I find this so wierd...

I have 4 days in Penang...that is about 3 days longer then one actually needs to be in this town, as there isn't much to do. But I miscalculated the amount of time I needed to be here, and realized after I had paid for my room that I would need to be here and extra day or two....so I call this my vacation from my vacation, as I have taken to reading trashy novels and watching all of the movies I can see at the movie theatre...

Speaking of which, I think that it is such a strange thing that at the mall in Penang, you can go to the movie at the theatre then walk back out to the mall and buy the DVD of the movie you just saw...or better yet, buy the DVD of the movies that have yet to be released, but were previewed in the trailers before the movie started...The pirate movie industry of south east asia is actually pretty ridiculous, as there really don't seem to be any enforced regulations...and it is not that wierd to turn on the TV in the hotelroom that I am staying in and find a pirated movie playing on their version of a movie channel....just the other day I tuned into that new Hilary Duff/Chris Noth movie...it was a bit fuzzy and it did come with its own laugh track...What the heck?? So I started asking people about it, and it turns out that pirated movies are so popular and widely purchased that movie theatres are closing up in Malaysia, because people would rather just buy the cheap fake version instead...I am appalled by this, especially since the quality of all of the versions that I have seen on TV are horrendous...its not even like they are trying to hide the fact that things are pirated....

Okay, enough about my rant on piracy....