Four days, only four days...

Time for the next post! Although I had a minor delay of 2 hours the trip from Amsterdam to Singapore was surprisingly good! Food on board was filling at most, but luckily I had Singapore to look forward to.

Of course the reunion with Marlies was very happy ('masaya' as we would say in tagalog), it's really good to see her again! Now let's see if we can stick together for the coming 4,5 months :)

Singapore was great! I didn't really know what to expect from it. I knew that it would be clean, cosmopolitan-like, very organized and that the food would be good (all true), but I knew little of the people, which, by the way, is still the case. Four days is just not enough! Some things stuck out though. The food, oh the food!! Good food is never far, looking in any direction a food court or hawker center is always near, if not follow your nose. Unfortunately (fortunately??) the capacity of my stomach is finite. If it were up to me I would have sampled everything Singapore offers, but four days is just not enough! China Town and the Muslim Quarter were very.... well, Chinese and muslim, but the most surprising of all ethnic groups were the Indians in Little India! The people and district were just teeming with life and energy!

All groups seemed to live very well next to each other, they all visit the different areas, but they do seem to stay with their ethnic group, none the less we didn't see any tension between any of them! A song from Louis Armstrong comes to mind. Why, oh why can't we all live like this?

Here is where you can find us, the receptionist is a transvestite, she (he?) keeps a lot a fish, the paintings and murials make its very homely (very 'gezellig' in Dutch), in 2 days will take the plane to Kuching.

One last thing before signing off. I had a lot of replies on a non-functioning comment box. It seems fixed, here is the deal: Click on either the title of the post or on 'comments', write your comment and comment as either Anonymous or with your name. Dutch and English are both welcome.

Malaysia will follow. Thanks for reading!! Byebye!

One more night

Ok, this is my first public blog, I've been toying around somewhere else to get a hang of the mechanics, but of course it's the content that matters, by the way to post a comment you have to click on the title of the post, the rest should be easy.

This Tuesday I finally am going to meet my girlfriend again, it has been 10 weeks!! Oh, the agony and suspense! But first I need to spend 13 hours in-flight o_O. Some sacrifices need to be made, add to that the fine weather of the Netherlands which has given me a bit a cold, sneezing, shivers and a headache, hope it doesn't progress to anything worse. For the people interested and with time on there hands, check out this site, I leave on the 11th, that's tomorrow, at 21.00, flight number is KL 0837, destination is Singapore, Malaysia. Ah, yes, just one more night! The great Phil Collins wrote a song about 'one more night', but I guess the lyrics don't really apply to me.

The plan is to spend a few days in Singapore then travel up north, catch a plane from Kuala Lumpur to Kuching, that's south in the Borneo part of Malaysia, move up north again to Kota Kinabalu and take a flight to the Philippines. Total time spent in Malaysia and Singapore: roughly 3 weeks. We plan to visit the Philippines and Japan afterwards. We might do Taiwan as well.

So that's it in a tiny nutshell, I will keep you posted on the things seen, felt, smelt, tasted and experienced. Have a look at the links in the right column as well.

Comments are always welcome, preferably English or Dutch, whatever tickles your tummy. Banzai!! To post a comment you have to click on the title of the post, the rest should be easy.