Friday, February 10, 2006

Singapore #2

Wow!!!! I made it! I'm in Singapore! Exclamation mark exclamation mark exclamation mark. Ok, so maybe I'm a bit excited, but after the crisis last weekend with loosing my credit card, it's just so cool to have made it over here. I've found a room in an excellent flat just around the corner from shopping paradise/hell Orchard Road. I've developed a new passion: sleeping under a fan. It's so exotic, it really makes me feel like im in some kind of tropics... and it keeps the mosqitoes away.

Oh, and the food... The food... What is happening to me? When did food start to matter so much to me. Korean, different chinese provinces, malaysian, vietnamese, indian. Anything you can think of for two squids and it's excellent quality. So much food, so little time.

(Added PIC 17 Feb: This is the local breakfast set, which is now MY daily breakfast. Pistachio paste on the toast, half boiled eggs and some of the blackest coffee this side of paradise, with cream of course. Not sure how i'll survive without it if I ever leave.


I've managed to go out twice: once to Raffles Hotel for a Singapore Sling, and the second time to the great ladies night of Singapore. Ladies nights is every wednesday and means women drink for free. Some genious realized that lots of drunk women mean lots of men willing to pay. Thank god my two super sweet flatmates were able to slip me a couple of free drinks before I ruined myself.

(ADDED PIC 17 Feb: I don't know who the geek is, but that's Raffle's hotel in the background)

Current status

Death. The Dundee Expat met his demise in Hong Kong, where he was subverted as a concept by the rise of the Wannabe Gentleman.