One-month stop over in Java, Sumatra Singapur and Malaysia put us to a good mood and cheered our travel enthusiasm up. The fact, that we spent nearly the whole budget for our travelling during one month in those hot and muggy countries, didn’t perturb us at all. Anyway, it was not so much, but it was relative, since we had no idea when we will get back. Excluing air-tickets, it was a great one-month stopover  for USD 700, however. Only in Wellington, after a while of a helpless screwing around the airport hall, we finally kept count of how much money was actually left. We put together amazing one hundred dollars.
     However, the travelling around South-East Asie disposed us in the best way, our language equipment became just great, so we were not afraid of any troubles. We didn’t underestimated our language skills and we started to learn English as early as one week before our departure from Malaysia to New Zealand. Every day of the last week in Melaca, we went to the Royal Palace gardens  for couple of hours and studied hard. Especially me, all the time looking for  an easy, fast and effortless way how to learn English fluently in one week. I would almost have succeeded in it, if  Evicka had not been always disturbing me by her awkward learning and new vocabulary or various verbal form repeating.
     We haven’t had any communication problem during the entire month of travelling so far. After this one-week intensive language course, nothing could disconcert us, surely. Anyway, even non-Englishman understood us, so, no reason why we should not be able to communicate with New Zealanders now! They must know their language perfectly, though. Equipped with the knowledge of conjugation of verbs “to be” and “to have”, names of cardinal numbers and days of the week, we got up on the day of our departure quite early. As early as at ten o’clock in the morning!
     We packed our luggages leisurely, set forward to the bus station and at about noon we noticed, that last midday bus to Johor Bahru - borderline with Singapore - was leaving in a few minutes. Perfect timing. In the bus, we just made sure, that the distance to Johor Bahru check point does not go over 250 km. There was plenty of time left untill the check-in at Singapore airport starting at 5.30 P.M.
     We lined up the queue to passeport control at 4 pm approximately. The nervousness began to get us down slightly at half past five when we were running from the check point to the nearest taxi-rank. We became aware subconsciously, that to stay over night in Singapore - with one travel check, the cash exactly only for paying a cab and defaulted air tickets - would not be the best beginning of our journey. With our eyes wide opened and a slightly limited seeing we elbowed our way to the taxi stand. The path was blocked by iron barriers, which we playfully jumped, and just waved to the taxis. In the very next moment, we were explained with decent but emphatic gestures to return at the end of the queue winding between the iron barriers. Somehow, we didn’t notice the queue.
     A moment of hesitation, speculation, if we are able to beat them all.  Old, desperate educational effort of our parents celebrated its success after all and we placed ourselves in the end of the queque. Surprisingly enough, taxis began to come quickly, one following another. Singaporeans  disappeared inside them organizely and rapidly. In a while, we were worming through autostrades, tunnels, flyover and underpasses in the direction of the airport.
     We tried to suggest him in a varíaty of ways, that he could go faster. It was the same as if you would try to convince a ticket vendor to give you one ticket extra. With the only difference that the taxi driver smiled at us nice and politely. In the meantime, I was watching the taximeter closely and tossing last coins with my hand in my pocket in the same rhythm. It worked out! There was even  money left for one beer, which we took  in Melbourne airport during interlanding there. And the check-in? Well, we made it at about 20 minutes before boarding. So, why to be in a hurry? translated by Eva

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