Hanna and I were planning on being really efficient today. Wake up early to buy the things we needed, get tickets to somewhere and check out by noon. Flee the country essentially.
Well things didn't exactly go according to the elaborate (cough cough) plan. The previous night I had finally befriended our Chinese roomies who turned out to be a really nice couple, despite first aversions. With the help of maps and sign language we discussed about their home cities, geopolitics, the different peoples of China, food, our travels and so forth. It's amazing that just by the virtue of all of us being people we could uphold a somewhat proper conversation, them being deaf and non-English speakers and me being a non-Chinese and sign language speaker (does that sentence make sense?).
Thus today was different. The couple asked us to go out sightseeing with them, "Why not!" we mimed or signed or whatever. So off we went to Sentosa Island, this crazy theme park-like place just a short yet expensive cable car ride from the main island of Singapore. Apparently they had already been there once, but had found it so awesome that they just had to take us there as well, to marvel at all the craziness (read: silliness). Let's just say we've got a lot of holiday pictures China style now. We posed at every freckin' statue, monument and building there was. Communication was a struggle at times, but who cares when you get to meet nice people. The Chinese are always so sincere, a big reason for us loving the country.
And we actually have a plan where to go next. Finally, at 10pm we decided to head for Melaka and from there onwards to Indonesia.
//R
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