Wow, only 11 days left before we depart for our asian tour! Oh the things we will see and do. How very exciting... [View Full Entry]

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Day 1 in Singapore I already know two people from Thailand who are here. Suzie from America and Luane from Brasil. I met up with Suzie and her friend Lisa at Ion, the new mall thats opened up here. We had a bit of a shop around but the place is so hectic, neither of us could barely stand it. They took me out to an event at stereolab, free dinner (all models love a good feed) and drinks. Luane's friend Edmund picked us up afterwards and took us to a beautiful club called Mimolette, in the middle of a rainforest [View Full Entry]

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Day one in the Airport, awaiting my connecting flight to the UK, very unexciting. First leg was good, though may have had too many Tigers! Roll on tomorrow..... [View Full Entry]

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Rest day today, or so I thought. I planned on doing nothing but read a book by the pool. I was given a free pass to use the public transport system for 3 days, so I thought I would give it a burl. On the way to the bus stop, I found a bushwalk. Now I couldnt pass that up, so headed off. After half an hour I found myself at the monorail station, hopped on to see where it went. All roads (rail in this case) lead to shopping centres. Something they do right in my opinion - empty an [View Full Entry]

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Well. What can we say. The first day and a half of what was supposed to be a quick 3 day trip for the opening of the skatepark Brett built last year in Singapore, was good... We got into Singapore in the afternoon, and made our way to the hotel we were booked into and met up with the rest of the crew from Brett's work that were flying in from their Melbourne office. It was a good flight over, it went fast and Terminal 3 at the Singapore Airport which we had never been too, was amazing as everyone says [View Full Entry]

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So this is where my 'listing by day' plan comes unstuck. Travelling so far east around the planet the whole time thing gets a little wobbly, and my body doesnt know whether its hungry, tired, hot or cold. A nice night in the Delmere in London and a good breakfast too. Rain stopped for a short while so decided to walk to Paddington station. It was less than quarter of the distance to walk than a black cab (one way streets). Todays travelling surpassed all other, everything fell together like kids jigsaw. I walked into Paddington station and found the sign [View Full Entry]

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(Day 518 on the road) "Wasn't the Airbus 320 the plane that crashed a few months ago, you know that Air France flight from Brazil to France...?" The pretty Asian girl in the seat next to me on the flight from Bali to Singapore tensed up noticeably, then she mumbled something which I didn't quite catch. With hindsight, this probably wasn't the best line to chat her up, and thus for the next two and a half hours I just kept to myself and read my book. It had been the very last day of my Indonesian visa. In fact, it [View Full Entry]

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Michelle had warned me that we had to be out of the hostel and on the road for 9am. She had something planned for my 30th birthday at 10:30am that morning, somewhere on the outskirts of Singapore. I hadn’t a clue what she had planned so I just went with the flow. On the train I was pestering her as to what it was but she wouldn’t tell me. She had me baffled as it was well outside the city and she had to pay in cash. Eventually we came to the house of Roxanna, a women of Indian origins from [View Full Entry]

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If Carlsberg did Zoo’s, it would do Singapore Zoo. The last zoo we went to was in Santiago and we left there a bit depressed after seeing only one animal per cage. They looked totally unhappy and it is not a zoo I would advise anyone to visit. Singapore Zoo on the other hand is the complete opposite. Orang-utans roam freely around the zoo and you can get so close to the animals sometimes you wonder are you too close. The big difference with this zoo and every other one we have been to is that the animals move around in [View Full Entry]

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On the plane I was in the middle row in the middle seat next to Ray and Michelle. During the flight I watched 17again, Hannah Montana, The Proposal and Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past. I got to see out the window going over Aussie. Lunch on the flight was actually really good. 10 hours and 8500kms later we were in Singapore for 4 hours with 10 other AFS students going to France. The airport is 3 separate buildings and has a little shuttle train which ran between them every 3 minutes. We first updated facebook then went exploring. The butterfly garden, the [View Full Entry]

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