Boarding the slow bus to Malaysia

After 4 days in Singapore it was time to move on to Malaysia. Singapore is the southernmost country in our time here in Asia, and with this bus trip we'd be headed north to Kuala Lumpur (KL), the capital and biggest city in Malaysia. We thought we had utilized our bus cards to perfection, leaving just the right amount of money on the cards for the trip from our hotel to the central bus stop in Singapore. Well we miscalculated and ended up slowing down the city bus in morning rush hour when the bus driver asked for more money. I got a little flustered and ended up tossing nickels and dimes all over the bus floor. Smooth. He apparently felt sorry for us and let us pass. I could read the minds of every morning commuter that we passed, each thinking about this clueless foreign guy - because I'd been on the other side so many times. And this was just the 10-minute ride to the bus terminal, the easy part of the trip... At the actual terminal we found out that they only accepted cash. A sprint across town to find an actually functioning ATM machine got us on board the bus just before we shoved off. 6 1/2 hours later we had arrived in KL. The amazing race had officially begun.