Blogs from Orchard Road, Singapore, Asia - page 5

I waved goodbye to the four-poster bed in the morning, quietly vowing that one day it would be mine! We headed to the Baba-Ngong museum in Malacca, which was laid out as a typical Peranakan family house in the 1700s. The museum manager was a very stressed little lady, her main job was chasing Chinese tourists around the house screaming 'no photos!'. One final time around St Paul's hill and then we headed off to the bus station. The bus to Singapore was a smooth 5 hour ride although it dropped us off in the middle of nowhere! After reaching our hotel (a standard IBIS) we decided to go check out Orchard Road. So it's all true... Singapore is a shopping nation (and I now know why my friends Durrgah ... read more

Answer to Question 4 Damon Hill drove the car pictured in 1994 The model was FW16 Question 5 When we moved into our appartment, the landlord left a dozen or so manuals relating to appliances and furniture. What appliance/furniture does this chart relate to? And for one bonus point: what do the numbers mean? I gave you a feast of a blog only a few days ago so won't make this a long one, but this transition is important to mention as we're in our own place now. It was so odd to be leaving the known entity, the safety, the welcoming team of Regency House and go it alone in this big wild world! Andrew was away in Parkistan when I came to collect the keys. I absolutely love our place. Before I left the ... read more

Question 3 Singapore is one of three City-States around the world. Which are the other two? The more we walk around the City, the more I am amazed at the mish-mash of architecture in Singapore. Singapore City Gallery near Chinatown, is home to two amazing 11mx11m scaled models of the island and of Singapore central areas. The model of the island has every building on it, even Andrew's office in the far North of the country. Regency House, our temporary residence, is reproduced in the larger scale model of the central area of Singapore. The workmanship and the details are astonishing. I highly recommend this unnasumming gallery to any visitors to Singapore or locals to get an idea of the areas. We're almost sorted with our condo in Elizabeth Heights. The tenancy agreement still needs to ... read more

Touchdown in Singapore we were exhausted, instead of catching up on sleep I had watched Madagascar 3 and snow white and the huntsman. We jumped in a taxi and for the half an hour journey the driver insisted on giving us a history lesson of Singapore and grilling us on what we already knew (next to nothing) and insisting that we needed to get a map. Our hotel lobby was gorgeous, our room was slightly bigger then a shoe box and of the nature whereby if you had a shower you soaked every surface in the whole bathroom. We had planned to meet Plantys friend Rob, they had decided a 15 minute window for us to quickly get changed and head straight out, unimpressed I was relieved when we realised Planty had told him the wrong ... read more

Dear Traveling, It has been more than a month now since I came back from my traveling stint in Vietnam and Cambodia. I have spent so many hours entertaining my self to forget you, either dinner with friends, watch the tTV or finish all those dvds until my eyes sore like hell. Spent more than 8 hours of sleep everyday for 1 straight week avoiding waking up so I won't think of you. And my greatest attempt to forget you? I accepted a job that will place me in a country where pretty much of my salary will just go to the house rent (yes, house rent here is just unbelievably insane!). And now, I'm typing this sentiment letter in front of a company-issued-laptop while I keep on staring at the droplets of rain from outside ... read more