After 4 weeks in Vietnam (and a few days in Laos), we were back in the air and on our way to Singapore. We only spent 4 nights there before going into neighbouring Malaysia. The first thing that strikes you about Singapore is just how clean and modern it is - the airport is said to be the best in the world as Id already discovered when I stayed the night in the transit terminal when flying from Japan to Vietnam. However, I guess the cleanliness of the city comes at a cost because there seems to be several over-strict laws [View Full Entry]

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Some photos of what I have been up to at last! Ive just paid for an extra 1/2 hour so I will write some info on my plans. I leave Singapore in the morning, planning to go to the night zoo tonight with a guy I met called Barry, hes left the hostel and is now staying with the friend he came out to work for, but we are meeting up about 6ish at the hostel and going to either drive his friends van or take the bus to the night safari. In the morning I am going to get a [View Full Entry]

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Okay... I'm still alive! I have been trying to write an update every few days but something always seems to crop up What a whirlwind time that has been. .. Quite literally. The day after the last blog Tokyo was hit by a typhoon which was interesting to say the least - I can never work out the difference between a typhoon, hurricane or just a big storm but this one was a typhoon. Typhoon 18 to be exact - no names for them in Japan. I sat in the lobby of the hotel all night actually, doing some email and [View Full Entry]

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Well we weren’t in Singapore for long - 2 days but we had a really great time. It is a really nice city and out of everywhere so far is probably the one place that we thought would be pretty cool to live in (although we won’t - don’t worry mum!) It was so easy (and cheap) to get from the airport to the hotel, we took the MRT and there was a stop only 5 mins away from the hotel. We took a walk to the shops, Singapore has to be the Mall capital of the world, I don’t think [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone Ill keep this short as its from the iPod. Leaving the UK all went fine flights were faultless although Id love to know how much extra 1st class is as they had fantastic leg room which I did not! Arriving in Singapore at night was strange the city looks so different in the day. Ive met a few pol and got talking which is great its like starting uni all over again except everyone leaves all the time. Ive just been relaxing in singapore its a lovely city very relaxed and friendly people. Went to the beach today and [View Full Entry]

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And so we reached our final stop on our 5 month World tour - Singapore, where we stayed for 4 nights before flying back home. We hadn't thought much about Singapore in advance as it was the very last place we were visiting, and we didn't have a guidebook, so we weren't really sure what to expect. Once we did eventually get a guidebook at Cairns airport it mentioned that Singapore had previously had a bit of a reputation as being dull, this is certainly not our experience of the City State. Singapore is a smallish island off the southern tip [View Full Entry]

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What day is it? Not so sure ? October 12, 2009 Let's start today off with a riddle: (This is for you Tom we know you love riddles) If your travel agent has you booked in a hotel not to leave until Saturday October 10th and your airline tickets say Saturday October 10th.....leaving at 12:25 am. Do you go to the airport on: A. Friday night B. Saturday night If you chose (A) Friday night go to the head of the class and travel on to Sydney. If you chose (B) Saturday night pull up a piece of rug because you [View Full Entry]

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Been a hectic week, so much going on I can't even think where to begin. I had a horrible yes horrible job working a PROMO (which really i think they shouldn't hire models unless the models are with a promotional agency) handing out cards sprayed with a new Chloe perfume. I don't care how much they were paying it didn't help that I was in killer heels on a new shiny surface, being scorned at by grouchy old women and "larger" ladies and I swear I now have RSI from spraying that damn perfume so much. Michael came down to laugh [View Full Entry]

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今天突然心血来潮决定回母校看看。 曾几何时，惜日的小学已不复存在。 我延着那条熟悉的小路走去。 多年以后，那条熟悉的小路已不象从前那么漫长。 多年以后， [View Full Entry]

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Day Eight October 9, 2009 I awoke this morning very excited about my day. You see I was going to make a new friend and one of the joys of my life is meeting new and interesting people. Before I left for Singapore a friend of mine from High School that I had recently reconnected with via facebook had told me she had a friend that had moved to Singapore about a year and half ago that was from our home town in Massachusetts. I had emailed Heidi from Atlanta and she had given me some great tips on things to [View Full Entry]

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