Quincy Singapore

... a taxi. A sound guy with lots of interesting tales of his travels like how he saved his friend from drowning and how the bus in Indonesia or somewhere nearly crashed and killed them all on his birthday as the driver was falling to sleep! Emma has now managed to diffferentiate the diference between Switzerland and Sweden (as previously we were talking to a lady from Sweden and Emma asked if that was a Ski resort!)

Today we got ...

... flight. At 4 we went to the airport which was really nice! Got to watch the Time Travellers Wife and 500 Days of Summer on the plane, and we got exit seats so loads of legroom- bonus! We then changed over in Sydney to Christchurch, the plane was delayed as they couldn't get the plane to fill up with fuel! But finally arrived in Christchurch very excited but very tired with only a few hours sleep for the past two nights!

... I enjoyed a refreshing sugar cane drink.

In between all of the eating, we did do some more sightseeing. We went to Suntec Shopping Mall and the Fountain of Wealth. We also saw the Esplanade (Singapore's theatre for the arts) and strolled along the nearby promenade. And we also strolled along a walkway in the East Coast Beach Park, where we found an active skateboard park and a lagoon, where some people were doing cable wake-boarding.

... a lot already. We are in a great location, everything is so clean and green, and everything seems not too far away from anywhere else. There are apartment buildings everywhere, and we have noticed a lot of construction work happening everywhere around the city – including just next to our building so we’ll see how noisy they may be tomorrow.

Konichiwa Japan.

Hooroo from Singapore.

G'day



Hope you're all doing well!



We left London last Friday and have been busy trying to catch up on

sleep since!



Plane left London on time at 10pm on Friday, Charlotte finally got to

watch angels and demons ( she was disappointed compared with the

book ) and I ended up flicking through various channels.



It was then time for food and they started giving out the ...

When I arrived in Singapore, it was two days after I left home, and I hadnt slept on the airplane as you can imagine I was tired. After making it through immigration at the big airport (which is not easy task) I took a taxi to the other, smaller airport from which I would fly to Tioman Island.
This taxi driver was new. He had never heard of seletar airport and had to call his friend to ask where it was. He figured it out and we set off. Eventually he pulled over and took out his ...

... some of the giraffes (I’m not sure that PPM was quite as sure about the Giraffes as Paul was though!). On Saturday evening we met up with loads of Paul’s old work colleagues, many who he had not seen since his first visit too Manila in 2003. They very kindly introduced us to some Singapore delicacies and some drinks in the evening. Thanks for the great night - PPM, Dennis, Roly, Rach, Andrew, Mark, Jaz, Nilo, Mel, Louise, and ...

... my describing my time in Singapore, a melting pot of Southeast Asia. Singapore has four national languages: English, Malay, Tamil and Chinese. It takes one hour to get to one side of the narrow country to the other. Singapore is a democratic country despite the huge control the government has on its people and the same political party has been in power I think since independence in 1965 as there is very little opposition of which is suppressed.

As most of ...

... s contemporary history in motion when he stepped ashore on the northern bank of the Singapore River. It was his foresight that resulted in Singapore's development, with the Singapore River as its lifeline. The skyscraper skyline is really awesome & to get to see it by floating past it was something I'd never experienced before. Here are some online pics of some of the things ...

... more.
It was the same price to fly from Chicago to Bangkok as it was to fly from Chicago to Singapore to Thailand. Great let's go to Singapore! Bangkok had just built a brand new airport and I read SEVERAL horror stories of people getting arrested, horrible facilities and stolen luggage. So instead of dealing with that, I saw that Tiger Airways flew from Singapore to Chiang Mai. i assumed that would mean small immigration lines and no hassles. I was right.