Sleep? What’s that?

So rubbish nights sleep but it’s not to bad the other night. Got up yesterday around 9am and headed of to little India via MRT and to a place called Sim lim square where you can get electronics. Wandered around and asked in all the stalls for the cost of the fujifilm xp 50. Eventually getting it for around $235 which is £119 so about the same as the UK. I then left quite happy and headed back on the MRT stopping of at city hall for a quick look around and also another stop and had a look around the St. Andrews cathedral. I then headed back to base as was going to meet Chris for lunch in uni around 1pm. As I came out the MRT I could already hear the rain and had to sit and wait about 25mins before the rain had eased of enough that I could head back to the room here I skyped Chris and said I would be around and see him after uni at 17:15. I went down to the food hub and had rice and honey chicken for lunch $3 🙂 after which I retired to the room for some chill time. I looked up a couple of places to go next week when were back from scuba diving. I had a wander around campus and took some arty farty shots. I then went to the uni food shop and found… Orio’s 🙂 see the attached pics $2.30 for 12 packs of 3 yes please and they had so many flavours. It’s a shame I can’t take them to OZ or NZ as I know they wouldn’t last long in NZ 😉
So meet Chris packed and grabbed sweet & sour and a waffle before heading for the MRT.

At the MRT we meet one of Chris’s friends who will be on the diving course with me. We took the MRT Before getting a bus which took us to the Singapore boarder here we jumped of and went through customs, so now another stamp 🙂 back on the bus and over the bridge before getting of again and now the Malaysia border here they wanted my fingerprints :s as my first time in the country along with a sticker and stamp in the passport. They were wonderfully confused by my yellow fever booklet and had to explain I was a traveller not a student but they let me in. So back on a bus and to the main bus station in Johor Bahru, here we had to wait till 22:30 for our bus and I thought it best to get some cash out. Well tried to get money out and it looked as if the transaction completed but then said declined, I tried another ATM but with the same response. Ummm I think my card has been blocked! Oh and my network wasn’t working in Malaysia so can’t even call the bank. I will try later when I reach where we are staying tonight. So waiting for our bus thought I would type this up and we didn’t get our bus till 23:50 this sucks it’s a 2hr ride and were learning to dive tomorrow! Right time for sleep on the bus. We got to Mersing around 2am 🙁 got into our room and straight to sleep, with the aim of getting up at 6.30am to get the 8am boat!

Some Pics below.