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Week 23: 24/09/2012 -30/09/2012

Back in Kuala Lumpur from my European stag dos, and it was time to start writing some Best Man speeches.... well, it would have been if there weren't so many distractions around! Even on a quiet night in I found more interesting things to do than put pen to paper.

Wednesday I went on a evening hike with Jags up Ketumbar Hill, Cheras. Armed with a head torch we set off on the short hike which offers a brief, but spectacular view of down town KL. At the summit there is a home made play park which has everything you need for a balanced work out.

Night Hike crew (Thanks to Cory for the lift)

Thursday I played another game of rugby for RSC. We only played for an hour, but it really demonstrated that how unfit I currently am. It was a lot of fun, and I scored a try (the first one in 12 years!), although we ended up losing 25-12. After the match I rushed off to InterNations to drink a few beers.

InterNations. I thought the dark shirt would hide my sweat..... apparently not!

Saturday I had discussed going on a Hash with Cory, but when Dylan told us about a beer festival we had a change of heart. The Better Beer festival at Taps Beer Bar provided a relaxed atmosphere, and a spectacular range of reasonably priced global beers. The afternoon turned to evening, the evening to night, the night to Jalan Alor, then.... Havanas.... obviously....

I had just about recovered by Sunday evening to make my way round to Jags's house to help her celebrate Mid Autumn Festival. All sorts of weird and wonderful food was on offer, particularly mooncake, which has to be one of the strangest foods I have ever tried. Luckily there was plenty of Chinese tea to wash it all down with.

Elke with a lantern at the Mooncake Party

Unfortunately, between bouts of speech writing and beer drinking I missed most of the BASE jumping from KL Tower, but I don't feel like I missed out thanks to Pip's article on the BBC website (read it here).