Regin Hotel Singapore

... men were hanging around, so we stopped to ask a local if it was a special occassion...his reply, "no it's Sunday - they have no work"! Basically it was their day off and they were enjoying it out on the streets!!! Made us giggle! Walking around this street (in the wrong direction), it felt awfully strange and felt a little like we were in India again...especially since I was the only female around so I got a ...

... them to do things like pushing around logs.
Coming back from the zoo was also an experience- the MRt was really busy so Alex was stood a little way in front of me and
the dozy bugger got off at the wrong station and I swear if I hadn't of called him back he would of been gone. Don't know
what he would do without me.

On our last day in Singapore we went over to Sentosa Island. Its a strange place, like a playground ...

Bonjour a tous,
apres Bangkok, je me suis envolé pour Singapour car il me fallait sortir de Thaïlande pour demander un nouveau visa. Morgan (un ancien ami d'EPFL) m'a chaleureusement accueilli chez lui car il était la-bas pour un stage. Malheureusement pour moi, je suis retombe malade des le premier jour (un sacre mal de crâne comme jamais) et donc j'ai a nouveau passe mon temps a me reposer. Je peux vous dire que je commence a en voir un peu marre...
Singapore, Singapore cyril.galland

... Apparently the original chapel was relocated to Duntroon in Australia so a replica was built here. The prison, of course, was used as a prison after the war and is now being moved/expanded so all that was left was the replica chapel and the museum.

The museum was interesting but to me it was all a bit of an anti-climax and didn't really have the historical air to it I thought it would.

After checking out the museum we boarded the bus again and ...

... Singapore flyer together and had a great time with his singaporean friend grace, i relaxed and just wandered around, i did not purchase any electrical goods.

15/09/09 - Zoo Day - Went to the singapore zoo, like the night safari only in the day time, lots of primates of various sorts and a really great way of keeping them with free ranging areas for the orangutans and other primates like the cotton top tamarins, long day, on the way home we were invi8ted up to see a real ...

... take the kite boarding lesson with, Janet, and I have been going around on our own walking tours, taking pictures along the way. Last week, we went to Joo Chiat and Katong. There were some old shophouses, a laughing buddha (rub his belly for good luck) temple, a hindu temple, we ate laksa and popiah, bought snacks for Steve and I rode the bus home for the first time. I've been avoiding the bus since I'm not ...

... with a burst of hot energy, totally consuming the chicken and charring it. He would then take the skewers in groups of 10 and dump them in a pile where they would sit there, their golden and black colours merging, steaming nicely and waiting to be consumed. The sauce itself was thick, dark and luscious. It had a strong peanuty taste with a viscosity that alllowed the sauce to slide down one's throat slowly, without haste, ensuring all facets of the flavour were explored ...

... reciting some text which really gave a feel to the place as the rhythmic chanting went on. on the top floor there was a roof garden with a giant prayer wheel and even more little statues.

We headed back out into the day and went for lunch in the close by food court where we tried Dragon fruit juice and other different and tasty things. After lunch we went back to one of the camera shops where we were sure we wouldn't get ripped off and bought Fiona a new camera for her ...

... visitor here you don't feel that. People here do work long hours and kids get stressed out at school, but the trade off seems to be a safe environment where anyone can go out at all hours and not feel threatened. Although, speaking to my sister-in-law, a Canadian who has lived here for 7 years, a lot of the rigidity and conformity expected by citizens shows itself in the number of bars and clubs that get filled nightly by people, as a form of ...

... reluctant, but saw my logical reasoning and went ahead and did it. The flight was awesome.  We had had an equipment change, so I didn't get the new configuration of the 747 with the lie-flats like I was supposed to.  This was disappointing, but I was still on the upper deck and did not have a seat mate, so I can't really complain.  I had the Japanese cuisine meal choice for dinner, which I think was just about the most delicious food I've ever had on an airplane ...