I picked up some anti-malaria tablets today that I’ll have to take daily while in any rural areas of Indonesia. The pharmacist warned me that I should avoid excessive sunlight when taking them, as it causes you to burn easier and can increase the risk of skin cancer.
I’m already so white that the radiant light from anything higher than an 80w light globe results in singing of the epidermis, so I did consider just taking my chances with coils and nets.
However, since both malaria and skin cancer are potentially fatal, I decided to purchase the tablets, placing more value on preventing short term disease than long term disease. Even though the chance of the longer term disease is probably higher, it is a long way off, thus, health now is worth more than health later. This is a common human trait in much decision making.
But don’t worry, there will be plenty of slipping, slopping, slapping and shading.
On a beach with sea turtles, is where i’ll be.
That’s right, I’m heading to Redang island (Pulau Redang) on the east coast of western Malaysia tomorrow and will be returning on the 28th or 29th. I don’t have tickets there or back yet, but only have to be there by saturday morning so will surely find a way there. My options are bus or train (and perhaps plane on the way back) as I would like to see some of the country side and have a sense of the distance travelled.
Anyway, just to let everyone know. For those of you who don’t know, i’m going there for a turtle conservation program.
“But what about school?” you say… Well I say, what about the turtles, what about the turtles! Seriously though, I have made sure it won’t be a problem and it’s an opportunity I wasn’t going to miss, should be great!
Tada! While you were sleeping, I caught a flight from Beijing to KL, Malaysia and will now be studying here this coming semester. First some pics for proof…mwhahah.
There they are /\ the Petronas towers. Gotta say that they are amazing in real life, I came out of the subway (not knowing exactly where I should go after that), looked up, and up and up, and there they were, very cool.
This was the first glimse of the city (and towers) coming in from the airport on the KLExpress train.
Roti Chanai!? Then surely this is malaysia..:P and finally…
Hello!
Well, I will write some more later, for now I just wanted to surprise some people who didn’t know I was coming here. I had a very last minute change of plans and decided to come here for simple reasons which I will expound on later. For now, well, yeh, enjoy the pics and I should upload some more to my proper photo thingo soon.
Later.
T.
