A 30-hour trip

There was an Oil Show at KL earlier this week. Originally, only my boss was attending it but as my colleague & I networked at a cocktail last week, industry acquaintances nudged us to attend. We thought it might be good to look-see, look-see. So we asked our boss if we could make a day trip there. Knowing there's no traveling budget, we didn't mind to do it the no-frill, cheapest of ways - that is to take the night coach. ($35 round trip) which was what we did. An ex-customer who has become a friend, offered his apartment for us to freshen up. We had breakfast together and met up with two other manufacturers and we all laughed and joked for a couple of hours over breakfast. My friend says to stay with him until the afternoons but we can't, we are there for work so we had to bid adieu and part ways.

 The trade exhibition was rowdy and rather packed on its second day. I met several trade acquaintances there.

 Accompanied a trade acquaintance for lunch at the Traders Hotel 

we have been doing business with his uncle but we now learned that his uncle & father are handling the family business over to him because they are old and retiring. 

 After the trade show ended, we went for dinner at Jalan Alok, where street food variety is aplenty.
Coincidentally, met another trade acquaintance (bulk handling equipment, cranes) so we had dinner together. 

 We also took the chance to savour some durians, well, just one small durian actually.
It was sweet and a little bitter. Nice. There were a couple of caucasians, they were deliberating whether to try durians, I had gestured to them to give it a 'go' but they backed out after contemplating. Durians to them are like pungent cheese to us, I guess.

After that, we headed to the bus stop and took the 11pm bus back to Singapore.