St Regis Hotel And Residences Singapore

... The gran complained in her best Mrs Bouquet voice about the invisible butterflies and we got our money back so that was a bonus. I then get taken to a show, not the theatre which is where one would expect a thespian like myself to hang out, but to a childrens musical show about an imprisoned princess - I feel your pain, sista. This was really good but I did fall asleep towards the end ...

... entertainers perform!

After the cruise we took the bus to the Botanical Gardens where we spent about 3 hours wandering through the beautiful setting which included a fantastic orchid garden. It was well worth enduring the 34 degree (and 98% humidity) to see it all, although Mumsie found the going tough! She is not handling the outdoor conditions too well, getting very red in the face!

Found a gigantic Big W type ...

... 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 ...

... with the city by MRT train. Recent late arrival in Bali resulting in staying at expensive place was a good lesson for me. For Singapore I'd booked a bed beforehand which turned out to be money saving. I stayed nearby Little India, one of the most impressive city quarters. Straight away I went out for sightseeing to use a few hours before the sunset. Density of Hindu and Taoist temples, mosques as well as churches was stunning.
I spent in Singapore four days ...

... you suffering under snow and sleet.
We'll report back in another day or so - thinkingof you all - love from us both - Russ & Mary
P.S. Sorry its a short entry but I'm doing this on Mike's laptop which has some new fancy arrangement in lieu of a mouse - most peculiar and hard to cope with the first time. I'm starting to feel like a dinosaur again.







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... fine for crossing the street when it's red, or smoking in the street outside the yellow line, their are sign everywhere for forbiddeen stuff, in the metro they keep telling you to report people who look suspicious or nervous! in case is a terrorist, but the best is in the public toilet, they are on each mirror, the 8 steps to follow to wash your hands properly....it's really advanced for buisness and technology...but that's about it! still in the small chinese or ...

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My nicest memory of Singapore was actually leaving. I caught an overnight train to Malaysia and half of the compartment was ...

... is tearing down the 11 sanitary markets and replacing them with newer, more sterile places. This breaks my heart-- the Tekka Center where I used to have breakfast every day is gone. And when I was here in 2004, there was no massage, let alone prostitution. Not any more. "Sexy Oil Massage" signs across the street from where I type this. And I saw my first-ever Indian prostitutes on the street last night in front of the club named "Bombay Underground".

... ll find the bright cloth stalls and pungeant salt-fish aromas of Little India. Just make sure you wait for the little green man. They are always watching. It's certainly a beautiful country, I'll give them that. Singapore's streets are lined with palms and other tropical-variety flora, providing the perfect foil to the extraordinarily good architecture. Dan points out that while the trees are very pretty, many of them are imported, but... that's sort of the point of ...

... coolest, temperature-wise, of course. the few foreigners in there seemed gay. not surprised. :X

i stayed mostly in the mambo room. played old-school music. foreigners ended up creating a circle with someone dancing in the middle. switched off after a couple of minutes. was pretty funny seeing all those drunk people making a fool of themselves on the dance floor.

one guy was dancing by just jumping up and down. since he was ...