VON: Kuala Lumpur is a pool??

Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, pronounced as "kuararunpu-ru" (クアラルンプール) in Japanese..

i went to the 'box' for my choir during lunch today... out of a sudden, my jap frens mentioned about "kuararunpu-ru"...at 1st i tot someone started the topic related to Malaysia because i was there.... but the thing is.... i couldn't relate anything to Malaysia.... and..... suddenly one of them ask "where is it?" erm... well, i said "in Malaysia".. then all the 3 of them who were there had a shock...

the reason why i couldn't get what they said is because they're talking about "pool" and the word "pool" in jap is "pu-ru".... so they tot that "kuararunpu-ru" is a pool named "kuararun-pool"....the other reason that mislead them is the word is written as one word in Japanese..until i show them in the dictionary, then oni they realised it's TWO words: Kuala + Lumpur

so to those Japanese who doesn't know that Kuala Lumpur is a place will misunderstand it as a pool....sigh... seems like i have to talk more about my country b4 i go back..... let them know that Kuala Lumpur is the capital of Malaysia, the place where i live, not a pool!!