Hotel Ming Star Kuala Terengganu

... jump on bed just in case. Ipod in head under covers. ****. Forgot fan. Jump on second bed. Turn on fan. Jump back. Extra jump for scariness. Tuck in sheets tight. Easrphones in. Head buried. Sleep.<br><br>The final hours of darkness passed without further rat related incidents. Excessively tired I walked to the beach and slumped on the sand for the rest of the day. <br><br>I left Kapas a day earlier than planned partly ...

... 2 more connecting ferries to get to Redang. 7 Hours to travel less than 100km as the crow flies with 400km of bus and boat rides thrown in - go figure! This was all made fun by running around in the heat of the day with our backpacks on in the tarmaced jetty area, with no sign of our ferry or the correct jetty.

Pasir Panjang beach on Pulau Redang is amazing. The beach is covered with soft<br>white sand. Coral and fish can be seen just a few metres from the beach beneath the crystal clear waters of the Sth China Seas. An Island Paradise is where we are today - Redang. For the next 4D/3Nts we will be doing nothing but relaxing, eating, drinking, swimming/snorkeling, and sleeping.... HEAVEN<br>We caught the red-eye from KL in time to ...

... the right way. Anyway we had a bit of a trek to the bus station and enjoyed the 2 hours of air conditioned travel. The bus conductor tapped me on the shoulder at the side of the main road and said this was the place to get off for Pulau Kapas, our next destination. There were a couple of french girls on the bus also heading there so we grabbed breakfast with them (some rice and curry wrapped up in banana leaves - 1 ringitt) and waited for the boat.

... season ) RM 340 1st --------------------------------------- -5ÔÂ ( public holiday ) RM 400 2/3/8/9/10----------------------------- --5ÔÂ RM 340 4/5/6/7-------------------------------- ---5ÔÂ RM 305

... taxi ici. Ensuite promenade nocturne pour se trouver a manger. Il y avait quelques bons restaurants chinois de poissons ici, mais helas Killian voulait des frites a la mayonnaise, qu'ils ne faisaient pas.... J'ai donc fait des dizaines d'endroits en demandant s'ils avaient de frites a la mayonnaise, tout ca en mourant de fain... et j'ai fini par trouver ...

... got the suntan lotion out of the bag. Much to our horror did we discover that its jelly fish season and there were millions of the buggers. EVERYWHERE. We unfortunately didn't discover until day 3 that they are the non-stinging type. We spent one day on a snorkelling trip round the bays and islands which was so picturesque it was perfect. We saw black tipped sharks (whilst avoiding the bad boy jelly fish which did sting!), swam ...

... I expect you know that already actually...) but kick off isn't til 11pm our time, and we don't think we'll make it that far as we're so tired from such a busy day. It also wouldn't seem right to watch the football without beers, and as there is only one place that actually serves beer it is already packed. As Malaysia is predominately Muslim, alcohol is expensive and scarce - 4 halves of beer cost about the same as one nights accomodation. No doubt we will hear the crowds ...

... I am taking a short break until 9 this evening, when the principal will address the whole school in the canteen, which doubles as an assembly hall (dewan). This morning I went to the main office, which is connected to the teachers' room. The teachers' room is a large shared office with a desk for each of the teachers. The senior teachers, like Fauzi, are next door. In the teachers' room, there is a divider separating the men's section from the much larger ...

... am looking forward to having a routine and some sense of predictability back in my life, even if that routine is something novel and challenging. I really think that settling more permanently into the community in Dungun will be good for my Bahasa and my physical and mental well-being. I'm sure that in a few months I will be itching again to travel, but for the time being I can't wait to move into my new home on Sunday. Now reading: Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz