Ways to kill time in Melaka: Being made examples of
Friday, October 24th, 2008Melaka, while being a lovely(ish) town, is kinda small to spend more than say, a well used 48 hours in. This is our third day here now, still two more left, and already entertainment is running thin.
For lunch/dinner we chomped through a ludicrous amount of sushi at SushiA, this pretty sweet restuarant that gives you 50% off of all the sushi on the moving conveyor belt. This meant that we got to eat a tenner’s worth of sushi for a fiver. Considering the relative cheapness of sushi out here in comparison to sushi back home, we ate about 40 quid’s worth. It is important to note to all of you non-sushi lovers, that there is something that occurs that Lauren and I have dubbed ‘sushi sickness.’ This occurs suddenly, but when you get to your ninth or tenth plate of the raw stuff, you suddenly get that horrificly warm production of saliva in the back of your mouth. The type that feels like your throat is being lubricated for an immediate stomach evacuation. Needless to say, after our sushi-a-thon today, I suffered for at least 45 minutes after with sushi sickness. Luckily, Lauren remained unaffected.
One sit down and cup of hot milo later (that’s hot chocolate to you and me,) and we were ready to move on. We had spied colourful looking stalls that you could create your own stickers in with your own image on them. Time and time again we had walked past these, making half-true promises about ‘going in there at one point,’ and ‘it’ll be a right laugh.’
Today was that point, it was a right laugh.
We had so much fun, in fact, that the lady asked if we’d mind her using our photo’s as examples on the shop window. Lauren literally clapped with delight. My personal favourite is one where Lauren and I are imposed, at different distances from the camera and looking in different directions, with Daniel Radcliffe, aka Harry Potter. The use of direction and distance makes the sticker look like a Christian rock sleeve. It is one of the most perfect things I have ever seen.
Other things we have done in Melaka have nearly all revolved around eating. Lots of it. There’s an awesome Krispy Kreme doughnut type place near out hostel and were on at least one doughnut a day. Thinking about it, it’s nearly time for our fix soon.
The sights in Melaka are much more looking than doing attractions. There’s museums for everything. Want to know about what all them kid’s in the internet cafe playing online shooting games are doing? Go to the Melaka Youth Museum. Always wondered why people got tattoo’s? Head to the Enduring Beauty Museum. Want to know if your toilet habits are normal? Run along to the Malaysian Defecation Appreciation Museum. (So maybe the last one doesn’t strictly exist, but you get the idea.)
We did find a rare, and awesome, bookshop earlier in one of the malls that sells ‘classic’ literature for a quater of the price of all the other books in there. I picked up some Oscar Wilde and Henry James, and Laurenzo got herself F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Buchan, enough literature to keep us entertained through the most humdrum bits of the next few days at least, and much more importantly, enough ‘proper’ authors for me to namedrop and feel even more smug. I did an English degree donchaknow?
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