Unfortunately, our stay at Love Lane Inn wasn't very lovely... It was extremely hot in our dorm room and the AC didn't work. Thankfully the hostel owner gave us another fan so we would survive the night. We decided to get out of the inferno (our room), and walk around Chinatown before heading to bed.
Once we got back to the inferno, we discovered that the second fan was unplugged because one of the girls in our room was charging her phone. Isabelle, myself, and the third girl really wanted the fan on (for obvious reasons - it was an inferno in there!). We politely asked if she could charge her phone in the morning so we could sleep, but apparently that wasn't an option. She had to charge her phone, camera, AND Kindle during the night. She was extremely rude, and didn't understand why we were making such a big deal about it being "a little warm". We were "spoiled girls" because we wanted the second fan on. I don't know what her deal was. Maybe she was planning on talking on the phone while reading her Kindle and taking pictures the next day? Maybe she was having a bad day and was bitter because she didn't have a date on Valentine's Day? Or perhaps she was part vampire, and had a lower body temperature than us humans? Either way, she was not budging on the fact that she needed to charge all of her gadgets in the middle of the night. It didn't matter that 3/4 of the people in the room voted for the fan being plugged back in.
It was impossible to be in the room with only one fan on; the heat was absolutely suffocating. So, because she was so stubborn and we weren't about to start a fight, we took our sleeping bag liners and pillows down to the common area. There's nothing like sleeping (or in my case laying awake all night) on hard tile floor. At least there was a fan there, and we were actually able to breathe. I mentioned in a previous post that you can meet a lot of interesting people in dorms. I guess you can meet some pretty inconsiderate people, too.
Anywho, as it turned out, it was actually a good thing that we didn't sleep in the room. During the night several other people (from other dorms in the hostel) joined us on the floor in the common area. The hostel was infested with bed bugs, and luckily we didn't sleep in the infested beds thanks to the inconsiderate girl in our room. Silver lining!
Okay, that's enough about our night at Love Lane Inn. I wasn't feeling the greatest the next day (February 14th), so we didn't do much sightseeing in Penang. Before getting on the bus to Kuala Lumpur at 1pm, we just walked around the neighborhood looking at street art. Lots of interesting things to see!
My favorite was "Two Children on a Bicycle" at Lebuh Armenian by Ernest Zacharevic.
The bus to KL was pretty uneventful. It took 7 hours (though it was only supposed to take 5 hours). The bus was nice; we had reclining seats and air conditioning. Hurray! The roads were also in very good condition, and the scenery was very beautiful.
Once we (finally) got to KL we found a hostel in Chinatown. Tried to get a good night sleep, but we were paranoid that there were bed bugs everywhere. Once you start thinking about bed bugs, you can't get them off your mind. I start to itch every time I think about them. We read somewhere that sleeping with the lights on makes them less likely to come out. So that's what we did last night. We're doing the same tonight (even though I just Googled it and found out this is just a myth). Gah. I'm sure it can't hurt. Nasty creatures! Cross your fingers for us!
Time to try to get some sleep. I'll write more about KL tomorrow or the next day. We'll be here until we head to Singapore on Monday. Nighty night!
Love,
Suzy
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