Life Adventures

A lot happened in these two days, but I want to focus on three things:
1. My cousin
2. the dogs
3. Cliff, the talkative Australian

Day 5 began with me getting to my cousin Ash that I haven’t seen in FOREVER! Literally. All thanks to the power of facebook, we were able to find eachother after about 8 or so years of not seeing each other. In the mean time, he’d gotten married and moved to Japan and his in-laws are living in Malaysia for business right now. We met for lunch, and it seemed a bit awkward at first, but I guess blood is thicker than water, because soon we fell into step with each other and began talking away in English at paces suprising to his wife and mother-in-law. His in-laws were extremely gracious and hospitable to me and really treated me well considering they didn’t know me from Adam. Really had a great time reconnecting with Ash–unfortunately, though he’s a photographer, and I always had my camera, we never took a picture of us! Duh! I’m not really bright sometimes.

That night I headed to bed for a nice sleep . . . at least I thought it would be . . . when I was awakened sometime around 2 a.m. with a barking outside my hotel. Now, I have a dog–a beautiful dog that I love and miss–so I am definitely not anti-dog, but this dog had an agenda, and that agenda was to keep me awake. So he (yes, I’m sure it must’ve been a he) barked the entire rest of the evening without stopping to take even one breath, no, not one. The next night, hoping the dog would be too weary for a repeat performance, I headed to bed again. Alas, Malaysia produces a special night-barking breed of dog that never tires of keeping hotel guests awake at all hours. Yeah! Another night of tossing and turning in an attempt to somehow drown out the noise.

Lastly, the talkative Australian, Cliff. I signed up for a tour through my hotel and in the morning proceeded to the lobby where I met Cliff, a sixty-year-old Australian. He was extremely eager to begin the questioning process and proceeded to question me the ENTIRE tour (8 a.m.-4 p.m.) on everything China. Imagine this in an Australian accent: “So, Marianne, do they have temples like this in China? Do you know what these characters mean? How do the girls dress in China? Do you like the food there? I don’t suppose your mum and dad are happy about you being in China? Do they have vans like this is China, Marianne?” INCESSANTLY, for the entire tour. The good part about Cliff is that he was also eager to help me take a picture wherever and whenever: “Marianne, would you like a picture over here? What about over here, Marianne, that’d make a nice picture. My wife says if I don’t come back with pictures of me, she’ll kill me.” Cliff, oh, the memories.

And thus, I headed back to Singapore–another adventure chronicled.

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