This is sooo nice, I really like it here... Everything is so clean and its really easy being a backpacker.
My hostel only charges 10S$ per night, around 45kr and thats including breakfast.
I had a really good guided tour around the city thursday with my mom and her friend Jette. Jette is from Hong Kong so she's been here alot of times.
We met at the Raffles city center near the City Hall station, here's a picture from the mall
After i parted with mom and Jette I went to a park in the middle of the city. It was almost like a botanical garden with many special trees and with signposts with historical information.
(a picture of a leaf... FROM 1 METER DISTANCE!)
My hangovers tonight made my jetlag even worse because you can't sleep much in the heat, but thats OK, I LOOOVE THIS! When I was on my way back from the internet cafe wedensday I met 2 danish girls called Isobel and Lynne(cover names), I heard them talking danish and then I just started the conversation from there. They are really sweet and fun, so we agreed to meet for a beer yesterday evening in their hostel. We did... and then a guy from South Africa called Julian or "Jew" came with some redwine and made some traditional SA-food (long beans and potatoes) tasted alot better than it sounds :D He's called Jew because its easy to tell his name that way to chinese people (Jew is pig in chinese *not kidding*).
A little later 2 danish guys called Jonas and Anders heard my name and started a conversation, they joined our drinking :) Then 3 english guys from Manchester City came in with beers and "Fenny" (some asian spirit pronounced "fanny") Sooo... they wanted to start a drinking game... Danes are never saying no to drinking games so we joined them! It was a game I've played some times in Denmark, and you have to make up rules if you pull an ace... The rules that came were:
1. Drink with you left hand or you will have to stay crosseyed until its you turn again
2. Always say "Roed groed med floede before drinking.
3. Always say "I love england" after saying "Roed Groed med Floede"
Don't remember the last rule... (from left to right: Isobel(Mia), Julian, Ben, Kevin, Gary, Lynne(Nina) and Jonas)It was a very fun night and we got to use the word "Fenny" alot... "How do you like your Fenny?" "Gary has had too much Fenny tonight" "No more Fenny ever" "I can still smell Fenny in my mouth" hehehe...
Here's a picture of a Andrew, the French Canadian i met when I arrived. We had some very nice talks about politics and religion, and he advices me not to lay under for the fear of muslims he says that it is much worse for him because asian people usually don't like blacks... and you can't hide that!
Today Isobel, Lynne, Aurelien and I went to the Chinatown. It was an amazing experience of beautiful colours and smell that just hit you when you exit the MRT(metrostation). Isobel bought a watch that they later named after me *blush* =)
But it was only 1 little street that made out the must beatiful part of Chinatown so we agreed to go to the underground mall connected to Raffles.
On the way to Raffles we ran in to some rain(read: a fucking lot)... It was extreme... Never seen rain like this. Luckily we could walk on indoor gangways alot of the way (the Singaporeans are brilliant).
We went through the underground city mall to the Esplanade where the concert halls are... The concert halls look soo cool I think :D
I followed the girls to the station... they were going to melbourne, and went home to sleep for 4 hours. I needed that very much!
Thats all i guess... oh... yeah... I also got an express haircut... 10 minutes and 10$... And with freezing cold aircondition. It was really compact... there was a closet for bags behind the mirror and under the chair there was a room they could sweep the hair in ^^
As I promised here's the result, the girls said I look like David Ove... who ever that is...
Orang Utan (how its spelled here)
