Some Singapore Shops, Streets & Seafood

Dave's breakfast joint:
- I eat our free breakfast in the hostel! :)

Here's a few stranger ones:

I know I said it was hot here, and to be honest, I've been in a lot hotter.

But humidity like this is ridiculous.

You're almost guaranteed a thunder storm at some stage in the day.

Couple that with the heat, and it has you fecked before you do anything.

As a result of that, and our 26 hour day in getting here, we felt exhausted when we arrived.

We've been trying to follow different plans for our trip to Indonesian Borneo, but we keep hitting brick walls. Be it routes, lack of roads, lack of crossings, visa issues, flights, boats etc. - a long story short, we've decided to throw the plans on their head i.e. Go to Indonesia at the end of our trip. It's a major pain in the ass, as the point of coming down this direction was to go there, but we did get to Oz anywhoo, so it's all good!

It also doubles as a good thing in a way; as we were able to find a cheap flight back to Bangkok that gets us in three hours before the flight we had bought at home to Cambodia from Bangkok(We had bought it to get into Thailand, as you have to show proof you're leaving within the 30day holiday visa, if your return flight is for over 30 days)

Long story short, we leave here Thursday bright and early.

'You've been in Singapore a while haven't ye?' - I don't hear you say.

Yes.

We have.

Probably too long, but we needed to unwind after the constant travel up until now.

Dave is happy to get some time lying down reading and such, I'm happy to wander about and try(in vain) to talk to other people in the hostel.

I don't know what it is this time around.

This hostel isn't exactly big, people shouldn't be keeping to themselves this much.

Ah fuck them I suppose, they must be arseholes.

Singapore people love to shop and eat.

Shop.

Eat.

Eat while shopping.

Shop.

Drop.

Eat from the floor.

Get back up and shop

- you get the gist.

It's madness!

It's also not cheap here.

Maybe for a well-off family coming over it may be, but possibly not.

Food from the right place is cheap, half the Irish price or less, and sometimes a lot less.

Beer is not, beer is more expensive, and sometimes double!

As SE Asia goes, it's a rip-off. So we're trying to live as cheaply as possible, not doing too bad, as we haven't been drinking here since we came back, and have been eating cheap.

The only thing we spent money on was the cinema of all things! We went to see two movies to escape the heat, as cinemas are notoriously cold in this part of the world.

Today we went down to China Town.

By bus:

Singapore is one tenth the size of Westmeath. I was wondering where the 4.something million people lived. It's in these babies:

Streets:

This fella thought Dave was from 'Down Under' - Dave was well happy about that!

Ahh, China Towns.

If I had a penny for every China Town I was in..

I wouldn't have much money, but the auld pockets would definitely jingle.

We went into another temple that should have been in the Little India area of Singapore.

- the temple also has something to do with marriage rites...

- I love this pic

- our old friend Kali was there!

- who's that in my hair!?

I also stopped wearing those pants that pissed off the Indian men in Darwin, I don't want to be walking around offending other cultures here.

Twas onto a Chinese Buddhist temple just newly opened next:

You can donate a some of money to help fund the building of the temple, and your name is written into a wee Buddha and put on the wall. Pretty cool!

- looks like I ran a marathon!

I ate a meal last night that Dave found revolting: Octopus Balls(And no, not those balls)

Oh yeah, before I forget, the time hasn't changed here as far as I'm aware, so I'm now 8 hours ahead of home. I think it's the same for Cambodia.

With the heat, I had a little accident in the room....

I locked the key to my padlock inside the locker, and thus, the first crime was committed in Singapore: Busting a lock

Which leads me onto the second crime...

Every now and again I get a craving for an old addiction. This happened me recently in Melbourne. After the craving past, I totally forgot about the wee bit left over in my backpack...

To my utter horror, I remembered it when Dave brought it up in conversation here today. I had already smuggled it in! A crime which carries a penalty of a year in jail and a $10,000SGD fine.

Of course, the substance I'm talking about is chewing gum.

Gene Simmons, in his old age, has become a Buddhist General of great renown: