Becky has posted a few pictures from KL and Singapore on her facebook, if you’re hip to that scene. If you aren’t, be patient until I can find a real connection, would you?

As usual I’m finding it hard to figure out what’s flooded and what isn’t, but at the moment it seems to me that the eastern side of the peninsula and Borneo are the currently-affected areas. Unfortunately, rain is forecast everywhere we want to go: currently one of Penang, Pangkor (both islands, the latter much smaller and uncolonial and a little closer and currently top in the running) or the Cameron Highlands (hmmm… treks, yay, in the rain, eh…)

Tomorrow morning, we’ll probably try to go somewhere. We could have picked worse for our decompression city, though… we have a clean double room for RM 40, with a nice porch and rooftop garden which we are taking good advantage of, and food isn’t bad.

Our flight back has crept up on us and comes in only five days.

I did a little tweaking to my Lingnan schedule for the upcoming term today. Sadly, I have to make sure at most one of my teachers is local, because I can never know if they’re going to pull the Chinese-reading junk in an English-medium class. Anyway, I have 15 hours now, no longer including Mandarin, so I have room to drop the class taught by a local if he follows what seems to be standard procedure.

If he teaches the English-medium class in English, unlike his colleagues, it should be fun… Modern Political Ideologies. If not, hey, I just need 12 hours.

Stubbed (and possibly broke) my toe on the way out of Singapore but it isn’t acting too bad yet. Hope it doesn’t freeze up, that would be awfully inconvenient. Not much pain unless I taunt it. This hasn’t been my trip… I’ve dropped my glasses (no permanent damage) and had a heck of time finding things. I’ve been suffering from overcomparison syndrome, expecting everything to be like Thailand and Lao, and it of course isn’t. It including the weather patterns which make knowing where I’m going next nearly impossible.

Melaka is a bit sleepier, but it’s still no Luang Prabang. Some good fruit juice, though, so we’re getting there.

I cleverly left my travel towel and a shirt behind in KL so my laundry situation is pretty dire… and nothing will be drying in Melaka for the next week or two. Bought a couple t-shirts today to put off the inevitable slaving over a sink and… well, maybe I could dry stuff with a blowtorch, if I had one.

Until I make it on to the site again,