Helloo there, I'm in Singapore! For my avid followers, I am starting a job in Indonesia next week being an English teacher and am currently at a pit-stop on the way. Talking of pit-stops, it's the Singapore Grand Prix at the weekend and I was lucky enough to share my flight with the Caterham Formula One team. I had to google them to find out if they were actually famous, but there were loads of them and they had uniform-everything. The first thing I noticed was the shirts, with the name emblazened across the back, only then to see that they all had exactly the same jeans on. Whilst behind them in the passport queue I noticed that each of them was the owner of the exact same design of backpack. If that's not enough to make them look uniform then in addition to this there were the suitcases, very smart.
I got to my hotel at about 11 am, once again got no sleep on the plane. I sort of had a lie down but then decided it would be a better idea to go out and try to stay awake. I got some maps and things from downstairs and decided to have a walk into Little India. It's very bright and colourful there, the buildings are painted some crazy shades, it all looks very jolly. After this I took the train to the botanical gardens - amazing! There were lots of different trees and plants and different themed gardens. My favourite was called the Evolution Garden. It took you on a walk through time starting off at the beginning of the garden which consisted of just rocks, like before life began, then continued with mosses and things and primitive plants and finally on to present day and the plants we have now. They also had some petrified tree trunks. I've never seen them up close before, very cool.
I also took a verging on embarrassing amount of photos of orchids whilst visiting the National Orchid Garden, such beautiful flowers!
I came back to the hotel after this and had some free coffee, checked my emails and all that jazz. My taxi driver this morning had suggested that I go to China Town this evening because it's currently the Mid-Autumn festival. Seasons must be very different here as I'm sure it basically still summer, definitely not MID autumn. Anyway he said there'd be lots of lanterns and things, which there were, and that I wouldn't stop clicking my camera. I took one or two pictures and I'm pretty sure most China Towns I've been to have a lot of lanterns. It was still very cool though. I was drawn into a Thai restaurant for dinner by a chatty restaurant lady. I had Thai green curry. It was spicy but really tasty. It reminded me of my travelling days with Joyce (the nickname lives on). After that and glancing over the stalls at some of the tat available, I returned to the hotel. I've not long been back. And as you can see from the title I'm going to have a shower soon. It's all very exciting.
Tomorrow I have to go to the Indonesian Embassy to get a Visa so that I can actually continue my journey and start working. It seems pretty straightforward. I haven't decided exactly what I'll do with the rest of the day but I've heard there's a light show in the evening by the marina which I might check out. Anyway, I said to a few people that I would get back into telling you about the oh-so-thrilling events that I experience, so here I am. Enjoy if you like!
Now, operation find phone charger so I can wake up in the morning. See ya!
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