Plane delayed for over an hour. Not the largest problem in the world, but it was made worse by the couple sitting next to me that couldn't stop making out and were making slappy smacky kissy noses the whole time.... grrr
Once on the plane it all went pretty quick. I watched The Watchmen (which was awesome) and a few episodes of family guy and viola, I'm in Singapore!
After going through the swine flu heat cameras and acting as relaxed as possible I was out of customs, buying a bottle of duty free vodka as tax for Crispy's housemates for my accommodation and out the doors to find Crispian waiting with a can of beer for me. Awesome.
We taxied back to Crispians flat and when I got out of the taxi at about 10:30pm, it was still at least 30'.
After meeting crispy's housemates, and having a chat the Chan man, he needed to go to sleep so I retired also.
Upon waking up, I decided to make myself some breakfast and I accidentally exploded an egg in crispy's microwave. Awesome.
After cleaning up the egg I sat down and with my first morning of my world tour, I did my TAX. Oh joy. That took about 3 hours. Oh well, it needed to be done. At least now I wont be sitting in an Internet cafe in Germany, surrounded by receipts!
The tax sorted, I had a shower and headed out into Singapore to catch the train to the the shopping mecca of Orchard rd.
I got some lunch at a food court near the train station, whose banner said "It's chow time now! In the basement" hmmm.... Why does that make me think of Josef Fritzl?
I bought my food at sat down at what I thought was the common area of the food court, but after being told off for eating my food there I realised that it was dedicated seating to the establishment nearest. And where I bought my food had no seating at all. So, I packed my food up, and went outside and sat on the steps. At least the crispy chicken rice was excellent and only $4.50. Yum.
Orchard Road is like St Georges terrace if you bulldozed everything that's there and replaced every single building with a giant shopping mall. Which normally, would be quite fun, but I'm already right on my weight limit for baggage to get to the UK so i cant buy a thing. I spent most of the time just walking around and window shopping. I found a pair of red tigers that I'm pretty sure Woo would cream his pants over, and he's always wanted red shoes, and he loves tigers. but who knows. Maybe after the red shoe issues in Japan he's now over that...
I found this advertisement for the new burger king burger. Do you get the not so subliminal message?
A random sign/poster on a wall. It seems a little bit Nazi to me?? Dance muthafuka, Dance!!
I then spent a few hours in Borders, reading the lonely planet guides for Austria, Germany and Czech republic. I'm looking forward to going there even more now, and have a few more ideas of things that I want to check out.
Things I have learned about myself today;
I should pay attention to how I am walking. I tend to drag my feet. Today that resulted in me tripping up stairs and tripping up an escalator.
I would drop stupid amounts of cash if i lived here and had money. I found a pair of Nixon headphones that I would have happily paid the $250 for if I hadn't bought a pair of sennheisers a week ago.
I still LOVE Asian women. Dammit. Crispy keeps telling me to flag off Europe and move to Singapore. He might have a point. hmmmm...
Anyway, that's all for now. Catch you on the flipside.
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