My Two Days in Singapore

Procrastination is the thief of time. It seems I like this particular thief a lot or perhaps it would be more apt to say it likes me a lot or even lives with me. Anyways, for now, I have shrugged it off my shoulders and am writing this.

Singapore, in a nut shell, can be considered the world's largest mall plus theme park where people live too.. Such is the magnitude of commercialisation of the city.

Indians, when they visit Singapore, find superlative adjectives insufficient to describe their thoughts of the city. Our airports lose out miserably to the Changi Intl. Airport there. the Metro Rail is just incredible. Amazing.

We reached Changi Airport around 5 in the morn and took the MRT to our hostel at Little India. The city has 4 routes and several junctions. But not for an instant do we get confused inside the MRT. The trains are fabulous. Its incredible that every other MRT station itself is a mall.

Throughout this post, I ll find it difficult to express my wonder completely.

We reached our hostel around 6 and discovered that we could not check- in before 2 PM.So we started out to Sentosa Island, yet another wonder in the city. We did luge ride, sky ride, cable car and saw a 3-D film and dolphins playing. Unbeleivable creatures they are. Never miss a chance to see them.

We returned to our hostel around 5 that evening. Little India is a small part of the city which has Indians(no surprise that) predominantly Tamils. We started out again, did some shopping, boating and saw bungee jumping.Shopping was cheap in Bugis St, a lively and happening part of the city. We returned to our hostel at 10 and the next moment were asleep.

Next morn, we got up late(procrastination again) so had to skip the famous Singapore Zoo. We visited a nearby mall touted as the best in Singapore. The Mustafa Centre is huge and extends on both sides of a main road. After that started our great walk.We walked around 7 kms that evening covering all the tourist spots in that area, the Esplanade, Merlion, China Town, City Hall, the former Supreme Court complex, the War Memorial , Singapore Flyer and another boating.

Apart from these, about singapore, I could not find soil anywhere and equally difficult to find vegetarian food. Of course I could get some good vegetarian food but then they were Indian. I was searching for non-indian food. The roads were perfect. One could not be mistaken if he/she assumes horns are banned in Singapore. Such is the traffic discipline htere. Another trivial , makes-me-envy info : the average life expectancy at birth is 82.

For a city that was almost non-existent 100 years back and badly bruised in the war, this is great going which could not have been acheived but for the dedication and will power of all those involved. Citizens and politicians comprising malay, chinese and tamil population.

I ll be back with my experiences in Malaysia and Cambodia soon, Procrastination permitting.

The 100 Country Club - Our journey starts

Finally it has happened...

After a lot of deliberations and failed plans, My brother and I are ready to embark on a trip to Singapore, Malaysia and Combodia. We in our family are used to making a lot of travel plans of which, I have to admit, very few see the light of the day. So , we are used to making plans sometimes knowing well that they wont be realised. This too started like this, or so I thought.

My brother and I have been thinking for quite sometime about going on a foreign tour to watch a sports event. The feasible options we had were Dubai (Tennis) , Bahrain, Singapore and Malaysia (F1 GP) . We also had a European trip in mind but didnt think it would be possible in the next few years atleast. But suddenly my bro started planning seriously about going to Europe to watch Tour de France and the German GP . His plans soon became bigger and bigger and soon became infeasible. He wanted to visit areas in the vicinity of few hours from Berlin and Paris and that extended to Copenhagen which was near Oslo near Stockholm near Helsinki near Petersburg near Moscow and Europe was over. You now realise why our plans became impossible.

So , with a bruised heart he started plans for a far cheaper and far nearer Singapore and Malaysia. And to add a extra adventurous element to the trip , we decided on Combodia which is not a tourism option for most Indians.

2 days in Singapore , Malaysia and Combodia conclude our trip. Staying in the World's Largest Hotel, visiting Angkor Wat temple Complex which is bigger than modern day Los Angeles, a trip to Pol Pot's torturous places excite me the most.

There is one thing we are afraid of, though. Weather. I find that the only reason that air fares are at their lowest. Hope it is not so bad that we are forced to stay indoors.If we have to stay indoors there is always Vamanan and Harry Potter 6 to watch in Singapore and Malaysia. Plus the Apsara dance and khmer massage. No matter what we are gonna have fun.

fine.. I ll be updating my adventures almost everyday this week along with some pics . Watch out.

Happy Journey to me and my brother.