Tin City [Travel, Malaysia]
My friends and I ventured out to Ipoh this past Labor Day/ Wesak holiday-weekend to test-drive a car – Subhash writes car reviews for a living – and this post is my review of the Chevrolet Malibu. It's a very pretty car. It drove us over 120 miles from Kuala Lumpur to the city of Ipoh, a 2-hour car ride that was very nicely air-conditioned. The car was new-ish, and so it felt nice to be in it, just like how nice any new thing is. New things are best. For a new car, though (this is probably a 2014, I dunno), it's a bit crappy in that it couldn't play music from any of our phones via Bluetooth. It does have the requisite female robot voice that announced, upon starting the car, that it had finished searching for satellite. Dumb, considering there was no GPS. What shitty robot service. I was excited about going on a road trip to Ipoh, which I'd never really visited (except for a couple of stopovers in the middle of the night on the way to Penang a few months ...