February 18th, 2017 Melaka, Indonesia to Bali, Indonesia

1AM I crossed the border to Malaysia- simple.

5AM I followed the Chinese guy's advice to take the express train to TVS to Melaka. It costed 6.5 IDR here. Things are relatively much cheaper here than Singapore. I have go to Melaka now that I found out from him that it's UNESCO site for Chen Ho.

5:45AM None of the convenience stores nor the bus ticket sales office took visa. I exchanged my extra change in SGD with two helpful female students. My bus was 13 IDR and we left pretty much on time.

8:30AM I arrived at Melaka.

9AM I did a free tour for 3 hours. I wouldn't recommend it. I had to take my luggage up a small hill. That was not it. It's that I could barely hear him and he talked about... basically nothing about history but mostly about Chinese people coming to Malaysia to build stuff.






12PM I took awhile to find baba nyonya food- which is the mixture of Malay, Chinese and Indian food. I had Kapitan chicken which the owner woman insisted it was completely different from Indian food. It was not, really. She was nice to let me use my visa. The crab ball soup was excellent, though.



1:30PM A nice tour guide drove me back to the bus station as I couldn't find the local bus. I then had to find change because no one had any and no store took visa. The exchange office gave me an extra 0.5 MYR.  The saleswoman wanted 24.3 MYR which I just heard the 24 MYR part honestly. The guy next to me spotted me 0.3 MYR.

4PM I arrived at KLIA instead of touring the city because when I looked at the flights I had to take in the future, many of which have the potential to go through Kuala Lumpur. I took out my tripod for AirAsia but their security stopped me when they saw it. The annoying Indian supervisor fought and said I have to pay 105 MYR even though their associate saw me take out the tripod and said it was okay. I knew fighting them was of no use and just sneaked in with my tripod turned against them. It worked.

5PM I took a shower at the lounge. This was probably the best lounge I have been to- they had miso soup and real food and massage chairs to sleep on, which I didn't use.

7PM My flight left for Bali. Now I remember how much I hated AirAsia- they had the smallest seat possible.

10PM I arrived. Uber drivers are horrendous here. They would call you to ask for cash and force you to cancel if you don't comply. I had to cancel all of them and complain to Uber. I shared a car with a German girl and her dad. She offered to let me share their private tour tomorrow.

February 17th, 2017 Singapore

9AM I arrived at Changi Airport. There were so many good lounges. I sold access to lounges with my priority pass to an Indian guy for 30 SGD. A nice lady helped me print out my Sri Lanka visa, which was just a couple lines and didn't even fill the page. I then bought what I thought was a package deal for the garden and the observatory deck. This ended up falling through since they wanted me to go there physically to retrieve it.

1PM I toured the garden and the cloud forest, which were mediocre with the glass and everything. I stored my luggage here.




4PM I arrived at Marina Bay Sands, which is about the tallest building out here. It is also the most magnificent building here. It took some engineering ingenuity to build these three buildings with a ship platform between and an infinity pool also.




6PM I went to the mall and checked out a Patek for the first time. I then dozed off for maybe 15 minutes before sneaking in after hours for the M.C. Escher exhibition. It would have costed 17 SGD.

7:15PM I was late to meet Andrew.  We had some unimpressive street food, fried oysters and some Hainan chicken.


9PM Andrew drove me back to the garden. I took some pictures along the way. By the way, since I had already stored my luggage in a locker earlier, I didn't have to drag it along with me when I needed a hand for the tripod. I then walked all the way back to the super tree to retrieve my luggage. It was miles. I must have walked forever, too. I got back to the mall at 11:20ish, asked for a cup of water from Starbucks for my Airborne. I got to Bugis for my bus to Kuala Lumpur at midnight.

February 16th, 2017 Doha, Qatar

7PM I arrived at Doha, Qatar's capital. I was only at the airport this time. One memory was when I was in the elevator. I thought I was the only one there. Unbeknownst to me wasthat there was a Muslim woman standing there. She said to me, no, my religion. So I had to leave because I couldn't be in the elevator with her because she is Muslim. I didn't like that at all.

February 15th, 2017 Leaving Miami

6:40PM I boarded after going to Priority Pass lounge at Miami International Airport. They had smoked salmon sandwiches, which ended up better than the food on Qatar Always.