Sorry it's been a little long since my last entry. I have been running around like crazy for the last couple of weeks doing all kinds of fun stuff. Some of that stuff was going to East Coast Park (a beach in Singapore), taking a trip to the Singapore Zoo, and last weekend I went to Batam, Indonesia to go cable skiing. EAST COAST PARK: The park is located on the East side of the island. It is approximately 4 km long (2.5 mi.) and it is decoarated with lovely palm trees, quiet ponds, and biking/rollerblading paths. It takes about 1 [View Full Entry]

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ersten Flug überstanden (11,5h)! Lief alles prima, bis auf dass meine Sitznachbarin bei der Landung kotzen musste... das war ein bisschen eklig. Aber sie ist schwanger und da darf man das, ohne dass jemand böse sein kann ;) Jetzt warte ich auf den Anschlussflug und bin froh, dass der nette Thailänder neben mir, mir bei der Internetverbindung geholfen hat ;) [View Full Entry]

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Hi, my name is Patsy the Purple Cow. You can call me Patsy for short. I am purple. I am a cow. I am on a trip to Southeast Asia for eight months. I am going to write a blog about what I do on the trip. My friend Ella is carrying me around. It was a very long plane ride. We were on one plane for fifteen hours. The whole time I was flying toward the sun and so it was light the whole time we were on the plane. I flew into a place called Singapore which is definitely [View Full Entry]

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It was warm and humid just like the previous days…I reluctantly got up from bed, took a bath, and sluggishly ate my breakfast. Though I woke up feeling a little bit down, I definitely don’t want to spend my last day moping around. I spent most of the morning lounging at the reception area, thinking of which places I could still manage to visit before my flight later in the evening. I was awakened a few times during the night ... or maybe dawn … by noises of roommates packing and people chatting at the reception area, but the place was [View Full Entry]

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Hey all! So yesterday I went to Puala Ubin, an island of Singapore off the east coast of the country. My school is on the West Coast of Singapore, so it took about an hour to get across to the other end of the country (which is a mere 18 miles long). Then about half an hour on a small "bumboat" to get to the Island. The Island represents what Singapore once was, as it was not colonized by Britain like the main Island of Singapore. Singapore is noticeably very wealthy with clean streets, fancy buildings, expensive shopping centres, and very [View Full Entry]

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In Singapore, Day 3 Singapore is a good place to start a trip to Asia. It’s Asian without any chaos. There are many things I like and appreciate about Singapore: • The streets are clean. o It is illegal to litter. • English is the common language. o Chinese, Malay and a variety of Indian languages are the other main languages. o A 6 year old at a playground asked Ella what her mother tongue was. Ella had no clue what a mother tongue was, so I said English, not bothering to explain that it was Ella’s only tongue. The 6 [View Full Entry]

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12th July 2009 With only one day to explore Singapore we headed to the harbour where we saw the famous symbol of the country, the Merlion. After walking around the centre of Singapore for a while we headed to Little India to check out a couple of Hindu temples. The one we saw was very colourful, with statues of the gods lining the outside of the temple. We headed to a nearby park for a sit down and we were treated to a chinese dragon display by a troupe of kids. We then headed to the night market for our first [View Full Entry]

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Singapore is an island and a city and a country in South East Asia, just off the southern coast of Malaysia. It's tropical, hot and humid, but I managed to wear jeans in the midday more than once, so it's not impossibly hot. Once per day it tends to rain quick and hard, sometimes you see it sometimes you don't notice. My friends Chen Zichao and Ching Hei picked me up from Changi Airport around midnight and took me out for my first of many delicious meals. We ate Roti Prata - an Indian derived Singaporean stuffed pancake (I had [View Full Entry]

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So apparently I am here just in time for the Hungry Ghost Festival, which includes burning paper money, offering food and a slew of suspitions. Since Singapore is over 75% Chinese you see people everyone who have piles of ash in front of their houses and on the streets... And you don't get fined for lighting the fire either! The Singapore Zoo was pretty awesome. Seeing as though I haven't been to a zoo in quiet some time, it was nice to see animals from all over, even a Polar Bear (it was born in Singapore actually). Tons of Monkeys and [View Full Entry]

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I was supposed to meet Keith yesterday after office hours but I got myself into the Night Safari tour which ended up late so we had to postpone it for today. It was unexpectedly still quiet in the hostel at 7:00 in the morning so I was able to enjoy a 30-minute shower. I went to stroll around to see the neighborhood and to try to look for a place where I can eat rice because I haven't had any since I arrived (it's a sort of an addiction). Unfortunately I wasn't able to because I forgot to bring money! So [View Full Entry]

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