Hotel 81 Selegie Singapore

... garden and specifically the orchid garden. The garden was only a small part of an enormous rain forest and, of course, had just about every variety of the plant ever discovered. From there it was off to the Raffles Hotel, which is a famous place for celebrities and dignitaries to stay. Rooms start at $1000 USD. They don’t allow anyone in the lobby who is not a guest but do allow tourists to walk around the ...

... left about 20 minutes early meaning we had less time to eat the dinner before going on the tram ride around the Night Safari Park and seeing the other shows.

After quickly eating dinner we boarded the tram and took the tour of the park. Obviously with it being dark and no flash photography allowed the cameras were fairly useless but it was interesting to see the animals active at night.

Once the tram ride ...

... has the cheapest, most efficient and user friendly transport system that we have come accross so far and we were in our hostel in an area called Little India within 30 minutes.

We only had a few days in Singapore so we had already planned what we wanted to see and do before hand, however this went straight out the window after we went out for a bit of grub with our hostel owner and new found friend "Hai" (Hi) who quickly dismissed our plans and ...

... or more technically Japan, as that's where they are currently living. They wanted to have something from Singapore so of course we headed back out for crabs. The meal was sooooo good! We had pepper crabs, spinach & mushroom tofu with dry hor fun noodles. It was refreshing to be around people that we knew...as we are in the getting to know you stages with all of our other friends.

Great weekend...

... would send you down to the far end of your bed every time. So with a combination of bumping around and emergency stops combined with the constant ‘swoosh’ sound of the automatic carriage door opening every 2 seconds I managed about 3 hours sleep.

Arriving in KL at 5:20 am we had to wait until 6am before the LRT was up and running so we had a good old McDonald’s breakfast at the train station. Now to anybody reading this that has been to KL before will ...

... and a reunion with Scott, Ruth and Becks from back East. Well, West really from Australia but you get the idea. As I'm stopping in Melbourne first what will the title of the entry be? Melbourne Supremacy? Melbourne Free? Well you're just going to have to wait for our next exciting edition off Round the World in Eighty Hats to find out. And guaranteed no more padding!*

Love, Dan. x.

*all guarantees of a cessation of further padding cannot be guaranteed.

... at it in real life too. That makes sense from what I can remember of psychology. :) So I think it's like psychotherapy for people with good mental health! (or at least...somewhat good, we're all a bit crazy). and of course I think it's beneficial to just try to stop thinking so much sometimes...whether it's really following this technique perfectly or not. :)

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Okay so I saved the first part of this blog entry and I am now continuing to write it a few ...

... face. The poor girl looked mortified, mind you so would I if I had to look at his ugly mush all day.
We then went to Palawan beach, this had a walkway that took you to the most Southern point in Asia. We went across the bridge and chilled on the beach for a bit. We was surrounded by the Indian Navy taking random pictures. We then headed for home via a skyride and cable car. We got the metro back to China town. And guess what again? You guessed correctly we got lost ...

... soup, donuts, bubble tea drinks - to name a few. And most of them are eat-in style without paper carton/plate waste. Mmm. We also visited the Museum of Art. There is something soothing about looking at art, but it was especially cool to see Asian artists. Singapore was a cool city - very metropolitan, modern and wealthy. It is a unique little bubble of this part of Asia.

... returned to our slumber.

When the phone rang again, this time at 11am, I was really not happy. Geoffrey was being far too eager and, rather than giving him an absolute earful, I had at least some self-control to merely put the receiver back down without answering. As the seconds passed I became slightly more conscious and felt a little guilty at hanging up on him. Getting up and quickly putting some clothes on, I figured that by going down to meet him now I was at ...