Singapore-Mersing

Arrived in Singapore after flight via Doha, which is a sweaty and sticky kinda place. Singapore is only 13 degrees north of the equator and the air is so humid, it feels difficult to breathe, like taking in a noxious gas and exhaling some sort of whizz glue type phantom. Singapore itself is an amazing place: walk from chinatown to little india and you will see the amazing difference between the two areas, like walking between two countries, and after having a delicious indian meal served on banana leaf we head to chinatown which is full of hawker centres and bustling market stalls, spices and all sorts of incredible but useless tat. Hindu shrines and Chinese tao/buddist temples are dotted all over the city as well as a few mosques down where i am staying on Baghdad Street. The Hawker centres are amazing you can get fish head curry or even eminent frogs legs which is my personal fave, staying clear of green turtle soup, because i don't like the idea of digesting something so putrid in design.. and which belongs on the beach, crying dolorous tears for all of its lost hatchlings kidnapped mercilessly by the beading eyes of predator birds.......... Today we arrived in Malaysia, and we are now in Mersing, which is a little fishing port. Tomorrow(wed) we catch the longboat to pulau tioman in the South China Sea, where we will snorkel and jungle trek.... i tink its where south pacific the movie was filmed, but if its too overcrodwed we will explore the seribut archipegalo and surrounding isles, by boat.... People very friendly.... food excellent... bout 90 p for a three course indian dinner... hostel is 2 pound a night... and malaysia is suppost to be expensive in south east asian terms.............................!!!!!!!