Blogs from Singapore, Asia - page 329

We arrived! It's day two for us and it's really strange to us that in time we're so far ahead of home. Singapore is much different than I expected. Our flights were nuts. Traveling to Los Angeles was fine. We sat in LAX for six hours and we couldn't check in for our flight to Taipei until 9:30 at night. It wasn't until we were standing in line when we realized that we were supposed to pick up our bags and check them in with EVA airlines. So a race from terminals caused a bit of stress but US Airways saw that our final destination was Singapore and put a rush job on them. Which freaked us out even more when we finally arrived in Singapore and didn't see our bags come out on the conveyor ... read more

Haven't felt well for days. Back in Kuta I'd woke up exhausted, head-achey and freezing one morning, had to put all my layers on and sit under the thin blanket before breaking into sweats less than an hour later. I hadn't even drank that much the previous night but the weird thing was that my lymph nodes were really swollen and sore but I guessed maybe it was really pulled muscles from my vain pre-clubbing push-ups last night. Flu symptons set in quickly and faded just as fast but then when I got to Singapore I developed earache, the pain from which kept me awake for days continuously and gave me weird blood-shot eyes and that histamine-overproduction feeling that hayfever sufferers learn to know. Something wasn't quite right... I was supposed to get the bus north ... read more

Ahh, civilisation. I seem to have gone from one extreme to another as I sit back and sup my Singapore Sling in the time-warped colonial settings of The Long Bar in Raffles; the origin of Singapore's most famous cocktail. If only I'd packed my white suit and matching hat, Mr DelMonte style.... Amazingly I exited Bali with almost no problems regarding my status as ilegal immigrant although I did get directed to Immigration 20 mins outside of the airport where I had to wait for 40mins, (the counter staff were at lunch...honestly this place has gone to pot since we left), before being told that I could buy a visa extension in the airport. What did I expect, I should have learnt the lesson of miss-information by now. The previous night the lads and I had ... read more

Namaste from Little India, Singapore. We only arrived on Sunday and feel like we've already sweated out 10 kg's each. Thank God that every hotel and shopping mall is air conditioned! We've already found the greatest food hall where Scott had the famous Singapore Chilli Crab washed down with singapore' finest - Tiger beer. We even had Nasi Lemak for breakfast - rice with eggs, nuts, cucumber, spring onions and special chilli sauce (I was in heaven!) but am now suffering the effects of 3 chilli meals a day (bring on the dia-stop!!!) We came to Little India to get a curry but I think we'll be heading for Burger King instead :( We've already had a great look around the city on the free tourist bus, and will be off to the Night Safari tonight... ... read more

Well the adventure begins with a huge hangover...lol... I am writing this from Singapore Changi, after a fab flight from Sydney this morning. I must say I was hugely pleased after a huge night last night to get on the plane and find that I had been upgraded to business class. I had my doubts this morning when I was checking in that I was actually going to be flying today, funny thing was I went to check in and said Im going to Singapore and they said there is no flight to Singapore this morning. Well I was like, man I have been so looking forward to my trip what the hell has happened. Anyways can you believe it we were off to Dempasar, (ie Bali), spewing that I did not know I was going ... read more