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Ipoh is a chinese-dominated industrial town. It's got an old
town and a new town, with the old town being pretty run down and
the new town being a wild mixture of well done and badly done
places. It has night bazaars in several places, and it has a number
of Western style shopping malls. No Starbucks anywhere to be seen.
My desperate search for an Internet cafe brought me to the
backroom of a PC shop where I joined a bunch of 10 year-olds,
each in front of a PC. While I was telnetting through what felt
like a 16.8kbps connection to my ETH Zürich account, the
kids where blasting their brains out left and right. More than
in KL or Melaka, the youth of this town seems to spend its time
in front of simulated slot machines or arcade video games, and
if not arcade machines, then networked Internet games. Counterstrike
is prevalent here as well, as the kids next to me demonstrated.
I spent most of my day looking around and driving through the
various parts of the town, trying to find a number of places,
but without much luck. In the end I got bored, so I decided to
watch Star Wars Episode 2 in the evening. At least the hawker
stall food was ok.
Later, I chilled out on the stunning British-colonial-style
veranda of the Majestic, my hotel, overlooking the night market.
With a Single Malt in my hand, it would have been perfect, but
a bottle of water did as well.
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