A small amount of thought dedicated to what I miss about Malaysia has lead me to realise that this country lacks one thing that would make my life that little bit easier and possibly more productive: a late opening Starbucks. I will note that the topic may not be of massive surprise to anyone, but I do have a reason for picking up on this one point.
The main problem lies in my decided inability to get any work done in my room, while I much more enjoy grabbing books and a notepad and heading towards a local coffee shop. But there is a problem, I actually need to do much of my work in the evening, as I'm generally quite busy during the day. When I get to the point where I can work, most of the places that I would go to have either converted themselves into cocktail bars for the evening or have simply closed for the evening. This is all rather disappointing.
It's here that my musing of Malaysia comes into the equation, one of the most fantastic features of that country was that everything opened late. 10pm was considered an early closing time, and I'd managed to locate one branch of Starbucks that was open until the early hours. Great news if like me you happen to have a somewhat nocturnal working habit! When you get bored of your surroundings, there were still places to head off and continue to get stuff done.
Alas though, I no longer reside in Kuala Lumpur, and shall have to make the best of my lot. There's always libraries, something that Oxford is in no shortage of, but then you can't really bring coffee in and they definitely don't serve it to you. Alternatively, I reckon I'll take another route. The coffee shops all open in earnest tomorrow morning, I shall be able to wait to re-enter my caffeine induced work surrounding then...
(As a postscript, it should be pointed out that Malaysian shops tend to open late in the morning, around 10am, then stay open until late at night. In short, Malaysia is a country built around evening people - there are a number of ways in which this is my sort of country...)
The main problem lies in my decided inability to get any work done in my room, while I much more enjoy grabbing books and a notepad and heading towards a local coffee shop. But there is a problem, I actually need to do much of my work in the evening, as I'm generally quite busy during the day. When I get to the point where I can work, most of the places that I would go to have either converted themselves into cocktail bars for the evening or have simply closed for the evening. This is all rather disappointing.
It's here that my musing of Malaysia comes into the equation, one of the most fantastic features of that country was that everything opened late. 10pm was considered an early closing time, and I'd managed to locate one branch of Starbucks that was open until the early hours. Great news if like me you happen to have a somewhat nocturnal working habit! When you get bored of your surroundings, there were still places to head off and continue to get stuff done.
Alas though, I no longer reside in Kuala Lumpur, and shall have to make the best of my lot. There's always libraries, something that Oxford is in no shortage of, but then you can't really bring coffee in and they definitely don't serve it to you. Alternatively, I reckon I'll take another route. The coffee shops all open in earnest tomorrow morning, I shall be able to wait to re-enter my caffeine induced work surrounding then...
(As a postscript, it should be pointed out that Malaysian shops tend to open late in the morning, around 10am, then stay open until late at night. In short, Malaysia is a country built around evening people - there are a number of ways in which this is my sort of country...)
