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Published: October 16th 2006
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As promised next instalement of fabulous travel blog - again out of date as i stated i am now in Perth so i'm going from memory here guys , which as you know isn't what it once was!
Okerly dokerly , arrived in Singapore and was in awe as i used the facilities and discovered they had an electronic soap dispenser - needless to say this seemed to be the greatest thing ever since going to the toilet in Thailand involves aiming at a whole in the floor and washing your hands in the closest river!
On we went from the airport to our hotel , i almost cried with joy when i saw the Marina Mandarin - go online and have a little look. Much more up Emma's street! We had a doorman unload our bags and everything?!
We arrived at our room to find air conditioning , a mini bar, robes and slippers , tea making facilities and a BATH - i cannot tell you how happy i was! I took pictures to prove it!
After having a quick cat lick we went to the award winning Italian restaraunt in the hotel and stuffed with Pasta
, Garlic bread and Parmesan mash - it was carb heaven! Washed all of this lot down with a bottle of pink champers and a few cosmos - am i the poshest back packer ever or what!!?!?!?
Awoke the following day and put on fluffy robe and slippers and went to check out the pool , it was fabulous, it's kind of set in the roof of part of the hotel so has fabulous views of the metropolis that is Singapore, very hi tech , modern and clean!
After lunch i did what i have missed most - i shopped! Imagine my excitement when i spotted a Mango, Topshop , Miss Selfridge and Zara. I ran , yes literally ran into Zara as if they were going to run out of clothes at any given second and spent what felt like 4 hours looking at the clothes which fyi are exactly the same as you'd get at home at the same price !
The following evening we decided to venture out of the comfort of our hotel to check out the local nightlife, we went to an Irish bar , isn't it cool how you can find an Irish
bar anywhere in the world!? We asked the waitress in the Irish bar where we could go on a week night that was good . she sent us to a club called "Zaul" - i can only assume she thought this funny!
We arrived at Zaul to a crowd of teenagers , my initial thought was - okay they can't get in - WRONG! I finally got to the door after battling my way through the what appeared to be 10 year olds and was asked for my ID , yes my ID , I'll say it again ID!! I asked the doorman (who fyi also appeared to be 10) "how old you have to be to get in" and he said "18", 18 i ask you!! I produced my driving licence and he assured us it was "banging" inside and ushered us in. My intial thought was we were attending an 18th birthday party, after walking through all the rooms in this club we established we were a. the oldest people in here and b. the only westerners! We managed to get to the bar by following the trail of illuminous headbands that the kids were wearing ,
we stood at the bar awaiting service when bros came booming over the speakers , it was at this point i decided to leave with a look of disgust on my face!
After this troubling experience we got ourselves into a cab and went to Ministry of sound which we had spotted earlier , i thought okay this will be a bit garage but gotta be better than bros , WRONG AGAIN , apparently Singapore has not moved out of the 80's and i was bombarded by Banarama , Gloria Gaynor , Abba and A-ha but to name a few! Had no choice but to suck it up and down a few vodkas , at least the other "clubbers" were of legal age. After a few too many voddies i braved the dance floor when i heard the intro to Bon Jovi and Livin on a prayer, strutted myself over to the dance floor not noticing the step down to the dance floor and stacked it , yes proper stacked it not just tripped , flat on my arse , i have a
massive bruise to prove it. Obviously everyone witnessed this and after a lad close buy managed to
stand up again (he was laughing so hard) he picked me up. Had completely lost my rhythm by this point so had no choice but to return to seat to chair dance instead!
Can take the girl out of Sheppey but you can't take Sheppey out of the girl eh?!
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MLJT
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Bros club sounds wicked. Why did you leave?? News from Oz and pictures please. Singapore is so like so totally last week. Lilly got a haircut. Its all very exciting here. Have fun and call me soon yar? Love and peace x