Jet Lagged Like a Stoned Baboon!

Posted on July 24, 2006
Filed Under US June '06 |

Hey there. I arrived safe and sound… not to mention being super jet lagged. I slept again from 3pm to 11pm (Malaysian time) only to wake up and find everyone in the house asleep except for my little sister who’s watching wrestling on TV. My head hurts and the thought of traveling 4 hours back to my university campus after 2 days makes it even hurt more. My campus is the most boring place on earth. It’s 4 hours out of Kuala Lumpur (capital of Malaysia) and is in a rural area which is very conservative… SO… “fun” is not a word used very much there… The idea of fun in most universities here in Malaysia is very different from “western fun” (which I miss by the way). Don’t get the wrong idea though. Kuala Lumpur is an exciting place with lots of FUN… Not as fun as New York (which I miss too by the way) but you know it’s still fun… Talk about an extreme transition! From traveling all over the US, to Japan, to now back home and soon back to my boring campus in 2 days. Speaking of Japan… It was fun. I didn’t go downtown Tokyo which would be tall buildings and all that. Instead I decided to do something different so I made use of my time by going to the ancient 1000 year old Shinshoji Temple in Narita. It’s a huge Buddist temple with extensive grounds and receives up to 12 million worshippers a year. Check out over 300 pictures of it here on Flickr. The best part about touring the temple and the surrounding town was doing it with this other American dude. We left the hotel and decided to go together. It was a cool experience hanging out with him. He is Jewish, in his 60’s, and of Polish decent. He’s from New York, lives in Manhattan, has a cousin who is a Jewish Rabbi and is a Professor of literature specializing in Shakespeare (I know how cool is that right?). So ya you can imagine the amount of interesting things we talked about. He believes the solution to the political problems of the world are embedded in Shakespeare’s work and he meant it when he said it. You could easily see how passionate he is when it comes to Shakespeare. Maybe Hamas and Hezbollah can read some Shakespeare… Yes, no? Okay FINE! Anyways, it was cool chilling with him indeed. We got along pretty damn well. Can’t Israel and its enemies do the same? Gee… Whatever! Me go make some cornflakes. Too bad bagels suck badly here and are way too expensive. By the way, sorry for not being able to contact all those who gave me their numbers. I got way too busy in the last few days… Anyways great vacation. Now time to get back and hit the books. Sigh!

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2 Responses to “Jet Lagged Like a Stoned Baboon!”

  1. tommy on July 24th, 2006 10:03 pm

    Cool. Sounds like you had fun. It is always a bit of a transition back to the quiet life, isn’t it?

  2. Don Cox on July 25th, 2006 11:31 am

    He might be almost right about Shakespeare. You can learn a lot about human nature by reading (or watching) those plays. Shakespeare really understood how people tick.____But then, there are others worth reading too, such as Dostoevsky or Jane Austen. ____What is certainly a bad idea is to pick on one “sacred” book and read it and nothing else.

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