Puteri Pacific Johor Bahru

... of my trips to Friends Reunited!!

I left the campus and returned across the road, to suddenly see signs I’d seen on my last trip, to St Johns and St Margaret’s. Albeit in a slightly different place, I could see a small hill with signs for St Margaret’s Church and a complex called St John’s and St Margaret’s. It has Christian Fellowship and other buildings on the site, so I felt comforted that the original church hadn’t ...

... to me that a group of ten on our flight were now quarantined from going to Thailand. Apparently, one of their group wrote on her health document that she was coughing about two weeks prior to this flight, but that she was now over it. Nice move, have fun in the quaratine area and prepare for your friends to beat the living **** out of you. With about five minutes left before my plane would board for Singapore, they let everyone off the ...

... the hustle and bustle of the crowds. But, knowing me, it was a little too much and I had to get myself out of there, in order to breath again. Too many people in too small of areas drive me crazy. Leaving the market, I went to go get a coffee drink from a local vendor. The coolest thing was that after they made the drink in the plastic cup, they put it in a machine to have a plastic wrap pasted on the top of it, so nothing could spill out, making it easy to transport and drink on ...

... not before I'd stocked up on super-cheap antihistamines). We got tickets for the bus to Singapore and I spent the last few pennies on fruit that I had to eat before crossing the border. It was raining hard when we went over the causeway and our bus left without us at Singapore immigration (this is normal, you just have to wait for the next one but annoying nevertheless).

My plans to return early to London meant that I only had a couple of days in Singapore. I thought that Little India and Chinatown were fascinating. Like everyone I was impressed by the transport system. I managed to get to the City Exhibition which detailed how they intend to cope with the doubling of the population from 5.5million. Personally a couple of days were enough and soon it was time to catch the plane home

... already night. I met up with Alice, an Austro-frenchie, who I was sent to by by good friend Marco who had met her on a boat offshore Norway... Alice is a charming young lady, as I had been warned, and she was accompanied by two equally charming friends, leaving me in company of three single ladies for Valentine's day. We had a nice evening chatting, but I was such a bad Valentine date that they had to go and pick up their roses thelselves... At some point late in the evening ...

... Being bitten on the finger is pretty bloody awful. I mean it - for some reason its the most painful part..maybe its because the skin is stretched there or something. Oh well...everything else is still going pretty well. Mr Shan is a complete legend, he took us to his house today and showed us his garden and his impressive collection of cars. He's one of those people thats always full of ...

... I was squeezed in the back seat with three other people. One of which was a small older man that kept giving me some kind of "kiss" lozenges and falling asleep on my shoulder. In addition to being uncomfortable the ride was also quite frightening as minibus drivers like to pass alot and drive really fast on twisty roads packed with big logging trucks. When we reached the junction, I was surprised to see that the "junction" was in the middle ...

It is relatively convenient to travel from Singapore to Johor Bahru during the off-peak hours. We hopped onto the causeway link bus and off we went for a day of idyllic fun across the causeway. Danga Bay was huge, but as it was the weekday, nothing much was happening. It was just so ...