Backpacking And That – Day 72
I went backpacking about Australia and South East Asia. It was super. Here’s the email I sent home on day 72.
To: <friends>, <family>
Subject: Singapore, Once More
Date: 09/05/2000 01:31 PM
Currently I am surrounded by the sounds of gunfire and men dying from horrific wounds. Sheltered from the bullets, I’m crouched in a corner trying to ignore it all and get on with this email. Not an easy task I tell you; the speakers on the computers are turned up far too loud and this bloke on my right screams like a girl whenever he gets killed.
It’s a net cafe with internet gaming and 10 odd of them are playing Quake Arena. The graphics are amazing and I may well have a go before I leave. Or maybe Diablo II…
I left KL yesterday. I waited for the pre-booked bus, turning up 20 minutes before hand with two girls I had met the night before who were making the same trip (and uncannily getting the same flight as me too). We waited beyond the alloted time and an hour later after being assurred that the bus was late I went back upstairs to ask the lady at the desk. She insisted I had missed the bus and gave me a ticket for the next one; an hour later. When I told her firmly that I had waited through it’s suppossed arrival time, she pretended not to understand me. So we waited for the next one. It arrived late and the driver told me that I wasn’t actually going on this one, but the one behind which was late too. So I waited another hour and the bus finally turned up, but drove into the wrong berth. I then found that someone else was in my seat and had the same ticket number as me! I couldn’t believe it. Luckily there turned out to be a spare seat.
Things I bought in KL:
- ALL the nirvana albums on a single CD; in MP3 form! Price: 4 quid.
- Pirated Devils Advocate on Video CD. Price: 2 quid and a bit.
- American Pie 3, yes 3. Price : Same as above.
I just had to buy american pie 3. It features the innocent, virgin, student claire something or other who becomes not so innocent after meeting some pop star. I swear it must be a porno, but I’ll find out soon I guess. Unbelievable what you can find.
Singapore is as before. Clean, shiny, new, friendly and wealthy. I met some guy on Koh Phi Phi who told me he thought that Singapore was the dirtiest city he had ever seen, he obviously had never been to Croydon. Dunno what he was talking about.
Still I am eager to return to my nest, and shall spend my last few pennies tonight before retiring for a quick kip and then onto the airport for my last flight for a while. At least until I can scrape up the cash to go to Africa anyway..
Thanks to all who have mailed me on my travels, Today microsoft emailed me to explain that I have actually exceeded my hotmail account memory limit. I have had enough emails to take up 2 meg of space! The exact number of mails is near 200 and every one has been a joy to read.
See you all soon.
‹Max
That was my trip. The worst thing is I left my hotmail account alone for 90 days when I returned, and Microsoft deleted all the mail I received in reply 
I’ve never forgiven them. I switched to Linux almost immediately 