I spent the morning doing some calculations on how to free up space in my bag and some weight, as well as sorting out laundry.
I have decided that I will get an action cam in Low Yat after all, and now I am better informed I decided it would be a good idea to try them out and make sure the photo quality was ok before buying.
I worked out that I had about 4kg of things to send back, and it took up around 15l of space, and after finding out how much it cost to send I had seconds thoughts about doing so.
I made it to Low Yat, and tried out some of the action cams. The guy at the stall was impressed by my determination to test, especially since I'd brought an OTG cable for the phone so that I could view the photos on my phone.
After some discussion and decision making, he realised I wasn't going to accept a cheap fake 3rd party cam, and showed me the SJCAM. It had a built in function to change the colour balance to make it that no filter was needed when taking footage underwater.
It was more cash than I had so I said I'd think about it, and then headed to the bank.
I tried the machine, and rejected the 'convert to GBP' option, and the card was spat out stating the transaction was declined. I wondered if I had maybe mis-understood the accept option so I tried with accepting the GBP exchange option, and the transaciton was still declined. I tried one more time, but at a different bank, and this also rejected, so I ended up calling the credit card company to check.
The card had been blocked, presumably because I had been in Malaysia for a bit longer than normal, and so I had to jump through some hoops to get it unblocked.
Having achieved this, I withdrew the money and headed back to the Low Yat mall, and made the purchase of the SJCAM.
I decided that when I got back to the hostel, I would use the wifi and call the UK Passport office to establish if they could track my passport, as I still have not received any call from the high commission, and it's now been almost a full month since it was posted from the UK to Kuala Lumpur.
On the way back, I found a 20RM note in the street, with nobody about. Lucky days! I decided that since there were so many homeless people around, if I came across one, I'd donate the cash to them, but I didn't see anyone on my way to the bus stop, so I used the money to buy myself a Nasi Goreng Daging Merah and Garlic Nan from Al Affrin restaurant at Pasar Seni.
I made arrangements with Jim to meet up later for some beers,
I have researched some more about the cost of diving in Tenggol and discovered that it is outrageously expensive, so I have abandoned that idea as a dead loss, and will use the money to go to Borneo instead!
I called the Passport office in the UK, and after some time talking with them, established that the passport had actually been signed for at the High Commission on the 19th of June. This was 11 days before I first called them and they'd denied receiving it. As such I requested that I get a copy of the proof of delivery sent to my email, so that I could contact them the following day (It was now after hours in KL, despite being office hours in the UK!).
Jim got back in touch, and we arranged to meet in Pasar Seni, hough somehow missed each other due to Jim having intermittent data. We rearranged and met at the bus stop for the purple line, and travelled to the green man pub and enjoyed some beers while we caught up with stories about our travels so far.