won’t have to hang out here for more than 1 or 2 days, otherwise we might get to know it quite well.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Sterlin has been off-loaded from the ship, but is still being processed. So, while this was happening we spent the day at the mall. And I mean, we spent the day at the mall. A little browsing, coffee, a movie (‘Thor 2: The Dark World’), a little early evening dinner followed by another movie (‘Ender’s Game’).
Friday, November 15, 2013
Busy day today. Arrived at the port just before noon to assist with the entry of Sterlin into Malaysia. Opening the containing and getting Sterlin cleared through customs was a complete breeze. In fact, maybe a little too easy and informal. There was no customs check, nothing.
Later in the afternoon we picked up our luggage from our hotel and headed to the Automobile Association of Malaysia in Shah Alam (on the way to KL) to get our road tax permit (aka International Circulation Permit) and mandatory Third Party Insurance. Although we feared the worst, it turned out the required paperwork was very easy to obtain.
Driving to our hotel in KL, on the other hand, was tortuous. It is extremely difficult to drive in KL, and we got lost a number of times on the way. But we eventually made it.
