It's rude to point...
Rhiann Marie - Round the World
Stewart Graham
Mon 24 Jan 2011 14:54
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Monday 24th January 2011 2245 Local time 1445
UTC.
Still at...
06:18.45N 099:50.39E
Not much to report today. We had planned to move
the boat up the east side of Langkawi to the Hole in the Wall area but a
noon departure was delayed by numerous small jobs.
One large and important job was to restock
Rhiann Marie's stores to take adavantage of the cheapest wine and spirits prices
we have seen since Gibraltar and Panama.
I also started purchasing the engineering
components required for my anti- boarding defence which I intend to fit for the
Gulf of Aden transit.
The planning for this has to start in more detail
now so more and more thout and time will be given over to it.
We have been touring round the island on my hired
Yamaha scooter and it is very beautiful. There is an astonishing range of scenes
and scenery that you get in a developing country.
Malaysia is in a phase of development and
while its economy and its people are more well off than say its near
neighbour Indonesia, the people have still retained a friendliness that
will inevitably be lost as further development takes place.
People are friendly and polite. Do you remember
being told it was rude to point when you were younger? Well all over this
region of South East Asia people don't point with a finger - they use their
thumb, generally in a closed fist to indicate directions etc. They
also like to hand you things with both hands and where that is not possible
they will generally hand to you with their right hand while touching their left
hand to the right. After shaking hands with you and introducing themeselves they
will bring their right open palm up to their heart.
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