{"id":765,"date":"2010-06-13T03:30:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T11:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heynadine.com\/?p=765"},"modified":"2010-06-13T03:30:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T11:30:08","slug":"kuala-lumpur-and-f1-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/kuala-lumpur-and-f1-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuala Lumpur and F1 Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey guys!<\/p>\n<p>So while I was in Singapore, we just happened to be there at the same time as the<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"> <strong>Formula 1 Malaysia Grand Prix<\/strong><\/span>! So, since it was only an hour plane ride away Kristy, myself and a group of Kristy&#8217;s exchange student friends decided to go! And of course check out<strong> Kuala Lumpur<\/strong> as well .<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"552\" height=\"340\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4lLKonrCC_c&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"552\" height=\"340\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4lLKonrCC_c&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4053\/4691925914_781a7287c1.jpg\" alt=\"F1 Grand Prix Racing 4\" width=\"555\" height=\"416\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4067\/4691297541_8c9eeb43c9.jpg\" alt=\"F1 Grand Prix Racing 2\" width=\"552\" height=\"414\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sepang Track! VROOM!!!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4066\/4691925300_a82f7a5a61.jpg\" alt=\"F1\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our original seats BEFORE we moved\/walked around.\u00a0 Oh dirty ground, I shall not miss you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After the race was over, we headed over the the <strong>Wyclef Jean <\/strong>and <strong>Fat Boy Slim <\/strong>concert, AND we just so happened to get in FREE. Apparently it was because we where soo early to it, hahaha. It cost 100 MYR for the people that came later.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4045\/4691291683_813cc7be1f.jpg\" alt=\"Sepang Free Concert\" width=\"554\" height=\"415\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4066\/4691924146_8c6a423873.jpg\" alt=\"Wyclef Jean\" width=\"554\" height=\"415\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4047\/4691300665_9679246b19.jpg\" alt=\"Fat Boy Slim\" width=\"554\" height=\"415\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4004\/4691298779_68cf549334.jpg\" alt=\"Ferrari\" width=\"554\" height=\"415\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Ferrari VIP lounge area with a shiny red car!! oooo<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>General Kuala Lumpur<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4010\/4691287051_50127d9ba5.jpg\" alt=\"Petronas Towers\" width=\"473\" height=\"630\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Since we decided to skip to pre-races, we got to spend the day in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.\u00a0 So on our spare day we got up bright and early to go check out the <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petronastwintowers.com.my\/internet\/pett\/pettweb.nsf\/flash_intro?OpenPage\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">Petronas Towers<\/span><\/a> <\/strong><\/span>because you can get free tickets to go up onto the middle platform deck. HOWEVER, they only hand out a limited amount per a day and even after getting there at 8:00am, they we sold out of tickets for the day, and this was the line up for the ones going up \ud83d\ude41<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4047\/4691286585_e9202f61ce.jpg\" alt=\"Line for the Petronas Towers\" width=\"537\" height=\"402\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So instead, we just admired them from afar at took some great group shots. The towers are some the the most amazing buildings I have ever seen, that&#8217;s for sure.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4043\/4691287371_6f2407da7d.jpg\" alt=\"Our Group\" width=\"439\" height=\"585\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4001\/4691290571_1dd6a0af31.jpg\" alt=\"Petronas at Night_2\" width=\"438\" height=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Petronas Towers at Night<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here are some more general Kuala Lumpur pictures of the day through the city.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4056\/4691288043_fb297149f0.jpg\" alt=\"Kuala Lumpur 2\" width=\"549\" height=\"411\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4051\/4691287693_e1c0a419fe.jpg\" alt=\"Crazy Shopping Mall\" width=\"437\" height=\"582\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, Malaysians AND us foreigners love to shop. This was in the Petronas Towers mall! 6 FLOORS!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4058\/4691921658_d211de05b7.jpg\" alt=\"Kuala Lumpur 4\" width=\"554\" height=\"415\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not bad KL, not bad, although, I still prefer Singapore :p<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heynadine.com\/icons\/BPV.png\" align=\"left\"> A quick stopover in Malaysia for the Formula 1 Grand Prix, and some Petronas Towers action ! <b><i>Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,36],"tags":[211,810,1006,1017,1084,1224,1691,1770,2110,2116,2216,2392,2873,3269],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-southeast-asia-travel","tag-april-2010","tag-travel","tag-fat-boy-slim","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-grand-prix","tag-liveshows","tag-malaysia","tag-petronas-towers","tag-photography","tag-race-cars","tag-sepang","tag-travel-videos","tag-wyclef-jean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}