Local Food

It's been a few days since I posted last and I would say that I've been too busy but honestly I've just been really lazy! This past weekend was great, we had awesome audiences on Friday and Saturday and although I'm still not 100%, I can definitely tell that my voice is getting better every day. I think part of the problem is sometimes we can't hear ourselves on stage so I overcompensate and push with my voice thinking that it will make it louder. So I've been really concentrating on holding myself back anytime I realize that's happening.
Our keyboard player is almost all the way better, one of his friends here gave him some special cream that he put on skin everyday and his chicken pox went away so fast, he only has a few left that are visible. Sunday it was his birthday and we all went to dinner together just in the hotel and celebrated with him. Other than that I just relaxed the rest of the day.
Last night I got to go eat some local food. This girl named Jackie comes to the club a lot and she's one of the only nice normal girls I've met here, all the others just want me to take them to my room. But this one is just a cool lady and she told me she just wants to show me around Malaysia since there's some places I can't get to on the train. So after the shows last night she offered to take me out for supper, which is a late meal after dinner here. We took a scenic route and she showed me all these different clubbing streets, they were all full of lights and really crowded. Then she showed me the Petronas Towers, which I've seen but not at night and they were so cool! We finally stopped at this long street that was just filled with street vendors and it was packed. She took me to this little noodle place and she ordered our food in Malay so I had no idea what we were getting. Then we went and sat at this big round plastic table with a bunch of other people and waited for about two minutes. Our food came out in four bowls, two bowls each. One bowl was this soup that had lots of weird floaties in it and the other was noodles with this minced beef on top. She told me to try everything before I asked her what it was, so I did. The noodles were great, just tasted like Top Ramen with beef on it. But the soup was another story, there were these little white strip things that I found out were cow stomach, not so tasty. Then there were these round things that she just said were beef balls, but not literally, ha ha she just said they are like meat balls. Then there were just these chunks of beef that were so delicious! She ended up giving me all the chunks of beef and meat balls out of her soup and then she ate all the stomach out of mine. It was a good trade! The food was really good, but the setting was gross, there were huge rats running between all the food stands and cats everywhere chasing the rats, but you just have to ignore that stuff and enjoy the food. All in all it was a blast and I'm really glad I went out. Hopefully we'll do it again soon! That's about all the adventures for now!