Blogs from Singapore, Asia - page 351

Well we have arrived. 21 hours and three countries later we finally are here. We're staying at a hostel in the Little India district, lots of temples and mosques (hindu, buddhist, muslim etc. ) But at every corner there are food vendors and lots of english speaking people. Also, lots of vegetarian food, who knew? We're sure glad it was the first place we've stopped at, makes the buses and subway alot less confusing. So far we've only touched on Singapore, with only Little india under our belts. In the coming days we're going to hit , Little China and some of the other ethnic districs. We managed to find the 14 story national library in our random trekking through streets in our area. Although we really are a minority here, it really hasn't felt like ... read more

Time to head outta here!... read more

Tomorrow I will finally leave Singapore after working here for the last 4 months. In the morning I'll be taking a bus up to Malaca and then to Kuala Lumpur. At the last minute a friend of mine invited me to go to Manila and I've decided to take him up on it, but all the flights from Singapore are booked so Ill be flying AirAsia from KL, then continuing up to Thailand and hopefully to Hanoi. It's been an interesting four months here in Singapore helping a new company start up. It easy to not really appreciate Singapore if one hasnt been to other countries in the area, but really it extremely impressive what they have been able to accomplish in just the 40 years they have been independent from Malaysia (and before that from ... read more

We had breakfast in China Town loads of dim sum and jasmine tea. Wondered around for a bit and I got caught by a tailor, who tried to sell me a cashmere/silk suit for $1400, by the time I left he was offering $400 or $200 for trousers and a shirt and he'd send the jacket at a later date if I wanted it. He measured me up and the b*****d said I had a 39.5 in waist. I know he was lying, cause I'm writing this quite comfterably in 36in trousers. Then we went up to the Riverside, where we found the Brewerkz brewhouse, had a couple of pints at around 1.10 pound sterling (this keyboard don't ahve a pound sterling sign!) and then walked around the Clarkes Quay/Boat Quay which is all restraunts and ... read more

After gettting to our hotel (fairly posh place it was) we travelled accross a main road, with lots of traffic and some sort of foreign style crossing, to a food centre. I had wonton soup and amy had some sort of dumplings. There are hundreds of these food centres around and we had dinner in another one, they are quite dodgy, but the food is very local. We ate dinner with beer for under a tenner and thaat was with me ahving two main courses! During the day we wondered around the area near the hotel and Little India (which is a bit delapidated and smells weird). And that was it, went to bed.... read more